The 2021 FolkFedNSW Young Folk Artists of the Year Awards are now open!
Applications are invited until 31st May 2021 from residents of NSW.
Solo performers and groups are eligible in ‘under 16’ yrs and ‘under 21’ yrs categories. For full terms and conditions and the application form please visit HERE.
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Just announced, the new Bob Dylan Centre will open its doors in Tulsa Oklahoma on May 10, 2022, just next to the Woody Guthrie Centre in the thriving Arts District of that city.
READ THE FULL STORY at Listening Through The Lens
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Early bird tickets for the Sydney Folk Festival are now on sale. The event will be held in the Heart of Sydney’s CBD this August 13-15.
You can buy them here
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Sydney abounds with curious history.
Some stories are known but many others have disappeared over time. Cultural historian and storyteller, Warren Fahey, has created a dozen video stories of Sydney’s past – from its convict history through to its colloquial ‘slanguage’.
The video series has been released on the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) website.
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THE 50th Top Half Folk Festival will take place at Annaburroothe, Northern Territory on 11-14 June 2021. Tickets and commemorative T-shirts are available
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The Palm Creek Folk Festival is approaching – 10 to 13 June, 2021.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary at a new site – Foots Hill Station, Webb Road, Calcium, Queensland.
The line-up includes Vaudeville Smash, Tullara, Salt & Steel, Jesse Morris & The Shakedown, Dan Baker & The Bookmakers and Tessa Devine. Tickets HERE
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Started in 2015, The Adelaide Songs project focuses on the city’s history, people, places and identity.
Begun as a project of HATs Inc (Heritage Arts & Traditions) this group of songwriters and support musicians have written almost forty songs about “the city of churches, pubs and murders”.
Following on from their recent successful Adelaide Town Hall concert for the Adelaide Fringe Festival they now have a CD with eleven of these songs available for purchase at their new website.
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Launceston, Tasmania community station City Park Radio has a new folk music show called The Folk Project. You can tune in Thursdays 8 to 9pm 103.7FM and 96.5FM or stream HERE
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Louisa Wise has an album Launch to showcase her new release ‘All of These Things’
Date Sunday 23rd May 2021, 2pm-5pm, a house concert in Carlton Victoria – address provided once you book tickets here.
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Fans of the Chapel Hill North Carolina folk duo Mandolin Orange will have to readjust to the couple’s new name Watchhouse, announced recently after a career of over a decade.
The duo have been announced to play at Port Fairy Folk Festival 2022.
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