2010 National Folk Festival Program by National Folk Festival

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Welcome to the 44th National Folk Festival - the longevity speaks for itself! It is a great privilege to represent Australia’s premier folk festival.

Welcome

Sponsors & Supporters

The National continues to invest in presenting a truly world-class program of artists and activities that reflects the current wealth of diverse talent from throughout Australia and abroad. Following two consecutive awards in the Canberra and Capital Region Tourism Awards (Festival & Events Category) in 2008 and 2009, the National has been awarded the National 2009 Qantas Australian Tourism Award (Festival & Events Category). The award reflects the unique passion, dedication and considerable effort over many years of all of our Volunteers, Coordinators, Artists, Contractors and Sponsors, as well as our tireless and devoted Staff and Board. Thank you everyone - this is your award! Let’s celebrate it with another great National this year! There is a renaissance of interest in folk culture as the essential expression of people from all around the world and as a formative influence in the various branches of the arts and arts education. I hope you enjoy and are inspired by this year’s wonderful Festival program and National Folk School classes. I look forward to sharing the progress and development of the Festival with you in forthcoming years. Sebastian Flynn

From the Artistic Director Welcome everyone to the 2010 National Folk Festival. Every year it is an absolute delight to be able to bring to you such wonderful music from across Australia and the world, and this year feels very special. Indeed, I feel sure that no matter what your particular taste in the many faceted jewel that is folk, I am sure you will find plenty to keep you excited.

The Festival Team

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National Library/NFF Folk Fellowship

A Festival of Variety

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A Festival of Song

14-15

A Majestic Festival

A Festival of Tradition

17-18

A Festival of Instruments

19-21

A Festival of Dance

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Act Listings

28-29

Blackboard Etiquette

Thursday Program

Friday Program

32-33

Saturday Program

34-35

Sunday Program

36-37

Monday Program

38-39

Recognition

We have a new and exciting venue, made possible with the generous support of the ACT Government, that is going to be lots of fun. It’s called The Majestic, and it provides a home for circus, and the strange and wonderful fringe dwellers that can be found across the site. Check it out, as there’s lots of interesting things going on there.

Our Performers

Another thing to notice is that we have doubled the amount of workshop space, so there’s even more opportunities to participate and get involved. And that’s what is so great about the National. Not only can you see world-class musicians play in wonderful concerts, you can actively participate in so many things, from street choirs and orchestras to dance workshops to instrumental lessons. Or check out the Community Arts workshop program. There is certainly enough to keep you enthralled.

Useful Information

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Want To Help

We’re Listening to You

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EPIC Site Map Entertainment Area Map

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Enjoy! Dave O’Neill

Help at a Glance Ambulance/Police/Fire

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Urgent On-site Assistance

6230 7118

Calvary Hospital

6201 6111

St John (First Aid)

0406 375 665 (check)

Chemist (Dickson)

6248 7684

Qantas (Domestic) 13 13 13 Virgin Blue 13 67 89 CountryLink – Rail & Coach 13 22 32 Greyhound 1300 473 946 Australian Capital Tourism (Enquiries) 1300 554 114 Australian Capital Tourism (Accomm) 1300 733 228

Taxis

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Stewards in Orange Vests carry radios and can assist.

ACTION Buses

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See pages 66 and 67 for further Festival Information.

T-SHIRTS Vests Library Bags Highlighters Badges Stubby Holders

Limited stock so make your purchase early to avoid disappointment! The Merchandise Stall is located outside the Marquee

Sponsors and Supporters Gold sponsors

Budawang Venue proudly brought to you by Southern Cross Ten

The Majestic (Fringe) proudly brought to you by the ACT Government

silver sponsors

BRONZE sponsors

An Army of Volunteers

THE FESTIVAL TEAM

It takes around 1400 Volunteers in addition to the five full‑time staff, two part-time staff and the Board of Directors to make this Festival possible. Area Co-ordinators take responsibility for a variety of services and fulfil vital roles in often‑difficult circumstances. Please treat our volunteers respectfully.

AREA COORDINATORS

STALLS COORDINATION TEAM

Kylie Mulligan Stuart Biggs Demelza Crook Alex Marker Nigel Worth Brigid Costello Leo & Doreen Watts Katie Shields Roberta Boni David & Ali Inskeep Libby Alexander Donna Pinder Michael Pedvin Helen Ludellen Allison Aspden Darri Adamson Michael Lightfoot Beryl Pedvin Melany Laycock Jim Rhodes Lorna Garratt Emma Mitchell Tony Weston Fernando Van Der Linden Phil Emerson Emma Wild Brian Hinselwood Eileen Newmarch Ray Mulligan Jenny Grinlinton Ruth Primrose Peter Boyland Judy Baker

Carolyn Griffin Peter Boyland

Vidas Sadauskas Lea O’Brien Michael Garside Jim Coombs Samantha Barrett Samantha Cain Joshua Calder Michael Searle Ronis Chapman Dave Upton Lyn & Alan Steel David Gilks Peter Cartwright David Price Sharon Casey Dennis Rose Meg Hinselwood

Bar Cashier Bar Set Up Bars Bars Camp Ground Car Park – Flemington Rd Caretakers Childcare Clean Up Communications Centre (Comms) Community Arts Community Arts Construction Disability Services Festival Merchandise Stall Festival Office Festival Office Festival Office Festival Registration Festival Registration Festival Shop Festival Shop Firewood Instrument Lockup Instrument Makers Kids Festival MCs Merry Muse National Folk School Assistants Performer Payments Performer Payments Performer Transport In-house Ticketing & Pre Festival Registration Program Distribution Raffle Tickets Shuttle Buses Signage Stage Management Stage Management Stage Management Stewards Stewards Stock Camp Stores Ticket Office Treasury Treasury – Food & Beverage VIP Reception Volunteer Centre Volunteer Top Up Team

Kate Leonard

BOARD OF DIRECTORS David Garratt Lyndal Thorburn Graham Cruttenden Graham Chalker Sebastian Flynn Pam Cogar Mark Cranfield Colleen McKenzie

President Vice President Treasurer Secretary Managing Director Peter Logue Phil Green

CORE MITCHELL OFFICE VOLUNTEERS Pam Cogar Judy Baker Shelley Clarke Brodie Yelds Dave Sutton Kate Chalker

Editor and Admin Assistance In House Tickets Gemma Tisdell Jocelyn Vasey Max de Mar Chris Marsh

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ASSISTANCE Colin Townes Roger Montgomery Elena Kirschbaum Giselle Nathan

Dance Poetry Debate Circus and Street Street Choirs

SITE AND VENUE DECORATION Brian Sudding Ted Bradley

Set Design Flags

OTHER ASSISTANCE ARTWORK, PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEOS Franki Sparke for our Poster artwork. ZOO for our publications designs. Annette Cohen, Graeme Morrison, Stuart Cohen, Sabine Friedrich, Pam Cogar, Bob Bolton and Geoff Dunn (Lushpup Images) for photographs used in our publications.

Tasmania – OUR FEATURED STATE Thanks to all those in Tasmania for assistance in putting together the 2010 program.

Thank you, thank you, thank you … to the hundreds of

volunteers. To all those people who have helped us put up posters, put up with those whose lives were taken over by the Festival and all those inadvertently omitted from these lists. To everyone who has helped in even a small way, thank you from the 2010 National Folk Festival.

STAFF

Sebastian Flynn Managing Director

Dave O’Neill Artistic Director

Rachel Gould Production Manager

Nelle Smith Finance Manager

Jess Henderson HR & Volunteer Manager

Carolyn Griffin AD Assistant

Jane Speechley Media

Adam Hadley The Majestic Program

Jeff Power IT Manager

Graham Chalker Interim Managing Director Jan-Feb 2010

Kate Bowman Production Assistant

This group of wonderfully dedicated and talented people perform major roles as volunteers throughout the year

Peter Boyland Stalls Support

Brodie Yelds Office Assistance

Judy Baker Pre Festival Registration

Pam Cogar Editor and Admin Assistance

bringing world music to Australian audiences for over 20 years 1 Mark Street, North Fitzroy

Saturday April 24

Kavisha Mazzella and Nano Stern Performing with Melbourne’s favourite songstress, Chilean, Nano Stern’s “irrepressible warmth and vitality make him a mesmerising performer” Jessica Nicholas, The Age

Saturday May 1

Lucy Wise, solo CD Launch Lucy sings songs of love, people and places, old and new, traditional and original, with ukulele, guitar and Appalachian dulcimer.

Saturday May 29

Bruce Watson CD Launch: Balance Award-winning songwriter, Bruce Watson, launches his new album supported by the cream of Melbourne’s folk musicians.

Saturday April 17

Box Hill CAC

470 Station Street, Box Hill

Totally Gourdgeous—music to feed your wildest pumpkin longings: Penelope Swales, Mal Webb, Andrew Clermont and Carl Panuzzo, special guest, Josh Bennett.

Melbourne enrol now! Millennium rehearsals begin mid May, concert series early August. CHORUS 2010 Boîte Schools CHORUS 2010 a choir of 350 voices directed by Carl Pannuzzo and Penny Larkins

3 Concerts, 900 youthful singers drawn from metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victorian Schools songs and resources prepared for teachers. Directed by Carl Pannuzzo and Penny Larkins Enrol now! CONCERTS

Dallas Brooks Hall Aug 18 & 19, Frankston Arts Centre Sept 3

Boîte 30th Birthday DVD

now available RRP $35

This historic performance captured the essence of the Boîte’s past 30 years. The DVD has been produced, complete with a 32 page booklet, as a collectors item. Please add it to yours. Play it occasionally to remind yourself just how fortunate we are to be living in Melbourne today. Your purchase would also be a greatly appreciated gesture of support to the Boîte.

03 9417 1983 www.boite.com.au

Christina Mimmocchi For Christina Mimmocchi, music is a teenage passion she never grew out of. All good intentions to have serious careers as an arts manager, a writer and a vet have been thwarted by music and she is now a fulltime performer, arranger and community choir leader. She has arranged for and toured with the trios Touchwood and Blindman’s Holiday, including for Musica Viva both in Australia and overseas. She is the director of the Sydney Women’s Vocal Orchestra, a choir which celebrates the music of the women of Palembang POW camp (as seen and heard in the movie “Paradise Road”), the director of the Leonard Cohen devotees’ group ‘Choir on a Wire’, as well as an organiser of musical events, concerts and of the acoustic music venue Eastside Arts until its demise. Mentors of major influence have been the composer-producer Greg White who is currently Head of Composition at the Australian Institute of Music and noted folk collector and Buddy Holly enthusiast Rob Willis. Christina’s musical interests include traditional and contemporary folk music, community music, contemporary jazz and the great songwriters. She can also sing all the character songs from “In the Night Garden”.

A Festival of Variety A Healthy Body and Spirit Dru Yoga Dru Yoga brings wellbeing for body, heart and mind. Tailored for modern living yet firmly rooted in ancient yoga tradition, Dru’s flowing style is empowering and suitable for everyone, of all ages and body shapes. It includes classical yoga postures, pranayama (the science of breath), mudras (hand gestures), positive affirmations, empowering visualisations, relaxations and soothing meditations.

Every day at 8 AM Building E

Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons are a great way to start the day. Whether you will be performing, dancing or hanging out listening to great music, these movement lessons are fantastic for reducing stress and tension, improving co-ordination and flexibility, and awareness.

Every day at 8 AM Mallee

Alexander Technique Workshop Performers have been using the Alexander Technique for over 100 years for ease, dexterity, breathing and more. Michael Stenning and Leone John will touch on the anatomy of free, upright posture; how to stay comfortable in your body and avoid injury; stress management; a fresh look at playing and singing. Bring your instrument.

Saturday 9:30 AM Building E

The Festival Labyrinth Back by popular demand for 2010. Come and experience a journey through the Festival labyrinth. Walking the labyrinth can be a time to gather your thoughts, to be still, to restore your soul, to take a moment to reflect, or just to enjoy the meandering unexpected pathway that leads to the centre and out again. The labyrinth is a uniquely universal symbol and can have something for everyone. Last year people enjoyed the labyrinth in many different ways – children loved exploring the winding path, others walked with curiosity, some danced to the centre and many to their surprise, in the midst of the bustling Festival, entered into a deeper space of awareness and peace and walked out feeling refreshed and relaxed. The labyrinth is open each day of the Festival from 8.30am to 6pm. Members of Rachum Labyrinth Team have been responsible for building and minding the labyrinth.

Near the Arena

Quaker Meeting for Worship Quaker Meeting worship is hosted by Canberra Quakers and open to all. A quiet place to reflect on Easter Sunday.

Sunday 10:00 AM Building E

Just For Laughs Floggers ’R’ Us The Dingo’s breakfast present a slightly off the wall ‘Show and Tell Show’. When the Second Australians first came to Oz, it didn’t take them too long to start wiping out the First Australians. At the same time the Establishment was/were very busy wiping out many of the first Second Australians too. They spent a lot of valuable time ‘improving’ convict facilities, re-inventing the cat-o’nine tails, inventing portable gallows and flogging machines etc, etc, all in the name of God and Monarch. This is their story.

Saturday 3:00 PM Marquee

Infinite Song Competition Motor City Comes to the National. Yes folks, this year it’s Motown. Celebrate the music of this famous label and it’s stable of fabulous musicians. The Funk Brothers become the Folk Brothers. Mal Webb does Stevie Wonder. Could you ask for better than that?

Heats: Daily at 6:00 PM Final: Monday 3:00 PM

Coorong Budawang

Spoken Word World Poetry DebatE CLIMATE CHANGE?

Global? Political? Is it? Isn’t it? A debate of atmospheric proportions. Come see how it evolves. Or will it be just more hot air? Join some of the Festivals sharpest minds as they battle it out for the answer. Will they achieve what Copenhagen couldn’t?

Sunday

3:00 PM

Budawang

Poet’s Breakfast If it’s poetry your after Full of wit that causes laughter Then it’s the Troubadour for breakfast That’s where you need to be Where the verses swirl around you And the comic turns astound you A poetic battle royal While you drink your cuppa tea.

Each day at 8:30 AM – Troubadour

The Great Yarn-Spinning Competition Come and here some of the Festival’s best and funniest liars battle it out for the title of best Yarn-Spinner for 2010.

Every day in the Stock Camp at 12:00 PM

A Taste of Tassie The West Coasters Rob Willis is one of Australia’s busiest and most respected folklorists. For over twenty five years he has been drawing on his National Library collections and presenting the songs, stories, yarns, dance and social history of Australia in a vibrant, exciting and very different manner. Rob’s presentations are always very popular so get there early to ensure a seat. Graham Seal is Professor of Folklore at Curtin University in Perth. He is an award winning author and recognised authority in his field of history and folklore. Graham is also a talented raconteur and entertainer adding interesting perspectives to his performances.

Sunday

5:30 PM Trocadero

Words Beneath The Trees A presentation of music, songs, stories and images celebrating characters of the Tassie bush and wilderness including songs such as Paddy Hartnett, Bathurst Harbour, S.W. King. The project is supported by Tourism Tasmania with the provision of high quality images that are shown behind the music. “It is a bonus to see the rich heritage of the Tasmanian landscape and culture, celebrated with sensitivity and musical confidence, as it is in many of your works. The stunning images of the Tasmanian landscape that accompanied your pieces, added a breadth that was appreciated by the audience. These scenes are sure to awaken a new interest in Tasmania wherever you travel with this concert” Robyn Carney Moonah Arts Centre.

Sunday 10:00 AM Budawang

Jane Franklin; An Examined Life Jane Franklin - An Examined Life explores in song, drama and visuals, the life of Jane Franklin; diarist, explorer and wife of Sir John Franklin; arctic explorer and one-time governor of Van Diemen’s Land. Silkweed with their sumptuous music, take you on a journey at times poignant, always fascinating and sometimes humorous, through Jane’s life and times, exploring the multidimensional character of this intriguing and complex woman, who did indeed live in “interesting times”.

Friday 6:00 PM Trocadero Saturday 10:00 AM Trocadero

Historators - Voices of History Bush Music Club’s Railway Song Poems

On The Air: The Story of Early Country Radio This tribute to early country radio in the southern US starts with some history through songs, slides, and readings. Then a ‘liveto-air’ broadcast will make you feel like you were there in 1933, reliving the Golden Age of radio with ragtime, string band, Tin Pan Alley tunes, Cajun, gospel, jug band, Hawaiian, Western swing, and a dash of country comedy on ‘The Collins Chevrolet Southern Melody Hour.’

Saturday 4:30 PM

Trocadero

Unsung Heroes of Australian History Part 1 Unsung Heroes of Australian History is a unique and totally original theme event featuring Bruce Watson, Moira Tyers, Wendy Ealey and Neil Robertson. All award-winning songwriters in their own right, this innovative collaboration takes you on a musical journey of Australian history combining contemporary folk songs, storytelling and large screen imagery. We have all heard of Henry Lawson but how many people know of his incredible mother, Louisa or indeed the genesis of our own Southern Cross flag at Eureka. Experience the tales of extraordinary Australians who for the most part have eluded our history books.

Saturday 3:00 PM Trocadero

Unsung Heroes of Australian History Part 2 Unsung Heroes of Australian History – Part 2 in this theme event explores 1922 and beyond, discovering the origin of our beloved Vegemite, the mysterious Arthur Stace (‘Mr Eternity’ 1932), a very average but extraordinary returned soldier from WW2 (1943), the incredible story of Albert Namatjira (1957), the influence and strength of our immigrant culture and the powerful story of Olegas-photographer. Come and be entertained by these original folk songs that have unearthed gems of our past that deserve a voice for future generations to understand how the Australian character evolved. Featuring Bruce Watson, Moira Tyers, Wendy Ealey and Neil Robertson.

Sunday

3:40 PM Trocadero

The Stock Camp Step outside the city and experience the delights of the Stock camp. The Stock Camp is one of the gems of the Festival. Blackboards featuring the best of Traditional Australian music and verse and yarn-spinning, all washed down with tea and damper.

Open daily - the Stock Camp is located is located next to the Mallee.

Join the Bush Music Club for a trip through the railways of Australia. Learn some of the fifty wonderful songs they have put together celebrating this important part of Australia’s history.

Sunday 11:30 AM Singing Room

History of Greek Roots Music Greek roots music is incredibly diverse. It encompasses Balkan, Eastern and Western traditions quite effortlessly. It can accommodate bluegrass swing as well as music from pentatonic traditions and Arabic taksims. Join the haBiBis for a highly entertaining workshop/lecture, outlining the development and practice of Greek roots music and the reason for its incredible diversity. Its dance forms, rhythms, instruments will be analysed and displayed – in particular its fretted instruments such as the Cretan Lute, bouzouki, baglama and the clarinet.

Sunday

4:00 PM Workshop 1

Verandah Music – Sounds of the Session Rob Willis is one of Australia’s busiest and most respected folklorists. For over twenty five years he has been drawing on his National Library collections and presenting the songs, stories, yarns, dance and social history of Australia in a vibrant, exciting and very different manner. Rob’s presentations are always very popular so get there early to ensure a seat. Kevin Bradley is the National Library of Australia’s Curator of Folklore and Oral History. Apart from his day job Kevin is also a talented instrumentalist and performer who has participated in and researched many aspects of the session experience.

Saturday 2:30 PM Village Stage

From the Top End A Musical Century – Darwin’s McGinness-Mills Family Music Heritage This themed presentation celebrates the life and continuing musical heritage of Valentine McGinness and his extended Darwin family in the year of his centenary (2010). This presentation is planned to coincide with the launch at NFF 2010 of a longawaited book (by Jeff Corfield) and CD (by Ali Mills) celebrating the life and music of Val and his family down the years. Jeff is a well known folklorist and experienced NFF presenter (1980, 1987, 2002 and 2006) while Ali is part of the highly acclaimed Darwin Mills Sisters, who wowed audiences at NFF 2002, creating widespread interest in this unique Top End musical heritage. Ali is an accomplished singer/musician/songwriter in her own right, who has in recent times focused her energies on raising awareness of her family and Aboriginal cultural heritage through solo performance.

Friday

4:00 PM Trocadero

Balls and Chains Ted Egan needs no introduction to anyone in Australia. He has truly reached the position of Australian Music Icon. Ted returns to the Festival for part two of his Balls and Chains project. Along with some of Australia’s leading folk talent, Ted’s opus is starting to take shape. Don’t miss the big presentation on Sunday.

Friday 10:00 AM Workshop 2 Saturday 4:00 PM Workshop 2 Sunday 7:00 PM Budawang

Commemoration of Easter 1916 (Dublin, Ireland) The Post Office Uprising of 1916 was a significant event in Irish History. All over the world Irish people and supporters still gather annually at Easter to acknowledge and commemorate this occasion. This is the opportunity to join with some of Australia’s and Ireland’s top musical talent to commemorate this event.

Monday 10:00 AM Trocadero

Lochaber No More

Celtic Burns Tribute Concert In honour of the recently celebrated 250th birthday of that best-known Scot of all, Robbie Burns, Humbug present original arrangements of some of his well-known and best-loved songs and poems, interwoven with stories of his short life. From this most prolific of poets, Humbug has chosen some favourites (also appearing on the band’s recently released CD) to showcase the depth of his talent – everything from the stirring anti-war protest, ‘Ye Jacobites By Name’, through his tale of political corruption in ‘Parcel of Rogues’, to the poignant ballad of unrequited love, ‘Aye Fond Kiss’. The band will also introduce some original arrangements of lesser-known Burns poems – and audiences can even expect a poem or two recited by the band’s thespian.

Sunday

2:20 PM Trocadero

Lochaber No More is Braemar’s latest and most challenging venture. It is an unfolding of the events of the Jacobite rebellions and Highland Clearances and covers a period in Scottish history spanning more than a century. This wonderfully moving, insightful and historical performance showcases the talents of all involved’ and takes the audience on a journey through betrayal, injustice, massacre, euphoria, victory, defeat and ultimately the tragedy that befell the Highlanders of Scotland. This history is presented in narrative and song and has been performed in Tasmania, South Australia, New South Wales and at numerous festivals in Victoria. Reflecting the outstanding performance, the show has received a standing ovation on each occasion and often there is ‘hardly a dry eye in the house’ such has been the stirring of raw patriotic emotion. The performance has been described as ‘a wonderful production’, ‘perfect’, ‘polished and professional’, ‘remarkable’ and ‘amazing’ – see reviews sent with supporting information.

Sunday

8:00 PM Trocadero

Photography

National Library of Australia Live @ The Lounge

Stuart Cohen Photography Exhibition The colour, richness and vibrancy of the National is the focus of a major exhibition by photographer, Stuart Cohen, which is being staged in the Session Bar where many of the photos have been taken during the course of the previous two Festivals. ‘5 nights’, is a tribute to the Festival and is being supported by the ACT Government under the artsACT funding program. Cohen will exhibit thirty photographs which are a mixture of abstract and documentary images that seeks to capture the full breadth of the Festival.

In the Session Bar

National Institutions The National Film and Sound Archive Presents Films by John Meredith John Meredith was one of Australia’s leading collectors of folklore. The National Film and Sound Archive has dug through its vaults and discovered some real treasures by John. Look out for a wellknown folklorist, one who regularly attends the National, dressed up in all his finery. Well, his stubbies. Film #1 – The Man from Cookamidgera Colin Charleton, accordion player Film #2 – Songs of Granny Cotter Val Turton singing her mother’s songs Film #3 – Real Folk Part 1 Frank Thompson, Manangatang, accordion Oscar Wilde, Manangatang, chimes Ted Valance, St Arnauds, piano accordion Elmer Ross, Wedderburn, piano Ottie Pfeiffer, Temora, fiddle & accordion Film #4 – Real Folk Part 2 Dave Mathias, Forbes, accordion Ottie Pfeiffer, Temora, fiddle & accordion Film #5 – Real Folk Part 3 Tim Whelan, Kangaroo Island, whistle Jim King, Kangaroo Island, Jew’s harp Harry McQueen, Castlemaine, accordion Film #6 – Real Folk Part 4 Jack Cawthorne, Braidwood, strohviol Bert Jamison, Cootamundra, mouth organ Jack Condon, Maryborough, strohviol Snowy Baker, Musselbrook, song & dance Lionel Pietch, Forbes, concertina Nell Dwyer, Fobes, pola mazurka demo Paddy Godden, Forbes, accordion & songs

Friday Sunday

8:30 PM Village Stage 8:30 PM Village Stage

Live @ The Lounge

In the Budawang each day, watch and listen as interviewers from the Oral History & Folklore section of the National Library of Australia talk with Festival guests and record folk history.

Ronnie Summers The White Top Mountaineers Cathy Ovendon Eddie Reader Dobe Newton Steve Gadd Alison Mills

Friday 10:00 AM Friday 7:40 PM Saturday 10:00 AM Saturday 7:40 PM Sunday 2:30 PM Sunday 6:10 PM Monday 10:00 AM

National Library’s ‘Folkie Trivia Quiz’ Get together your ‘brains trust’ and book a table at the inaugural ‘Folkie’ trivia quiz night on Sunday April 4th at 8pm in the ‘Flute and Fiddle’ venue. Compèred by the inestimable folk legend Martin Pearson, and with judges these trusted keepers of folk wisdom, Keith McKenry, Graham McDonald and Judy Pinder, this will be a night to remember!

Sunday

8:00 PM

Flute ‘n’ Fiddleer

The link between unions and the birth of democracy in Australia is undeniable. This exhibition of union campaign banners highlights the development of trade union campaigns for the rights of workers that have been pivotal in the development of a democratic and equitable Australia. From the eight hour day, through to paid maternity leave, trade unions have been engaged in active struggles to create the possibility for a work life balance. Many of the banners in this unique exhibition are not on general public display. This is an historic opportunity to experience the creativity, design, art and passion exemplified in a large variety of banners from the past century of organised labour.

See the Exhibition in the Budawang

In the Budawang Pavilion each day, watch and listen as interviewers from the Oral History and Folklore section of the National Library of Australia talk with Festival guests and record folk history. Artists and times are listed in the daily program schedule.

Circus and Street Throughout the streets of the Festival, there will be a variety of circus and street performers working to entertain you day and night, as you stroll from venue to venue or while you site and enjoy a break sampling our wonderful selection of food and beverages or just having a rest! These performers will engage and delight young and old alike.

Bertram and Josephine Bertram and Josephine have stepped right out of a silent movie and into the Festival. This sweetly silent pair will charm you with their romance, comedy and highly skilled circus.

Big Rory and Ochie and Giant Seagulls Big Rory and Ochie cause joyful chaos wherever they wander, leaving crowds in tears of laughter. A boisterous Roving Act! The Giant Seagulls will leave you giggling whilst relieving you of your lunch. A noisy, squabbling pair of birds roaming round the site with enormous appetites!

Blue Circus Studios Blue Circus Studios presents Backyard Circus, high skill, highenergy circus for the whole family. Come and see what the acrobats, jugglers, contortionists and clowns get up to in their own backyard.

