Tucked away just inside the Woodford Folk Festival’s Welcome Gate, hidden in plain sight, is the Children’s Festival – a separate space dedicated to the amusement and entertainment of children under 12. From arts and crafts to circus workshops, playing with insects to learning how to belly dance, there’s something for every young person – and those who…
DetailsThere’s excitement spreading through Woodfordia with this announcement of Woodford Folk Festival 18/19 ticket launch. It is delivered with a regeneration of the optimism and energy that drives all of us here. We’re grateful to those of you who participated in our recent survey “Make Woodford Better”. We appreciate your honesty and could certainly sense…
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RejuvaNation by Bill Hauritz Since the very beginning of our organisation in 1985, organisers of the then called QFF said that “If we are to concern ourselves with the development of Australian cultural expression, it should begin with Aboriginal people.” We were bright-eyed and innocent folkies enthusiastic about correcting the injustices Indigenous Australians had endured and…
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Silent and Still Going by Rose Broe It was the night before the New Year, but not just any new year. It was December 31st 1999. A new millennium was upon us, and life was never going to be the same again. Because, you see, Y2K was about to wipe out the world as we…
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Woodford – Richer for the Experience by Mike McLellan “Where the f**k have you been?” he said with a wry smile on his face and a large bottle of water in his hand which he swapped from right to left as he reached to shake mine. I had just finished the first of three performances…
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The Confessional: an innovative surveying technique at the 2017-18 Woodford Folk Festival by Gary Burke Late last November at Woodford I was casually discussing a technique Laura Stocker and I had developed to add depth and colour to our community surveys. It’s a process where interviews are recorded on video but there is no voice…
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