2 Next Festival 18-20 October 2024
to our sponsors and supporters
Thanks
Festival Information
Acknowledgement of Country
The festival acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which our festival takes place, their Elders past, present and emerging, their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of our region.
Thank You
A big thank you to the following supporters of the Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival
Shoalhaven City Council
Jaqualine Lenz, Showground Caretaker
KV A&H Society
Osborne Park Committee
Edmiston Jones Architects
Jing Jo Café Restaurant
Glenmack Park
Kangaroo Valley Chamber of Tourism & Commerce
Kangaroo Valley Voice
Kangaroo Valley Public School
The Friendly Inn
St Joseph’s Church
Church of the Good Shepherd
Randall Sinnamon, KVFF Resident Artist
Mike Gorman, Kangaroo Valley Electrical
KV residents who billet performers
Noise
We need to consider residents who live close to the showground and have a right to a good night’s sleep. Please keep sessions after midnight reasonably quiet, with definitely NO DRUMMING. Quiet sessions around the campfire at Glenmack Park will be allowed, but please consider other campers.
Camping
Please note that camping is not allowed in the showground, apart from performers, volunteers and stallholders. Anyone who is not booked in at Glenmack can go to Bendeela, where camping is free and there are no
official noise restrictions. A free shuttle bus runs to and from Bendeela on Saturday.
Keeping It Green
Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival is aiming to be the Greenest Folk Festival in Oz. Choose your own china cup from the rack for your coffee. When returned it will be washed and reused. Free water will be provided (no need to buy those pesky bottles that get used once). Bring along your water bottle or buy one of our exclusive KVFF bottles to use throughout the festival. The bar will have re-useable middy's and wine glasses, getting rid of single use cups! Kangaroo Valley is Australia's first mainland plastic bag free town. Let's make it a waste free festival.
Alcohol
Our liquor licence is restricted to the fenced off bar area. Consumption of alcohol is not allowed in the venues or anywhere else in the showground. Please do not bring your own supplies into the showground.
First Aid
There is a first aid post in the Committee Room next to the Bar. In an emergency phone 0473 373 024
Smoke Free Festival
Smoking and vaping is not permitted anywhere on the festival site.
Dogs
Dogs are allowed in the festival site, but please do not bring them into venues, assistance dogs
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excepted. Ensure they are on a lead and supervised at all times. Do not leave dogs tied up outside venues since they can easily become distressed.
Parking
Patrons are encouraged to use the off-street parking provided in the dog show area of the showground. The entrance is through the public car park next to the police Station. If all the parking in the main street is taken up with festival-goers, it can affect local shopkeepers.
Access to Oval
To avoid the steep steps, the venues on the oval can be accessed via breaks in the fence just below the La Petite Grande and along the road to the Pony Club, the “yellow brick road”.
Festival Shop
Festival t-shirts and other merchandise are on sale at the shop, between the Bar and the Pavilion. Performers will be selling their own CDs at the venues.
Outdoor Gospel Service
An hour of southern USA gospel singing, led by a visiting singer. People will be invited to sing along to some songs. It's free and all are welcome to attend.
Good Shepherd Anglican Church opposite primary school, Sunday 10am
Poets’ Breakfast
8am Saturday & Sunday in The Wombat
Reciter of the Year
Competition for the best performance of a poem (original, contemp0rary, freeform or traditional). This is a walk up event, see Allan Stone to enter. The winner will receive custody of a beautiful hand crafted red cedar trophy for one year, a certificate and two weekend passes to come back and judge next year's winner.
Saturday 11.30am La Petite Grande
Poets’ Brawl
Geebungs
vs Cuff & Collar
See Allan Stone to join a team
Sun 11.30am La Petite Grande
The Happy Nest—Blackboard
The Nordic Tipi Tent on the oval is our dedicated venue for youth and adult blackboard performers, plus yoga, meditation and other surprises. See some up-and-coming young talent or add your name to the blackboard.
Koori Camp
Indigenous performers and activities all weekend at Sam’s Caravan on the oval. It’s also the venue for the Kids’ Festival .
Dance Till You Drop
Dance workshops in the Hall all weekend and dances every night.