The Fool Factory Solar Flare, a giant beautiful cyborg alien, surveys the Folk Festival terrain with it’s giant satellite dish face, then transmits data back into deep space. However the PANIC Patrol, an over-zealous, covert paramilitary unit, have mistaken this benign, peaceful creature as an menacing alien threat. Watch out for their bumbling attempts to save the good citizens of planet earth.

Hot String Bandits They’re real serious ‘bout their Hillbilly music from the Appalachian Mountains in the USA and have picked up tunes from other places as well. They’re from Tasmania, a little place off the map south of the big island. Watch your back – they’re wanted down south! Anyone willing with a banjo, fiddle, uke or mandolin to give them tunes a go is welcome in their big family. They love to play for dancing, concerts – anyone who will listen, to be honest. They guarantee to make you smile when you see them all lined up with their funny hats and their flannel shirts. They have got a big wall of sound and will get those toes a taping with their tunes ‘bout farmyard critters, death or just nothing at all.

Icarus is one of Australia’s best-known street theatre companies and present Roo’d – giant bouncing kangaroos. Since the act was first performed in 2002, Roo’d has appeared at festivals and events across Australia and in over 25 countries around the world, making it one of Australia’s most successful independent creative exports. At Glastonbury Festival in 2002, Roo’d was voted 2nd best act (after Coldplay) in a phone poll on BBC 2.

Michael The Balloonologist Is Michael the Balloonologist’s reputation as a balloon artist par excellence blown out of proportion? Check it out at the Kids Festival where he and his assistant, Margaret, will be twisting their fingers off for young and old. Catch Michael in the morning for a workshop and learn a few tricks of the twist for yourself or just avail yourself of M and M’s talents. They’ll blow you away!

The Mystree

Tom Davis

Longyard sideshow company presents The Great Mystree interactive puppet tree. It talks, it sings, animals emerge and engage it. It knows things about you and nature that only you and nature know.

An ex-Canberran now living in Melbourne, Tom is in his third year of study at the National Institute of Circus Arts. He delights and amuses crowds with his deft hat routines, creative juggling and astounding acrobatics.

The Tragic Troubadours Spoken word from the heart of emotional dysfunction, from the pain behind your eyes and the love twisted in your guts, performances from the Apocalypse that is the porcelain bowl and the bourbon glass, cries and growls to decipher the surreal aspects of women, of men, of booze, of debauchery – and with yelling – that is The Tragic Troubadours. These lovelorn lotharios have sunk to the depths of depravity, been torn by cruel mistress and given witness to the rise and fall of their empires, nine years have they journeyed to bring their tales to you – so world weary travellers let their words be temptation, warning, and their tread show you their sorry path to the Majestic.

Tuggeranong Salvation Army Brass Ensemble The Tank TANK is a series of 6 very short, fun and totally quirky plays about our relationship to water and is performed by members of Canberra Youth Theatre. Venture inside the TANK and hear incredible aquatic tales involving crazy Martian zombies, pirates who sail their ships on meat, a bushranger who steals water and a polar bear who is forced to work in a supermarket. WARNING! May contain traces of Paris Hilton & water.

Central Park daily

A street brass ensemble in historic Salvation Army uniform consisting of approximately six to eight members. They will parade through the Festival streets playing wonderful gospel music.

Warehouse Circus Whirling unicyclers, long-legged stilt walkers, devilish diablo twirlers, rollicking rola bolas, and jiggling jugglers to name a few. With talented performers from age 8 and up, Warehouse Circus, is Canberra’s own youth circus. They don’t just perform, they help you get in on the act! Workshops for all ages!

A Festival of Song You’re the Voice

There is something extraordinarily powerful about song. After all, the human voice is the earliest known instrument. And en masse, it can often raise the hairs on the back of your neck. This year we have assembled a mass of ensembles to entertain and inspire. A Festival of Choirs – we have over 13 choirs programmed in venues and around the site. Feel the power! Performance schedules listed around the site.

ABC 666 Community Choir

Sunday

1:00 PM

Led by Ken Teoh The ABC 666 Community Choir is a group of enthusiastic singers from diverse backgrounds united by a love of music and who are prepared to extend their musical horizons, venturing into styles and frontiers they have never before attempted.

Dante Musica Viva Led by Francesco Sofo

Alma Latina Voices and Rhythms

An Italian choir with an extensive repertoire of Neapolitan, folk and regional songs representing most regions of Italy. The group is part of the Dante Alighieri Society of Canberra that promotes the Italian language and culture. The choir is a mix of Italians, Italian descendants and students of the Italian language. The group enjoys both singing and each other’s company.

Led by Marisol Pacheco

Monday

Alma Latina is a fabulous group of singers and instrumentalists who have been exploring, interpreting and performing Latin American Music from the Caribbean, Central and South America since 2001.

Hill Street Singers

Friday

10:00 AM

Friday 12:00 PM Monday 10:00 AM Monday 4:00 PM

Archivally Sound Led by Linda Weller

3:00 PM

Led by Caitlin Grant We are a non-audition community choir formed in early 2008. The choir performs mainly for charitable causes and sings in combined concerts with the Wagga City Rugby Male Choir. Our repertoire/style is a mixture of traditional show tunes, popular, contemporary and folk songs and our music arranger tailors songs to the choir’s vocal strengths.

Archivally Sound sing the stories of ordinary Australians – their experience of the country, the bush, their heroes, wartime and loss, love and romance, as well as national pride or a view of the politics of the day – all discovered in the National Archives’ historical collection of songs from 1901–1964. Some of our songs were once published and popular; others remain humble and handwritten and may never have been performed in public before.

Saturday 12:00 PM Saturday 4:00 PM

Monday

Monday 12:00noon

2:00 PM

Crowd Around Choir Led by Kate Swadling Enduring pop hits, poignant ballads, folk songs and infectious African–American and South African rhythms inspire the members of Crowd Around, from the Blue Mountains. Some of the choirs crowd‑pleasers have been arranged by its leader, Kate Swadling.

Friday

3:00 PM

La La Girls Friends who like singing together, the La La Girls relax into the moment with a varied world and folk repertoire. The La Las emphasise the enjoyment and light‑hearted fun that comes through sharing harmonies.

Melbourne Millennium Chorus Led by Katrina Wilson The Melbourne Millennium Chorus draws singers from across Victoria to perform as a 350-voice choir in annual concerts that celebrate the voice, cultural diversity and life on this planet.

Friday 4:00 PM Saturday 11:00 AM Sunday 2:00 PM

Men in Suits Led by Stephen Taberner Men in Suits is a variably large men’s choir. Singing in 3 or 4 testosteronally‑charged parts (harmonies and structured dischords), the choir brings a sense of normalcy to men singing, or abnormalcy, depending on whether you had a starchy musical education or not. Accordingly, the choir is, without doubt, Australia’s leading musical performing group in the genre “Other Melbourne-based non‑religious, well-dressed male parody vocal ensemble”.

Saturday 2:00 PM Sunday 11:00 AM

Shaking the Tree Led by Bronwyn Calcutt Shaking the Tree is one of Melbourne’s most vibrant choirs. With two acclaimed CDs to its credit, the group achieves musical excellence without sacrifice of heart, soul and good fun. Accompanied by guitar, accordion, tsouras and percussion, the choir sings the best of gypsy, world and contemporary music.

Saturday 1:00 PM Sunday 10:00 AM

Stella A’cappella Led by Jacki Stuart Stella A’cappella is a Newcastle choir inspired by the joy of song and the passion of their conductor. Their repertoire includes gospel, African, folk and world music, performed in rich, four-part harmonies.

Saturday 10:00 AM Sunday 3:00 PM

Strange Weather Gospel Choir Led by Sonia Anfiloff and by Wayne Joiner The Strange Weather Gospel Choir is a non-religious Canberra community choir whose passion for African-American gospel music is sure to inspire and move audiences. Its unique sound and exuberance have seen it grow since 1995 to become one of the most popular choirs in the region.

Friday

11:00 AM

Performance times are correct at time of printing but may be SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. Please check the daily program updates at venues or the Festival Office.

Sydney Trade Union Choir Led by Gerard Patterson Sydney Trade Union Choir (STUC) is an a capella choir that has been singing songs with social meaning for almost twenty years. We sing at union conferences, May Day celebrations, picket lines, anti-fascism rallies, ACTU functions and congresses, union women’s dinners, folk festivals and clubs, the Reconciliation march, MUA dispute rallies, and also birthday parties.

Friday Monday

2:00 PM 1:00 PM

Tasmanian Grassroots Union Choir Led by Annie Parsell The Tasmanian Grassroots Union is a community choir made up of people of all ages and backgrounds that come together through a love of singing. Its repertoire consists of songs in a variety of styles and telling the stories of working people and their struggle throughout history. Over its eight years, the Choir has participated in many local, national and international events including The Cygnet Folk Festival for the last five years.

Friday 1:00 PM Saturday 3:00 PM

Specials Roger Holmes Roger has been running the hymn singing section at the National since 1994, either in person or (once) by remote control.

Sunday 10:00 AM Singing Room

The Tale Of Ale Some of Tasmania’s finest singers join with ‘Honorary Tasmanians’, ‘friends from interstate who frequently visit the Apple Isle to present ‘The Tale of Ale’. This is a performance of entertaining songs and recitations about our favourite tipple, most in praise of course!

Sunday

6:00 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Our Singing Workshops

Inspired by what you have seen? Why not loosen up your larynx and have a go with some of the Festival’s best. Join Moya Simpson for the Festival Choir and be part of the Finale Concert on Monday night. Perhaps hymn singing is your passion – The hymn singing session has been a fixture at the National since 1994, and has a base of regulars as well as a large crowd of occasional visitors who might or might not like the hymns, but love to have their voices blending with others in the massed harmony that is produced when people of enthusiasm gather to sing. Don’t just sit there – Participate!!! Friday 10:00 AM

Rebel Songwriters Forum

Building E

Hosted by Kevin McCarthy

10:00 AM

Balls and Chains

Workshop 2

Ted Egan

11:30 AM

Phil Ochs – 70 years and Beyond

Workshop 4

Various

1:00 PM

Making the Mythical Present

Singing Room

Ian Paulin

2:30 PM

NLA Fellowship Rehearsal

Singing Room

Christina Mimmocchi

4:00 PM

World Music A capella

Singing Room

Voices from the Vacant Lot

4:00 PM

Rehearsal

Building E

Watersons Concert

5:00 PM

Festival Choir - Rehearsal

Singing Room

Moya Simpson

Part 1

Workshop 1

Songs of Henry Lawson

Saturday 9:30 AM

Victorian Trade Union Choir

10:00 AM

Rebel Songwriters Forum

Workshop 2

Hosted by Kevin McCarthy

10:00 AM

Humour and Politics in Song

Singing Room

Patty Larkin

Led by Michael Roper

11:30 AM

Middle Eastern Chanting

Workshop 3

Yuval Asahkar (Camoon)

We are a group of union members who come together to sing. Songs have played a vital role in progressive social movements and we provide a musical voice to the union message.

Sunday 12:00 PM

11:30 AM

Choir Swap

Singing Room

Street Choir Leaders

1:00 PM

Chants of the Earth

Singing Room

A Pair of KCates

2:30 PM

Fellowship Workshop

Singing Room

Christina Mimmocchi

4:00 PM

Balls and Chains Rehearsal

Workshop 2

Ted Egan

5:00 PM

Festival Choir - Rehearsal

Singing Room

Moya Simpson

Sunday 9:30 AM

Part 2

Workshop 1

Songs of Henry Lawson

10:00 AM

Hymn Singing Session

Singing Room

Roger Holmes

11:30 AM

Railway Songs and Poems

Singing Room

Bush Music Club

2:30 PM

NLA Fellowship Rehearsal

Singing Room

Christina Mimmocchi

4:00 PM

Latin and Lechery

Singing Room

Ballpoint Penguins

5:00 PM

Festival Choir - Rehearsal

Singing Room

Moya Simpson

Monday

10:00 AM

Gaelic Singing

Singing Room

Saoirse

10:00 AM

Interpreting Traditional Songs

Workshop 1

Danny Spooner

11:30 AM

More than One Voice

Singing Room

PEARL

1:00 PM

Women of the Sea

Singing Room

A Pair of KCates

2:30 PM

Songs of the Cajuns

Singing Room

Le Blanc Bros Cajun Band

5:00 PM

Festival Choir - Rehearsal

Singing Room

Moya Simpson

The Majestic (Fringe) proudly brought to you by the ACT Government

A Majestic Festival The Majestic is a new venue at The National Folk Festival, thanks to the generous support of the ACT Government. It celebrates the weird and wonderful borderlands of the Festival, bringing together cabaret and vaudeville inspired bands, theatre performers and circus acts. Audience are encouraged to join in the madness, by playing dress ups and taking part in workshops, ranging in topic from physical theatre to song writing to entomology. Kick off your day with a no holds barred Dance Jam with the lovely Min Mae where all experience and fitness levels are welcome! From there you can catch a workshop in poetry slamming, insects, and circus, or try your luck at a Mystery Workshop (will it be a competitive knitting workshop? A duck hypnotism workshop?). If you are sick of seeing everyone else perform and have fun, leap aboard the increasingly insane theatrical antics of the Idiot Squad at their workshops! In the afternoons you can catch performers such as Emma Dean, The Ellis Collective, Voss, Mr Fibby, Doctor Stovepipe and Soctor Duess. At 6pm every night Lola The Gypsy Caravan will be holding an Under 25’s Acoustic Open Mic, hosted by local singer songwriters. Every night The Majestic will be holding feature concerts, with music, circus and theatre! Dress up in your finest formal rags for the red carpet Gala Opening with Emma Dean, The Ellis Collective, Doc Jones and The Lechery Orchestra and Rapskallion! Head back to the old country, clad in all your gypsy finery for Back In The Good Old World with Bizerka, Rapskallion, Mr. Fibby and Lolo Lovina. Sunday demands you hurl on your finest cowboy themed pyjamas, for not only is it International Pyjama Day, The Majestic will be hosting a High Noon Bush Bash with The Amazing Brainboy, Doctor Stovepipe, Abbie Cardwell, and the Handsome Young Strangers. Monday afternoon features The Majestic’s sideways, lunatic graduation ceremony The Fool’s Feast hosted by the Idiot Squad. Celebrate the grotesque and the absurd with Dangerboy and His Lovely Assistant Ivy, Mr Fibby, Emma Dean and Rapskallion, warming you up for the worst parade in the entire world! Canberra’s most untrustworthy Poetry Slam BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! will be hijacking The Majestic on Sunday afternoon. All are welcome to compete, but spots are limited, and sign up is at 1pm on Sunday, at The Majestic. Poetry Slam is a high speed poetry ‘competition’, where participants are given 2 minutes to spit out poetry, stories, shopping lists, or anything else that takes your fancy providing there are no props, and no instruments. Midnight Mayhem takes part in The Majestic after midnight on Friday, Saturday and Sunday night! On Friday come along and see circus performers from around the Festival in the dangerously inappropriate Not For Kids Kids Circus Show! Saturday night sees Rapskallion join forces with Mr. Fibby in Admiral Rapskibby’s Awkward and Not-So-Great Cabaret Disappointment. Sunday is for any poets who don’t feel like they can make it out of bed in the morning, and prefer to read in the dark, at the Bizzaro Poet’s Breakfast.

Doctor Stovepipe

Lolo Lavina

Fool Factory

A Festival of Tradition Tradition Bearers

Feltmaking: Learn to make fun finger puppets for the kids or use traditional felting techniques to make some 3 dimensional gifts.

Displays and Demonstrations and Workshops

Friday: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Saturday: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Sunday: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Monday: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

The Nationals Tradition Bearers has become a popular area for Festival patrons to view and gain information about a diverse number of art and crafts. As always we have the well known Woodcrafters, Feltmakers, and Tumut Broom Factory who have been an integral part of our Festival for many years now. This year the Festival is also showcasing the following art/craft techniques: • Sketch Artist – Ellen Fiedler • Tasmanian Forkometry Artist – Jeremy Lye • Tasmanian Junk Jewellery Artist – Natasa Milenovic • The Japanese Art of Origami – Artists Maya McDonell and Sam Beckham • The art of the ancient craft of Bow Making – John Taylor and friends. • The Melbourne Loom Weavers – Chai and Stewart.

Straw Broom Making: Learn the traditional art of making your own straw broom. Friday: 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Saturday: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Sunday: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Monday: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Weaving: Learn the ancient craft of dying and weaving silk from master weavers. Friday: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Saturday: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Sunday: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Monday: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Hapa Zome Dying: Need to release some tension and create fun art then this is for you. Friday: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Sunday: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Each of these artists/craft persons will be running workshops in the Community Arts area, they will also demonstrate and sell their art/craft from a stall site in the Tradition Bearers area to be found in the lovely tree covered park in the Festival grounds. The quality of their work will have you wanting to try your hand at the art/craft or at the very least purchase a piece of their fine work.

Workshops You will need to book for the following workshops – see the Community Arts organisers to make your booking. Junk Jewellery: Learn how to create fantastic bracelets and necklaces from recycled objects and found materials. Friday: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Saturday: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Sunday: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Monday: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Woodcrafting: Have some fun, learn a new skill and create a fabulous wooden toy. Friday: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Saturday: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Sunday: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Monday: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Sketching: Stretch that artistic urge and learn a few simple sketching techniques. Friday: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Saturday: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Sunday: 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Monday: 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Rattleback Workshop: Join in this popular workshop to learn how to make a traditional Celtic rattleback toy. Friday: 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Saturday: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Sunday: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Monday: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Bow String Making: Learn the traditional art of making cordage and bow strings. Friday: 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Saturday: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Sunday: 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Monday: 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Origami Sculptures: Turn old books and posters into stunning sculptural forms. Saturday: 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Monday: 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Community Arts You’ll find the Community Arts precinct tucked in behind the Troubadour Wine Bar and the Festival Shop. The Community Arts precinct is where Festival patrons can have some fun, learn a new skill and meet new people while enjoying a wide variety of art and craft experiences. The community arts precinct has both structured workshops and ongoing community art activities.

Jewellery – Make some funky pieces from wire and metal, learn how to make some contemporary pieces using resin and beads, make some funky pieces from recycled and found objects. Sculpture – Join in and participate in creating the large community sculptural pieces. Painting – Make your mark and add your artistic flair to the community mural.

Activities include mural painting, printmaking, sculpture, lantern making and textiles.

Visual Décor – Learn how to make simple lanterns and bizarre botanicals.

These activities are run from 9.30am – 5.00pm daily and patrons can come and go as they like and spend as much time as they wish in the precinct.

Painting – Make your mark and add your artistic flair to the community mural

Workshops Check workshops times in the Community Arts area. Printmaking – Design and print your own unique screen printed carry bag, design, carve and print your own original lino or wood cut prints, have some creative fun with stencil art. Textiles – Learn basketry techniques to make coil baskets and brooches, learn basic macramé techniques and join in the construction of a large community wall piece, make some funky wearable art pieces using simple techniques and recycled bits and bobs. Photo by Sabine Friedrich © 2009

Lost Property Each year, hundreds of items are handed in at the Festival Lost Property office. Everything from false teeth to musical instruments. If you have lost something chances are an honest folkie has handed it in! If you have found something, please take the time to take it to bring it to our Lost Property office. Lost Property is located in the Link Building (between the Budawang and Coorong Pavilions) and is open from 9am – 9pm each day. You could also phone 0406 375 696

Peter Coombe - Mandolin Family

a festival of instruments

INSTRUMENT MAKERS The craft of instrument making is alive and well at the National. Our Instrument Makers Display in the Quokka Pavilion showcases exquisite hand‑made musical instruments by master craftsmen and women from around the country. Learn about building an instrument from scratch or how to repair and restore a valued antique. Investigate acoustics and timber and learn how to care for that prized aquisition. Custom-built instruments are on sale or can be ordered to your individual requirements.

Mark Aspland - Cajon Woodskin™ has significantly expanded on the traditional cajon, enabling its use in a wide variety of musical genres. With patented built-in kick drum and switchable snare, plus tone and depth controls, Woodskin’s™ unique KiKBox™ is now played by musicians worldwide.

Erle Bartlett - Wind and Percussion instruments Erle Bartlett has been making bodhrans and whistles for over 20 years and has been an exhibitor for many years at the NFF. Look in at the Session Bar, or on stage, for many of his instruments being played, or come and play one yourself and see what’s new at the Instrument Makers Exhibition!

John Bucham - GUITAR Making a hand crafted guitar is an enchanting project. A project where you can combine beautiful woods to make beautiful sounds, and this is a wonderful thing. It is also a real pleasure to see somebody play a fine guitar for the first time. Their eyes light up as they realise that it is so very different to anything they have ever played before.

Graham Caldersmith - Guitar Graham Caldersmith, long-time luthier, old folkie and exCanberraite now works in the mountain village of Comboyne with his partner, Angela MacPherson, where they churn out a variety of handmade classical guitars. Instruments range from advanced student models to concert guitars and the extended guitar family of bass, baritone, treble and octaves.

Peter Coombe is a full time mandolin maker from Bega NSW, recently moved to Bega from Canberra. Peter has made just over 125 instruments of the mandolin family over the last 16 years, many from Australian native timbers. He has also published papers on use of Australian Native woods in mandolins and free plate tuning of mandolins. Approximately half of Peter’s instruments have been exported to musicians in the USA and Europe.

John Copley – Stringed Instruments Based in Canberra, John has a fast-growing reputation as one of the finest acoustical instrument makers in the country. He prefers to work closely with each client to ensure he produces exactly what they require in their custom-made instrument.

Doug Eaton – Stringed Instruments From Maleny, SE Queensland, Doug has made and restored acoustic string instruments including guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, early music instruments and dulcimers, since 1970. He selects the finest timbers, preferring to use Australian timbers where appropriate. Ph: 07 5494 4046 Email: sr.music@bigpond.com mywebsite.bigpond.com/doug.eaton

Adam Edwards - Violin Adam Edwards started building instruments in 1995 after meeting John Godschall Johnson at the Sydney woodworking show. Predominately self taught, he has been inspired by the work of Douglas Finlay. Adam sells a student violin called the “ Firebird “ for $1600 and a professional instrument for $8000.

Alan Funk – Banjo Alan commenced making banjos in 1974, and has made in excess of 200 instruments. He makes Bluegrass style 5-string, open-back 5-string and 4-string plectrum and tenor banjos. If it’s called a banjo, Alan will make it! Ph 08 8322 0594.

Joe Gallacher – Guitar, Mandolin, Bouzouki Joe Gallacher, based in Albury, NSW has been building steelstring and classical guitars for over fourteen years and is now building mandolins and bouzoukis. His instruments are played by some of the finest musicians in Australia, UK, Ireland and the USA. www.gallacher.now.nu

Peter Hyde – Accordion Hyde has developed the world’s first foam/timber button accordion (melodeon) with outstanding acoustics (tone, dynamics and response. The latest MIDI/acoustic button accordion – every key and system in one melodeon has been developed.

Phil Kearney – Luthier

Spiritwinds - Wind Instruments

Based in Launceston, Tasmania, Phillip has been building instruments since 1996. He now builds mostly guitar-bodied arch-topped Irish bouzoukis. Other instruments include Irish tenor banjos, 17- and 19-fret and 23” scale tenor guitars. Contact: phillip@kearneyluthier.com / www.kearneyluthier.com

My first passion is the Native American style flute, an instrument whose sound can only be described as the breath of Spirit. The journeys this instrument has taken us on have led to our making of other unique and beautiful wind instruments such as our own all Australian Outback Sax and bamboo flutes. I have always loved the concept of the ‘beauty way’, a total philosophy of walking in beauty at every step of each day, finding the beauty in all things. The flutes I am talking about above really seem to have a particular soul song that perhaps the world really needs to hear. We too all have our soul songs – is the world hearing yours?

Brandden Lassells – Harp Maker and Luthier Brandden is internationally known for his design innovations and fine craftsmanship. His passion for harps and wood results in the warm resonant tones produced by the harps that he crafts. Email: brannde@harps.com.au / www.harps.com.au

John Liddy – Guitar, Mandolin I make Archtop Guitars and F-style and A-style mandolins from North American spruce, selected for tonal qualities and figure. I aim to produce great sounding instruments with a high level of playability and craftsman ship.

Roland Stefen - Stringed Instruments Roland lives in Wollongong with his wife Lyn and has been making stringed instruments for quite a few years now. He has attained a broad knowledge in the construction and setting up of violins and other stringed instruments. He is dedicated to producing instruments of a high quality that are handcrafted, the violins being individually set up and finished with oil varnish that is made from a traditional recipe.

Benedict Stewart Musical Instruments

Lennart Lovdin - Nyckelharpa Lennart Lovdin grew up close to the nyckelharpa heartland in Sweden. There he built his first nyckelharpa as a subject in a woodworking course. He likes to customise the various details and decorations of his nyckelharpas for the future owner. He plays the nyckelharpa in a small Brisbane based band called Kupaleja.

Benedict Puglisi - Double Bass Benedict’s background in violin making has meant that his double basses have naturally followed this course with fully carved backs and violin corners adorning his instruments. He is also heavily influenced by many thousands of double basses that have passed through his workshop. Each instrument created by Benedict is as individual as the timber, which he chooses. Benedict works closely with the musician to achieve the perfect outcome for their requirements.

Ben Stewart hails from the small but extremely significant village of Chewton in central Victoria. He has been making instruments since the mid 1990s, responding to a passionate first encounter with high-quality timber and a chisel. Ben is mostly known as a whistle maker but is highly adept in other forms of wind instrument making and repair. A chisel, lathe and some fine timber can become many things under the hand of this maker!

Richard Troughear - appalachian dulcimer Richard Troughear made his first Appalachian dulcimer in 1969 whilst in the army in Vietnam – that instrument is now in the collection of the Australian War Memorial. After a career as a Bio‑medical Engineer, he took up mountain dulcimer making again only to discover that even simple acoustic instruments aren’t so simple after all. Mountain dulcimers are simple, yet also complex. Carved body ukuleles also take up part of his time – a sort of Rebec-meets-Hawaii; a UkeBek.

Mitch Smith – Pennywhistles Mitch has been making pennywhistles for over 2 years. They have gained consistently good reviews and are used by some of the world’s leading players.

Jack Spira - Guitar Jack has a life long commitment to guitar making. He started as a teenager in 1987, was formally trained in Modern fretted instrument technology at the London college of furniture, and set up his business in Australia in 1991. He now lives and works in the Dandenong ranges near Melbourne where he builds mostly steel string guitars. Like most Australian makers, he has spent a lot of time investigating the use of Australian native timbers. He has made many custom and experimental design over the years, which have all developed into his current designs. Most years you can meet him and see his work at the National and Port Fairy folk festivals in Australia, and also at the Melbourne Guitar Makers Festival.

Harry Wass – Early Instruments After a lifetime of working with timber and playing musical instruments in several groups, I progressed into making instruments, first for myself, and then for others. Beginning with violin making fifteen years ago, I now make early instruments, which are my passion. Currently, I am particularly fond of making things with keys, namely hurdy gurdys and keyed fiddles. In 2006 I travelled through Eastern and Western Europe researching and studying these and other early and folk instruments, and networking with European makers, and I am currently working full time as an early instrument maker.

