The Woodford Folk Festival is an event of international standing. Held over six days and six nights it presents more than 2000 performers and 400 events with concerts, dances, workshops, forums, street theatre, writers' panels, film festival, comedy sessions, acoustic jams, social dialogue and debate, an entire children's festival, art and craft workshops, late night cabarets and special events including a spectacular fire event.
This year the Queensland Folk Federation's festival organising commmittww at Woodford has announced a huge programme to mark their quarter century.
25 years on is a a bit scary for some of us who attended the festival (Maleney as it then was then) during its first few years and numerous time since! Many happy memories of sloshing around in the mud but with a pretty sophisticated village fayre type set-up it might get bit muddy with rain out in the camping areas still but the venues are certainly weather proof.
If you've never been this is really the year to get along. With four little kids these days it is very child friendly too, although go prepared for some very hot weather if you have littlies.
If you've never been this is really the year to get along. With four little kids these days it is very child friendly too, although go prepared for some very hot weather if you have littlies.
International guests include: Arrested Development, The Dynamites featuring Charlie Walker (above & video below) the Nashville funksters, Daara J Family, Dan Mangan and Passenger.
Not to be out done the local talent is superlative, You Am I, The Cat Empire, Tim Freedman, Jeff Lang,Basement Birds and Kate Miller-Heidke some of the most notable.
INTERNATIONALS: Arrested Development (USA), The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker (USA), the incredible Katzenjammer (Norway), Baskery (Sweden), BBC World Music Award winners Daara J Family (Senegal), and from Canada, Tom Fun Orchestra, Jill Barber, Dan Mangan and Matthew Barber. From the UK Passenger, from the USA Love in the Circus, Stevie Salas and Bernard Fowler, and The Whitetop Mountaineers, and from the 70’s Mani Neumeier with Etsuko Watanabe.
LOCALS:You Am I (some classic Tim Rogers below) , The Cat Empire, Kate Miller-Heidke, Katie Noonan and The Captains (above) , Tim Freedman, Archie Roach, Mama Kin, Jeff Lang, Lior, Microwave Jenny, Dubmarine, Felix and The Phoenix, Hermitude, Marshall and The Fro, Cumbia Cosmonauts, The Barons of Tang, Basement Birds, The Break, TinPan Orange, Vika and Linda Bull, Christa Hughes and The Honkytonk Shonks, Flap!, Blue King Brown, Tijuana Cartel, Drawn from Bees, The Chemist, Leah Flanagan, kooii, Laneous and The Family Yah, Radical Son, Jackie Marshall, That 1 Guy, The Little Stevies, Shane Howard and his Band, Yeshe.
When is it? 27 Dec 2010 -1 Jan, 2011 Where?The festival is about an hour and a half drive north of Brisbane, or 40 minutes west of Caloundra or an hour south of Noosa.
For more information & ticket prices visit the official festival website
For information about Australian Festival Dates and Details check-out Festival Australia
For more information & ticket prices visit the official festival website
For information about Australian Festival Dates and Details check-out Festival Australia
