Sometimes words can't do justice to the beauty music can evoke. You have to experience it for yourself. At the very least, I don't consider myself a good enough writer to do so. Tonight at the Sydney Opera House brings me one such moment, where UK songstress Laura Marling embraced a sold out crowd performing her latest record A Creature I Don't Know in full (for the first time), and a second set of favourites from her first two records.

When you walk into the Opera House’s Concert Hall, the last thing you expect to hear is: "I have never seen so many middle-aged men in Hawaiian shirts!" But then, this was not your average Sunday afternoon of classical music programming at The House. Instead, it was a celebration of the timeless, Morning Of The Earth soundtrack, a thoroughly enjoyable trip down nostalgia lane to a simpler, sunburnt land of forty years ago.

I know it’s clichéd, but Washington truly has had an incredible couple of years. We’ve watched her transform from an adorable musical nerd playing the Oxford Arts Factory to an absolutely breathtaking artist selling out the Sydney Opera House in just two years. Her Insomnia show for Sydney Festival completely lived up to the hype surrounding it, to say the least.

The hit of last year's Sydney Festival, Smoke and Mirrors, was a wonderful production helmed by Sydney talent iOTA. Bouncing off the success of La Clique in previous years, as well as iOTA's growing popularity thanks to his turn in sell out seasons of Hedwig and the Angry Itch and Rocky Horror, it became one of the most talked about event in years.

Any chance to see a much-hyped act in one of Sydney’s best kept secret venues is an opportunity worth taking advantage of. For one night only, The Studio at the Sydney Opera House became the home of New York’s Gang Gang Dance, and they throw a hell of a house party.

The hugely successful national run of Tim and Neil Finn tribute concerts - They Will Have Their Way - continued last night with a sold out show at the Sydney Opera House, the first of three at the venue.