David Worthy – Guitar David Worthy lives in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne. He builds a range of flat top acoustics with a focus on custom work and inlay. Recent commissions include a 5-string fretless bass, the 7-string lap steel Wintonbeast for Andrew Winton and currently a 22-string raga guitar.

don’t miss the Instrument makers concert Sunday

8:30 PM

Village Stage

21 Friday 10:00 AM

Beginner Tin Whistle

Workshop 1

Jon Millard

11:30 AM

Tassie Tunes Old and New

Building E

The Tasmanian Heritage Fiddle Ensemble

11:30 AM

Australian Fiddle Tunes

Workshop 2

Dove Tale

1:00 PM

Klezmer Workshop

Workshop 1

Ernie Gruner

1:00 PM

NFF Percussion Experience

Workshop 4

Peter Vadiveloo

1:00 PM

Introduction to the Lute

Workshop 2

Alan Banks

2:30 PM

Rehearsal

Building E

Festival Fiddle Rally 2010

2:30 PM

The Chapman Stick

Workshop 1

Andy Salvanos

2:30 PM

Concertina Maintenance

Workshop 2

Malcolm Clapp

2:30 PM

Bluegrass Mandolin

Workshop 4

Nigel Lever

2:30 PM

Playing Harmonies and Variations

Workshop 3

Contratemps

4:00 PM

Old Time Banjo

Workshop 2

Ian Alexander

4:00 PM

Scandinavian Dance Music

Workshop 3

Salmiakki Pelimannit

4:00 PM

Rehearsal

Workshop 1

The Dreadful Band

Traditional Music Modes

Workshop 3

Bob Hodgson & Daryl Powell

Saturday 10:00 AM

Instruments of Participation Everyone has an opportunity to learn new skills or improve existing talents. If you’re into group fun, why not join a big band and be part of a programmed performance. Don’t be shy – find your inner extrovert!

Australian Settler Session and Dance Music These sessions feature music collected from Australia’s settlers presented in an informal and approachable manner. Bring an instrument and play along or just sit and listen.

11:00 AM daily in the Session Bar

11:30 AM

Australian Fiddle Tunes

Workshop 1

Dove Tale

11:30 AM

Spanish Guitar

Workshop 2

Andrew Veivers

Session Experience

1:00 PM

Beginner Tin Whistle

Workshop 1

Jon Millard

1:00 PM

Bluegrass Banjo

Workshop 2

Martin Louis

2:30 PM

English Concertina Techniques

Workshop 2

Mike Watts

Ideal for musicians with some experience on their instruments, these sessions are structured and supportive with written music displayed on a screen. Come and enjoy making music with others. A great way to start your day.

2:30 PM

Bluegrass Mandolin

Workshop 3

Lachlan Davidson

9:00 AM daily in the Session Bar

2:30 PM

Uke’n Play Supa Easy Ukulele

Workshop 4

Mike Jackson

4:00 PM

Rehearsal

Workshop 1

The Dreadful Band

4:00 PM

Accordion Maintenance

Workshop 3

Malcolm Clapp

4:00 PM

Slide Guitar

Singing Room

Kristina Olsen

Autoharp

Workshop 2

Evan Mathieson

1:00 PM

Bluegrass Fiddle

Workshop 3

Hamish Davidson

2:30 PM

Rehearsal

Building E

Festival Fiddle Rally 2010

Sunday 10:00 AM 10:00 AM

Taiko Drumming Is For Everyone!

Workshop 4

TaikOz

11:30 AM

Australian Fiddle Tunes

Workshop 1

Dovetale

11:30 AM

Irish Mandolin

Workshop 3

Tony O’Neill

1:00 PM

Beginner Tin Whistle

Building E

Jon Millard

1:00 PM

Bluegrass Guitar

Workshop 2

Doug Wallace

NFF Percussion Experience Calling all rhythm junkies! Dynamic drummer, percussionist, teacher and performer Peter Vadiveloo will run three workshops/rehearsals to create a magical percussion piece for this year’s Festival which will be performed on the final day of the Festival. So bring a percussion instrument, your energy and your ideas.

4:00 PM daily in Workshop 4

1:00 PM

Sitar

Workshop 3

Groove Ganesh

The Dreadful Band

1:00 PM

Cajun Accordion

Singing Room

Geoff Le Blanc

Despite popular demand, The Dreadful Band is back! Bring your weapons of sonic destruction and join The Dreadful Band.

1:00 PM

Rehearsal

Workshop 1

The Dreadful Band

2:30 PM

Mbira

Workshop 4

Fabio Chivhanda

2:30 PM

Tricky Rhythms Made Easy

Workshop 2

Bizerka

2:30 PM

Playing Tunes in Harmony

Workshop 1

Harmony Happenings

4:00 PM

Dobro

Workshop 3

Pete Fidler

10:00 AM

Pre-War Blues Guitar Styles

Workshop 4

Skip Sail

11:30 AM

Self-Publishing

Workshop 2

Philip Rush

Rehearsals - Friday, Saturday & Sunday Performances - Sunday, Monday

Festival Fiddle Rally 2010

Monday

11:30 AM

Guitar Soloing for People with No Clue

Workshop 4

Kristina Olsen

11:30 AM

Concertina Get Together

Workshop 1

Mike Watts

1:00 PM

Jigs and Reels on the Bodhran

Workshop 1

Jon Jones

1:00 PM

Playing Tunes in Harmony

Workshop 3

Harmony Happenings

1:00 PM

Tin Whistle

Workshop 4

Vin Garbutt

1:00 PM

Irish Fiddle

Building E

Ado Barker

2:30 PM

Australian Settler Music

Workshop 1

FolkLines

2:30 PM

Australian Old Time Tunes

Workshop 3

The Canberra Old Timers

Join over sixty fiddlers on stage to be part of the Festival Fiddle Rally! - an opportunity for all fiddlers to play an exciting program of Celtic based tunes chosen to reflect the theme of the Festival.

Friday 2:30 PM Saturday 2:30 PM Sunday 2:30 PM Monday 11:00 AM

Building E Building E Building E Coorong

A Festival of Dance Dance Like Everyone is Watching (and you don’t give a hoot!!!) The National is Australia’s largest dance festival. Dance displays, workshops, formal Balls, bush dances, tango dances, Balkan, South American, Bellydance, African, English, Irish, Canadian. You name it, we’ve got it. Slip on your dancing shoes and join in the fun.

Please note Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are no longer able to use the Coorong as a dance venue.

Dance Workshops Friday 9:30 AM

Indian Dance

Mallee

Bharatanatyam – South Indian Classical Dance

10:00 AM

Scandinavian Workshop

Oasis

sCanDans, Salmiakki Pelimannit

11:00 AM

Push Me, Pull You

Mallee

Kristina Olsen

1:00 PM

Scottish Ball Workshop

Mallee

Tony Northey

1:20 PM

Appalachian Clogging

Oasis

The Whitetop Mountaineers

2:40 PM

Bavarian Couples Dances

Oasis

Jim and Ingrid Rehle-Williams

2:30 PM

Tango Workshop

Mallee

Tango Social Club of Canberra

3:30 PM

Macedonian Dance

Mallee

Macedonian Cultural and Artistic Association ‘Ilinden’

5:00 PM

New Vogue And Couples Dances

Mallee

The Canberra Old Timers

6:30 PM

Macedonian Dance

Oasis

K.U.D. Razigrana Makedonka

9:30 AM

The Hardest Dancers I Know

Mallee

Colin Towns

9:30 AM

Egyptian Dancing

Oasis

Hilal Dance Australia

10:00 AM

Dance Jam!

The Majestic

Dance Jam

11:00 AM

Clogg Morris

Oasis

Brandragon North West Clog Morris, Albion Fair Morris

11:30 AM

Square Dance

Mallee

Appalachian Heaven, Charlie Walden Band, ACT Square Dance Society

12:30 PM

Japanese Dance

Oasis

TaikOz

2:20 PM

Fried Herman’s Dances

Mallee

Maureen Morris and Tamarisque

2:30 PM

Greek Dance

Oasis

Apodomi Compania

4:10 PM

Tango Workshop

Mallee

Tango Social Club of Canberra

5:30 PM

Irish Ceilli

Mallee

Margaret and Bill Winnett, Corner House Ceili Band

6:30 PM

Swing Workshop

Oasis

Jumptown Swing

10:00 AM

Sonderhonigg

Mallee

Danish Folkdance Group Heimdal Inc

11:30 AM

Overland Track Suite

Mallee

David Wanless

12:00 PM

Dance Like a Latvian

Oasis

Somesing Laik Zat

1:30 PM

Nordic Dance Workshop

Mallee

Virmalised Estonian Folk Dancers, Revontulet Finnish Folk-Dancers, Salmiakki Pelimannit

4:00 PM

Irish Step Dance

Oasis

Saoirse

5:30 PM

Belly Dance

Mallee

Tribalista Sistas & Friends

11:30 AM

Chilean Dance

Mallee

Manquehue Chilean Folk-Dance Group Inc.

13:30

Buttongrass Dance

Mallee

The VerandahCoots

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

The Colonial Ball

ITS ON!!!!! Put on your favourite frocks and gowns (good clobber for the fellas of course) and skip the light fantastic at the Colonial Ball. A new venue for this year- it’s off to the historic Yarralumla Woolshed. NOTE: Festival patrons only - wristbands will be checked at the door. Directions and maps will be at the Mallee and Oasis Dance Venues. Saturday 8:00 PM Yarralumla Woolshed.

Maypole Dancing For Kids Four Australian musicians with a maypole, piano accordion, and percussion instruments provide a dazzling display to entice kids to dance and make music. Children will be supported in learning to skip or waltz around a pole, creating beautiful patterns with the ribbons, or they can play percussion to accompany the dancers. The dance culminates in a co-operative problem solving effort to undo the ‘unique’ ribbon patterns they create.

Friday 11:00 AM Saturday 11:00 AM Sunday 11:00 AM Monday 11:00 AM

Kids Activities Kids Activities Kids Activities Kids Activities

Dance Performers A Fine Vintage Come and be entertained by this stunning dance group from Sydney. Elegantly costumed ladies and dapper gents will present a vibrant display of dances from the 1880s through to the 1920s. This was an era of great social change that was reflected in the dancing of the day, with dancers holding each other closer than ever before and dances being cheeky, even daring and risqué.

Sunday 5:00 PM Piazza Monday 10:00 AM Piazza

Arthur Kingsland – Anglo-Irish-Celtic Eclectic Dance Teacher

own twist. Energetic and lively, Borderline Kaylee are also an experienced dance band that provide fun evenings for families and people of all ages and dancing abilities.

Arthur specialises in teaching challenging dances and interesting variations from a range of Celtic traditions (Australian, Irish, English, Scottish and American dancing). Look out for the workshops ‘Challenging New Dances’ and ‘Dutch Crossing’, and come along to the ‘Dancers’ Dance’.

Friday 1:30 PM Piazza Saturday 11:30 AM Piazza Saturday 8:00 PM Oasis

Monday

1:00 PM Oasis

Bharatanatyam – South Indian Classical Dance

Square Dancing is a traditional type of American folk dancing consisting of four couples forming a square and dancing to a caller who sings and calls the moves. The music may be contemporary or traditional and the dancing is fast, energetic and colourful.

Bharatanatyam is a classical dance form originated in Tamil Nadu, a state in Southern India. It is also one of the national dances of India. This centuries-old ancient dance form traces its history and roots to temple dances. Bharatanatyam is accompanied by classical Carnatic music. The colourful costumes and the classical themes presented during the Bharanatyam show are a delight to watch, music to the ears and a treat to the intellect. Gayathri will be performing, as soloist, depicting the richness of Bharanatyam dance form.

Friday 12:00 PM Piazza Saturday 11:30 AM Mallee Saturday 3:00 PM Piazza

Friday 9:30 AM Mallee Friday 2:00 PM Piazza Saturday 5:30 PM Piazza

ACT Square Dance Society

Albion Fair Morris Morris dancing isn’t all men in baldricks and flowery hats! Albion Fair Morris dance in the tradition of the North West of England. Their clogs and striking costumes acknowledge the mill workers of the northern English villages during the Industrial Revolution. North West Morris is characterised by precise repetitive stepping and the use of short belled or ribboned sticks, floral garlands, and ‘tiddlers’ or slings from the weaving looms in the mills.

Saturday 11:00 AM Oasis Sunday 11:30 AM Piazza

Black Joak Morris Traditional Morris dance full of colour and movement.

Brandragon North West Clog Morris Melbourne’s Brandragon are bright, fun and energetic. Brandragon dance Morris in the traditional wooden soled clogs from the industrial towns of northern England. Come and watch them stomp and whoop their way through their diverse repertoire of North West clog, Cotswold and Border styles.

Saturday 11:00 AM Oasis

Britannia Morris Men Melbourne’s premier Cotswold Morris side are back again for another National of flower-bedecked, bell-wearing, synchronised hanky waving and stick clashing. Let the strains of our button accordion lure you into English village life for a short while. Try it out yourself at our workshop – you know you want to!

Friday 10:00 AM Piazza Monday 1:30 PM Piazza

Bush Capital Band

Saturday 2:00 PM Piazza Monday 2:30 PM Piazza

The Monaro Folk Society’s Bush Dance Group Band, keeping the fun in both music and bush dance, and helping to keep alive the great traditions of Australian music and dance.

Borderline Kaylee

Thursday 8:00 PM Mallee

Borderline Kaylee is a vibrant group of teenagers and young adults who perform originally choreographed ceilih, bush and traditional Celtic dances. These young performers play a mixture of instruments and sing songs both traditionally and with their

The Canberra Old Timers The Canberra Old Timers are a new group driving excitement and energy into Australian Old Time dancing. With their Celtic, Australian, American and Classical influences, The Canberra Old Timers add sugar, spice and everything nice to the traditional Old Time tunes cooked up in their repertoire. Bruce Lemin has years of dancing and teaching experience which he brings to The Canberra Old Timers to help make dancing both easy and fun. With an encyclopaedic repertoire of dances across a myriad of styles, Bruce is well set to energise and excite your dance feet.

Friday 5:00 PM Mallee Saturday 4:00 PM Oasis Monday 2:30 PM Workshop 3

Coalbrook Band Coalbrook Band consists of six musicians who each specialise in at least one of the various styles of dance programmed for the Dancers Dance. So far they have been able to cope with the challenges the dancers create. Will this be the year the dancers succeed?

Monday

1:00 PM Oasis

Corner House Ceili Band The Corner House Ceili Band is a high energy Ceili dance band, playing strict tempo Irish dance music for Ceilis. The band has performed regularly at the National Folk Festival, The Fleadh Nua Festival in Goulburn and the Turning Wave Festival in Gundagai. The members of the band are all experienced musicians with many years experience playing for dances.

Saturday 5:30 PM Mallee Sunday 8:00 PM Mallee

Crazy For Contra Over 200 years ago in the US, English country dances became American contra dance: an ever evolving whirl of flirtatious movements that flow into the next. You dance down a long ways set, with a new couple each time through. You laugh, you flirt, you fall in love with contra! Sydney’s favourite, Julie Bishop, is the caller, Crazy For Contra – Alex Bishop (flute, concertina), Laura Bishop (keyboards), and fiddlers three Susie Bishop, Bob McInnes, Ralph Pride – play irresistible Celtic-style reels, jigs, marches.

Friday Monday

4:00 PM Oasis 3:30 PM Mallee

Colin Towns

Dance Jam

Colin is well known for his exciting and informative presentation of English dancing. He is enthusiastic to get anyone involved however challenging the dance, and thoroughly experienced to get you through and celebrate your achievements.

Start the day with dance, dance without rules, without right or wrong. Dance Jams begin with a gently facilitated unfolding of the body and shedding of the ego, and culminate in a high-pitched unleashing of your wildest, sweatiest, most ridiculous true self. All fitness levels accommodated. Lovingly facilitated by Min Mae and her great big passion for meshing bodies, art, community and electric boogaloo.

Saturday 9:30 AM Mallee Sunday 2:00 PM Oasis Sunday 5:30 PM Oasis

Contratemps Take high energy Celtic reels, mix with some old-time American and French Canadian tunes, a song or two and serve with fiddle harmonies, percussion and rhythm; Contratemps plays music drawn from the cultural melting pot of the New England region of America. Rob Mahony and Sarah Davies provide the driving melodies and subtle harmonies while Kev Bradley and John Taylor fill in the middle ground with chord progressions you would normally hear from a jazz band. Mick Thompson adds the snap to meld with traditional Quebecois foot percussion from the fiddlers.

Friday 4:00 PM Workshop 3 Saturday 10:10 PM Mallee

Friday 1:00 PM Saturday 4:30 PM Sunday 10:00 AM Monday 10:00 AM

Piazza Piazza Mallee Oasis

FolkLines FolkLines are an inclusive bush band that play collected Australian tunes. Both dances and tunes can be found on the Bush Traditions website: [BushTraditions. org] Brush up on the dances, download the tunes and join in.

Saturday 4:00 PM Oasis Monday 2:30 PM Workshop 1

Fried Herman’s Dances with Maureen Morris and Tamarisque Fried de Metz Herman has devised many wonderful dances over more than forty years of teaching. With Tamarisque, the band who played for the highly successful Festival 2009 Ball, Maureen will present a selection of dances that will delight, intrigue and stretch all dancers. Many will remember previous workshops of Fried’s dances.

Saturday 2:20 PM Mallee

Gypsy Dance Stageshow Saucy gypsy dancer Rita leads an explosion of Balkan, Latino and Arabesque dance. Her young and beautiful troupe are likely to trigger spontaneous declarations of love. From wild skirts to hot fedoras, the characters will enchant you. Genre-defying dance from the heart.

Sunday Monday

4:30 PM Piazza 3:00 PM Piazza

Saturday 10:00 AM The Majestic Sunday 10:00 AM The Majestic Monday 10:00 AM The Majestic

Danish Folkdance Group Heimdal Inc The Danish folk dance group from Brisbane have been performing traditional Danish dances for over seventeen years. In this time they have entertained audiences in Sweden, Denmark, New Zealand and Australia with their colourful costumes and lively music.

Highland Dancing The Fling, The Sword Dance, The Barracks Johnie. These are just some of the exciting dances that this wonderfully professional troupe of young folk present with joy and enthusiasm.

Friday 11:30 AM Piazza Saturday 10:00 AM Piazza

Hilal Dance Australia Hilal Dance Australia presents a program of the folk dance of Egypt. The program features dancer Sarah Hamilton and percussionist/dancer/musician Marianthe Loucataris both of whom performed nationally and internationally with the Suraya Hilal Dance Company’s Oscillations in 2008/2009. Using the richly textured sounds of the ancient sounds of mizmar, rebaba and argul the company brings to life the essence of Egypt’s diverse and expressive folk traditions within a dynamic contemporary theatre context, creating a lively, colourful spectacle.

Saturday 9:30 AM Oasis Monday 3:00 PM Piazza

Saturday 6:30 PM Oasis Sunday 2:30 PM Piazza

K.U.D. Razigrana Makedonka The highly acclaimed K.U.D. Razigrana Makedonka from Queanbeyan, NSW presents traditional and stylised Macedonian folklore from all areas of Macedonia. These acts are performed in vibrant national costumes and enhanced through the renowned rhythmic diversity of traditional Macedonian folk music.

Saturday 12:00 PM Sunday 1:00 PM Monday 1:00 PM Monday 4:00 PM

Piazza Piazza Piazza Piazza

Isistars The Tahinis have all grown up into Isistars. Their faithful fans from the last five years will enjoy this new group with the girls now aged 18–25, in their fourth appearance at the National. Fabulous and as vibrant as always with their show stopping group numbers, they will still be one of your favourite belly dance groups.

Friday 2:30 PM Sunday 5:30 PM Monday 12:00 PM Monday 3:00 PM

Piazza Piazza Piazza Piazza

Jim and Ingrid RehleWilliams Jim and Ingrid teach easy to learn Bavarian Couples Dances. Both are experienced dancers and present their dances in a fun and accessible way. No previous dance experience is necessary. We will be conducting the workshops to live music.

Friday

2:40 PM Oasis

Jumptown Swing Jumptown is ACT’s swing dancing society, with an experienced performance troupe, teachers and classes for children and adults. Jumptown provides dance tuition for swing era dances, including, swing, lindy-hop, balboa, Charleston and blues. We work with audience and crowd participation to ensure everyone has a great time. Swing dancing was invented by the dancers in the ballrooms of Harlem to match the popular big band swing music of the day. Swing dancing was extremely popular world-wide in the 1940s and all but died away with the onset of rock and roll music in the 1950s. Since the 1990s swing dancing has had an energetic revival in Australia and across the world.

Friday

5:00 PM Piazza

Longford Morris Dancers Longford Morris Dancers take delight in sharing the theatrics of the unique and eccentric Morris dance. The group regularly performs at festivals and fairs in Tasmania providing a Tasmanian interpretation of the range of Morris dance styles including Cotswold, Border and Northwest. They will be accompanied by the side hobby, a Welsh dragon named Dewy.

wide and international tours including two successful tours to Macedonia in 2005 and 2008. Previous competition success includes three-time winners of the McDonald’s Performing Arts Challenge in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and also winners of the International Theatre and Dance Championships 2009 in the World Dance category.

Friday Monday

3:30 PM Mallee 4:00 PM Piazza

Manquehue Chilean Folk-Dance Group Inc. The Manquehue is a Chilean folk-dance group. They have performed at the NFF for the last three years. They have also danced at the Multicultural Festival and the multicultural gala night at the Hellenic Club. Their dances are very energetic and their costumes are colourful and well liked by the audience. They are a very enthusiastic group and love dancing at the National Folk Festival. At the moment there are eighteen people in the group.

Saturday 4:00 PM Piazza Monday 11:30 AM Mallee

Friday 10:00 AM Piazza Saturday 2:00 PM Piazza

Los Urbanos Passionate lovers of Latin American folklore and culture take their audience on a journey in time and space. Los Urbanos tell stories with their dances, costumes, and music from the Easter Islands, The Andes, the indigenous people of Araucania (the Mapuches), and the central valleys of Chile. The group displays their mastery of an extensive and diverse folkloric panorama from the early 1800’s up to today.

Friday 4:30 PM Piazza Saturday 11:00 AM Piazza Monday 11:30 AM Piazza

Margaret and Bill Winnett Margaret and Bill Winnett have encouraged so many people to become involved in Irish dancing and have them dancing and enjoying themselves very quickly. Their teaching is thorough yet makes allowance for the newest dancer to be absorbed into a set and get dancing with the ‘professionals’.

Saturday 5:30 PM Mallee Sunday 8:00 PM Mallee

Miasma Macedonian Cultural and Artistic Association ‘Ilinden’ The Macedonian Cultural and Artistic Association ‘Ilinden’ is a young dynamic dance ensemble that exhibits Macedonian culture, tradition and folklore through song and dance. Ilinden has been around for over forty years working together with the Macedonian Orthodox Church, St Petka and over the last decade has participated in numerous festivals, nation-

Miasma is a Tribal Belly Dance duo from Northern Tasmania, whose performances have often been described as ‘mesmerising’! Tribal style belly dance draws its influence from Middle Eastern, Egyptian, Indian, and Spanish Flamenco. Miasma regularly perform in Tasmania, as well as performing at the Tribal and Trance Festival in Sydney, and more recently, the Feast of the Senses Festival in Brisbane.

Friday 4:00 PM Piazza Saturday 3:30 PM Piazza

Scottish Ball BAND

Dance Scottish and fly off the floor at full stretch to the finesse of master fiddler Chris Duncan, the rockin’ rhythm of Catherine and Jennifer Strutt, the superb dance fiddling of Matthew Robertson, and Tasmania’s finest young fiddlers, Bridget Hickey and Sirocha Bruckard. Along with MC Tony Northey, this exquisite band brings you an unforgettable night of Scottish dance experience meets youth, melody meets harmony, and musicians meet dancers at full throttle for this unique gala Scottish Ball. Only at the National.

Friday Friday Sunday

Overland Track Suite Overland Track Suite Dance Booklet Launch and Workshop: Tasmanian dance caller David Wanless, Canberra Contra Club musical leader Rob Mahony and their dance-a-holic partners Cathy and Pauline walked and occasionally danced on the Overland Track in late 2007. Out of that came a suite of new dances, each evoking one part of this world famous and beautiful highland walk through the Tasmanian wilderness world heritage area. Help celebrate the unique wilderness of Tasmania with these original dances – contras, squares, waltzes and a triplet. No partner, dancing experience, walking boots or waterproofs required. Live music by Dancers’ Delight and friends.

Sunday 11:30 AM Mallee

Revontulet Finnish Folk-Dancers Revontulet performs dances from Finland and neighbouring regions, such as Karelia and Ingria, and has been active for over twenty five years. Based in Canberra, the group has performed throughout Australia, danced in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Canada and the USA, and staged a series of successful original performances combining Finnish folk dance, music and drama.

Friday Sunday Monday

5:30 PM Piazza 3:30 PM Mallee 2:30 PM Oasis

Salmiakki Pelimannit Salmiakki Pelimannit (Finnish for Salty Liquorice) Folk musicians are a family group who perform the music of Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Estonia. Usually the band accompanies the dance groups Revontulet, Finnish, Linnea Swedish, Virmaliset Estonian. The band encourages other musicians to play the music of

these Nordic countries by development of a collection of common tunes and by running workshops on playing this music.

Friday 10:00 AM Oasis Friday 4:00 PM Workshop 3 Sunday 10:00 AM Mallee Sunday 1:30 PM Mallee Monday 2:30 PM Oasis

Salsabor Dance Company Salsabor is the only Latin dance school that has represented Canberra at an international level. They teach in the city, Dickson and Gungahlin. They will be teaching and performing salsa at the Festival. The routines they perform will be the ones they will showcase at the biggest salsa event in Australia, the Sydney Salsa Congress.

1:00 PM Mallee 8:00 PM Mallee 1:30 PM Fitzroy

Set In Their Ways A Canberra based dance display group specialising in choreographing traditional and contemporary Irish set dances for public display. This fun-loving and energetic group have been well received at many local events including The National Folk Festival, The Turning Wave Festival, Floriade, and the Governor Generals House. Watch them kicking up their heels to the finest rhythms of Ireland that include jigs, reels, polkas, slides and hornpipes.

Friday 12:30 PM Piazza Monday 2:00 PM Piazza

Friday 11:00 AM Piazza Saturday 5:00 PM Piazza Monday 11:00 AM Piazza

sCanDans sCanDans is the Canberra Scandinavian Folk Dance Group that has displayed and run workshops and Scandinavian dances at the NFF and at other Australian Festivals since 1996. This year they will feature a workshop of a variety of dances that utilise the basic hambo step taught previously. The workshop will start with a refresher of the basic hambo footwork before teaching some fun couple and mixer dances that build upon that basic step. This is an intermediate-difficulty workshop requiring some prior exposure to the Swedish hambo. Music is by the experienced group Salmiakki Pelimannit.

