Folkworld Fairbridge Festival

Folkworld Fairbridge Festival

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Posted 2013-03-25 by Douglas Sutherland-Brucefollow

Fri 26 Apr 2013 - Sun 28 Apr 2013

FolkWorld Fairbridge Festival is an annual family-friendly celebration of folk, roots, blues, acoustic, Celtic, a capella and world music in a traffic-free, self-contained bushland site at Fairbridge Village, South West Highway, 5 km north of Pinjarra, Western Australia.



This year, 2013, will be the 21st FolkWorld Fairbridge Festival. Fairbridge Village makes a wonderful festival site, with graceful, mature bush and sweeping views over the Darling Escarpment about 100 km south of Perth's outlying south-eastern suburbs.

Over the weekend the site comes alive with music in numerous marquees and permanent buildings, and in the church which is the home for a now-legendary Sunday morning Gospel session and a plethora of a cappella singing in its natural habitat.



The whole area of the festival is slightly smaller than that of the National Festival at Exhibition Park in Canberra, making for a relaxed, spacious environment that never seems overcrowded even with peak crowds of around 5,000 people.

The festival is now established as a major event on the WA cultural calendar with a devoted audience base, a strong pool of volunteers, and a remarkably stable organising committee led by president Carole Winfield.



Each year it receives well over 500 applications from acts wanting to play, many of them from interstate. It has stayed true to the original vision of catering to a family audience, and presents probably the largest children's program, in proportion to the festival as a whole, of any such event in the country.

The success of the festival is an inspiring example of what can be done from the grass roots, at the far-off, sparsely populated end of the country, by a small group of people dedicated to the love of folk music and community events.



The 27 headline acts include such names as the Amazing Drumming Monkeys ; Kristina Olsen ; Lucy Wise and The B'Gollies ; A.J.Leonard ; Tinpan Orange and Pugsley Buzzard .

A full list of the headline acts may be found by clicking this link .

Standard tickets are now open for WA's premier folk and world music festival either for entry or combined entry/camping tickets valid through to 11.45 pm 25 April 2013. Sales are made through the Moshtix web-based ticketing system. Prices vary according to what you want from $12.70 for a child (no camping).

Further information is available on the website .



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