The arts year is starting to warm up. Arts editor HELEN MUSA surveys the scene in this week’s Artsday column.

Kate Miller-Heidke’s show Catching Diamonds will see her, accompanied by Keir Nuttall on guitar, playing hits, pop songs, tracks from her original musicals “Muriel’s Wedding the Musical” and “Bananaland” and covers, also taking requests and performing new material from her coming sixth studio album. Canberra Theatre, January 19.

Warrandyte band and ARIA winners, The Teskey Brothers, will be in town with The Winding Way Tour. Canberra Theatre, January 20-21

The National Film & Sound Archive’s digital exhibition Radio 100 has launched Youthquake, which charts the rise of radio as a force in the emergence of youth culture in Australia, demarcated by the Beatles’ 1964 arrival in Australia. Youthquake also charts the rise of talkback radio. This month’s focus is All the Voices, 1970s-now, which looks at radio as a medium for First Nations, LGBTQIA+ and multilingual voices. Radio 100 is available at nfsa.gov.au/radio100

The Main & Parcels Galleries in Gunning (in the old railway station) has a new exhibition by two local artists, Jodie Munday  and Tracy Luff. January 20-21 and 27-28.

The Queanbeyan-Palerang 2024 Local Heritage Awards are open to nominations for: restoration of a heritage building; or new building design, adaptation, heritage garden, sustainability and greening of a heritage place; or outstanding promotion or contribution to heritage. Winners will be announced during the Heritage Festival celebrations which run April to May. Nominations to qprc.nsw.gov.au/heritage.