Friday 10:00 AM Oasis Monday 10:00 AM Oasis

Silver Soles Cloggers Inc. ‘Fast and furious’, an energetic performance of American Appalachian clogging, set to traditional bluegrass music. Aged from 10 years to adult, these dancers will show you their wild, foot stomping, mesmerising hillbilly tap style. The steps are intricate, as are the formations, and all the while your own feet will be tapping, your hands a clapping.

Saturday 12:30 PM Piazza Saturday 3:00 PM Kids Festival Sunday 4:00 PM Piazza

Spellbound Bellydance Be mesmerised by Spellbound Bellydance. Be taken on a journey of twists, undulations, shimmies and beauty through the art of bellydance. From traditional bellydance to Aradia’s own creation, the industrial bellydance and witness a visual vortex of dance.

Friday 12:00 PM Oasis Monday 3:00 PM Piazza

States of Display Presenting a collaborative dance display featuring dancing through the years from all the states of Australia.

Tango Social Club of Canberra

Tribalista Sistas and Friends

Learning Tango is easier than it sounds. This year the Tango Social club celebrates ten years of sharing their love of the dance in Canberra. Through a series of progressive workshops and evening dances to live music, you will get a little taste of a Buenos Aires salon and participate in a dance that is all about interpersonal connections. Or simply have fun.

Tribalista Sistas is Canberra’s first and currently only Tribal Bellydance troupe. Performing a modern fusion style of bellydance that blends the beauty of bellydance with the strength and grace of flamenco, Indian and other dance forms. Structurally improvised, each performance is unique and is a spectacular display of colour and movement. The troupe consists of a diverse blend of ladies with various levels of experience and range of ages who are all brought together by their love of dance.

Friday Friday Saturday Saturday

2:30 PM 7:00 PM 4:10 PM 7:30 PM

Mallee Piazza Mallee Piazza

Saturday 1:00 PM Piazza

Sunday 11:00 AM Piazza Sunday 5:30 PM Mallee Monday 3:00 PM Piazza

Sydney Irish Dance Ensemble

Virmalised Estonian Folk Dancers

The Sydney Irish Dance Ensemble is an exciting new branch of the Sydney Irish Ceili Dancers that specialises in the performance of Irish dancing in all its forms. They have the flexibility of encompassing music, song and dance into exciting performances such as the tribute to Dan O’Connell that they will showcase at the 2010 National Folk Festival.

Friday Sunday

3:30 PM Piazza 1:30 PM Piazza

Tabla Bellydance Tabla performs a high energy combination of Egyptian gypsy, folkloric baladi and folkloric-fusion described as ‘urban folk’ belly dance. Their choreographed and improvised dances are performed to live drumming and recorded music that is entertaining and inspiring. Firmly grounded in traditional belly dance, Tabla’s HeartBeat Tour evokes the proud, earthy and provocative spirit of the Ghawazee.

Tony Northey Dance Caller Tony Northey is a qualified teacher of Scottish country dancing and his aim is to infect everyone with the joy of the dance. Tony has been involved with the National since 1992 running balls, dances, workshops and displays. He is always keen to look after beginners as well as the more experienced dancers.

Friday Friday

1:00 PM Mallee 8:00 PM Mallee

Virmalised (Northern Lights) Estonian Folk Dancers from Sydney carry on a seventy five year history of Estonian folk dance performances in Australia. They showcase the energy and diversity of traditional folk dances in a vividly colourful display.

Friday 3:00 PM Piazza Sunday 10:00 AM Piazza Sunday 3:30 PM Mallee Monday 10:00 AM Oasis

With Bells On Colourful, vibrant, entertaining, these girls are local Canberra bellydancers who always put on a belly-icious show. Look out for their memorable finales to unpredictable songs. With rings on their fingers and with bells on their toes, they shall have music wherever they go.

Monday

Friday 12:00 PM Oasis Monday 3:00 PM Piazza

Performer Information Performance times are correct at time of printing but may be SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. Please check the daily program updates at venues or the Festival Office. Photo by Sabine Friedrich © 2009

3:00 PM Piazza

Act Listings Acapella 666 ABC Community Choir Alma Latina Voices and Rhythms Archivally Sound Ballpoint Penguins Christina Mimmocchi Crowd Around Choir Dante Musica Viva Hill Street Singers La La Girls Melbourne Millenium Chorus Men in Suits MooChoir Shaking the Tree Shiny Bum Singers Stella a’Cappella Strange Weather Gospel Choir The Sydney Trade Union Choir Tasmanian Grassroots Union Choir Victorian Trade Union Choir

Australian Traditional Australian Settler Session and Dance Music Bush Music Club’s Railway Songs and Poems Chloe & Jason Roweth Dave de Hugard Dennis O’Keeffe Dobe Newton & The Veterans Dovetale FolkLines Graham Seal Handsome Young Strangers Jeff Corfield & Alyson Mills Kamerunga The Tasmanian Heritage Fiddle Ensemble Ted Egan The VerandahCoots

Celtic/English A Pair of KCates Borderline Kaylee Braemar Cameron Mather Cassidy’s Ceili Cloudstreet

Coalbrook Band Danny Spooner Eddi Reader Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan Evelyn’s Secret Festival Fiddle Rally 2010 Humbug Jewelled Mat Jon Millard Mike Watts Mothers of Intention Paddy Keenan The Ranters Roger Holmes Saoirse Session Experience Tom McConville Tony Northey Dance Caller Triantan Trouble in the Kitchen Wheeze & Suck Band

Childrens Folktales and Furrytails Gobsmacked! Michael The Balloonologist Mike Jackson The Puddin Eaters

Circus Bertram & Josephine Blue Circus Studios Tom Davis Warehouse Circus

Comedy Daryl Peebles Dingo’s Breakfast Martin Pearson

Dance A Fine Vintage ACT Square Dance Society Albion Fair Morris Arthur Kingsland Bharatanatyam Black Joak Morris Brandragon North West Clog Morris

Britannia Morris Men Bush Capital Band The Canberra Old Timers City of Auckland Morris Dancers Colin Towns Contratemps Corner House Ceili Band Crazy For Contra Dance Jam Danish Folkdance Group Heimdal Inc Fried Herman’s Dances with Maureen Morris and Tamarisque Gypsy Dance Stageshow Highland Dancing Hilal Dance Australia Isistars Jim & Ingrid Rehle-Williams Jumptown Swing K.U.D. Razigrana Makedonka Longford Morris Dancers Los Urbanos Macedonian Cultural and Artistic Association ‘Ilinden’ Manquehue Chilean Folk-Dance Group Inc. Margaret & Bill Winnett Maypole Dancing For Kids Miasma Overland Track Suite Revontulet Finnish Folk-Dancers Salmiakki Pelimannit Salsabor Dance Company sCanDans Scottish Ball (Band) Set In Their Ways Silver Soles Cloggers inc. Spellbound Bellydance States of Display Sydney Irish Dance Ensemble Tabla Bellydance Tango Social Club of Canberra Tribalista Sistas & Friends TSDAV Dance Composers’ Competition Virmalised Estonian Folk Dancers With Bells On

Eclectic

Singer/Songwriters

The Craggs Generation 3 Harmony Happenings Mal Webb Peter Anderson Silkweed The Twine Dangerboy & His Lovely Assistant, Ivy Doctor Stovepipe Emma Dean hiJInx Idiot Squad Mr. Fibby Rapskallion The Tragic Troubadours Voss

Abbie Cardwell Andrea Soler Bernard Carney & David Hyams BiG FOLK Bob Corbett Band Brent Parlane Daniel Champagne Dave Arden & Band The Ellis Collective Ian Paulin James Keelaghan Keith Potger Kristina Olsen Kym Pitman with Trunk Road Natalie Magee Nick & Liesl Patty Larkin PEARL Rachael Zella Racz ‘n Waters Sal Kimber & The Rollin’ Wheel Sally Dastey Soctor Deuss Stiff Gins Tiffany Eckhardt Vin Garbutt Vorn Doolette

Health Dru Yoga Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Michael Stenning

Roots Appalachian Heaven Beppe Gambetta The Bluegrass Souls Blue Mountain Rain Bob Malone Charlie Walden & Mike Bing Chris Smither Damien Neil & Damon Davies Daniel Brauchli & Kate Case Davidson Brothers Doc Jones & the Lechery Orchestra Donal Baylor Evan Mathieson Felicity Urquhart & Band Hot String Bandits The Junes Le Blanc Bros Cajun Band The Lurkers New Holland Honey Eaters Nick Charles Rafa Godoy The Rooftop Revellers Skip Sail String Theory The Whitetop Mountaineers

Spoken Word BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Bedtime Story Brett Campbell Les Barker Lorraine McCrimmon Peter Capp Peter Mace Philip Rush Walking in Country

Street The Amazing Brainboy Big Rory & Ochie & Giant Seagulls The Fish That Wanted to Fly The Fool Factory Icarus Performance Troupe The Mystree Tuggeranong Salvation Army Brass Ensemble

Themed Commemoration of Easter 1916 (Dublin, Ireland) The Dreadful Band Phil Ochs – 70 Years and Beyond

Rebel Songwriters Forum & Concert The Songs of Don Henderson Songs of Henry Lawson The Tale Of Ale Unsung Heroes of Australian History Verandah Music – Sounds of the Session Watersons Concert The West Coasters

World Alan Banks Andrew Cronshaw & Ian Blake Andy Salvanos Apodimi Compania Bizerka Bohemian Nights Camoon COZMO (Capital of Australia Mandolinata) Ernie Gruner Klezmer Workshop/s Ernie Gruner Nigun Workshop Fabio Chivhanda & the JiveMasters Færd Genticorum Groove Ganesh The haBiBis Harlequin I Viaggiatori Kavisha Mazzella Trio Kwela Swingsters Lolo Lovina Miriam Lieberman The National Folk Festival Percussion Experience Riley Lee and Jeff Peterson The Saruzu Quartet Somesing Laik Zat TaikOz Voices from the Vacant Lot The Volatinsky Trio Photo by Lushpup Images © 2009

Blackboard - Uses and Abuses

The Festival Blackboards A wonderful feature of the Festival is the many talented people who attend every year as patrons and volunteers. With this in mind, the Festival runs two blackboard venues to contribute to the Festival’s charter of developing emerging musical talent and providing performance opportunities for them at:

The Village Stage The Merry Muse The Blackboards run from 10am till 10pm daily with some programmed performances slotted This year, sign-up for both the Village Stage and the Merry Muse will be outside the Merry Muse – please line up outside the Merry Muse, in order of arrival, by 8:45 am if you wish to perform at either of the Blackboard Venues. Performance at the Merry Muse will be done by a ballot system by type of act (eg own material, traditional etc) to ensure a mix of genres. The Tantric Gypsy Global Café is also running blackboards throughout the Festival. Contact the friendly staff there for information on performing. Lolo the Gypsy Caravan stage is hosting some under 25’s blackboards. See the Majestic Program for details. Check out the Blackboards as there are many unexpected delights. Not only do you find many up-and-coming performers, but also well-established artists doing unusual combinations with friends. You’ll be surprised by who pops up.

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Budawang Concert

Flute ‘N’ Fiddle Concert

Troubadour Concert

Mallee Dance

Natalie Magee

Nick & Liesl Opening Concert Cassidy’s Ceil

Damien Neil & Damon Davies The Craggs, James Keelaghan, Mal Webb, Patty Larkin, TaikOz, Kavisha Mazzella

Opening Dance Skip Sail

String Theory Troubadour Specials The Rooftop Revellers Bush Capital Band Doc Jones & the Lechery Orchestra

The Amazing Brainboy

Handsome Young Strangers

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Program – Thursday

Time

Program – Friday

Time 8:00 8:10 8:20 8:30 8:40 8:50 9:00 9:10 9:20 9:30 9:40 9:50 10:00 10:10 10:20 10:30 10:40 10:50 11:00 11:10 11:20 11:30 11:40 11:50 12:00 12:10 12:20 12:30 12:40 12:50 1:00 1:10 1:20 1:30 1:40 1:50 2:00 2:10 2:20 2:30 2:40 2:50 3:00 3:10 3:20 3:30 3:40 3:50 4:00 4:10 4:20 4:30 4:40 4:50 5:00 5:10 5:20 5:30 5:40 5:50 6:00 6:10 6:20 6:30 6:40 6:50 7:00 7:10 7:20 7:30 7:40 7:50 8:00 8:10 8:20 8:30 8:40 8:50 9:00 9:10 9:20 9:30 9:40 9:50 10:00 10:10 10:20 10:30 10:40 10:50 11:00 11:10 11:20 11:30 11:40 11:50 12:00

Budawang Concert

Coorong Concert

Fitzroy Concert

Marquee Concert

Trocadero Concert

Flute ‘N’ Fiddle Concert

Troubadour Concert

The Majestic Fringe

Merry Muse Blackboard

Poet’s Breakfast With Peter Mace Live@ the Lounge Ronnie Summers New Holland Honey Eaters

ABC 666

Trouble in the Kitchen

Færd

Shiny Bum Singers

CD Launch Camoon, Davidson Brothers, Kavisha Mazzella Trio, Les Barker, Stiff Gins, Miriam Lieberman

The Whitetop Mountaineers

Mothers Of Intention

Patty Larkin

I Viaggiatori

Humbug Troubadour Specials Sally Dastey

Beppe Gambetta

Nick Charles

Dave de Hugard

Chloe & Jason Roweth

Andy Cronshaw & Ian Blake

Kristina Olsen

Abbie Cardwell

Mystery Workshop

Andrea Soler Rachael Zella The Rooftop Revellers

Rafe Morris & Drew Walky Present Soctor Duess Braemar

The Ranters

Voss Dingo’s Breakfast

Groove Ganesh

Book & CD Launch

Generation 3

String Theory Dr Stovepipe

Apodimi Compania Jeff Corfield and Alyson Mills The Craggs Dave Arden & Band

The Bluegrass Souls

PEARL

Heat 1 The Saruzu Quartet

Beatles Singa-long Bernard Carney and David Hyams

Jane Franklin An Examined Life

Hot String Bandits

Silk Weed

Nick & Liesl

Live@ the Lounge

Ballpoint Penguins

The Lurkers

Saoirse

Eddi Reader Felicity Urquhart The Volatinsky Trio & Band

Taikoz

CD Launch

Mal Webb

40th Anniversary Concert

Mr. Fibby

Lola’s All Acouistic U25 Open Mike

Grand Opening

Harlequin

White Top Mountaineers

Emma Dean Troubadour Specials

NSW` Folk Federation

Ellis Collective

Donal Baylor Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan

James Keelaghan

Blue Mountain Rain Wheeze and Suck Band

Fabio Chivhanda & the JiveMasters

Genticorum

Stiff Gins

Handsome Young Strangers

Doc Jones & His Lechery Orchestra Sal Kimber & The Rollin’ Wheel

The Junes

Triantan

Vorn Doolette

Bizerka

Lolo Lovina

Somesing Laik Zat

Bohemian Nights

The Infinite Motown Song Contest

CD Launch Appalachian Heaven

Natalie Magee

Skip Sail

The haBiBis

Peter Anderson

Daniel Brauchli and Kate Case

CD Launch

Keith Potger

Circus Workshop

The Amazing Brainboy

Rafa Godoy Dobe Newton & The Veterans

Stovepipe Workshop

Tom McConville

Bob Malone

Tiffany Eckhardt

Martin Pearson

Blackboards

A Pair of KCates

Paddy Keenan

Riley Lee and Jeff Peterson

Racz ‘n Waters Voices from the Vacant Lot

Vin Garbutt

Brent Parlane Charlie Walden Band

COZMO

Rapskallion

Bob Corbett Band

Don’t miss - Kids Activities (at the Kids Festival), Maypole Square, The Village Stage and the Session Bar for more entertainment

Damien Neil & Damon Davies

Not For Kids Kids Show

Blackboards

Building E Workshop

Workshop 1 Workshop

Workshop 2 Workshop

Workshop 3 Workshop

Workshop 4 Workshop

Mallee Dance

Piazza Dance

Oasis Dance

Kids Festival Childrens

Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement

Dru Yoga

Indian Dance Workshop Beginner Tin Whistle Rebel Songwriters Forum

Jon Millard

Bharatanatyam with Gayathri Srinivasan Balls and Chains

Push Me, Pull You What’s So Funny?

Tassie Tunes Old and New

Daryl Peebles

The Tasmanian Heritage Fiddle Ensemble

Australian Fiddle Tunes Dove Tale

Making the Mythical Present

Ian Paulin

NLA Fellowship Workshop Christina Mimmochi

Cassidy’s Ceili

Phil Ochs – 70 Years and Beyond

Kristina Olsen

Harmony Happenings

Rehearsal Festival Fiddle Rally conducted by Emma Nixon

Ernie Gruner Klezmer Workshop

Chapman Stick

Andy Salvanos

Rehearsal Watersons Concert The Dreadful Band Rehearsal

Festival Choir Rehearsal

Introduction to the Lute

How to Steal a Song

Alan Banks

Frank Jones

Concertina Maintenance Malcolm Clapp

The National Folk Festival Percussion Experience

Playing Harmonies and Variations

Bluegrass Mandolin

Contratemps

Nigel Lever

Old Time Banjo

Scandinavian Dance Music

Singing with the Fiddle

Ian Alexander

Salmiakki Pelimannit

Richard Klein

Highland Dancing

Set In Their Ways

Tony Northey with Scottish Ball Borderline Kaylee (Band)

Tango Social Club of Canberra

Bellydance Through the Ages

The Puddin Eaters

Spellbound Bellydance Tabla Bellydance Gobsmacked! Appalachian Clog/Step Workshop Whitetop Mountaineers

Bavarian Couples Dance

Virmalised Estonian Folk Dancers

Jim & Ingrid Williams

Macedonian Workshop

Sydney Irish Dance Ensemble

Ilinden

Miasma

Canberra OldTimers

Los Urbanos Jumptown Swing

Contra Dance

Contra Dance Crazy for Contra And Friends

Revontulet Finnish Folk-Dancers

Macedonian Workshop

FAA AGM and Session

Evening Tango K.U.D. Razigrani Makedonka

Good Friday Church Service

Scottish Ball FolkLines Rehearsal

Singing Session

Folktales & Furrytails

Isistars

Bedtime Stories`

Accoustic Transmissions

Mike Jackson sCanDans with Salmiakki Pelimannit

String Theory

Bharatanatyam

Moya Simpson Kwela Swingsters

Scandinavian Workshop

Salsabor Dance Company

Heimdal

New Vogue and Couples Dances

Kwela Band Rehearsal

Longford Morris Dancers, Britannia Morris Men

ACT Square Dance Society Scottish Ball Workshop

World Music A capella Voices from the Vacant Lot

How to Destroy a Folk Song

Cotswold Morris Workshop

Tony Northey, Chris Duncan, Matthew Robertson, Bridget Hickey, Sirocha Bruckard, Catherine Strutt & Jennifer Strut

Tango Social Club of Canberra

The Fish That Wanted to Fly

Brett Campbell

Philip Rush

33 Time 8:00 8:10 8:20 8:30 8:40 8:50 9:00 9:10 9:20 9:30 9:40 9:50 10:00 10:10 10:20 10:30 10:40 10:50 11:00 11:10 11:20 11:30 11:40 11:50 12:00 12:10 12:20 12:30 12:40 12:50 1:00 1:10 1:20 1:30 1:40 1:50 2:00 2:10 2:20 2:30 2:40 2:50 3:00 3:10 3:20 3:30 3:40 3:50 4:00 4:10 4:20 4:30 4:40 4:50 5:00 5:10 5:20 5:30 5:40 5:50 6:00 6:10 6:20 6:30 6:40 6:50 7:00 7:10 7:20 7:30 7:40 7:50 8:00 8:10 8:20 8:30 8:40 8:50 9:00 9:10 9:20 9:30 9:40 9:50 10:00 10:10 10:20 10:30 10:40 10:50 11:00 11:10 11:20 11:30 11:40 11:50 12:00

Program – Friday

Singing Room Workshop

Program – Saturday

Budawang Concert

Coorong Concert

Fitzroy Concert

Marquee Concert

Trocadero Concert

Flute & Fiddle Concert

Troubadour Concert

The Majestic Fringe

Merry Muse Blackboard

Poet’s Breakfast with Philip Rush

Live@ the Lounge

Jane Franklin; An Examined Life

Cathy Ovendon Chloe & Jason Roweth

Triantan

Alan Banks

Andy Salvanos Dance Jam with Min Mae

Silkweed

Riley Lee & Jeff Peterson

Andrea Soler

Blackboards

Apodimi Compania The Volatinsky Trio

The Whitetop Mountaineers

Circus Workshop Skip Sail

Kristina Olsen Bohemian Nights

Cloudstreet Bob Corbett Band

Genticorum

Ted Egan

Paddy Keenan

Troubadour Specials Les Barker

Walking in Country

CD Launch Felicity Urquhart & Band

BiG Folk Ballpoint Penguins

Le Blanc Bros Cajun Band

Kym Pitman with Trunk Road & Friends

Rafa Godoy

Eddi Reader

Guitars Galore Nick Charles, Patty Larkin, Chris Smither, Beppe Gambetta, Alan Banks, Jeff Peterson, Andy Salvanos

Tom McConville

The Union Concert

Dave Arden & Band

Tiffany Eckhardt

Floggers “R” Us

Unsung Heroes of Dingo’s Breakfast Australian History

On Air: The Story of Early Country Radio

Kavisha Mazzella Trio PEARL

The Rapskallion “Egg on a Mountain” Song Birthing Workshop

The Rooftop Revellers

Braemar

Idiot Squad Workshop 1 Peter Anderson

Jewelled Mat

Ellis Collective

Miriam Lieberman The Ranters

Patty Larkin Heat 2

Daryl Peebles

Daniel Brauchli & Kate Case

Evelyn’s Secret

Voss

Damien Neil & Damon Davies Cameron Mather

The Infinite Motown Song Contest

The Fish That Wanted to Fly

Ian Paulin

New Holland Honey Eaters

Danny Spooner

The Craggs

Dr Stovepipe

Voices from the Vacant Lot

The Bluegrass Souls

Sally Dastey

Humbug

Generation 3

Dave de Hugard Harlequin

Bernard Carney & David Hyams

Rachael Zella

Nick & Liesl

The Lurkers

Part 1

Insects with Drew Walky

A Pair of Kcates

Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan

Lola’s All Acoustic U25 Open Mic

Saoirse Live@ the Lounge

Brent Parlane

Alyson Mills

Eddie Reader

Bizerka Andrew Cronshaw & Ian Blake Færd

The Saruzu Quartet

Bob Malone Watersons Concert

The Tasmanian Heritage Fiddle Ensemble

Trounadour Specials Rapskallion

Chris Smither

Trouble in the Kitchen

Dobe Newton & The Veterans

Kamerunga

Davidson Brothers

The Twine

Stiff Gins

Camoon

The haBiBis

Groove Ganesh

Mal Webb Doc Jones & the Lechery Orchestra

Sal Kimber & The Rollin’ Wheel

Mr Fibby

The Junes Cassidy’s Ceil

Vorn Doolette

Don’t miss - Kids Activities (at the Kids Festival), Maypole Square, The Village Stage and the Session Bar for more entertainment

Lolo Lovina

Kristina Olsen Admiral Rapskibby’s Awkward & NotSo-Great Cabaret Disappointment

Blackboards

Building E Workshop

Workshop 1 Workshop

Workshop 2 Workshop

Workshop 3 Workshop

Workshop 4 Workshop

Mallee Dance

Piazza Dance

Oasis Dance

Kids Festival Time Childrens

Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement

Dru Yoga

Part 1 Humour and Politics in Song

Alexander Techniques

Traditional Music Modes

Round Singing for the Soul

Rebel Songwriters Forum

Bob Hodgson & Daryl Powel

Bernard Carney

Australian Fiddle Tunes

Spanish Guitar

Middle Eastern Chanting

Songwriting

Dove Tale

Andrew Veivers

Yuval Asahkar

Keith Potger

Beginner Tin Whistle

Bluegrass Banjo

Bluegrass Fiddle

Jon Millard

Martin Louis

Hamish Davidson

The Songs of Henry Lawson Patty Larkin

Michael Stenning

Choir Rep Swap

Chants of the Earth A Pair of KCates

Colin Towns The Hardest Dances I know

Display and Join In

The Puddin Eaters

Highland Dancing

Los Urbanos

The National Folk Festival Percussion Experience

Egyptian Workshop Hilal Dance Australia

Borderline Kaylee Square Dance Workshop Charlie Waldon K.U.D. Razigrana Band Makedonka ACT Square Dance Club, Appalachian Heaven Silver Soles Cloggers

Clog Morris Workshop Brandragon Albion Fair

Lorraine McCrimmon

Gobsmacked!

Mike Jackson Japanese Dance TaikOz

African Swing Kwela Swingsters

States of Display Brett Campbell Cotswold Capers

NLA Fellowship Workshop

Rehearsal

Songwriting

English Concertina Techniques

Bluegrass Mandolin

Uke’n Play Supa Easy Ukulele

Christina Mimmochi

Festival Fiddle Rally conducted by Emma Nixon

Abbie Cardwell

Mike Watts

Lachlan Davidson

Mike Jackson

Band Mouth

Rehearsal

Black Joak Morris, Longford Morris Dancers

Dances Composed by Fried De Metz Herman Maureen ACT Square Dance Morris Society Tamarisque

Greek Dance Folktales & Furrytails Apodomi Compania Silver Soles Cloggers Inc

Miasma Slide Guitar

Accordion Maintenance

My Quirky Songs

Malcolm Clapp

Doc Jones & the Lechery Orchestra

Cloudstreet

Manquehue Kristina Olsen

Mal Webb

The Dreadful Band

Festival Choir Rehearsal

Balls & Chains

Tango (Workshop – Intermediate) Tango Social Club

Hilal Dance Australia Salsabor Dance Company

Kwela Band Rehearsal

Moya Simpson

Australian Afternoon Tea Dance FolkLines

Bharatanatyam Kwela Swingsters Bedtime Stories

Irish Workshop Bill & Margaret Winnett Cornerhouse Ceili Band

Poet’s & Singers Round Robin Lorraine McCrimmon, Philip Rush, Daryl Peebles, Danny Spooner, Cloudstreet, Kym Pitman

African Dance Fabio Chivhanda & the JiveMasters

Swing Workshop Jumptown

HiJInx Argentinian Tango Tango Social Dance Youth Australian Dance Borderline Kaylee

Squares & Contras Charlie Waldon Band (USA) Contratemps Accoustic Transmissions

Don’t miss the Colonial Ball - 8PM at the Yarralumla Woolshed

Singing Session

REMEMBER: Daylight Saving finishes tonight. Please remember to put your clocks BACK one hour.

