Held over the long weekend 10 to 13 June at Portarlington Victoria, tickets are now on sale for the 2022 National Celtic Folk Festival.
As well as plenty of live music, there will be bars, markets, workshops, sessions, delicious food, dances, writers, children’s entertainment, demonstrations and special events – four days of music, arts and culture.
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Despite a cancelled 2022 festival, organisers will still be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Cygnet Folk Festival on 6-7 May in three venues in Cygnet.
Venues are booked with performer and ticket details to be announced soon, so SAVE THE DATES!
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APRA AMCOS is hosting a free session on the art of songwriting at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.
Held at The Pub (99 Gunnedah Road, Tamworth) on Thursday 21 April at 11:30am, there will be a conversation about the art of songwriting with Fanny Lumsden, Caitlin Harnett and Ashleigh Dallas, moderated by Loren Young.
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Upile Mkoka’s (aka Weathered) debut album Until This Love is All That Remains is the product of ten years of writing, performing, refining and crafting.
Co-produced by Mkoka and Mark Myers (ex The Middle East), this body of work contains a myriad of instrumentation – driving drums, late-night sounds and forest-like folk anthems.
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Folk Alliance International has announced Spotlight Showcase Week, a virtual presentation of talented acts from around the world happening in 1-2 hour pre-recorded showcases as part of the virtual programming for its upcoming conference!
FAI will be presenting 52 acts total from a wide range of genres, including Aoife O’Donovan, John McCutcheon, The Accidentals, Peggy Seeger and more. Folks can tune in to the shows live May 10-12 from 7-9pm USCT (10 – 12 am AEST).
Spotlight Showcases are open to all conference registrants, or public tickets are available.
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Folk Alliance International has announced its keynote presenters for the 2022 Conference to be held 18 to 22 May in Kansas City Missouri – beloved jazz and blues artist Madeleine Peyroux and folk icon Shirley Collins.
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Our friends at Listening Through The Lens music website have just returned from the 45th Port Fairy Folk Festival which was held 11 to 14 March.
You can read their review and take in some fresh images by FOLLOWING THIS LINK.
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The Gulgong Folk Festival returns in 2022 – 16 April.
The event will be held at The Price of Wales Opera House in Gulgong, NSW and the headliners are Day of Embers, The Honey Sippers, Sally Andrews, Linda Mizzi, Stringline, Franz James and Daryl James.
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Folk Alliance International will be holding its annual Conference in Kansas City Missouri and on-line May 18-22, 2022.
The Conference features a bustling exhibit hall with organizations doing business in the folk industry. The virtual stall option is available and booths must be confirmed by March 31, 2022.
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The concertina convergence is organising another series of video submissions, seeking interpretations and performances of collected bush tunes – polkas, waltzes, reels, mazurkas, schottische and barn dance. Each video should have an introduction with the tunes having a twelve minute maximum.
Enquiries and submissions (via WeTransfer or Dropbox) to Warren Fahey – wfahey@bigpond.net.au
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