Ukulele Muster & Singalong
in the Pavilion, Saturday and Sunday morning at 8.30,am - aiming for 24 songs each day. You don't need a uke, you can just sing or whistle or bring your kazoo or other appropriate instrument (maybe a mouth trumpet). Sheet music supplied.
Tai Chi with Pamela
8am Saturday and Sunday in the Hall.
Saplings Sessions
Youth musicians (about 8 – 18) experienced to beginners, bring your instruments, and come and have some fun learning Australian tunes and songs, or learn some percussion. Expert tutors will be there to help you no matter what level you play at. Music available or play by ear.
Sat & Sun 11am on the Verandah
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Workshops In the Pony Club
Old Words, New Music
Chloe & Jason Roweth share their joy in bringing pieces together musically and thematically, riffs and dance tunes running under poems and expanding into songs, until the sum is somehow greater than its parts. A workshop for reciters looking to integrate music in and/or around their poems, and musicians interested in setting to music or accompanying spoken word.
Sat 10am
Songwriting - Simple & Concise
With over 30 years as a touring musician and a professional school teacher, Luke O’Shea has that special knack of explaining and condensing complex concepts - into a simplistic, concise and entertaining nutshell.
Sat 11am
Harmony & Humour
The Other Noonans will go through methods of developing harmony as well as how it can be used to imply/enhance humour in music.
Sat 12pm
Harmonica Talk
Do you want to play The Blues Harmonica? Come and blow your heart out with C.D Lyons, experienced harmonica educator and performer.
Sat 1pm
Using Guitar Pedals
Benji from The Saltwater Sound System uses a dazzling array of pedals on stage. What do they all do?
Sat 2pm
Write a Song in 50 Minutes
An intensive and fun group songwriting experience, facilitated by Daniel J Townsend
Sat 3pm
Learn Some New Tunes
With Tunique. Contemporary compositions and arrangements of folk tunes and songs
presented by the composers themselves. Sheet music supplied.
Sat 4pm
Improv Comedy
for beginners with Rob Barratt, comic poet from the UK.
Sat 5pm
The Heart of Collaborative Songwriting
With Baggage & Stuff. Do's and Don't's of writing partnerships.
Sun 10am
Sing for Your Tucker
Come and have a singalong with the Tuck Shop Ladies and experience the wonderous feeling of singing harmonies as part of a group. Explore the differing effects of low versus high harmonies, thirds, fifths, sixths and more.
Sun 11am
Traditional Songs with Sontaneous Harmonies
Sing traditional chorus songs with Andsome Friends who will offer insights into how spontaneous harmonies come about.
Sun 12pm
Country Yodelling
in traditional and modern Americana with Mischa Vickas.
Sun 1pm
Techniques of the Great American Songwriters
George Mann delves into songwriting techniques through the example of songs such as Woody Guthrie's "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Ya" to show how a good folk song works
Sun 2pm
Turning the Insight Out
Songwriting & performing on the spectrum with Joshua Batten.
Sun 3pm
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Performers
Aljamia
is a recently founded dance, fire arts and music collective inspired by medieval Europe and La Convivencia. Songs and dances from the golden age of Islam and Judaism, Christian musician kings, visionary saints, anonymous minstrels and street performers. Aljamía takes
Austral
Winners at the 2022 Australian Folk Music Awards, Austral are a high-energy, four-piece Australian tunes band combining didgeridoo, Irish pipes, high energy fiddling, journeying songs and energetic foot percussion. Whether you see them on stage or at the session afterwards, Austral will get your festival going.
HUP!
Friday 8.20pm Marquee
Saturday 12.30pm Marquee
Saturday 8.40pm Marquee
Sunday 1pm Happy Nest
Sunday 3.10pm Marquee
you on a journey to a forgotten and erased past of multiculturalism, wisdom and beauty. We will take you on a medieval journey throughout centuries and continents. Together as a collective, we bring to the stage a Dance & Fire show, with live music.
Saturday 11.20am Marquee
Saturday 9.50pm Pavilion
Sunday 10.30am Marquee
Andsome Friends
is a vocal group performing original compositions and arrangements. Whether a suite of Irish slip jigs with witty Australian lyrics, a traditional chorus song, jazz number, or a mash up of 1960s tv themes, our music has something for almost every taste. We’ re people who have songs.