8:00 8:10 8:20 8:30 8:40 8:50 9:00 9:10 9:20 9:30 9:40 9:50 10:00 10:10 10:20 10:30 10:40 10:50 11:00 11:10 11:20 11:30 11:40 11:50 12:00 12:10 12:20 12:30 12:40 12:50 1:00 1:10 1:20 1:30 1:40 1:50 2:00 2:10 2:20 2:30 2:40 2:50 3:00 3:10 3:20 3:30 3:40 3:50 4:00 4:10 4:20 4:30 4:40 4:50 5:00 5:10 5:20 5:30 5:40 5:50 6:00 6:10 6:20 6:30 6:40 6:50 7:00 7:10 7:20 7:30 7:40 7:50 8:00 8:10 8:20 8:30 8:40 8:50 9:00 9:10 9:20 9:30 9:40 9:50 10:00 10:10 10:20 10:30 10:40 10:50 11:00 11:10 11:20 11:30 11:40 11:50 12:00

Program – Saturday

Singing Room Workshop

Program – Sunday

Budawang Concert

Coorong Concert

Fitzroy Concert

Marquee Concert

Trocadero Concert

Flute & Fiddle Concert

Troubadour Concert

The Majestic Fringe

Merry Muse Blackboard

Easter Service The Tasmanian Heritage Fiddle Ensemble

Poet’s Breakfast with Peter Capp

Words Beneath The Trees Charlie Walden Band

Keith Potger

Sally Dastey

Saruzu Quartet

Kavisha Mazzella Trio

Camoon

Dance Jam with Min Mae

The Craggs

Eddi Reader

Wheeze & Suck Band

Slam Workshop Blue Mountain Rain

Kamerunga Chris Smither

Martin Pearson

PEARL The Whitetop Mountaineers

A Pair of KCates

Ado Barker, Jess Randall, Charlie Walden, Ernie Gruner, Tom McConville, Chris Duncan, Jenny M Thomas, Pascal Gemme

Bob Corbett Band

The Twine

The Songs of Don Henderson

Burns Tribute Concert The Ranters Humbug

Kym Pitman with Trunk Road and Friends

Groove Ganesh

Davidson Brothers

Part 2 Trouble in the Kitchen

Unsung Heroes of Australian History

Abbie Cardwell

New Holland Honey Eaters

Harlequin

Dobe Newton & The Veterans Jewelled Mat

Steve Gadd Balls & Chains

Slam Sign Up

Heat 3

Andy Salvanos

Triantan

Evelyn’s Secret

Emma Dean

Cloudstreet

The Infinite Motown Song Contest

Declan Affley 25 Years On

Nick & Liesl

Daniel Brauchli & Kate Case

Bad!Slam!No! Biscuit! W. The Dreadful House Band & Nick D

The West Coasters

The Fish That Wanted to Fly

Lola’s All Acoustic U25 Open Mic

The Tale Of Ale The haBiBis

Daniel Champagne TaikOz

Dave Arden Band

I Viaggiatori

The Amazing Brainboy

Lochaber No More

Doc Jones & the Lechery Orchestra Nick Charles

Braemar

NLA Folk Trivia Night

Joni Mitchell Tribute and CD Launch

Dr Stovepipe

Bob Malone Les Barker Abbie Cardwell Karifolkie

Felicity Urquhart & Band

Rachael Zella

Ellis Collective Le Blanc Bros Cajun Band

High Noon Bush Bash

James Keelaghan

Racz ‘n Waters

Bohemian Nights

Andrew Cronshaw & Ian Blake

Ted Egan

Bernard Carney & David Hyams

Cameron Mather

Idiot Squad Workshop 2

CD Launch Tiffany Eckhardt

BiG FOLK

Live@ the Lounge

Alan Banks

Mystery Workshop!

Rafa Godoy

World Poetry Debate

Climate Change?

Riley Lee & Jeff Peterson

Festival Fiddlers

Live@ the Lounge Dobe Newton

Danny Spooner

Emily Smith & Jamie McClennan Beppe Gambetta

Vin Garbutt

Blackboards FAA Youth Concert Vin Garbutt’s Desrt Island Disc

Apodomi Compania

Lolo Lovina Rock ‘n’ Roll

The Volatinsky Trio Mothers of Intention

Don’t miss - Kids Activities (at the Kids Festival), Maypole Square, The Village Stage and the Session Bar for more entertainment

Troubadour Specials

The Handsome Young Strangers

Bizzaro Poets Breakfast

Blackboards

Building E Workshop

Workshop 1 Workshop

Workshop 2 Workshop

Workshop 3 Workshop

Workshop 4 Workshop

Mallee Dance

Piazza Dance

Oasis Dance

Kids Festival Childrens

Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement

Dru Yoga

Part 2 Hymn Singing Session Roger Holmes

Taiko Drumming is For Everyone!

Autoharp Quaker Meeting for Worship

Bush Music Club’s Ernie Gruner Nigun Railway Songs Workshop Poems Workbook

The Songs of Henry Lawson Evan Mathieson

Rebel Songwriters Forum

Taikoz

Australian Fiddle Tunes

DADGAD Guitar

Irish Mandolin

Venezuelan and Latin American Guitar

Dove Tale

Kate Burke

Tony O’Neill

Rafa Goodoy

Cajun Accordion

Beginner Tin Whistle

Rehearsal

Bluegrass Guitar

Sitar

Geoff Le Blanc

Jon Millard

The Dreadful Band

Doug Wallace

Groove Ganash

NLA Fellowship Workshop

Rehearsal

Christina Mimmochi

Festival Fiddle Rally conducted by Emma Nixon

Harmony Happenings

Tricky Rhythms Made Easy

Songwriting

Bizerka

Brent Parlane

The National Folk Festival Percussion Experience

Mbira Playing

Sonderhoning Workshop Virmalised Estonian Folk Dancers, Danish Folkdance Revontulet Finnish Group Heimdal Inc Folk-Dancers

TSDAV Dance Composers Competition

The Junes

Tribalista Sistas The Overland Suite Albion Fair Morris David Wanless Rob Mahony and Fellow Travellers. Dances Composed Massed Morris on the Overland Tribute to William Track, Evoking Kemp Tasmania

The Puddin Eaters

Mike Jackson

Dance Like a Latvian Somesing Laik Zat

Gobsmacked!

K.U.D. Razigrana Makedonka Nordic Dance Workshop Virmalised Estonian Folk Dancers, Revontulet Finnish Folk-Dancers

Folktales & furrytails

A Night in Dan O’Connell’s Pub Sydney Irish Dance Ensemble

Jumptown Swing

Fabio Chivhanda

English Playford Colin Towns The Playford Band

Bellydance Workshop

Brett Campbell

Tiny Bums

Rahbani Latin and Lechery Ballpoint Penguins

Blues & Roots Guitar Nick Charles

History of Greek Roots Music

Dobro

The haBiBis

Pete Fidler

Færd

Flamenco Workshop The Saruzu Quartet

Broadcasters Forum

Silver Soles Cloggers Gypsy Dance Stageshow

Festival Choir Rehearsal

A Fine Vintage

Moya Simpson

Isistars

Bedtime Stories Poets RoundRobin

Morris AGM

Kwela Band Rehearsal

Bellydance Jam Tribalista Sistas

The Twine Irish Step Dance Workshop Saoirse

African Dance Fabio Chivhanda Big English Dance Even Older Empire and the Band JiveMasters

Kwela Swingsters

Daryl Peebles,Peter Capp, Lorraine McCrimmon, Philip Rush, Peter Mace HiJInx

South American Fiesta Los Por Mientras (Peru) Manquehue Chilean

Acoustic Transmissions Singing Session

Irish Ceili Cornerhouse Ceili Band Margaret and Bill Winnett

37 Time 8:00 8:10 8:20 8:30 8:40 8:50 9:00 9:10 9:20 9:30 9:40 9:50 10:00 10:10 10:20 10:30 10:40 10:50 11:00 11:10 11:20 11:30 11:40 11:50 12:00 12:10 12:20 12:30 12:40 12:50 1:00 1:10 1:20 1:30 1:40 1:50 2:00 2:10 2:20 2:30 2:40 2:50 3:00 3:10 3:20 3:30 3:40 3:50 4:00 4:10 4:20 4:30 4:40 4:50 5:00 5:10 5:20 5:30 5:40 5:50 6:00 6:10 6:20 6:30 6:40 6:50 7:00 7:10 7:20 7:30 7:40 7:50 8:00 8:10 8:20 8:30 8:40 8:50 9:00 9:10 9:20 9:30 9:40 9:50 10:00 10:10 10:20 10:30 10:40 10:50 11:00 11:10 11:20 11:30 11:40 11:50 12:00

Program – Sunday

Singing Room Workshop

Program – Monday

38 Time 8:00 8:10 8:20 8:30 8:40 8:50 9:00 9:10 9:20 9:30 9:40 9:50 10:00 10:10 10:20 10:30 10:40 10:50 11:00 11:10 11:20 11:30 11:40 11:50 12:00 12:10 12:20 12:30 12:40 12:50 1:00 1:10 1:20 1:30 1:40 1:50 2:00 2:10 2:20 2:30 2:40 2:50 3:00 3:10 3:20 3:30 3:40 3:50 4:00 4:10 4:20 4:30 4:40 4:50 5:00 5:10 5:20 5:30 5:40 5:50 6:00 6:10 6:20 6:30 6:40 6:50 7:00 7:10 7:20 7:30 7:40 7:50 8:00 8:10 8:20 8:30 8:40 8:50 9:00 9:10 9:20 9:30 9:40 9:50 10:00 10:10 10:20 10:30 10:40 10:50 11:00 11:10 11:20 11:30 11:40 11:50 12:00

Budawang Concert

Coorong Concert

Fitzroy Concert

Marquee Concert

Trocadero Concert

Flute & Fiddle Concert

Troubadour Concert

The Majestic Fringe

Poet’s Breakfast with Lorraine McCrimmon

Live@ the Lounge Alison Mills Wheeze & Suck Band

Humbug I Viaggiatori CSM World Music Concert

NLA Folk Fellowship Concert

Dance Jam with Min Mae

Commemoration of Easter 1916 (Dublin, Ireland) Daniel Champagne

Festival Fiddle Carney & Rally conducted by Bernard David Hyams Emma Nixon

Jewelled Mat

Circus Workshop

Generation 3

Keith Potger Kamerunga

Genticorum

Kavisha Mazzella Trio

New Holland Honey Eaters

Stiff Gins

Mal Webb

Paddy Keenan

Rebel Songwriters Concert

Cozmo

The Twine

Le Blanc Bros Cajun Band

Pitman with Miriam Lieberman Kym Trunk Road Dingo’s Breakfast Hot String Bandits

Davidson Brothers James Keelaghan

Charlie Walden Band

Camoon

Brent Parlane String Theory

Chris Smither

Tom McConville Nick Charles

Final

Danger Boy & Ivy Workshop

Blue Mountain Rain

Idiot Squad Workshop 3

Mothers of Intention Circus Deathmatch Evelyn’s Secret

Cassidy’s Ceili

Fool’s Feast Danger Boy & Ivy

Kristina Olsen

Ian Paulin

Beppe Gambetta Andrea Soler

Saoirse

The Dreadful Band Emma Dean

The Infinite Motown Song Contest BiG FOLK

Alan Banks

Racz ‘n Waters Damien Neil & Damon Davies

Færd

Mr Fibby Chloe & Jason Roweth

Cloudstreet

Dave de Hugard

Vorn Doolette Les Barker

Ballpoint Penguins Sal Kimber & The Rollin’ Wheel

TaikOz

Appalachian Heaven

Abbie Cardwell The Lurkers

The Awards Concert

The Bluegrass Souls

Peter Anderson Rapskallion The Amazing Brainboy Begin The All Fool’s Day Parade! The Junes

Finalé Concert

Troubadour Specials

Don’t miss - Kids Activities (at the Kids Festival), Maypole Square, The Village Stage and the Session Bar for more entertainment

Merry Muse Blackboard

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Building E Workshop

Workshop 1 Workshop

Workshop 2 Workshop

Workshop 3 Workshop

Workshop 4 Workshop

Mallee Dance

Piazza Dance

Gaelic Singing

Tassie Tunes Old and New

Interpreting Traditional Songs

DIY Folklore

Traditional Music Modes

Pre-War Blues Guitar Styles

Saoirse

The Tasmanian Heritage Fiddle Ensemble

Danny Spooner

Graham Seal

Bob Hodgson & Daryl Powell

Skip Sail

More than One Voice

History of the Roma

Concertina Get Together

Self-Publishing

Parody Writing

Guitar Soloing for People with No Clue

Pearl

Lolo Lovina

Mike Watts

Philip Rush

Shiny Bum Singers

Middle East Dance Workshop Rahbani

Mike Jackson A Fine Vintage

Salsabor Dance Company Los Urbanos

Kristina Olsen

Irish Fiddle

A Pair of Kcates

Ado Barker

Kids Festival Childrens

Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement

Dru Yoga

Women of the Sea

Oasis Dance

Jigs and Reels on the Bodhran

Slack Key Guitar

Chilean Workshop Manquehue Chilean Folk Dance

Let’s Finnish with Scandinavian “Farewell Dance” Færd Salm Danish Heimdal Revontulet Virmalised Estonian sCanDans

Folktales & Furrytails

Isistars K.U.D. Razigrana Makedonka

Tin Whistle

Gobsmacked!

Brett Campbell

Kwela Swingsters Jonathon Jones

Jeff Peterson

Harmony Happenings

Songs of the Cajuns

Irish Flute

Australian Settler Music

Uke’n Play Supa Easy Ukulele

Australian Old Time Tunes

Le Blanc Bros Cajun Band

Ben Stephenson

FolkLines

Mike Jackson

The Canberra Old Timers

Vin Garbutt Farewell Dance Buttongrass Dance VerandahCoots Set In Their Ways Danceaholics David Wanless

Dancer’s Dance Coalbrook Band Arthur Kingsland and Other Callers Kwela Swingsters

Black Joak Morris

The National Folk Festival Percussion Experience

BellyDance Bow Out Massed Belly Dancers Farewell Contra Crazy for Contra and Friends Julie Bishop with Guest Callers

Festival Choir Rehearsal

The Puddin Eaters

Britannia Morris Men

Massed Macedonian K.U.D. Razigrana Makedonka, Ilinden

Kwela Band Rehearsal Moya Simpson Kwela Swingsters

Thank you for joining us at the 44th National Folk Festival Don’t miss the Finale Parade – meet at the Kids Festival at 6:00pm and culminating with the Finale Concert from 7:00pm in the Budawang

The Fish That Wanted to Fly

The Rooftop Revellers

Program – Monday

Singing Room Workshop

Festival Awards Each year, there are a number of awards presented to individuals or groups as encouragement and recognition of their contributions to the Australian folk scene.

Recognition Showcasing Tasmania Tasmania takes centre stage this year with a wonderfully diverse range of performers from the Apple Isle. A Pair of KCates, Daniel Brauchli and Kate Case, Daryl Peebles, Fabio Chivhanda and the JiveMasters, Generation 3, Groove Ganesh, Harlequin, Hot String Bandits, Ian Paulin, Longford Morris Dancers, New Holland Honey Eaters, Overland Track Suite, Philip Rush, Silkweed, The Craggs, The Dreadful Band, The Ranters, The Tale of Ale, The Tasmanian Heritage Fiddle Ensemble, The VerandahCoots and Tony Northey. You’ll find them all over the Festival presenting exciting concerts and dances, as well as fascinating theme presentations on Tasmania. Some of these include: “Words Beneath The Trees”, a breathtaking look at the Tasmanian wilderness, presented by The Craggs, “Jane Franklin: - An Examined Life”, explores in song, drama and visuals, the life of Jane Franklin - diarist, explorer and wife of Sir John Franklin (arctic explorer and one-time governor of Van Diemen’s Land), presented by Silkweed. And watch out for those Hot String Bandits creating hillbilly mayhem on the Festival streets. And wash it all down with a thirst-quenching drop of Tassie Apple Cider. YUM!

Declan Affley Award Recognises up-and-coming talent at the National and is named after a man who had a major influence on the Australian folk scene. The award is presented by Declan’s son, Paddy.

Lis Johnston Award Awarded to an excellent “unknown” singer at the National, this award is presented in memory of a wonderful singer and stalwart of the Victorian folk community.

Chris Wendt Award Recognising excellence in a young musician at the National, the Chris Wendt Award is presented in memory of a musician who was a prolific composer of Scottish tunes.

Social Dance Association of Victoria Award Awarded to the creators of two new dance compositions. The judging of this award is part of the program so why not drop in and try out a brand new dance tune.

Reciter’s Award This perpetual award, crafted in solid ironbark, will be awarded for the 26th time to the best performer at the Poets Breakfasts.

McArthur’s Fart Trapped for perpetuity in a, thankfully, well-sealed Vegemite jar this prestigious award is presented to the winning team of the World Poetry Debate.

National Film and Sound Archive National Folk Recording Award For a CD released in 2009 by a performer who is appearing at this year’s Festival.

Infinite “Motown” Competition Our ever popular song Competition, with a new theme each year. This year it’s Motown. Heats every day and the finals on Monday.

FAA Young Folk Award Presented by Folk Alliance Australia and the National Folk Festival, this is an award, to a young, promising performer aged between 14–22 years and nominated by a folk club or festival. The ten finalists will perform in the Young Folk Awards Concert on Sunday.

Peter J Daly Memorial Award Established by Meg Daly in memory of her husband Peter, a long standing volunteer for the National Folk Festival and a Stalls Coordinator for many years. The Award is provided to an artist or group of Australian origin who gives an outstanding performance of Celtic Music at the Festival.

Trophies by Simon MAberley www.glass-sculpture.com.au

Performer Information

our performers These profiles are an alphabetical listing of performers according to the act name listed in the program timetable on pages 42 to 62.

Kate Delaney and Cate Foley Burke are A Pair of KCates. Kate and Cate have performed independently across Europe at traditional maritime festivals. They met at Cygnet Folk Festival, forming a duo including a salting of sea songs amongst their repertoire. Kate plays concertina and fiddle while Cate adds Celtic harp and cittern. Both play guitar and Celtic whistle.

diverse performer and a favourite at guitar and folk music festivals, Alan displays stunning virtuosity on nylon and steel string guitars as well as the spectacular chittarone – a six-foot-long 17th-century bass lute, with fourteen strings. ‘A to-diefor technique coupled with a ferocious musical imagination that seems to know no bounds’, The West Australian 2008, ‘A great musician‘, Classical Guitar Magazine UK.

Friday 11:20 AM Saturday 1:00 PM Saturday 6:00 PM Sunday 12:10 PM Monday 1:00 PM

Friday 1:00 PM Saturday 10:00 AM Saturday 2:30 PM Sunday 12:50 PM Monday 4:00 PM

A Pair of KCates

Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Singing Room Troubadour Troubadour Singing Room

Abbie Cardwell Imagine Bobby Gentry and JJ Cale had a love child and adopted her out to Rickie Lee Jones whilst she was dating Tom Waits, and they all spent summer vacations hanging out with Paul Simon, Ryan Adams and Lucinda Williams, then you’ve got somewhere close to describing the absorbing sound of Australian multi award winning songwriter Abbie Cardwell who plays guitar, harmonica, ukulele and banjo.

Friday Saturday Sunday Sunday Monday

3:00 PM 2:30 PM 4:00 PM 4:00 PM 5:40 PM

Marquee Workshop 1 Coorong The Majestic Fitzroy

Workshop 2 Marquee Coorong Troubadour Fitzroy

Andrew Cronshaw and Ian Blake Andrew Cronshaw’s concerts centre on the haunting sound of the 74-string electrified chord zither plus other stringed and wind instruments including the Slovak fujara, the Chinese ba-wu and the Finnish kantele. Cronshaw is joined for his first Australian tour by multi-instrumentalist Ian Blake, presenting new sound worlds drawing on traditional sources including the music of Finland, England, Serbia, northern Spain and the Scottish Highlands.

Friday 3:00 PM Budawang Saturday 7:40 PM Coorong Sunday 5:30 PM Fitzroy

The Amazing Brainboy is a mathematical savant who can multiply four-figure numbers together in his head. He rarely, if ever, gets the answer right but that he is prepared to have a go is simply amazing. He also performs as a oneman band. Equally happy on stage or a street corner, singing and playing his old National steel guitar, banjo, harmonica and foot percussion, he renders unique interpretations of the Delta blues classics together with his own original material.

Thursday 11:00 PM Friday 12:40 PM Sunday 7:30 PM Monday 5:50 PM

Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Flute ‘n’ Fiddle The Majestic Troubadour

Andrea Soler is a singer songwriter with compelling vocals and insightful lyrics. Musically inspired by the passionate joie de vivre of her French ancestry, she exudes a distinctly European influenced sound, while maintaining her own take on Indie folk. Likening herself and her music to the old ways of gypsies and travellers, expect a swathe of moods and emotion from Andrea’s soulful live performances.

Alan’s musical experiences have taken him from playing in blues, gypsy and jazz bands to studying classical guitar at The Royal College of Music in London. A

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The Amazing Brainboy

Andrea Soler

Alan Banks

Performance times are correct at time of printing but may be SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

Friday 1:20 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Saturday 10:40 AM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Monday 3:20 PM Marquee

Andy Salvanos With roots in folk, classical and world music, Andy Salvanos creates haunting melodies, bass and chords – all at once – on the amazing chapman stick. His skill as an improviser and slightly self-deprecating manner allows his performances to flow, creating an almost meditative state in the audience. His diverse career also includes an impressive CV as a bass player, highlighted by working with Archie Roach on ‘The Tracker’. More recently, Andy mesmerised audiences at the 2008 Adelaide International Guitar Festival, and his CD ‘Closer’ was nominated in the 2009 JPF Awards ‘Best Solo Instrumental Album’ category.

Friday 2:30 PM Saturday 10:00 AM Saturday 2:30 PM Sunday 1:30 PM Monday 1:10 PM

Workshop 1 Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Coorong Troubadour Merry Muse

Apodimi Compania Originating in Brunswick in Melbourne’s inner North, and now resident in Athens for the past 12 years, Apodimi Compania are one of the world’s leading exponents of Rebetika (urban folk song), Greek and Cretan song and dance music. The group perform with grace and exceptional musical skill and dexterity, clearly in love with their huge repertoire of traditional material that has been expanded to include a few of the band’s own compositions. Apodimi perform on all traditional instruments including bouzouki, violin, baglama, oud, guitar, banjo and three excellent vocals.

Friday 4:00 PM Saturday 10:50 AM Saturday 2:30 PM Sunday 10:00 PM

Budawang Marquee Oasis Coorong

Appalachian Heaven This six-piece string band plays music from West Virginia and the rebel South, as well as US modern Country Music. Listen to their energetic show featuring Country singer Genevieve. Their new CD, ‘In the Pines’ will be launched at the Festival.

Friday 2:10 PM Friday 4:00 PM Saturday 11:30 AM Saturday 8:00 PM Sunday 1:00 PM Monday 3:50 PM

Merry Muse Workshop 2 Mallee Mallee Workshop 2 Troubadour

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Spoken Word, Poetry, Rhyming, Hip Hop, Manifestos, Shopping Lists, Rants – Whatever you’ve got we want it! BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! is a Poetry Slam that will give ANYONE a microphone, audience and 2 Minutes to perform – and then be judged by the Audience and by the Master of Conflict. Win a feature spot at the 2011 National Folk Festival. SignUp 1pm Sunday, No Music, No Props, 2 Minutes! So join your hosts Jacinta, Andrew Galan, The Master of Conflict and The Score Adder, Amanda Coghlan at BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

the unexpected. After flights of fancy at the Port Fairy and Cygnet Folk Festivals, the Penguins return to the National to hatch their second CD.

Friday Saturday Sunday Monday

5:10 PM 1:20 PM 4:00 PM 5:00 PM

Troubadour Marquee Singing Room Trocadero

Bedtime Story Once bath-time is through and dinner is done, head on over to see Alison for a bedtime story. A variety of exciting Australian stories told to captivate the most unsettled toddler ready to bunk down for a restful nights sleep.

Friday 6:00 PM Workshop 1 Saturday 6:00 PM Workshop 1 Sunday 6:00 PM Workshop 1

Beppe Gambetta In his career he has performed with some great heroes of the folk scene like David Grisman, Doc Watson, Norman Blake, Gene Parsons, Bela Fleck and Dan Crary. In a world dominated by the trends and logic of the market, Gambetta’s playing and singing stand out for their intimate emotions, communication, tone and humour. An inspired music that modestly avoids relying solely on his high level of technical excellence, but also reveals the innermost feelings of a brilliant, playful mind that is always firmly exploring and innovating while staying firmly rooted in tradition.

Friday 2:00 PM Fitzroy Saturday 2:30 PM Coorong Sunday 12 PM Marquee Monday 3:10 PM Fitzroy

Friday Saturday Sunday Monday

6:00 PM 4:00 PM 8:00 PM 4:50 PM

Marquee Budawang Budawang Coorong

BiG FOLK BiG FOLK! Melbourne! BiG FOLK! BiG Chorus! BiG FOLK! BiG Songs! Whirling Furphies! Zydeco Jump! New album! BiG FOLK! Join in! All original! Save the planet! Cry! Laugh! Move and be moved! Build a bridge, get over it! Sing-along! Nobody cries! Hold your breath! Dance! Young and old! BiG FOLK! Dad and daughter! BiG FOLK! Soul and spirit! BiG FOLK! This is where we are, this is when we live, this is the sound we make BiG FOLK!

Friday Saturday Sunday Monday

1:00 PM 1:00 PM 3:50 PM 4:00 PM

Workshop 3 Fitzroy Marquee Coorong

Bizerka Bizerka are Melbourne’s freshest, most dynamic and craziest band playing the music of Eastern Europe and the Balkans. They unashamedly play in a very nontraditional style, combining on-stage antics and tall stories to bring relatively unknown tunes to a wider audience in a fun way that still does justice to the cultures they are borrowed from. Dancing shoes are mandatory!

Friday 11:00 PM Saturday 7:30 PM Sunday 2:30 PM Monday 1:50 PM

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Blue Mountain Rain Bluegrass band featuring Karen Lynne, Australia’s foremost female contemporary bluegrass artist; joining up with her multifaceted and talented sister Liz Frencham to present contemporary and traditional bluegrass, instrumentals, Aussie originals, 3-part harmony vocals and multiinstrumentalists on guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle and double bass.

Sunday 11:00 AM The Majestic Sunday 4:00 PM The Majestic

Ballpoint Penguins The Ballpoint Penguins deliver delightful three-part a cappella harmony and impeccable dress sense. This neat West Australian musical package conceals subversive wit and word craft on Tupperware obsession, interpretative whale song and the aphrodisiac power of the domestic vacuum cleaner. Anticipate

emotional power with blistering guitar instrumental work. A past Declan Affley award winning songwriter, Carney writes songs with strong themes of social justice and a well developed sense of satire. Combined with David Hyams outstanding instrumental work, this is an act not to be missed.

