Paul Petran
Presenter of Music Deli and Live on Stage on ABC Radio

Doug Spencer
Producer-presenter of ABC Radio National's 'The Weekend Planet" ( www.abc.net.au/rn/weekendplanet
10pm-midnight, Saturdays and Sundays. Audio lives on via website for 4 weeks after broadcast).  
A professional journalist/broadcaster for more than 30 years,  Doug, has been primarily a 'musical'  
broadcaster since 1990 when he was founder/producer of "The Nightly Planet".

Bruce Cameron
Folk musician, community radio presenter, folk club organiser,researcher and more.

Cec Bucello
Editor, Trad & Now magazine

Jim MacQuarrie
Jim started performing in the 'folk circles' in the early '60's and now owns and operates Newsouthfolk Agency.
Current Chairman of Folk Alliance Australia. He's also a Honoray Life Member of FAA.

Andrew Pattison
Andrew is the founder of Melbourne's famous 'eighties music venue The Troubadour, former owner of Lancefield Winery in Victoria's Macedon Ranges, and nowadays owner and winemaker at Burke & Wills Winery in the Heathcote wine region. Andrew is also a music festival director and music promoter, who keeps The Troubadour flame alive by running a mobile version of the venue as a prominent but intimate marquee venue at several of eastern Australia's top folk festivals including the Burke and Wills Winery Music Festival, the Troubadour Weekend and the Chewton, Maldon, and National Folk Festival

John McAuslan
John is the Director of Across the Borders. He has been associated with the Brunswick Music Festival since 1991 and became Festival Director in 1995. In this capacity he also became label manager for Brunswick Recordings, one of Moreland City Council's most innovative arts projects, which has produced 18 recordings to date on vinyl, cassette and CD. John was a member of the steering committee and first treasurer for the FAA, a board member of the Victorian Folk Life Association, has served on the Arts Victoria festivals panel, and was the Director of the 1985 National Folk Festival.

Warren Fahey
Warren Fahey is a musical jack-of-all-trades: broadcaster, writer, journalist, performer of bush songs and a record producer. He is best known as the founder of Larrikin Records, Folkways Music and as a regular columnist with Vogue Living, Harper's Bazaar, Outback Magazine, BRW, Conde Nast Traveler USA and Women's Weekly. His great passion in life is Australian Folklore and he has a 25-year history of successfully presenting programs on ABC radio and television. He has had 11 successfully published books including "When Mabel Laid the Table", "Diggers Songs", The Balls of Bob Menzies" and "Eureka".

Morag White
Morag has worked in PR in the entertainment industry for more than 15 years and was once the Publicity & Promotions Manager, Larrikin Entertainment.   In her own business she worked with clients including: Australian Youth Orchestra, Film Australia and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. She is currently the Publishing & Marketing Manager with Music Sales and works on the management and promotion of the local publishing schedule (songbooks and music industry business books) and Omnibus imprint (music bios).

Christine Wheeler
Christine is a musical member of Pastance and Wheeler and Dealers. As part of the former she has been performing in schools for the past three years as part of Musica Viva's schools program both in Australia and overseas.  Wheelers and Dealers won the FAA's Radio Presenters' Award in 2007 for the cd "Full House".

Paul Jarman
Paul began performing at the age of four, inheriting a keen interest in music from two generations of his family, on one side, classical and jazz, and the other, country folk musicians. Now accomplished on over twenty
instruments from Asia, Australia, The Middle East and Europe, Paul works as a composer and producer as well as performances with many arts groups including Sydney Dance Company, Colin Offord, The Renaissance Players, Sydney Children¹s Choir and Rainbow Circus. His latest choral works have been performed in Singapore by combined international choirs.


Victoria Owens
Victoria is the Music Manager of Arts NSW

David Andre
David Andre is the Manager of the Contemporary Music Touring Program and Playing Australia at the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.

Anna Yerbury
Anna is the Director of the In Schools program for "Musica Viva"

Simon Calabrese, AON
Divisional Manager - Specialty
Aon Risk Services Australia Limited
Simon is the Folk Alliance's liaison person at AON Risk Services.

Graeme Regan - The Planet Company
The Planet Company is evolving from Planet Imports which has been a small part of the MGM Distribution setup for some time. From a mainly folk beginning The Planet Company now represents many different genres such as
jazz, reggae, country and also more contemporary music. Music from around the world we certainly have and we’Äôre proud of it. Quality music from a host of upstanding labels, many run by musicians themselves.

Stu McCarthy
Stu is the General Manager of Undercover Music which encompasses a number of record labels Undercover Music Labels: Silent Recordings, Rouseabout Records, Yep! Records and AntiPod Music, Undercover Music's Publishing Division

Chris Moller
Chris Moller works for APRA/AMCOS and his title is Senior Writer Services.

Dave O'Neill
Dave O'Neill is the Artistic Director of the National Folk Festival and an accomplished musician.

Coral Vorbach
Coral is the editor of the NSW Folk Federation's "Cornstalk Gazette" and is one of the main organisers of the annual Cobargo Folk Festival