Saturday 9.20am Marquee
Saturday 4.40pm La Petite Grande
Sunday 12pm Pony Club
Sunday 3pm St Josephs Church
Baggage & Stuff
Men With Day Jobs have teamed up with Aubrey & Purton. Their originals run a wide gamut of genres, tempos, moods and subjects. They share a passion for music and life in general, a concern for people and the wider world, a feeling for Sydney’s many stories, and a sense of humour that manages to be both sharp and daggy.
Friday 4.50pm Marquee
Saturday 10.20am Pavilion
Saturday 7pm Wombat
Sunday 10am Pony Club
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The Beez
A yodellin´, thigh slappin’, lederhosen wettin´ dancefest of German flavoured music and comedy. Thrill to comic classics from Rammstein to Kraftwerk; tear off that dirndl and shake a tailfeather to teutonified Oz Rock classics from Oils to Icehouse but, most of all, be entertained - that´s an order!
Saturday 1.50pm Pavilion
Saturday 11pm Marquee
Sunday 12pm Wombat
Benji and the Saltwater Sound System
fuse pacific flavours with jazz, reggae, world folk and African roots to create hypnotic
In the dark days of 2004, the Australian Morris dancing scene was capering towards a doleful grave. When Lo! Black Joak Morris was born. A wailing infant crying for a small beer, come to revive the old dances and imbue them with vigour and youthfulness. With their distinctive bells and ribbons, they perform at festivals far and wide, drinking beer and spreading cheer.
Saturday 12pm Hall
Sunday 12.20pm Hall
Around the festival and the village
Blighty’s Revenge
Not your bog standard builders tea! Our seriously good dance band invites you to step out to newly composed dances and a few old favourites from the dance halls of Canberra and beyond. This is Ceilidh dancing with an English accent where the new and old collide to bring frolicking good fun. Dance to some of the latest tunes coming out of the UK dance scene. Madness and mayhem is mandatory!
The Blues Preachers
lyrics that Ben has become known for and you can't help but expect something special from this line-up.
Friday 9.30pm Marquee
Saturday 2pm Pony Club
Saturday 6.20pm Pavilion
Sunday 12.50pm Marquee
Black Joak Morris
will take you to another place and time, somewhere between 1920 and 1940. They perform a fusion of good old blues, rags, gospel and hillbilly folk. Driving finger-style and slide-guitar, combined with tasteful harmonica and oldschool vocal harmonies, create a traditional sound that will have you on the edge of your seats.
Friday 8.50pm La Petite Grande
Saturday 1pm Pony Club
Saturday 5.10pm Marquee
Sunday 3pm Pavilion
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Brodie Buttons
is a true Australian character who lives and breathes folk music traditions in his daily life. Pulling old songs and new from a camp by the river with a voice scratchy but sure, his songs distill an essence of our land that has been largely drowned out by the hum of progress and modernity.
Saturday 10am St Josephs Church
Saturday 5.10pm Pavilion
Sunday 1.10pm La Petite Grande
The Bush Music Club will host join-in sessions of Australian collected songs and tunes. Song/tune books sup-
plied.
Saturday 10am Bar (Aussie tunes)
Sunday 10am Bar (Aussie tunes)
Sunday 12pm Bar (Aussie songs)
Casuarina Light Phenomenon
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is George, Tegan and friends. They are a product of where they have walked, picking up pieces of the world’s music on their journeys, ranging from South American influence to Fijian reggae to good old fashioned 70s folk & rock. The toe tapping team with their rhythm and rhymes stir nostalgic feelings of light and happy times.
Saturday 9.20am Koori Camp
Saturday 9.20pm Wombat
Sunday 11.30am Pavilion
Cherry MaMalade
Jackee B, a singer/songwriter, along with the band Cherry MaMalade, plays a selection of groovy, fun and quirky dance tunes. Their lyrics and arrangements include some soul searching storytelling.
Saturday 9.50pm Marquee
Sunday 1.10pm Wombat
new and old Australian material presented with easy and confident warmth from the stage.