Bernard Carney and David Hyams West Australian based songwriter Bernard Carney and multi instrumentalist David Hyams combine songs of depth and

Friday 2:30 PM Friday 9:00 PM Saturday 1:00 PM Sunday 11:40 AM Monday 2:30 PM

Workshop 4 Fitzroy Workshop 2 Marquee Trocadero

The BlueGrass Souls The BlueGrass Souls or ‘Grassoles’ as they are fondly known to their many fans are a lovable bunch of larrikins featuring the ukulele ‘pluckers’, Peter ‘Colonel’ Hisco, Jimmy Murphy and Bob Osborne with their fabulous harmonies in the front line. With an eclectic mixture of banjo, double bass, dobro, guitar and percussion in the back line they are a delightful jug style band whose emphasis is always on having fun. They will enchant you with their popular, swing and Hawaiian classics and charm you with their antics. An act not to be missed!

Friday Saturday Sunday Monday

4:40 PM 4:40 PM 4:50 PM 6:00 PM

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Bob Corbett Band The award-winning Bob Corbett Band adventurously explores the genres of folk, pop, blues, bluegrass, alt-country, beat-boxing and reggae. Expect amazing harmonies along with guitars, loops, banjos, fiddles, mandolins and more. Bob Corbett has received nine ABC Music

Awards in the past four years. Released the critically acclaimed album, Story Board and reached the National finals in both MusicOz and Australian Songwriters Awards. This is a band not to be missed.

Friday 11:00 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Saturday 12:00 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Sunday 12:40 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Bob Hodgson and Daryl Powell Bob Hodgson and Daryl Powell are two very experienced musicians, and teachers of the role that the modes play in our traditional music. They are keen to pass on that knowledge in an interactive and enlightening way.

Saturday 10:00 AM Workshop 3 Monday 10:00 AM Workshop 3

Bob Malone LA-based Bob Malone plays over a hundred shows a year all over the world, and has opened for and or played with Rickie Lee Jones, The Neville Brothers, Rev. Al Green, Boz Scaggs, Arlo Guthrie. “ Bob Malone doesn’t just accompany himself on piano.” He supports his singing with pulsating, roaring keyboard work that grabs you and shakes you until you cry for mercy.” Keyboard magazine.

Friday 12:00 PM Fitzroy Saturday 8:00 PM Marquee Sunday 9:00 PM Fitzroy

Bohemian Nights

Brent Parlane

Cameron Mather

Ernie Gruner and Phil Carroll play and sing Gypsy, Klezmer, Middle-Eastern, French, Italian, Russian, Jazz and Tango music ranging from soulful to wild, on violin, mandolin, accordion, ney and duduk. The duo evolved from Klezmeritis, Yalla!, Flirting Mazurkas and heaps of parties. Australian concert highlights include the National Folk Festival and National Multicultural Festival. Five NZ tours have included the Wellington Folk Festival and the Christchurch Jazz Festival.

Brent Parlane is a singer/songwriter who plays the guitar, ukulele, banjo, harmonica and mandolin to accompany his great singing voice on songs he makes up himself. He sings in the English language that he learned as a child in his home country of New Zealand. Stephen Blackburn accompanies Brent on the piano and may be known to people from his TV work as one of the famous Dodgy Brothers and as the Musical Director of the Choir of Hard Knocks. Howard Malkin accompanies Brent on guitar and mandolin and is from The Sparnetts, who like Brent, have won a Gold Guitar award in Tamworth.

Cameron Mather is one of Australia’s leading young Celtic folk performers. With his wide repertoire of songs from Ireland, Scotland and Newfoundland, he uses a display of exciting guitar and bouzouki playing throughout his shows leaving his audience always wanting more.

Friday 5:20 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Saturday 11:40 AM Marquee Sunday 5:30 PM Troubadour

Friday 11:40 AM Saturday 7:10 PM Sunday 2:30 PM Monday 1:40 PM

Marquee Marquee Workshop 3 Trocadero

Brett Campbell Braemar Based in Melbourne, Braemar, consisting of Eddie Lewis and Marc de Rijk, is undoubtedly one of Australia’s best Celtic duos, delighting audiences around the country with an impressive performance resumé of classic Scottish and Irish songs. The duo is renowned for lavish harmonies and for its “passionate commitment to continuing the tradition of the Celtic diaspora”.

Brett Campbell is an energetic and entertaining children’s musician and songwriter. With over one hundred and fifty shows booked in 2009 he is a popular performer and is about to release his third album of original material. Brett’s show features high energy, multiple instrument changes and great fun tunes.

Friday 3:00 PM Saturday 1:20 PM Sunday 2:10 PM Monday 12:30 PM

Friday 2:40 PM Troubadour Saturday 2:40 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Sunday 8:00 PM Trocadero

Kids Festival Kids Festival Kids Festival Kids Festival

Saturday 6:00 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Sunday 12:10 PM Merry Muse Monday 2:30 PM Merry Muse

Camoon Camoon are widely recognised as one of the leading musical trio’s in Australia today with traditional instruments such as the oud, nay and percussion they will take you on a spiritual journey to the heart of the Middle East.

Friday 11:00 AM Saturday 11:30 AM Saturday 9:40 PM Sunday 10:50 AM Monday 1:40 PM

Cassidy’s Ceili Cassidy’s Ceili is the voice of Cassidy Richens – singing delicate ballads and rollicking tales of murder, war, crossdressing and robbery backed by four world class musicians: Sandy Gibbney, Ian Blake, Jon Jones and Peter Richens. This popular Canberra band (once described as the love child of Mary Black and Shane McGowan backed by a gaggle of irreverent bog people) delivers dynamic performances of traditional and contemporary Celtic songs and folk tunes. They will release their third album at this year’s Festival.

Thursday 7:00 PM Friday 11:30 AM Saturday 10:30 PM Monday 1:00 PM Monday 2:40 PM

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Budawang Workshop 3 Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Trocadero Marquee

Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Workshop 3 Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Workshop 1 Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Charlie Walden Band

Christina Mimmocchi

The Craggs

Charlie Walden, Missouri’s great oldtime, bluegrass and Texas swing fiddler combines with his band to show Southern contest fiddling at its best. Charlie learnt directly from the old Missouri fiddlers and carries on the tradition.

“Songs unite the world … don’t you worry ‘bout that” (Tony Colla, Oral History collection, NLA). Christina Mimmocchi is this year’s National Folk Festival/ National Library of Australia’s Folk Fellowship recipient. Her project has unearthed traditional songs in harmony and songs that can be sung in harmony for the purpose of arranging them and making them available through a cappella choir communities around Australia. Come and learn songs from the collection and be part of the performance on Monday.

The Craggs present music, stories and images in some shows that celebrate the bush heritage, and wilderness experience of Tasmania. They were invited to present this show at venues across New York State in September 2009. The Cragg’s performances feature strong echoes of the balladeers of old, and their music and storytelling performances transcend simple storytelling.

Friday 12:00 PM Saturday 11:30 AM Saturday 8:00 PM Sunday 10:00 AM Sunday 1:30 PM Monday 1:30 PM

Coorong Mallee Mallee Coorong Fitzroy Fitzroy

Friday 2:30 PM Saturday 2:30 PM Sunday 2:30 PM Monday 10:20 AM

Singing Room Singing Room Singing Room Budawang

Cloudstreet

Chloe and Jason Roweth Chloe and Jason gain great pleasure from bringing almost forgotten songs back to the stage, along with creating new material that is grounded strongly in the tradition of bush culture and music. Join them for original, traditional and contemporary Australian bush and traditional styled music in dynamic and fresh arrangements featuring vocals, guitar and mandolin.

Friday 2:10 PM Trocadero Saturday 10:00 AM Coorong Monday 4:40 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Cloudstreet’s Nicole Murray and John Thompson take traditional folk song, shake it vigorously, add exquisite harmonies and a mountain of fun to produce heart-lifting shows that excite, entertain and delight. They perform new Australian folk music: a combination of Anglo-Celtic and Australian traditional songs and tunes coupled with trad-styled original songs in shows that are musically engaging, vocally amazing and loads of fun.

Saturday 11:40 AM Saturday 3:50 PM Saturday 7:00 PM Sunday 6:00 PM Monday 11:00 AM

Trocadero Kids Festival Singing Room Marquee Fitzroy

Saturday 2:30 PM Saturday 9:00 PM Sunday 12:00 PM Monday 2:20 PM

Coorong Budawang Coorong Coorong

Budawang Marquee Merry Muse Budawang

Damien Neil and Damon Davies From East to West, blues to grass, monk to funk, Irish to gibberish, these young men are a match for none – except each other. From the sublime to the ridiculous, Damon Davies and Damien Neil offer an exciting blend of acoustic roots music.

Thursday 7:40 PM Friday 11:10 PM Saturday 5:30 PM Monday 4:10 PM

Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Troubadour Marquee Marquee

Dance Program Information on the Festival Dance Program and Dance Performers can be found on pages 22 to 27. Performance Times are correct at time of printing but may be

Chris Smither One of North America’s premier blues and folk artists, renowned for his alluring baritone vocals, superb song writing and outstanding musicianship. Chris’s songs display a wry intellectual and deep look at it all, “on the outside looking in” as one of his best songs describes. His captivating live performances are marked by his dark dry sense of humour so prevalent in many of his classic songs.

Thursday 8:00 PM Friday 4:40 PM Saturday 1:30 PM Sunday 10:00 AM

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COZMO (Capital of Australia Mandolinata) COZMO is an ensemble of plucked stringed instruments that incorporates mandolin, alto domra, guitar and bass to play a mix of trad and modern music from all over the globe, ranging from American rags of the early 1900s through contemporary Australian compositions to the works of European Baroque composers. Of course, no mandolin ensemble worth its salt would be complete without some rollicking Italian numbers and Irish tunes thrown in.

Friday 10:00 AM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Monday 12:40 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Dangerboy and His Lovely Assistant, Ivy Master of the dark arts and explorer of the hidden worlds, Dangerboy and His Lovely Assistant, Ivy bring you explosive performances that pay homage to late 1800s Bohemian cabaret and depressionera dustbowl circus sideshow.

Monday 12:00 PM The Majestic Monday 3:00 PM The Majestic

Daniel Brauchli and Kate Case Alaskan-born Daniel Brauchli is a singer/ multi-instrumentalist who has performed and recorded with many bands since moving to Australia in the 1970s, but is best known for playing fiddle and lead guitar with Celtic rock band ‘Wild Zinnias’. Having moved to Tasmania in 2001 to concentrate on guitar making, he now performs on his own unique instruments, including acoustic lap steel guitar. Daniel and Tasmanian singer Kate Case perform original and traditional songs that cross boundaries between country, folk and jazz. Their rich vocal harmonies combine with guitar and slide virtuosity to create a powerful musical experience.

Friday 12:50 PM Merry Muse Saturday 4:20 PM Troubadour Sunday 4:50 PM Troubadour

Daniel Champagne A dazzling performance characterised by a one-of-a-kind guitar style featuring 2-hand tapping, body percussion, old school finger picking techniques and dynamic vocal work all rolled into each carefully constructed original or reworked traditional number. Daniel Champagne delivers one of the most impressive one-man-shows out there. Often sounding more like a threepiece band rather than a nineteen year old singer/songwriter/guitarist.

Sunday 7:40 PM Marquee Monday 10:40 AM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Danny Spooner Danny Spooner is an institution at the National, and indeed, across the whole of Australia. He is one of the leading exponents of traditional singing, and a treasure-house of songs. He’s just as comfortable singing unaccompanied or playing with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. And he’s a great bloke to boot.

Saturday 5:00 PM Saturday 7:00 PM Sunday 1:20 PM Monday 10:00 AM

Budawang Singing Room Trocadero Workshop 1

Daryl Peebles

Davidson Brothers

Daryl Peebles is a playwright, poet, comedian, magician, ventriloquist, afterdinner speaker and MC. Renowned throughout Tasmania and on the big island; regularly appearing at events, festivals, conferences and conventions. Daryl has the capacity to engage an audience of all ages with his silly songs and banter.

2009 and 2010 (two time) Golden Guitar winners and current Australian bluegrass champions on mandolin and banjo. They are Australia’s most awarded bluegrass act. A band of hot pickers all aged in their twenties, performing a range of styles from intense bluegrass, Gypsy swing, Celtic to acoustic country. With a brand new album released in July 2009 the band is sure to add a truck load of energy and jamming to the Festival.

Friday 11:30 AM Saturday 4:10 PM Saturday 7:00 PM Sunday 7:00 PM

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Dave Arden and Band David Arden is a Kookatha/Gunditjmara man. He is a respected singer, songwriter, musician and producer. Not afraid to confront the issues facing his people and the world beyond, and take on a journey of the Kookatha/Gunditjmara life. His songs are gentle, singing of the simple beauty of family life, and yet vibrant, always treated with a musical freshness that sets the feet tapping and the heart soaring. David sings from the heart, with an incredible vocal range and a beautiful musicality.

Friday 10:20 AM Saturday 1:00 PM Saturday 2:30 PM Saturday 8:50 PM Sunday 3:00 PM Monday 1:20 PM

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Friday 4:50 PM Coorong Saturday 2:00 PM Fitzroy Sunday 6:50 PM Troubadour

Dave de Hugard Here is the opportunity to enjoy one of the finer exponents of the Australian tradition in action. Dave is an excellent and always entertaining solo performer. He has performed widely overseas as a member of the group ‘The Larrikins’. Many will have heard Dave’s song ‘The Rabbit Trapper’ and one of his CDs ‘Songs of the Wallaby Track’ was also awarded the ‘Screen Sound Australian Folk Recording Award’. He has an easy laid-back style, a great sense of humour and loves to get involved with an audience. So there will be plenty of chances to join in with a chorus or if preferred just to enjoy Dave in action – Australian songs tunes and yarns with a difference.

Friday 1:20 PM Trocadero Saturday 3:30 PM Troubadour Monday 4:30 PM Troubadour

Dennis O’Keeffe One of country’s leading singers of wonderful Australian traditional songs and now a permanent fixture in the bar during the afternoon. You are invited to come along and contribute a song from the tradition or just have a good old sing along. Don’t miss the multimedia presentation and release of his new book, ‘The Creation of Waltzing Matilda’ which is widely regarded to be the most academic work ever produced on our National Folk Song.

Friday 1:00 PM Saturday 10:30 AM Saturday 1:00 PM Sunday 1:00 PM Monday 1:00 PM

Session Bar Village Stage Session Bar Session Bar Session Bar

Dingo’s Breakfast Two Australians with thirty years’ experience, working together, providing one of the most exhilarating and unique performances to come out of the cultural hotbed of Hammy Hill (Hamilton Hill)

Friday 3:20 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Saturday 3:00 PM Marquee Monday 1:10 PM Troubadour

Dobe Newton and the Veterans Australian and proud of it! Bushwacker ‘veteran’ Dobe Newton teamed with Paul Norton to produce “13 awesome songs” (Country Update). Port Fairy 2009 saw the world premiere of ‘A Convict Can’t Be Trusted’ with the ‘boys’ joined by keyboard wiz Robyn Payne, guitar ace Sam Leman and bushies vets Dan Burke and Tony O’Neill. Add a killer rhythm section and you’ve got a special event. See what all the fuss is about!

Friday 3:00 PM Coorong Saturday 8:50 PM Coorong Sunday 4:30 PM Fitzroy

Doc Jones and the Lechery Orchestra Amid an ever growing march of “gyp-rock” or gypsy inspired bands around NSW and the rest of the country, Doc Jones and the Lechery Orchestra provide something fresh and intriguing. Whilst the gypsy and circus elements are undeniable, Doc is similarly influenced by jugband music and vaudeville. Violin, flute and accordion wrap themselves around Doc’s songs and get every bit as quirky and intriguing as the songs themselves. The sounds are evocative and irresistible, bound to take you to times and places you weren’t expecting to go – but you’ll be happy to be there.

Thursday 10:20 PM Friday 9:30 PM Saturday 4:00 PM Saturday 10:30 PM Sunday 8:00 PM Monday 4:50 PM

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Doctor Stovepipe Doctor Stovepipe’s patent-pending aural salve and hip-tonic turns malady into melody! Famed throughout the Empire and the Americas, the Indies and the Orient, Stovepipe’s cure-all will remedy dyspepsia, neuralgia and feminine hysteria! It banishes fatigue and offers relief to ruptured men. Doctor Stovepipe draws from the pharmacopoeia of Appalachian string-band music, hot Jazz, Gypsy swing, cowboy-western combos and popular ragtime. Purveyors of medicinal euphony, Doctor Stovepipe comprises Dr. Jim Sharrock, Dr. Pablo Shopen, and Dr. Ed Radclyffe.

Friday 11:00 AM Friday 4:00 PM Saturday 3:00 PM Sunday 8:30 PM

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Donal Baylor He’s been a sideman for acts as diverse as Mic Conway and Slim Dusty and also been an integral part of such bands as the Dancehall Racketeers and Bluegrass Parkway. Now, finally, he’s released his first solo CD! This momentous bluegrass and old-timey event features him on fiddle and guitar as well as some of our best pickers who’ll be there to lend a hand.

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interwoven with tinges of jazz and folk. Eddi will be joined by Boo Hewerdine and Alan Kelly.

Friday 7:40 PM Coorong Saturday 1:20 PM Budawang Sunday 11:00 AM Coorong

8:50 PM Marquee

Dove Tale Why isn’t anyone playing Australian tunes? Cath Ovenden and Barry McDonald played with and collected tunes from, some of the great players of the Australian tradition. Dove Tale are going to teach some enticing sets of overlooked fiddle tunes. Hopefully by the end of the workshop you won’t be able to answer the question.

Friday 11:30 AM Saturday 11:30 AM Sunday 11:30 AM Monday 4:30 PM

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The Dreadful Band Despite popular demand The Dreadful Band is back! Do you struggle for acceptance? Is your chosen instrument just too dreadful for the human ear? Then bring along your auto harp, accordion, banjo, bagpipes, djembe, dranyen, lagerphone, kazoo, bodhran, tea chest bass, paper and comb, rainstick, banjolin, ukulele, bongos, tuba, didgeridoo, jaw harp, gumleaf, saw, concertina, xylophone, rebec, bouzouki, erhu, keyboards, theramin, cello, krumhorn, strohviol or whatever and join The Dreadful Band.

Friday Saturday Sunday Sunday Monday

4:00 PM 4:00 PM 1:00 PM 4:00 PM 3:20 PM

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Eddi Reader Eddi Reader is an internationally acclaimed artist with extraordinary talent. Best known as former front woman for Fairground Attraction, Eddi has had a long and varied career. However it’s her solo work that has endured longer than anything else in her musical canon. Since striking out on her own in 1992, Eddi has won a BRIT award for best female singer, recorded an album of material by Scottish poet Robert Burns, and received an MBE from the Queen. Love is the Way, her ninth studio release, continues her rich tradition of soulful, acoustic and piano-based songs,

The Ellis Collective If ‘Bloke Folk’ were a genre, The Ellis Collective would be it. Traditional acoustic sensibilities for the modern urban soul, simple and gritty tales of an Aussie male, hiding a broken heart behind big talk, a tinnie and smoke.

Friday 8:30 PM The Majestic Saturday 4:00 PM The Majestic Sunday 3:00 PM The Majestic

Emily Smith and Jamie McClennan Scots Singer of the Year 08/09 and winner of the 2002 BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year, Emily Smith is widely recognised as one of Scotland’s finest interpreters of traditional song. A singer and songwriter of exceptional talent and skilled multi-instrumentalist (keyboard and accordion, Smith is accompanied by New Zealand born husband Jamie McClennan (guitar, fiddle and whistle). Smith and McClennan are promoting their latest release of lesser-known songs by Robert Burns, ‘Adoon Winding Nith’, alongside tracks from Jamie’s new instrumental album ‘In Transit’ and Emily’s song based ‘Too Long Away’.

Friday 9:00 PM Budawang Saturday 6:20 PM Marquee Sunday 12:00 PM Fitzroy

Emma Dean Emma Dean is an exciting, magnetic, cabaret-inspired singer songwriter, performer and multi-instrumentalist. Her off-kilter musical style has been described as “theatrical pop” and continues to fascinate audiences around Australia and the world.

Friday Sunday Monday

7:30 PM The Majestic 2:00 PM The Majestic 3:30 PM The Majestic

the use of the autoharp to accompany vocal performance, as well as featuring it as a lead instrument on all sorts of tunes. You’ll be very welcome – with or without an autoharp.

Sunday 10:00 AM Workshop 2

Evelyn’s Secret Evelyn’s Secret is a young band, whose members are formerly of the Paddy O’Neill Award band DRAM. They deliver original songs as well as traditional Celtic music played with exuberance and an engagingly original style and have been described by Bendigo Folk Club as “young, refreshing and tremendously talented.” As DRAM, the members of Evelyn’s Secret in 2009 performed at Port Fairy, the National Folk Festival and the National Celtic Festival. Songwriter, Jenny McKechnie is the Maity Swallow Award winner for 2009.

Saturday 5:10 PM Troubadour Sunday 1:30 PM Merry Muse Monday 2:30 PM Troubadour

Ernie Gruner Klezmer Workshop/s Violinist Ernie Gruner is Australia’s tallest and busiest klezmer teacher/musician. In August 2008 he studied klezmer violin in New York with Alicia Svigals who tutored Itzhak Perlman for ‘In the Fiddler’s House’, then at the week long KlezKanada in Montreal, and Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto. In 1998 he studied with Alicia Svigals (Klezmatics) and learnt at klezmer camps, workshops and sessions in Cracow, San Francisco, Berlin and Budapest. Ernie plays regularly for the Melbourne Jewish community, and plays and records klezmer with Bohemian Nights and Klezmeritis.

Friday Sunday

1:00 PM Workshop 1 1:30 PM Fitzroy

Ernie Gruner Nigun Workshop Ernie Gruner is well known as a klezmer violinist teacher, in bands like Klezmeritis and Bohemian Nights. In this workshop he teaches nigunnim, Eastern European Jewish songs and chants. Ernie has learnt these as part of playing for traditional Jewish weddings for 15 years, but also more recently at KlezKanada in Montreal.

Sunday 11:30 AM Building E

Evan Mathieson Evan Mathieson, autoharp maker and player extraordinaire presents an interactive autoharp players workshop of exciting playing styles to help you get the very best out of your “chorded zither”. The workshop will include demonstrations of

Fabio Chivhanda and the Jive Masters Fabio Chivhanda is a master composer and dancer in the Zimbabwean Shona tradition. His songs are accompanied by the mbira, a 22-key thumb piano played inside a halved calabash gourd. Fabio’s music expresses a fusion of his Zimbabwean roots and his current Australian experience. Fabio has taken up residence in Hobart, Tasmania and is currently playing with a 7-piece band Fabio and The Jive Masters. Instrumentation in this new band includes steel guitar, bass, drums, trombone, trumpet, saxophone, and keys. This new rhythm section shows a deep understanding of Fabio’s music, giving him the inspiration and support to realise his most ambitious compositions.

Friday 10:00 PM Saturday 6:00 PM Sunday 2:30 PM Sunday 6:00 PM

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Færd Scandinavian Trio Færd – innovative and creative – influenced by jazz, world and rock. “This trio from Denmark and Sweden were fantastic. Fun, energetic and really quirky! Thanks for a great weekend of music.” Peter, Eskil and Jens. Canterbury Folkfestival, New Zealand 2009.

Friday 10:00 AM Saturday 8:00 PM Monday 2:30 PM Monday 4:10 PM

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Felicity Urquhart and Band Winner of the 2010 Golden Guitar for ‘Best Female Vocalist’, Felicity brings her unique brand of swing influenced country to the Festival. Felicity last appeared here alongside Lucky Oceans in the Festival Swing Band, and knocked everyone’s socks off with her warmth and incredible talent. We are thrilled to have her return to the National.

Friday 8:00 PM Fitzroy Saturday 1:00 PM Coorong Sunday 10:00 PM Budawang

The Fish That Wanted to Fly Company Gongoma Presents The Fish that Wanted to Fly which is about the dream each of has of doing something seemingly impossible. Set in the mangrove swamps of eastern Australia, The Fish That Wanted to Fly, is also about native animals and the problems of pollution in the Australian environment. It is an enchanting world populated by colourful mechanical hand puppets created by award winning theatre designer, Jenny Ellis, and encircled by the beautiful and original songs of Miriam Lieberman as she narrates and accompanies the story with African harp (kora), African xylophone, (balaphone) and guitar.

Friday Saturday Sunday Monday

2:10 PM 2:10 PM 6:10 PM 3:00 PM

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Folktales and Furrytails A family trio presents original and popular Australian stories with fun-filled audience participation. Songs, rhymes, finger plays and dancing to suit all ages. There are even special activities for babies and young infants.

Friday 10:50 AM Saturday 2:10 PM Sunday 1:20 PM Monday 11:40 AM

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Generation 3 Three generations singing together, grandparents, daughter and grandchildren, continuing the best way folk music is continued through the years. Irish roots converge with Australian futures, ‘The Green among the Gold’. Well known in Tasmania they have performed in the Fleadh as well as the Cygnet Festival. Their performance includes strong harmonies and great musicianship.

They weave precise and intricate fiddle and flute work, gorgeous vocal harmonies, energetic foot percussion, and guitar and bass accompaniment into a jubilant musical feast. Genticorum’s distinctive sound, sense of humour and stage presence make it a supreme crowd pleaser – though never at the expense of the music.

Thursday 7:00 PM Friday 10:00 PM Saturday 12:00 PM Sunday 1:30 PM Monday 12:20 PM

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Friday 3:30 PM Merry Muse Saturday 2:50 PM Merry Muse Monday 11:20 AM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Genticorum Genticorum has become one of the most sought-after exponents of Quebecois musical culture, having now performed and toured across North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania – more than fifteen countries in all. This energetic and original power trio also incorporate the dynamism of contemporary North American and European folk cultures into their music.

FOLK LIVES AT THE NFSA! NFSA Folk Recording Award winner Fred Smith at NFSA

The NFSA is proud to be back at the 2010 National Folk Festival, continuing our long-running support for Australian recorded sound. If you are taking time out, please drop in and see us in Acton, near the city centre. Enjoy our free exhibition and presentations, experience the best of world cinema in Arc, browse in our shop and relax in our heritage courtyard. Look out for the NFSA at the Festival: • Special screenings. See Real Folk on Film, the film treasures of John Meredith. Made for the NFSA between 1988 and 1990, these films are full of images of the last generation of old time bush musicians. Introduced by Rob Willis, Peter Ellis and Graham McDonald. A Parrot Pictures/NFSA presentation. • The NFSA tent. Talk to our staff about Australia’s sound heritage and how you can be involved. • The NFSA National Folk Recording Award. Each year since 2001, we have presented the Award for the best recording made by an artist appearing at the Festival. Open weekdays 9am-5pm weekends/public holidays 10am-5pm McCoy Circuit, Acton ACT 2601. Freecall 1800 067 274 www.nfsa.gov.au The National Film and Sound Archive is an Australian Government Agency.

