Noosaville is where Noosa's acts live, more than Noosa Heads is. The river-front suburb and Tewantin next door are the residential end of the town, and the list opens with a duo and a singer based right here, then a singer at Tewantin, a country band out at Doonan, and the Noosa Heads names ten minutes up the road. Walk the river path on a Saturday evening and you'll hear a fair few of them from the restaurant decks.
Read the distances carefully, though. Noosa's own pool is small, and the coast's real depth, the wedding singers, the duos and the cover bands based around Maroochydore, sits half an hour down the motorway. They come up for river-front receptions every weekend, and few of them charge for it, but they're not around the corner. The Noosa Heads page shows nearly the same names in a different order, so don't read the two as separate options.
Top picks are the nearby performers with the most visible reviews, then rating, then the closest; further afield the closest come first, and premium listings break remaining ties. Distances are straight-line from Noosaville. Ask each act whether they travel to your venue and what that costs.
The ceremony itself is short, so you're paying for the setup on a riverbank or a beach and the musician's afternoon, and the local singers and duos price it that way. Adding the drinks hour to the same booking is the better buy, because the gear is already out. The from-prices beside the Noosaville and Noosa Heads acts above are what they're asking this season, and a battery PA for a spot with no power is the extra worth confirming.
Largely, yes, and the honest difference is the order. Noosaville's page starts with the acts on the river and in Tewantin, the Noosa Heads page starts with the ones near the main beach, and the rest of both lists is the same Noosa and Sunshine Coast pool sorted by a slightly different distance. Pick whichever page matches your venue and ignore the other.
They do, most weekends, because Noosa is where a good share of the coast's weddings happen and a Maroochydore band would be foolish to skip it. Half an hour up the motorway is close enough that most won't charge, though a hinterland property past Cooroy or a finish after midnight can add a line. Ask for travel shown separately and you'll see it straight away.
Most of the reception rooms along the Noosa River have houses behind them and a finish time for amplified music to match. Get that time from the venue first, and let it decide between a band and a duo before you fall for either.
A property wedding out at Doonan, Cooroy or Kin Kin is twenty minutes of winding road from Noosaville and dark on the way home. The country band based at Doonan already knows it; a Maroochydore act may add a line for it.
The eighties band and the acrobat at Noosa Heads do birthdays, resort events and the winter conferences rather than vows on the sand. If the job is a fiftieth on the river, say so in the enquiry and they'll quote for that.