Friday 5.20pm La Petite Grande
Saturday 10am Pony Club
Saturday 2.20pm Wombat
Sunday 3.30pm Wombat
The ChOOks
are 2 feisty Melbourne birds, Wendy Ealey & Moira Tyers. They’re a multi-instrumentalist duo who have been collaborating since 2005 playing to audiences across Australia- in true troubadour tradition they continue ruffling their musical feathers up the Hume Highway to bring you folk,blues n golden standards. Come along- promise you won’t be disappointed!
Friday 3.40pm Marquee
Saturday 10.20am La Petite Grande
Saturday 3pm St Josephs Church
Sunday 3.30pm La Petite Grande
have been researching and presenting the living tradition of Australian music for over twenty-five years, forging unique combinations of music, poetry and folklore. They bring you powerful and delicate songs, room stopping recitations, seamless combinations of
An AFMA-nominated storysinger, celebrated poet and awardwinning educator, Townsend has a head full of stories, a soul old enough to have lived them and a heart young enough to believe in their power to move us.
Saturday 3pm Pony Club
Saturday 7.30pm Pavilion
Sunday 1pm St Josephs Church
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Daniel J Townsend
Dela Ensemble
is a Persian classical music band, whose aim is to introduce the traditional/classical music of Iran. This music relies on both improvisation and composition and is based on a series of modal scales and tunes. Compositions can vary immensely from start to finish.
Friday 9.10pm Pavilion
Saturday 2.50pm Marquee
Sunday 9.20am Marquee
and be wooed into the land of love and romance. Kim Hair’s soulful vocals and theatrical stage presence, the international skill of accordionist Milo Bros and the versatility of Moira Lawry on the Celtic harp bring all the flavours of Paris to the village of Kangaroo Valley.
Saturday 3pm Koori Camp
Sunday 12.20pm Koori Camp
The Djaarmby Band
blend traditional sounds and original lyrics to create their brand of Ozrock. Yidaki, clack stix and boomerangs meet guitars and drums; punctuated by hypnotic chants and catchy melodies.
Friday evening Koori Camp
Saturday 6pm Koori Camp
The Drifting Doolagahls
Is a 6 piece Koori band established in 2012 from the South Coast of NSW, playing a deadly mix of covers & originals.
Friday evening Koori Camp
Saturday 4.50pm Koori Camp
Saturday evening Koori Camp
Felicity Dowd
Dhawaari Dance Group
is from Vincentia High School. They perform with pride and passion, presenting an outstanding showcase of traditional dance stories from the Yuin Nation
has always believed a song is only as good as its story. A full-time troubadour emerging from the Far South Coast, Felicity uses her acoustic performances to tell stories of the world around her. Inspired by an eclectic and -changing landscape of influences, her music is diverse, drifting between the boundaries of genre. Don’t miss seeing this young storyteller in her element!
Friday 9.50pm Wombat
Saturday 5.50pm La Petite Grande
Sunday 9.10am La Petit Grande
Diva and the Harp with Milo
Come on an evocative and entertaining musical journey with Diva and The Harp plus Milo
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George Mann
is a songwriter's folksinger, just as happy singing the songs of his mentors as his own powerful stories. He's a walking jukebox with a strong focus on labour history and songs of struggle, a former union organiser and activist based in New York (USA).
Friday 3.20pm Pavilion
Saturday 8.10pm La Petite Grande
Sunday 2pm Pony Club
Glenn Skuthorpe
With 7 highly regarded albums and music featured in movies and documentaries such as The Emu Runner and John Pilger’s Utopia, Nhunggabarra, Kooma, Muruwari man and international touring singer-songwriter Glenn Skuthorpe is a powerful lyricist and composer who gives voice to those whose stories must be heard.
Friday 7.40pm La Petite Grande
Saturday 6.20pm Marquee
Sunday 10.20am Pavilion
Sunday 1.40pm Koori Camp
with their love of storytelling through music, humour and four-part harmony.
Friday 10.20pm Pavilion
Saturday 1.10pm Wombat
Saturday 7.30pm Marquee
s a buzz about Great Aunt: theirs is an eclectic and joyous approach to making music. Raw and austere, simple and bold; with stomping feet and clapping hands, chants and harmonies, Megan Bird and Chelsea Allen sing stories of joy and grief, whiskey and wine, gratitude and purpose-seeking.