Gobsmacked! Bertie and Louis have been gob smacking audiences for many years now, with energising folk tales and urban myths including everything from rapping ballads to radio plays. They now bring a whole new meaning to epic storytelling with their dynamic brand of theatrical comical musical invention.

Friday 12:30 PM Saturday 11:40 AM Sunday 12:30 PM Monday 10:50 AM

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Graham Seal A one-hour session on collecting folklore – what it is, why it’s important, how to do it for fun, if not profit.

Monday 10:00 AM Workshop 2

Groove Ganesh Groove Ganesh is the project of four versatile performers across several genres. Roman Astra (vocals, sitar, Indian violin), Damian Stolp (guitars) and Nicolas Stolp (bass) combine the rich textures of their instruments to a unique and very attractive blend. Sean Brady (drums) adds life with some laid back grooves or toe-tapping rhythms. ‘We love to mix and match sounds and styles’, admits Astra. ‘Folk, Funk, East or West – it’s all music to us!’

Friday 3:50 PM Saturday 10:00 PM Sunday 1:00 PM Sunday 3:00 PM

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The haBiBis With superb vocals, top class instrumental playing and great stage presence, ARIA Award winners, The haBiBis play intoxicating music from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean in ‘down under’ style. Their long awaited new CD titled ‘10/8’ will be launched during the National Folk Festival. Plaintive bouzouki based rebetika or Greek blues rhythmic folk tunes boasting wild clarinet solos, and contemporary ballads with soulful vocals will move the body and heart.

Friday Saturday Sunday Sunday Sunday

5:00 PM 9:00 PM 1:30 PM 4:00 PM 6:50 PM

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Handsome Young Strangers Formed in Sydney’s inner west in late 2004, the Handsome Young Strangers are a seven-piece from Sydney who exploded onto the live scene in 2005 with their brand of colonial folk rock madness. They sing tunes about bushrangers, shearing, droving, convict hardship, sports heroes, war veterans and other iconic Australians and all delivered with the intensity of a runaway Victa lawnmower! Handsome Young Strangers take their influences from such revered Australian acts as The Bushwackers, Redgum, Roaring Jack and Weddings Parties Anything, whilst displaying an originality that shines through in their own songs.

Thursday 11:40 PM Friday 10:00 PM Fitzroy Sunday 10:30 PM The Majestic Monday 5:10 PM Merry Muse

Harlequin Harlequin is a unique four-piece medieval ensemble playing music from the 12th to the 16th century. Their repertoire includes music of bawdy humour, pious beauty and high drama, with 13th C. Cantigas from Spain, 12th-14th C. French troubadour and trouvère songs, and more from Italy, Germany, and beyond. This is played on fascinating period instruments such as hurdy gurdy, keyed fiddle and shawm, Harlequin is a well-established band in Tasmania and has just released their second album, ‘The Devil Horsemen’. Always dressed in sexy medieval clothing, Harlequin moves their audience to live the whole medieval experience.

Friday 7:20 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Saturday 3:50 PM Fitzroy Sunday 4:00 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

with harmonies together and to introduce participants to their favourite two- and three-part arrangements. All musicians and listeners are welcome but participants will need some sight reading experience to play music provided.

Friday Sunday Monday

1:00 PM Building E 2:30 PM Workshop 1 1:00 PM Workshop 3

Hot String Bandits They’re real serious ‘bout their Hillbilly music from the Appalachian Mountains in the USA and have picked up tunes from other places as well. They’re from Tasmania, a little place off of the map south of the big island. Watch your back – they’re wanted down south! Anyone willing with a banjo, fiddle, uke or mandolin to give them tunes a go is welcome in their big family. They love to play for dancing, concerts – anyone who will listen, to be honest. They guarantee to make you smile when you see them all lined up with their funny hats and their flannel shirts. They have got a big wall of sound and will get those toes-a-tapping with their tunes ‘bout farmyard critters, death or just nothing at all.

Friday Monday

6:00 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle 1:20 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Humbug Canberra’s Celtic big band, Humbug, features distinctive vocal harmonies combined with rich instrumental backing. Original arrangements feature eight voices in harmony with guitars, flute, whistle, fiddle, mandolin, ukulele, bass, banjo and percussion. Reviving songs rarely heard these days, from poignant Scottish ballads to rousing Irish favourites, Humbug recently delighted audiences at the inaugural Snowy Mountains of Music. Other festival credits include Beechworth Celtic Festival, the National Folk Festival and Music at the Creek.

Harmony Happenings Harmony Happenings will provide a workshop that will give musicians the opportunity to play traditional tunes with harmony parts. Their aim is to share their enjoyment in playing traditional tunes

Friday 12:00 PM Saturday 12:50 PM Sunday 2:20 PM Monday 10:00 AM

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I Viaggiatori I Viaggiatori is a truly multicultural and cosmopolitan combination with Kavisha Mazzella and Irine Vela from Melbourne and Mark Holder-Keeping and David De Santi from Wollongong. They bring together varying musical experiences but combine to present sensitive and harmonious renditions of new and old Italian folk songs. Kavisha grew up in the Italian quarter of Fremantle while David grew up in the Illawarra! They present music they performed for the silent Italian documentary Dall’ Italia All’ Australia. In 2010 they will be releasing a new recording ‘Songs From a Journey’ with the songs and tunes used with the film.

Friday 2:00 PM Budawang Sunday 9:00 PM Coorong Monday 10:00 AM Fitzroy

Ian Paulin Ian’s established a great rapport with audiences, workshop/project groups both in Australia and overseas and has been at leading musical and performance events around the country. Mystical or funny, each experience is a unique journey. Something actually happens. Ian really knows how to work a crowd and to entice everyone into

the tales he weaves. Steve Gadd – Director, Cygnet Folk Festival. “Ian Paulin’s voice provides a unique perspective on the world – that of the Tasmanian: there’s nothing parochial about his message and music – as universal as the rain – yippee, hallelujah and about time I say!” Judy Small

Friday 1:00 PM Singing Room Saturday 4:00 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Monday 3:10 PM Troubadour

Idiot Squad The Idiot Squad will be present at the Majestic during the Festival, creating pockets of mayhem and surprise for audiences. They will be leading workshops on ensemble performance and comedy, creating a grotesque melange of performers to build impromptu performances and infect dance floors over the weekend.

Saturday 2:00 PM The Majestic Sunday 1:00 PM The Majestic Monday 1:00 PM The Majestic

James Keelaghan Admiration and respect for his work amongst his peers is best summed up by David Francey who recently stated that, “James Keelaghan is a voice in contemporary Canadian songwriting that has helped us define who we are as a people. He writes with great humanity and honesty, with an eye to the past and a vision of the future. He has chronicled his times with powerful and abiding songs, with heart and eyes wide open.”

Thursday Friday Sunday Monday

8:00 PM 8:50 PM 9:00 PM 1:30 PM

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Jeff Corfield and Alyson Mills Themed presentation titled ‘A Musical Century – Darwin’s McGinness-Mills Family Heritage’ to coincide with the launch of a book (by Jeff Corfield) and CD (by Alyson Mills) celebrating the centenary of Val McGinness, Darwin’s last string band era musician. Darwin’s Mills Sisters created great interest at the NFF 2002 in their family music and Darwin’s string band heritage. The book and CD represent important responses to this widespread interest and a significant contribution to Australia’s music heritage. The NFF 2010 is a timely venue for their launch as part of a presentation by Jeff, Ali and friends celebrating the Val McGinness centenary.

Friday 4:00 PM Trocadero Saturday 7:20 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Jewelled Mat

Friday 10:20 PM Saturday 10:10 PM Sunday 10:50 AM Monday 6:30 PM

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Kamerunga Kamerunga put a fresh and funky twist on Aussie and Celtic music. Combining folk influences with jazz, rock, reggae, classical and world music elements and melding mandolin, fiddle and guitar wizardry with sizzling saxophone, keyboards and a dynamic rhythm section. The Cairns-based band take listeners on an exhilarating and extraordinary journey, musically and geographically – from Cooktown to Cork, from Jabiru to Johannesburg, from Brisbane to Barbados.

Keith Potger Since his solo debut in 2004, Keith Potger has created a loyal and extensive audience base building on awareness he garnered as a founding member of The Seekers over many years. His two solo CDs have established him as a sensitive and creative songwriter. Now he is recording his third solo CD which he will launch at the National Folk Festival.

Friday 1:00 PM Saturday 11:30 AM Sunday 10:00 AM Monday 11:20 AM

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Saturday 10:00 PM Coorong Sunday 11:40 AM Budawang Monday 11:50 AM Coorong

Jewelled Mat (Matthew Lykos and Julia Norman) is a well hidden secret from Adelaide. These two young, beautifully blended voices will enchant and soothe the soul with their arrangements of Celtic folk songs. Take a break from the busyness of the Festival, and sit back and relax to the sounds of these two exquisite voices accompanied by acoustic guitar and double bass.

Saturday 3:30 PM Merry Muse Monday 11:10 AM Troubadour Sunday 4:50 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Jon Millard Jon has played flute and whistle in bands from The Bushwackers in the 1970s to the Corner House Ceili Band currently, has given workshops at festivals and has taught both instruments to individuals and groups over many years.

Friday 10:00 AM Workshop 1 Saturday 1:00 PM Workshop 1 Sunday 4:00 PM Building E

The Junes The Junes are a country supergroup pulsing with femininity, harmonic genius and subtle double entendres of an underrated and oversimplified genre. Fronted by three worldly women, The Junes bring an existentialist approach to roots country music by reviving classic harmonic structures with contemporary interpretations. Think of The Andrews Sisters in boot cut jeans, a trio infused with feminist values, the Supremes with equal billing, Charlie’s Angels with instruments! Don’t miss The Junes as they launch their first full length album at the Festival.

Kavisha Mazzella Trio Three of Victoria’s finest roots musicians make up the Kavisha Mazzella Trio. Kavisha makes life affirming passionate music with a deep Mediterranean soul. This is beautiful new music with ancient roots. Earthy sensual vocals of Aria award winning singer songwriter Kavisha Mazzella with the rhythmic Peter Vadiveloo and the mistress of bouzouki, Aria award winning Irini Vela. Fine storytelling and songs in English and Italian.

Thursday 8:00 PM Friday 11:40 AM Saturday 4:30 PM Sunday 10:50 AM Monday 12:40 PM

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Kristina Olsen Kristina Olsen is a superb multi‑instrumentalist as well as an award‑winning songwriter with a big bluesy voice, Kristina has audiences around the world coming back for more. Her mix of powerful songs ranging from sassy bottleneck blues to lilting ballads to swing jazz to raunch and roll (as well as her hilarious storytelling) makes for a diverse and satisfying musical experience, on stage and on CD. In 2008 she released her 11th recording, Quiet Blue.

Friday 11:00 AM Friday 3:00 PM Saturday 11:20 AM Saturday 4:00 PM Saturday 11:10 PM Monday 11:30 AM Monday 3:10 PM

Mallee Fitzroy Budawang Singing Room Troubadour Workshop 4 Coorong

Kwela Swingsters Andy Rigby’s Kwela Swingsters bring you the vibe of South African 60’s township jive. Bring your dancing shoes and swing moves as the penny whistles, horns and irresistible rhythm section play tunes such as the Casanova Jump, and Polly sings swing era standards. From Central Victoria and Melbourne, we bring the Kwela groove to the streets and dance halls of the Festival.

Friday 5:30 PM Saturday 1:20 PM Saturday 5:30 PM Sunday 6:00 PM Monday 12:30 PM Monday 2:10 PM Monday 5:30 PM

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Kym Pitman with Trunk Road and Friends Kym Pitman has a special place amongst Australian singer songwriters. Her songs and music are a deep expression of place and ecological connection. They evoke an enlivened sense of presence and expansiveness in connection with wild landscapes. Kym’s concerts are a journey of song and musical imagery rambling evocatively between coast, desert, gorge

and tableland. She returns to the festival stages enchanting her audiences with soulful performances of new and timely songs dynamically blended with the rich harmonies and acoustic vibrancy of ‘Trunk Road’ and friends. Launching her new CD, ‘Million Star Hotel’ Kym’s concerts are not to be missed.

Saturday 2:10 PM Saturday 7:00 PM Sunday 2:20 PM Monday 12:50 PM

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Le Blanc Bros Cajun Band are Australia’s finest tribute to the music and language of the Cajuns, the group play the traditional music of southern Louisiana. Waltzes, twosteps and Creole blues are authentically presented with energy and style. Their music is a clear reflection of the people who live for it. Laissez les bon temps rouler! (Let the good times roll!)

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Words fail me. Les had to have a lie down and couldn’t make the 2009 National. He’s now well and working harder than ever at his Welsh poetry and sending others to hospital from listening to his bizarre and hilarious verse. He will most likely be available to assault others with his debating skills too.

Friday 11:20 AM Saturday 12:30 PM Sunday 9:20 PM Monday 5:00 PM

Le Blanc Bros Cajun Band

Friday 4:00 PM Saturday 1:20 PM Sunday 1:00 PM Sunday 3:30 PM Monday 12:30 PM Monday 2:30 PM

Les Barker

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Lolo Lovina With members from Ukraine, Hungary and Brazil, Lolo Lovina (meaning Red Beer, in Romani) play an intoxicating brew of Gypsy mayhem, drawing influences from across Eastern Europe and Latin America. Fronted by the authentic vocals of Romani blooded Sarah Bedak-Rockliffe, the bands other not-so-secret weapons include Australian violinist Jess Randall and Romanian accordionist Leonid Beshlei.

Saturday 10:30 PM Sunday 1:30 PM Sunday 10:10 PM Monday 11:30 AM Monday 3:10 PM

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Lorraine McCrimmon

Martin Pearson

Mike Watts

Lorraine McCrimmon is an established contemporary and traditional bush poet, who has performed at many folk festivals. She can tickle your funny bone or make you think, she captures her audience in her own unique presentation of her wide selection of poems.

Folk ‘s comic genius returns with his irreverent wit and questionable charm to liven up the festival once again. Catch him in his own shows, as well as the MC for the NLA’s Folk Trivia night, and the Great Poetry Debate. Or catch a late night at the troubadour Wine Bar.

Saturday 10:50 AM Saturday 7:00 PM Sunday 7:00 PM Monday 8:30 AM

Friday Sunday

Mike is an English concertina and mandolin player. He is a partner in Celtic Southern Cross and the Celtic summer school Music Under the Southern Cross where he teaches English concertina. He has played in dance bands in Northern Tasmania and is the current Director of the National Windjammer held in Westbury Tasmania.

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The Lurkers The Lurkers play ‘subversive homespun bluegrass’ with a line-up of banjo, double bass, guitar and occasional mandolin and harmonica. They are influenced musically by American hillbilly and old time music, and politically by the likes of Woody Guthrie, Joe Hill, Pete Seeger and Berthold Brecht. They draw on the tradition of artists and musicians who use their music for political agitation. The Lurkers share song writing, lead vocals and harmonies, lending each set a variety of styles, from blues to bluegrass, mountain music to traditional folk.

Friday 6:00 PM Troubadour Saturday 2:00 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Monday 5:50 PM Marquee

Mal Webb He does all sorts of bizzo with his voice, plays lots of instruments, makes loops, sings songs about all manner of stuff and spends much of the Festival jumping up with other acts (famous ones, even!) Ebulliently eclectic. Nefariously varied. It’s as grittily human as it is other worldly, as clever as it is stupid, as playful as it is ponderous.

Thursday 8:00 PM Friday 8:40 PM Saturday 4:00 PM Saturday 10:00 PM Sunday 10:00 PM Monday 12:00 PM

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Malcolm Clapp One of Australia’s leading accordion and concertina repair experts with an international reputation and clientele. Often to be found at festivals and sessions, playing and giving advice on all manner of free reed instrument repairs and playing techniques.

Friday 2:30 PM Workshop 2 Saturday 14:00 PM Workshop 3

2:00 PM Coorong 4:00 PM Coorong

Michael Stenning Michael Stenning, a Canberra-based Alexander Technique teacher, is a musician who used the AT to unscramble himself and resume playing after his playing career was interrupted through tension and the effects of stress. Léonie John also studied music prior to training as an Alexander Technique Teacher. Both love working with musicians.

Saturday 9:30 AM Building E

Mike Jackson In 2010, Mike Jackson celebrates his thirtieth anniversary of performing and recording. Mike has spent those years inspiring, encouraging and empowering music-making in people of all ages. He still tours both nationally and internationally and his numerous music resources now sell world wide.

Friday 10:00 AM Saturday 12:30 PM Saturday 2:30 PM Sunday 11:40 AM Monday 10:00 AM Monday 2:30 PM

Saturday 2:30 PM Workshop 2 Monday 11:30 AM Workshop 1

Miriam Lieberman With a voice that has been described as ‘both heart breaking and up lifting’ Miriam Lieberman will be joined by musicians as she sings and plays kora and guitar. With a strong West African flavour; her songs chart journeys around the world monsoon in an African shanty town, stories of a courageous escape and a village healer who casts spells of love.

Friday 10:40 AM Budawang Saturday 5:20 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Monday 12:50 PM Marquee

Kids Festival Kids Festival Workshop 4 Kids Festival Kids Festival Workshop 2

Mothers of Intention With their trademark sweet three-part harmony, chunky yet mesmeric guitar, fiery and soulful fiddle, haunting whistles and bass-like bodhran beat, the Mothers music has a timeless texture which engages with audiences of all ages. Playing soulful trad, contemporary tunes, slow airs, original ballads and fiery dance tunes. Winners of the 2007 MusicOz award in the folk/ world category, the Mothers of Intention have performed at the National, Illawarra and Snowy Mountains festivals. They will be launching their new CD ‘When the Wind begins to Sing’ at the National Folk Festival.

Friday 10:50 AM Marquee Sunday 10:00 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Monday 1:50 PM Troubadour

Mr. Fibby Mr. Fibby combine story-telling, original compositions and a highly theatrical show to weave tales of the old country with violin, cello, guitar and voice. They have been described as ‘volcanic’, ‘full of sound and fury’, and ‘an inappropriate Act to stage in Robertson, on a Sunday afternoon, after a children’s dance performance’.

Friday 5:00 PM The Majestic Saturday 9:30 PM The Majestic Monday 4:30 PM The Majestic

New Holland Honey Eaters The New Holland Honey Eaters are a string band playing roots music from the broad old-time southern American tradition, including Anglo-Celtic, string band, minstrel, ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, shape-note, Cajun, parlour, jug band, faux-Hawaiian, gospel, Western swing and country blues. Calling themselves ‘The String Band Behind the Times’, they put the music into its social and historical context with dynamic themed performances.

Friday 10:00 AM Saturday 4:30 PM Sunday 3:10 PM Monday 11:50 AM

Coorong Trocadero Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Fitzroy

Nick and Liesl Award winning duo Nick and Liesl have just released their highly anticipated debut album following the success of last year’s EP Wyong River. Their sound is a beautiful combination of earthy, life affirming lyrics, dreamy harmonies and a mixture of guitar and piano driven songs. They have been described as “a grown up Angus and Julia Stone” and have gained recognition as a brilliant live act performing at festivals across the country and overseas.

Thursday 6:20 PM Friday 6:40 PM Saturday 12:40 PM Sunday 4:10 PM

Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Troubadour

Natalie Magee Natalie Magee is a singer, songwriter and performer based in Canberra Australia. Hailed as one of the outstanding new young breed of singers and performers, Natalie immerses herself in the music of many different genres. She has appeared at the Folk Festival as a blackboard performer and was a roaming performer in a vocal quartet in 2009. After presenting two sold out shows at the Street Theatre featuring original music, Natalie will be showcasing this original music at the 2010 National Folk Festival.

Thursday 5:00 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Friday 2:50 PM Merry Muse Monday 3:50 PM Merry Muse

Nick Charles

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Described by The Age as “Australia’s virtuoso of acoustic roots and blues” a Nick Charles performance is a unique display of dazzling guitar instrumentals and original country blues/folk styled songs. This year Nick will bring to the National the multi talented Pete Fidler to re-create the wonderful dobro, extra guitar and mandolin parts on his critically acclaimed albums including the latest ‘Closer To Home’.

Friday Saturday Sunday Sunday Sunday Monday

2:10 PM 2:30 PM 4:00 PM 4:00 PM 8:30 PM 2:30 PM

Marquee Coorong Building E (NC) Workshop 3 (PF) Marquee Marquee

Paddy Keenan

PEARL

Paddy Keenan was born into a travelling family steeped in traditional music. A founding member of the legendary Bothy Band, Paddy has been called “the piper’s piper”, “the most exciting traditional musician in the world”, and “the Jimi Hendrix of the pipes”. Generally acknowledged as the most accomplished uilleann piper performing today, Paddy is certainly one of the most brilliant musicians of his generation.

As members of the multi-award winning Goanna, Rose Bygrave and Marcia Howard helped create the unique vocal sound that even now sets them apart from every other Australian act. Since then they have established their individual reputations as acclaimed singersongwriter, vocalists and performers on the world stage. Over three decades they have mesmerised audiences with their musical strength, fearless politics and their tender hearts. Their solo CD’s have achieved the highest possible praise. It’s been a long time coming, but now they are combining their refined skills for a musical treat not to be missed. Together they are pure PEARL.

Friday 12:30 PM Marquee Saturday 12:20 PM Budawang Monday 12:00 PM Trocadero

Friday 5:00 PM Saturday 4:30 PM Sunday 1:40 PM Monday 11:30 AM

Fitzroy Coorong Budawang Singing Room

Peter Anderson Peter Anderson is Australia’s top exponent of the electric Appalachian dulcimer. He has a repertoire ranging from medieval to Pink Floyd, including Australian and Celtic, crooning vocals and a majestic command of the Appalachian dulcimer. Peter’s show will certainly please.

Patty Larkin Patty Larkin has been redefining the boundaries of folk-urban pop music for twenty five years with her inventive guitar wizardry and uncompromising vocals and lyrics. Acoustic guitar hails her “soundscape experiments” while Rolling Stone praises her “evocative and subtle sonic shading.” She has been described as “riveting” (Chicago Tribune), “hypnotic” (Entertainment Weekly) and a “drop-dead brilliant” performer (Performing Songwriter).

Thursday 8:00 PM Friday 1:00 PM Saturday 10:00 AM Saturday 2:30 PM Saturday 5:30 PM

Budawang Coorong Singing Room Coorong Fitzroy

Friday 12:30 PM Merry Muse Saturday 2:40 PM Troubadour Monday 5:10 PM Troubadour

Peter Capp Peter Capp is a humorous yarn spinning champ, bush poet, great debate winner. He has performed at almost every major festival throughout Australia. Peter is also a very accomplished compere.

Sunday Sunday

8:30 AM Troubadour 7:00 PM Singing Room

Peter Mace Peter Mace is a performer and writer of bush poetry who has entertained audiences from Gympie to Narrandera over the past few years. He has had success in various competitions and was the 2008 reciter of the year at the National Folk Festival in Canberra.

Friday Sunday

8:30 AM Troubadour 7:00 PM Singing Room

Philip Rush Philip is a best-selling author and award-winning poet who has published seventeen books. He brings a great sense of humour and enjoyment in his solo

poetry performances. Philip has travelled widely throughout Australia performing across five states. Not to be missed!

Friday 3:50 PM Saturday 8:30 AM Saturday 7:00 PM Sunday 7:00 PM Monday 11:30 AM

Kids Festival Troubadour Singing Room Singing Room Workshop 2

The Puddin Eaters A colourful mixture of storytelling, play acting, join-in music and dancing for kids of all ages. Meet ridiculously tall but extremely silly Rob the Storyteller, not-sotall Stuart with his squeeze box and lovely Sally the Dance Caller (she’s the one in the fabulous dress).

Friday 11:40 AM Saturday 10:00 AM Sunday 10:00 AM Monday 1:20 PM

Kids Festival Kids Festival Kids Festival Kids Festival

Rachael Zella Rachael Zella is a Sydney based singer/ songwriter who has been writing songs for many years, however, it is only with the recent collaboration with guitarist Jack Evans that she has been encouraged and inspired to perform them and is currently recording an album due out in 2010. Rachael Zella is influenced by country and folk tradition as she is a Canberra girl at heart and has grown up with the National Folk Festival.

Friday 1:30 PM Merry Muse Saturday 12:10 PM Merry Muse Sunday 2:10 PM Merry Muse

Racz ‘n Waters 2008 saw the rise of the new all-girl singer/ song writing Trio, Racz ‘n Waters. The girls initially met through common Mr Heartaches and vented by collaborating great, happy and healthy revengeful songs together. Karen Anne Waters, the brassy brunette, drives the blunt force of the band with her guitar rhythms and serenades. Ingrid Racz, the blossoming blonde, is mistress of percussion with her African djembe and Irish bodhran. The raunchy redhead, Tahlia Racz, twangs the merry mandolin with sprinkles of fun. Together they perform with mesmerising harmonies, hauntingly playful melodies and a whole lotta girl power!

Friday 10:40 AM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Sunday 12:50 PM Merry Muse Monday 4:00 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Rafa Godoy Rafa Godoy combines his Venezuelan and Colombian heritage to do a homage album to his grandfather, well-known Colombian composer Rafael Godoy. Colombian and Venezuelan traditional music with a modern twist.

Friday 2:40 PM Saturday 2:10 PM Sunday 11:30 AM Sunday 2:30 PM

Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Trocadero Workshop 4 Troubadour

The Ranters The Ranters are a five-piece folk rock outfit performing Celtic based music on fiddle, accordion, bass, guitar and drums. They have been playing at festivals, functions, pubs and community dances around Tasmania for over ten years. Influences are The Pogues, The Waterboys, Flogging Molly and other Celtic folk rock acts over the past thirty years.

Friday 3:00 PM Trocadero Saturday 5:30 PM Budawang Sunday 2:10 PM Marquee

Rapskallion Rapskallion, the seven-piece Melbourne based musical outfit bring to you their unique blend of gypsy folk, vaudevillian romance and bent circus, served on a bed of lavish theatrics. They have travelled the world in search of tantalising tangos, perky polkas and whimsical waltzes, weaving it into a unique and original musical style. Incorporating strings and bows, reeds and rhythms, and quirky sultry vocals, Rapskallion will inspire madness with there accordion driven dance tunes.

Friday 10:30 PM Saturday 1:00 PM Saturday 8:30 PM Monday 5:10 PM

The Majestic The Majestic The Majestic The Majestic

Rebel Songwriters Forum and Concert

the hills, then sweep you off your feet with a jazzy little juke joint number. Come along and check out this diverse trio.

It’s not the responsibility of songwriters to stomp on the cockroaches, but simply to turn on the kitchen light and watch the little critters scurry! The Rebel Songwriters Forum and Concert provides a opportunity for those songwriters who stand up and speak out on issues near and dear to them, to gather together and share their songs and experiences.

