Southern Roots was an annual music festival in Australia, held in Hobart, Tasmania.

The 2007 festival was held on 7 April 2007 (the Easter weekend) at the Royal Hobart Showgrounds in Glenorchy and featured the following line-up: TnT (Tim Rogers and Tex Perkins) were also originally listed as attending the event but pulled out for unknown reasons.

The showgrounds is an ideal location to host the event with buildings and good facilities, Touber praised the Royal Agricultural Society of Tasmania, saying they had bent over backwards to ensure the festival's success.

The scheduled line-up was: The 2009 festival was scheduled to be held in the town of Richmond, however the organisers cancelled the 2009 event, saying that the decline of the Australian dollar against the U.S. dollar made it difficult to book big-name international acts.

Jock Campbell, the mayor of Clarence said the cancellation was a blow to the town, and he hoped that Southern Roots would return in 2010.