Friday 8.40pm Wombat
Saturday 1pm St Josephs Church
Sunday 2.20pm La Petite Grande
The Humbuckin' Pickups
Wielding guitars, dobros, banjos, double bass and mandolins the quartet will draw you in
Isabel Rumble invites listeners into a cocoon of reflection on the subtleties of love, nature and human relationships. Drawing upon a strong folk roots influence, Rumble offers a contemporary sound likened to Laura Marling and Mazzy Star. Isabel released her debut album, Bird Be Brave in March this year.
Friday 5.10pm Wombat
Saturday 2.20pm La Petite Grande
Sunday 1.50pm Pavilion
J.J.Spence Band
Brought together through African drumming classes, J.J. Spence band’s essence and foundation was built through the shared love and interest of traditional African rhythm. They have created a refreshing, soulful sound that draws inspiration from a wide variety of genres extending from World Music, Folk, through to Desert Blues n’ Roots. They deliver a heartfelt, grounded performance with focus on hypnotic grooves that will be sure to uplift your spirits.
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Friday 10.40pm Marquee
Saturday 10.30pm Wombat
Sunday 10.50am Wombat
Jim Williams
has been teaching Bavarian dancing for over 20 years. He lived in Bavaria, southern Germany, for almost 10 years and has over the years collected dances that are danced in Bavaria on a regular basis.
Saturday 9am Hall
JOCEAN
The crazy cool cats duo, "JOCEAN" from Shellharbour are always super keen to play up a storm. It's a mixed bag of super fun acoustic indie-folk, folk-rock, soul, funk & blues. So strap on your dancin' shoes, hang onto your hats & get ready to stomp & clap!!! They've got the good vibes, & good music times, on tap.
Friday Koori Camp
Saturday 1.30pm Koori Camp
Joshua Batten
is a modern-day troubadour, using music as his language to connect with his audience. Based in Melbourne, Batten's personal brand of Alternative Roots Rock is characterised by passionate vocals, accomplished guitar playing, layered arrangements and insightful lyrics. Drawing on personal experience, his music provides both an escape and perspective in a complex world.
Friday 6.30pm La Petite Grande
Saturday 11.30am Pavilion
Saturday 4pm St Josephs Church
Sunday 3pm Pony Club
Kiama Sea Shanty Club
is on a mission to celebrate and sing the songs of the sea and keep them alive for the next generation. These songs are connected to the sailors of the oceans from many different cultures over many centuries. Some land shanties have also crept into their repetoire. They can't wait to sing loud and strong and have some fun with the good people at Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival. Ahoy!
Saturday 5.30pm Bar
Sunday 2pm Bar
Kira Dowling & Stringfiddle
Scottish Country Dance Workshop with Kira Dowling and Stringfiddle. Come and experience the fun of Scottish Country Dancing! This introductory workshop will include dances to delight both newer and more experienced dancers alike. Experienced Scottish Country Dance teacher Kira Dowling will lead you through reels and jigs with brilliant tunes played by Bob McInnes and Jane Ellis of Stringfiddle.
Saturday 10.30am Hall
Leanne & Riley
perform original songs that are woven together with didge, guitar, piano and song.
Sunday 2.20pm Koori Camp
Liam Matika
Local talent from Ulladulla.
Sunday 1pm Koori Camp
Lucky Jim is a Canberra based musician, storyteller and
silliness.
Saturday 10.20am Koori Camp
Saturday 1pm Happy Nest
Sunday 10.30am Koori Camp
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Luke O’Shea
Somewhere between John Williamson and Midnight Oil you will find the 16 x Golden Guitar recipient – Luke O’Shea - carrying on the ancient tradition of singing up country! Luke proves to be a powerful link between the old and new, a master storyteller who draws inspiration from the heartbreaking and the humorous.
Friday 7.30pm Wombat
Saturday 11am Pony Club
Saturday 4pm Marquee
Sunday 11.40am Marquee
Luke Robinson
With carefully-crafted lyrics and a rich bass voice accompanied by acoustic guitar, Luke’ s rousing anthems, contemplative ballads and comical compositions range from our First Peoples to refugees, larrikins to mongrels, military misadventures to the war on drugs, fracking, farming, coal, climate change, corona and other themes of Australian life and politics. Be sure not to miss this powerful voice for a better Australia.