Thursday Friday Saturday Monday

Friday 10:00 AM Saturday 10:00 AM Sunday 10:00 AM Monday 12:00 PM

9:40 PM 2:00 PM 1:20 PM 3:50 PM

Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Kids Festival

Building E Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Riley Lee and Jeff Peterson Jeff Peterson is a Grammy winning master guitarist and a kîhô’alu or slack key superstar in Hawai’i. Riley Lee is an internationally known Grand Master shakuhachi player. Together they create music from paradise. In 2009, their recording, Haleakalâ received the most prestigious Hawaiian music accolade, the Hoku Award for ‘Instrumental Album of the Year’. They have performed together in Australia only once before. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to relax with Jeff and Riley as they transport you to the Islands with their “timeless ‘nahenahe’ style Hawaiian music without peer”.

Friday 1:00 PM Saturday 10:20 AM Saturday 2:30 PM Sunday 12:30 PM Monday 1:00 PM

Budawang Budawang Coorong Trocadero Workshop 2

Roger Holmes

Sal Kimber and The Rollin’ Wheel Since her debut release ‘Sounds Like Thunder’ (2008), Sal Kimber and her band The Rollin’ Wheel’ have been gallivanting around the countryside offering their exciting take on Australian alt-country ‘n blues. Sounding rural and rootsy but with urban savvy, they regale audiences with tales of ghost towns, rebels and romance.

Friday 10:00 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Saturday 11:00 PM Fitzroy Monday 5:20 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Roger has been running the hymn singing section at the National since 1994, either in person or (once) by remote control.

Sunday 10:00 AM Singing Room

The Rooftop Revellers With well-honed close harmonies and a deep affection for music originating from the mountains, plains and cities of the USA during the 30’s and 40’s. The Rooftop Revellers bring you catchy little songs that are a joy to listen to. With two of its members originating from America, they will sing you a gripping story of lost Appalachian love in a minor key, and then lift you up with a cowboy song from ‘out West’. They will warm your heart with a wondrous a capella tune that is as old as

Performer Information Performance times are correct at time of printing but may be SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. Please check the daily program updates at venues or the Festival Office.

Sally Dastey Sally Dastey is one of the most talented and inspirational artists to come out of Australia. In 2002 Sally released her first solo album ‘Secrets to Keep’ after ten years of being one third of the highly successful, and critically acclaimed Tiddas. Her performance is uplifting, thoughtful and a joy to witness.

Saturday 8:00 PM Budawang Sunday 10:00 AM Trocadero Sunday 3:30 PM Mallee

Skip Sail Skip Sail is a truly wonderful guitarist with that rare ability to take the listener on a very intimate journey. He performs solo delta blues with a dash of old time hillbilly music in a relaxed and easy going manner that belie his mastery of the style. We welcome his return to the National.

Thursday 8:20 PM Friday 3:30 PM Saturday 11:20 AM Monday 10:00 AM

Friday 12:30 PM Trocadero Saturday 4:40 PM Fitzroy Sunday 10:00 AM Marquee

Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Troubadour Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Workshop 4

Soctor Deuss Shiny Bum Singers

Saoirse Saoirse performances offer their audience the opportunity to participate in both song, and spirit, with the addition of original songs, penned by Síle Coleman. Singing in English and in Irish, and harmonising beautifully, Saoirse have a unique combination of voices and instruments and they delight audiences wherever they perform. They weave their rich Celtic heritage through song, Irish tunes and dance.

Friday 7:50 PM Saturday 6:40 PM Sunday 11:30 AM Sunday 4:00 PM Monday 10:00 AM Monday 3:20 PM

Trocadero Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Workshop 3 Oasis Singing Room Trocadero

The Saruzu Quartet A fiery flamenco-tango-jazz ensemble, The Saruzu Quartet’s interpretation of the rich harmonies of Argentine tango, the wild improvisations of gypsy jazz and the fire and grace of flamenco, is exhilarating. Reminiscent of a 1920’s Paris cafe scene filtered through an edgy and contemporary sensibility, The Saruzu Quartet is a celebration of the musical passions of its members, renowned violinist Luke Moller, sensual flamenco dancer and fiery percussionist Simone Pope, ferociously cool jazz bass player Andrew Shaw and laid back guitar virtuoso Andrew Veivers.

Friday 6:00 PM Fitzroy Saturday 11:30 AM Workshop 2 Saturday 2:30 PM Coorong

The Shiny Bum Singers perform selfpenned parodies about their working life with over two hundred about work in general, public service life in particular, and the politics they serve. No subject in the workplace or any genre of song is safe from the group’s talented writers. Audiences sing along to choruses. They are visually and vocally entertaining with inspired lyrics, wacky humour and shambolic choreography. The Bums are crowd-pullers having broad appeal from children seeing adults at play, to the public seeing their bureaucrats unmasked.

Friday 10:00 AM Trocadero Sunday 3:00 PM Kids Festival Monday 11:30 AM Workshop 3

Rafe Morris and Drew Walky, two of Canberra’s sillier musicians have combined to form the extremely silly Soctor Deuss. It has harmonies! It has a moral! It has more rhymes than you can shake a Lorax at!

Friday 2:00 PM Saturday 12:00 PM Saturday 6:00 PM Sunday 6:00 PM

The Majestic The Majestic The Majestic The Majestic

Somesing Laik Zat Three Latvian chicks and a relevant Englishman weave a rich, exciting tapestry of sound to get your feet moving and put a smile on your face. Be prepared to travel to Latvia and other parts of “the continent”. Fiddles, double bass, recorder, accordion and voices will take you on a joyous journey of sound, where eclectic influences abound. The destination is merriment, the road is exciting, so get ready for Somesing Laik Zat !

Friday 4:20 PM Troubadour Sunday 12:00 PM Oasis Monday 5:50 PM Merry Muse

Silkweed Silkweed weave haunting instrumentals, soaring vocals and evocative lyrics to create a sound described at one festival as “silken magic”. Vocals, keyboard, cello, violin and flute with visuals and narrative form a journey of music and song with a real empathy for the stories of the people who have shaped this place. “Jane Franklin-An examined life” explores the life of Jane Franklin; diarist, explorer and wife of John Franklin; arctic explorer and one-time governor of Van Diemen’s Land. Silkweed take you on a journey through Jane’s life and times, exploring the multidimensional character of this intriguing and complex woman, who did indeed live in “interesting times.”

Friday 6:00 PM Trocadero Saturday 10:00 AM Trocadero

Stiff Gins Stiff Gins are one of Australia’s best known and most loved Indigenous acts. These two women combine their stunning harmonies and wicked humour to transport you to a world of joy, spirit and song.

Friday

12:00 PM Budawang

60 Friday 9:30 PM Trocadero Saturday 9:40 PM Marquee Monday 12:40 PM Fitzroy

String Theory String Theory is a newly formed band, that started out as a kind of good food and kitchen table music appreciation society. Based in Melbourne, they’re a young bunch with pretty eclectic musical backgrounds. They come together with fiddles, banjo, guitar, cello, Appalachian dulcimer, and sweet vocal harmonies, to serve you up some traditional American folk songs and tunes.

Thursday Friday Friday Monday

9:00 PM 1:20 PM 4:00 PM 2:00 PM

Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Kids Festival Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

Marjorie and Steve Gadd lead the Tasmanian Heritage Fiddle Ensemble. They are a large community-based fiddle ensemble dedicated to playing only Tasmanian music. The ensemble has been at the lead in the revival of traditional Tasmanian music for over a decade. The Music that this group plays is drawn from colonial composers between 1812 to 1860, the collected music of the AppleShed dance era 1850 to 1950, and music from other living and deceased Tasmanian composers and folk musicians.

Friday 11:30 AM Saturday 8:00 PM Sunday 9:00 AM Monday 10:00 AM

Tiffany Eckhardt Tiffany Eckhardt has been referred to as “Australia’s Sweetheart of Folk” though her music is a mix of folk, pop, roots and blues. A prolific songwriter, she has released six critically acclaimed albums and will be launching her seventh album ‘Sunday’ at the National Folk Festival this year with fellow musicians, partner Dave Steel and Sandy Brady to name a few.

Friday 1:20 PM Marquee Saturday 3:00 PM Fitzroy Sunday 1:20 PM Marquee

Building E Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Building E

Ted Egan

TaikOz This is the TaikOz credo: ‘to beat with every muscle, bone and sinew in our bodies, with an open and joyous spirit.’ With ancient practice at its core, TaikOz combines tradition with the latest contemporary compositions. Combining the visceral power of the taiko drums with the ethereal sound of the bamboo shakuhachi, TaikOz is exploring a synthesis of east and west, old and new.

Thursday 8:00 PM Friday 8:00 PM Saturday 12:30 PM Sunday 10:00 AM Sunday 8:00 PM Monday 5:40 PM

The Tasmanian Heritage Fiddle Ensemble

Budawang Budawang Oasis Workshop 4 Coorong Coorong

Ted needs no introduction to anyone in Australia. He has truly reached the position of Australian Music Icon. Ted returns to the Festival for part two of his Balls and Chains project. Along with some of Australia’s leading folk talent, Ted’s opus is starting to take shape. Don’t miss the big presentation on Sunday.

Friday 10:00 AM Saturday 12:00 PM Saturday 4:00 PM Sunday 7:00 PM

Workshop 2 Fitzroy Workshop 2 Budawang

Applications for the

2011 National Folk Festival Performer Applications will be available on our website from 1 June 2010. Applications close 31 July 2010.

Stalls Applications will be available on our website from 1 July 2010. Applications close 31 October 2010.

Volunteer Applications will be available on our website from 1 November 2010. www.folkfestival.asn.au Enquiries: phone 6262 4792

Tom McConville BBC Folk Musician of the Year 2009,Tom McConville, primarily known as The Newcastle Fiddle Player, is one of the leading fiddle players of our time. A virtuoso musician and fantastic singer, his rich and warm voice makes his interpretation of traditional and contemporary songs greatly admired by singers throughout the world. His live performances combine a roller-coaster of musical delights from fast, rhythmic dance tunes through to beautiful slow airs and of course, great singing, all presented with his inimitable sense of humour and style.

Friday 11:40 AM Saturday 2:20 PM Sunday 1:30 PM Monday 2:20 PM

Trocadero Budawang Fitzroy Troubadour

Triantan “Triantan are one of the foremost traditional based music groups on the Australian folk scene, their unique take on traditional music and song are a breath of fresh air.” Singing in Irish, Scots Gaelic and English – three voices, a capella. The two lads wear the traditional Scots plaid whilst Judy represents her Irish heritage. They seek to bring to life the oral tradition, telling stories in song from our ancient and modern past. Giving fresh life to our Celtic and Australian history.

Friday 10:10 PM Troubadour Saturday 10:00 AM Fitzroy Sunday 2:10 PM Troubadour

Trouble in the Kitchen Acclaimed as one of Australia’s most exciting and innovative trad-folk acts, Trouble in the Kitchen have earned their reputation over the past decade as world class performers of traditional Irish music. Their album ‘The Next Turn’ won the 2008 National Folk Recording Award, and also earned the band a Golden Fiddle at the 2009 Tamworth Music Festival. Having taken their sound to the world in recent years, Trouble make a welcome return to this year’s National Folk Festival. Trouble in the Kitchen consist of Ado Barker (fiddle and vocals), Ben Stephenson (flute, whistles and bodhran), Kate Burke (guitar and vocals) and Joe Ferguson (Irish bouzouki).

Friday 10:00 AM Saturday 10:00 PM Sunday 11:30 AM Sunday 1:30 PM Sunday 3:30 PM Sunday 4:00 PM Monday 1:00 PM

Fitzroy Budawang Workshop 2 Fitzroy Fitzroy Workshop 4 Building E

Monday

2:30 PM Building E

tin whistle, a fine guitarist, and the creator of the most bizarre and thoroughly daft patter between songs. 2010 brings the release of a documentary movie about Vin, ‘Teesside Troubadour’, also released on DVD. This Australian visit is the final leg of his year long international ‘Forty Years Of Successful Anonymity’ tour.

Friday 11:00 AM Fitzroy Sunday 10:30 AM Troubadour Sunday 12:20 PM Budawang Monday 1:00 PM Workshop 4

The Twine The Twine consists of Melani M and Damio Sun, who both play five instruments each, at once! So with limbs swinging in every direction, feet stomping, voices hollering, and fingers flying, we create 100% original music like nothing you have seen! With didgeridoo, flute, acoustic guitar, percussion, shakers, bells, xylophone, harmonica, symbols and sweet harmonies we guarantee there will be foot tapping, smiling faces, children dancing and everybody from age 1 to 101 years loving the wild contagious rhythms, and highly professional stage show.

Saturday 8:50 PM Sunday 11:40 AM Sunday 3:50 PM Monday 11:50 AM

Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Trocadero Kids Festival Troubadour

The VerandahCoots This trio from Tasmania love to sit on their verandah and play the old tunes just as their grandparents did. You can bring along your instrument and join them in session for some lively tunes from Tasmania’s past or put on your dancing shoes for some of the quirky and wonderful dances from the apple sheds and country halls of the past.

Monday

1:30 PM Mallee

Voices from the Vacant Lot Voices from the Vacant Lot is a 16-voice mixed choir, singing a wide repertoire of songs and choral works in conjunction with percussion. Voices have worked for twenty two years to build a diverse and powerful repertoire sourced from research and interaction with a wide range of musical cultures. Their original compositions reflect these influences and create a truly unique choral style.

Friday 10:50 AM Trocadero Friday 4:00 PM Singing Room Saturday 3:20 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle

The Volatinsky Trio

Vin Garbutt Vin Garbutt is the biggest draw card on the UK folk scene, a recipient of the BBC’s ‘Folk Entertainer of the Year’ award, and to many the most entertaining folk act of them all. Vin is an intensely passionate singer of both traditional and his own and other writer’s songs. He is a master of the

Three virtuoso players of cimbalom (Russian hammer dulcimer), guitar, domra (Russian mandolin) and cello combine in an exciting combination of original World Music. Trained in Odessa, Minsk and Kiev, The Volatinsky Trio have already recorded for the ABC and will release their debut album in 2010.

Friday 8:00 PM Marquee Saturday 11:00 AM Coorong Sunday 10:00 PM Trocadero

Vorn Doolette

Walking in Country

Vorn is a solo, acoustic alternative-folk musician, hailing from Adelaide town. Heavy with metaphor, his music is intricate, melodic and deeply poetic. Live performances are highly interactive and personal, and will inevitably carry audiences on a journey of emotion, reflection and humour.

Yarns of Maria Lock, Colebee, Yarramundi, Gombeeree and the Darug Clans stories. Songs and a pictorial presentation about my Aboriginal ancestors, the legacy they left and the place they hold in Australia’s early colonial history and today.

Friday 10:30 PM Marquee Saturday 11:20 PM Flute ‘n’ Fiddle Monday 4:50 PM Fitzroy

Watersons Concert

Voss A shifting horizon of acoustic and electric instruments, simple harmonies and honest songs performed by six musicians. Influenced by the Australian landscape, music and the colonial myth. Sincere, sometimes rough folk rock music with a strong literary turn.

Friday 3:00 PM The Majestic Saturday 5:00 PM The Majestic

Saturday 12:30 PM Trocadero

The Watersons were a hugely influential group from Hull in Yorkshire, who performed traditional songs with little or no accompaniment. Maggie Murphy and Danny Watson lead a cast of some of the best singers in the country in this tribute concert to this extraordinary group.

Friday 4:00 PM Building E Saturday 7:30 PM Trocadero

The Whitetop Mountaineers All the way from Virginia, USA, The Whitetop Mountaineers are not to be missed. The duo performs American old time, bluegrass and mountain music. They are both exceptional instrumentalists and close harmony singers. Jackson plays guitar, mandolin and clawhammer banjo, while Martha plays fiddle, guitar, banjo and performs exhilarating high steppin’ dancing. This duo are often described as ‘the real deal’ and return to Australia by popular demand. They also bring with them their latest album ‘Home On The Mountain’.

Friday 11:00 AM Friday 1:20 PM Saturday 11:00 AM Sunday 2:00 PM

Coorong Oasis Fitzroy Coorong

Wheeze and Suck Band Festival favourites from Woodford to Auckland, the Wheeze and Suck Band have been entertaining audiences for over twelve years with their eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary English based music. With their stunning 4-part harmonies and their energetic dance tunes they are the quintessential festival band.

Friday 9:40 PM Marquee Sunday 11:00 AM Fitzroy Monday 10:00 AM Coorong

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Silent Auction - Festival Quilt

Each year, Carolyn Griffin creates a magnificent quilt for the National Folk Festival. This quilt is auctioned to help raise money for our Volunteer Services. This years quilt is a more traditional design. Colours are blues and greens. The name of the quilt is “Birds on a Wire” – a fun quilt consisting of birds in cages, ducks and a crane. If you would like to become the proud owner of this wonderful work of art, make your bid and leave it with the Festival Office. The Auction closes at 3pm on Monday 13 April and the successful bidder will be able to take the quilt home with them. NOTE: The auction sale is subject to the Reserve Price being achieved.

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useful information - opening times Bars:

Coopers Bar: Thursday 6pm-1am; Friday-Monday 10:30am-1:00am Flute ‘n’ Fuddle Wine Bar: Thursday 6pm-11:30pm; Friday-Monday 10:30am-11:30pm Session Bar: Wednesday 6pm-10pm; Thursday 5:30pm-3:30am; Friday-Monday 12 noon-3:30am troubadour Bar: Hours advertised at venue Village Wine Bar: Friday-Sunday 11am-1:30am; Monday 11am-5pm

TICKET OFFICES:

Pre-Festival Entry: Wells Station Road - Mon 29th - Wed 31st 9am-5pm Wells Station Road: Thursday 11am-midnight; Friday-Sunday 8am-11pm; Monday 8am-6pm Flemington Road: Thursday 11am-11pm; Friday-Sunday 8am-11pm; Monday 8am-6pm

Festival Office:

Setup: (Mon 29th-Wed 31st) 9am-5pm Festival: Thursday 1st 8am-midnight; Friday-Monday 8am-11pm

Lost Property:

Thursday 5pm-8pm; Friday-Sunday 9am-9pm; Monday 9am-11pm; Tuesday 9am-5pm

Festival Shop:

Friday-Sunday 9am-9pm; Monday 9am-5pm

Internet cafe:

Friday-Monday: 10am-noon and 2pm-4pm

campers mini-store:

Wednesday 31st March - Monday 5 April: 7:30am-2:00pm

Useful Information Emergency assistance: A 24-hour Communications Centre operates on site from Thursday 1 April to Monday 5 April. Please phone 6230 7118 if you need urgent assistance. The Comms Centre will coordinate assistance for medical or other emergencies and Stewards are on site to deal with offensive behaviour, underage drinking, theft, vandalism, excessive noise in campgrounds etc. All 000 emergency calls must also be accompanied by a call to our Comms Centre to ensure accurate directions for emergency vehicle access For non‑urgent issues, please see the Festival Office on 6241 9312 between 8am and midnight.

Conditions of Entry • Festival wristbands must be worn at all times from 8am Monday 29 March. • No pets allowed on site (Assistance Animals excepted – See Disability Facilities)) • Offensive behaviour, underage drinking, theft and vandalism will result in removal from site without a refund.

Disability SERVICES (Ph 0406 375 694) A Disability Services is located just inside the Flemington Road Ticket Office entrance (past the turnstiles). Parking: Note: Government issued stickers MUST be displayed • Adjacent to the Wells Station Road Ticket Office. • Behind Quokka Pavilion. Access is via the Wells Station Road main entrance. Wheelchairs: • A limited number of wheelchairs are available for four-hourly loans. See Disability Services for bookings. • There are limited facilities for recharging electric wheelchairs. Contact Disability Services for more information. General: • Budawang, Coorong and Fitzroy have a Hearing Loop. • Guide dogs can be watered and toileted in an area adjacent to the Media Centre. • Assistance animals must be registered with Disability Services Toilet Facilities with Wheelchair Access: Cotter Campground, Fitzroy Pavilion, Conference Centre, Coorong, Kosciuszko Pavilion and the Budawang. Shower Facilities with Wheelchair Access: Fitzroy, Kosciuszko and Coorong Pavilions. Note: Building E, Childcare and the Long Room in the Coorong Pavilion have NO DISABILITY ACCESS.

Festival Office (Ph 6241 9312) Opening hours 8am-midnight, Thursday to Monday.

• Sound/video recordings are not permitted without prior written consent from the Managing Director.

Festival Shop

• Footwear must be worn at all times on the Festival site.

Hours are 9am to 9pm (except Monday 9am to 5pm).

Bike Minding

First Aid

A bike rack facility is operated by Pedal Power near the turnstiles at the Flemington Road Ticket Office. We recommend that patrons bring their own bike locks for added security.

St John Ambulance is located in front of Building E – (see map inside the back cover).

Breakfast There is no Campers Breakfast facility this year. A number of food stalls will open early each day to serve breakfast and some grocery items are available at the Campers Mini-Store.

Camping A Camping Zone vehicle pass is required for vehicle access to the camping areas after checking in at Gate 7, (Wells Station Road). The Festival does not guarantee powered sites. Performers will need a Performer Camping vehicle pass to access the designated Performer Camping areas.

Internet Access Limited internet access is available at the Media Centre from 10am-noon and 2-4pm each day.

Kids and the Kids Festival We aim to provide a safe environment for families. Patrons at the National are advised that: 1. Parents/guardians are responsible for their child(ren) at all times whilst on site. 2. Children under 12 should be accompanied by a responsible carer.

Childcare

3. The Kids Festival is an entertainment venue and NOT a child‑minding facility.

Located in the Pelican Room (upstairs in the Coorong Pavilion).

4. Children are expected to behave in a manner that is not threatening or disruptive to other participants.

Cost: Charges are $5.00 per hour per child (maximum of four hours at a time) and is available from noon to 8pm (Friday to Monday). Space is limited and booking is recommended.

Cash Out Facility A cash out facility on EFTPOS cards is available at the Ticket Offices: Friday - Sunday: 11am–3pm and 6pm–11pm Monday: 11am–6pm Monday and the Festival Shop during opening hours ($20 minimum, $300 maximum. There is a $3 charge per transaction). There is NO ATM on site.

5. A child whose behaviour is considered to be anti-social will be asked to leave the Kids Festival. 6. Alcohol and smoking are not permitted in the Kids Festival area.

Laundry A coin operated laundry is located in the Cotter Campground (north of Arena) – bring your own detergent.

Licensed Bars

Shuttle Bus and Bikes

Festival bars are conducted strictly according to ACT licensing regulations. It is an offence to sell or supply liquor to anyone who is intoxicated or under 18 years of age.

A Shuttle Bus Service operates between the Main Ticket Office and the Entertainment Zone. There are also Shuttle Bikes (??) available for use if you want to save some greenhouse gases.

Underage drinking will not be tolerated and offenders will have their wristband removed and asked to leave the site.

Security and Stewards

Due to ACT Government legislation ALL BARS AND INDOOR AREAS ARE SMOKE-FREE.

Our Festival Stewards and other authorised persons ultimately have the right to evict people from the site. If they ask you to show them your wristband or age ID they are simply doing their job, so please assist them. They can usually be identified by their fluro vest and will have a “Stewards” badge.

An outdoor area has been provided for smokers outside the Session Bar.

Lost Children and Property Report all lost children to and claim all found children from the Festival Office or to our site Stewards (look for the fluro vests). Why not have the Festival Office as a Meeting Place and print your mobile number on their wristband? Lost Property can be claimed or reported between 9am and 9pm in the Ningaloo Room (upstairs from the Festival Office).

Messages A Message Board is located on the wall outside the Festival Office for messages. We take no responsibility for messages being received.

Noise Curfews A noise curfew will apply to ALL camping areas after midnight. Anyone wishing to ‘party on’ after 12 midnight will be asked to move to the Entertainment Zone area, preferably at the Session Bar or Majestic. Complaints regarding excessive noise should be referred to Stewards. Offenders will be given ONE warning. Repeat offenders will have their wristband removed and asked to leave the site. Licensed Security and/or Police will be called if necessary.

Performer Applications 2011 2011 Performer Applications will be available from 1 June – 31 July on the Festival website.

Phones There is one public phone on site located near the Henley Pavilion.

Recycling and Waste Management Special bins have been provided for you to dispose of waste into bins labelled “recyclable”, “compostable” and “non-recyclable”. Please assist our efforts to make this Festival a waste-wise event by properly using the facilities provided. We have a team of volunteers who keep the Festival site as clean as possible. Please assist them by using the bins provided and remove your refuse from concert and workshop venues.

There are 24-hour uniformed security personnel stationed at the gates near both Ticket Offices and roving through the campgrounds and entertainment areas. Patrons should note that the outside car parks (although generally lit at night) are NOT regularly patrolled and we strongly urge you not to leave valuables in your car.

Supermarket A limited variety of products will be available from onsite from the Campers Mini-Store. Watson has the closest local shops and Dickson has a good shopping centre including a major supermarket. There are buses to Dickson which depart from outside the Flemington Road Ticket Office daily. The Shell service station has closed.

Transport ACTION buses go to Civic from outside the Flemington Road gates. Bus maps and timetables are located at the Festival Office. Services 956 and 958 run to and from EPIC until about 7.30pm each night, until midnight on Saturday – Route 956 is the quickest. On Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Easter Monday we have ordered special free buses to run on the hour at 8pm, 9pm, 10pm and 11pm – from EPIC to the City then Belconnen and then back to EPIC – route maps can be found at EPIC bus stops and the Festival Office.

Volunteers This Festival runs almost entirely on volunteers who appreciate a helping hand. If you would like to be part of the Volunteer Team, see the Volunteer Top Up Team located in the foyer of the Conference Centre building (adjacent to the Festival Office) – thanks!

Help – When All Else Fails There will be people around the site who can help you. They will have name tags around their necks or fluro vests. They will be pleased to offer whatever assistance they can (providing you’re nice to them!).

Portable toilets MUST NOT be emptied into garbage bins – use the black water dump points or toilets. Clean up after yourselves – please!

Safety Guidelines • Please notify a Festival Steward (wearing a fluro vest), the Festival Office or our Comms Centre if you find sharp objects or other hazardous material – never touch needles. We can arrange for their removal. • Children should be supervised at all times. • Please report medical and other emergencies to Stewards, the Festival Office or other identifiable Festival persons – or ring 000. • Do not leave personal items unattended or on the floor during concerts.

This year we have managed to secure a campers mini-store to be available to campers onsite at the National. The Mini-Store is located in the German Dog Shepherd Club, between the Main Gate and the Cotter Campground. Please see program map for location. Opening Hours: 7:30am – 2pm from Wed 31 March – Mon 5 April. Products on sale will be: Milk, Bread, Juice, Eggs, Bacon, Pasta, Coffee, Water & Ice. Meat, Fruits & Vegetables will also be available by order only, please contact Gary 0421 704 844 to place your order. Prices are available at the Campers Mini Store, Ticket Offices or the Info Booth onsite. You can also view prices online at www.folkfestival. asn.au. Please note however prices are subject to a 10% surcharge for Public Holiday service.