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COMA (Creative Original Music Adelaide) is a not-for-profit volunteer-run association supporting the presentation of original music in Adelaide.
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COMA was formed by a group of Adelaide-based musicians passionate about increasing opportunities in our city for the performance by both emerging and established artists of quality original music from the genres of jazz, improvised music, new classical and electronic. Since its inception in 2005, COMA has presented ongoing concert series on the first and third Mondays of every month without interruption, as well as additional special events. In 2012 we are presenting more than 35 performances featuring over 60 ensembles, from Adelaide, Australia and around the world. To help COMA continue its activities, become a member! You will receive discounted ticket prices to all COMA events and additional benefits. To join up, chat to one of our committee members on the door at any COMA performance, or email us. If you are a musician looking to perform at COMA, email our artistic directors.

12/10/2026

Tonight! The Wheatsheaf Hotel doors at 6:30pm ✨✨

07/10/2026

Applications for our Autumn season are open now! We’d love to hear from you if you have some creative, original music to share – please visit our website for more details https://coma.net.au/artist-submissions/

25/08/2026

We’ve got a very special treat for you this evening!

Did you attend one of our 20th birthday celebration performances last year? Did you miss out? Either way, now you can relive the moments!

Special thanks to our dear friends voiceROM for providing the music for this video. Also big thanks to the wonderful Ben Golotta for filming it!

Artists:
The Enne R. Project
PRT Ensemble
Marmalade Trio
The COMA Committee Ensemble
Here Comes Everything
voiceROM

Huge shout out to our BFFs The Wheatsheaf Hotel and funding partners CreateSA

21/08/2026

Emily and Keira were repping COMA on Wednesday night at the APRA AMCOS and AMC Art Music Awards in Naarm. Huge congratulations to all involved, and special mentions to our friend and 2026 Guest Curator Melanie Walters for her Luminary Award for South Australia! Also big congrats to Chamber Music Adelaide and their artists, the Australian String Quartet, and Maryam Rahmani, David Moran and Sebastian Collen who performed on the night. ❤️

Melanie Walters Chamber Music Adelaide Australian String Quartet Maryam Rahmani David Moran Sebastian Collen

03/08/2026

Payday Super is causing our industry a lot of stress. In response, COMA presents a workshop/discussion NEXT MONDAY at 5.15pm at Nexus Arts Venue. This is for anyone working in the contemporary music industry - artists, venues, promoters, engineers, and more.

We have two distinct aims for this session.

1: We want to know how this is affecting you so that we can advocate on your behalf. We’ll be asking for examples of how this change is affecting you as it starts to move through the industry, so that we can make a submission to the federal government.

2: Let’s discuss practical options to help navigate the changes. Facilitated by COMA, we will look to form smaller groups of people in similar circumstances to workshop the practical ways of navigating these changes.

COMA is fully supportive of the principle of payday super: getting superannuation funds into artists’ accounts quickly. However, the implementation of the policy is causing enormous stress to our industry.

Let’s talk.

20/07/2026

Tonight The Wheatsheaf Hotel 🌸 ACT 1 : Courteney Hooper
Cerebral alchemy of folk and contemporary jazz.
Courteney Hooper - voice/compositions/acoustic guitar
Enne Rignanese - bass
Andrew Casey - keys
Zed Crawford - drums
ACT 2: Hunter Brown
Spacey, cosmic electronic music using analog gear & dub-inspired production techniques.
Hunter Brown:
Keyboards, Drum machines,
Synths
AT THE WHEATSHEAF HOTEL
DOORS OPEN @ 6.30pm
MUSIC BEGINS 7PM
ENTRY $20 / $12 for COMA Members (and under 12 y.O.).

17/07/2026

Adelaide musicians, music workers, venues! PayDay Super got you confused? We hear you. We’ve been working hard to get on top of it, and to identify the issues that need solving.

We are thinking of running a workshop / info session on this topic (free, of course). If you would like us to do this, can you please give us a comment or like on this post so we can see if it’s of interest?

Thanks, team COMA

ID: a hand holding a smart phone on a yellow background. Text on the background reads “Confused about PayDay Super?” Text on the phone screen reads “Would a Q&A session be useful?” White text in a black circle at the bottom of the image reads “Let us know”.

13/07/2026

EOIs for The Rehearsal Room are open for one more week! If you have experimental work in its early stages and would like to share it with a supportive audience, this is the program for you. The showing date is 30 August at our friends’ Wizard Tone Studios Studios - an accessible venue. Head to our website for more details!

http://www.coma.net.au/the-rehearsal-room/

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30/06/2026

Your donation helps support programs like Sound Alliance and musicians like Joseph Simons!

Donate today for your EOFY tax deduction ❤️ Link in bio. 💲➕❤️🟰🎵

24/06/2026

Want to know what your hard earned dollars can do to support creative original music in Adelaide? Read on!

Consider supporting COMA this end of financial year. Your donation is now fully tax deductible! 💲➕❤️🟰🎵

https://coma.net.au/support/

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Adelaide, SA

Website

http://comadelaide.bandcamp.com/

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