Sat 5.30pm Hall
Sat 11pm Pavilion
Sun 11.30am La Petite Grande (Poets’ Brawl)
Margaret & Bill Winnett
simply love dancing and teaching Irish dancing. Margaret has been Irish dancing since 1957 and Bill since 1964. They have travelled to Ireland almost yearly since 1989, researching and collecting the dances they teach. Their workshops are fun filled and informative and have everyone enjoying themselves and ready to join in at the Céilí.
Saturday 2.30pm Hall
Saturday 8.45pm Hall
Matt Joe Gow & Kerryn Fields
With multiple awards to their names and thousands of miles between them, Matt Joe Gow and Kerryn Fields are bonafide masters of their craft who share a natural chemistry as songwriters and fellow troubadours. No matter where they are, Aotearoa is firmly at the heart of the music they create, their connection to home and one another gives depth to their storytelling and their songs, a sense of place and purpose.
Friday 6pm Marquee
Mayfair Lane
consists of couple Rhys and Esther Duursma who combined individual projects to explore an indie-folk sound together. Their sweet harmonies, crafted story-songs and inviting folk style make this married couple a duo worth
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listening to and journeying with.
Friday 4pm Wombat
Saturday 1.40pm Marquee
Saturday 7pm La Petite Grande
Sunday 9.20am Koori Camp
Maypole with Molly
Enjoy sharing music and dance with kids. Their interactive and energetic dance sessions encompass music from Mozart along with Austrian influences from accordionist Erika Cleaver (Molly). Adults are invited to join the kids to create intricate ribbon patterns around the maypole or play percussion. No experience needed!
Saturday 11.10am Oval
Sunday 11.10am Oval
Meremba
Intricate guitar and rich sonic piano-scapes form the basis of this group’s original music. Their Americana and Celtic roots are a subtle aftertaste in their thoughtful explorations of love, loss and the human connection. Laura’ s “spine-tingling” compositions combine with Susie’ s “beautiful sound full of storytelling” and results in their truly unique sound.
Friday 6.50pm Pavilion
Saturday 4.40pm Wombat
Mischa Vickas
is a Sydney-based folk and country musician. He pulls together a three-octave vocal range, guitar, clawhammer banjo and harmonica to croon high lonesome weepers, forgotten outlaw gems and late-night cattle calls. He draws on songs from a library of traditional and modern Americana, as well as a growing collection of original music.
Friday 5.40pm Pavilion
Saturday 9.20pm La Petite Grande
Sunday 1pm Pony Club
Mudjingaal Yangamba Choir
Mudjingaal Yangamba means Spirit Singing in Dhurga, one of the original languages spoken on the South Coast. Mudjingaal Yangamba is a Koori women's choir revitalising language through song. Bringing together Elders, Aunties sisters and young ones, embracing traditional Aboriginal language through music and song.
Saturday 12.30pm Koori Camp
Saturday 2pm Pavilion
The Other Noonans
blend political satire, parody, environmental justice and more with harmony and musicali-
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ty. Oh and they're both blind so don't expect any dancing! What you can expect however is humour, banter, contemporary and trad folk combined with snarky originals. Ever heard Kesha done folk style? You will.
Friday 4.10pm La Petite Grande
Saturday 12pm Pony Club
Saturday 3.30pm Wombat
Pavs call and teach bush dances from expert level to complete novices as well as kids dances for the younger folk. Always a fun musical night with the Pavs.
Saturday 12pm Wombat
Saturday 7pm Hall
Sunday 2.30pm Hall
Rheinberger & Wilson
Paul Greene Band
Veteran artist Paul Greene has not only accumulated a quiver of albums, classic songs and enviable collaborations, he has also found THE people to make music with live and this in itself has been worth the wait.
are a unique musical comedy duo - a real life couple who perform razor-sharp songs about modern life and love. It’ s “musical couples therapy” as they work out their relationship problems live on stage.
Saturday 3.30pm La Petite Grande
Saturday 8.10pm Wombat
Sunday 2.20pm Wombat
Rob Barratt
With its distinctive, creative and entertaining ’ s leading folk/bush bands. Fresh from winter hibernation Pavs features strong vocals and a sellout season at the Yarralumla Woolshed,
is a brain-tickling, word-mangling comic poet, humourist and singer from the UK who combines clever word play, verse and song with satire, parody and audience participation, covering such important topics as squid, datadriven education, his relationship with potatoes and distressed furniture.
Saturday 12pm St Josephs Church
Saturday 5pm Pony Club
Sunday 10.20am La Petite Grande
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Sally Andrews
sings historical ballads and original songs accompanied by her accordion. Through songs of lament, war and exile, this performance will walk you through the stories of the great queens of Scottish and English history, from the triumphs of Elizabeth I to the tragedy of the Nine Days’ Queen.
Friday 6.20pm Wombat
Saturday 9.10am La Petite Grande
Saturday 2pm St Josephs Church
Sapphire Tribal Belly Dance
Dazzling swords, swirling skirts, fans, baskets
audiences. We will provide an experience that is a combination of a display and participatory workshop rolled into one. It will feature the wonderfully infectious rhythms of Irish music. Not to be missed!
Sunday 11am Hall
Stafford Sanders & Russell Neale will perform their ASA award winning comedy song
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Christmas Cheer”. Catch one of their witty and entertaining performances in the Happy Nest, when they’re not performing elsewhere with Black Joak Morris or Baggage & Stuff!
Timothy Nelson
was a hyperactive child, a red-haired boy with a penchant for making noise and breaking things. One day his mother, Perth rock singer Jenny Wrenn, heard an unusual silence from her troublesome son, only to find him enthralled by the stereo which was playing Beatles For Sale. Thus began Nelson’s love affair
is from around the world, extravagant costumes reflecting this global mix. The set will include a blend of choreographed and improvised pieces including sword, basket, fans, shawl tambourine and sassy skirt.
Saturday 4pm Hall
Saplings
Youth musicians (about 8 – 18) experienced to beginners, bring your instruments and come and have some fun learning Australian tunes and songs, or learn some percussion. Expert tutors will be there to help you no matter what level you play at. Music available or play by ear.
Saturday 11am Verandah
Sunday 11am Verandah
Set in their Ways
is a fun-loving bunch of enthusiastic Irish Set dancers from Canberra. We are keen to share our passion for the dance style with festival
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Trilogy
Singing Shoalhaven sisters Trilogy; Joy, Robin and Kathy Sharpe, present their Peter Paul and Mary tribute. Half performance, half audience singalong, the show features the best loved and most well known classics from PPM, delivered with Trilogy's signature vocal harmonies
Saturday 2.50pm Pavilion
Tripple Effect
is an award-winning acoustic folk trio comprising sisters Carrie and Lynden Jacobi with Len McCarthy. Using guitars, ukuleles, mandolin, banjo, bodhran, recorder and sweet harmonies, their repertoire is informed by their backgrounds of activism in contemporary social and environmental issues, as well as songs of humour and heart.
Friday 4.30pm Pavilion
Saturday 2.20pm Koori Camp
Saturday 5.50pm Wombat
Sunday 2pm St Josephs Church
Tuck Shop Ladies
The triceps ain’t what they used to be, but the funny bone has only gotten sharper. Strapping on a pair of ukuleles, Australian folk music darlings Sam Lohs and Rosie Burgess pull back the curtain to share an intimate selection of their often ridiculous, but always harmonious songs.
Friday 10pm La Petite Grande
Saturday 1.10pm La Petite Grande
Sunday 11am Pony Club
Sunday 4.10 Pavilion
Tunique was formed around that age old tradition of just getting together to play some songs and tunes, just for the enjoyment of it. The diverse tunes are all original compositions of members of the group and you are most welcome to come and play along, sheet music will be available, or just come to have a listen if you prefer.
Saturday 4pm Pony Club
We Mavericks
Masterful strings meet captivating vocals and barefoot rhythm, all in a wild and fascinating connection. With echoes of soulful Americana and Celtic roots in their gritty, evocative material, We Mavericks bring award-winning musicianship wrapped in a trademark tightness.
Friday 7.10pm Marquee
Saturday 10.50am Wombat
Saturday 10.30pm La Petite Grande
Sunday 12.40pm Pavilion
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