KVFF 2023

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Next Festival 18-20 October 2024 2

Festival Information Acknowledgement of Country The festival acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which our festival takes place, their Elders past, present and emerging, their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of our region.

Thank You A big thank you to the following supporters of the Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival Shoalhaven City Council Jaqualine Lenz, Showground Caretaker KV A&H Society Osborne Park Committee Edmiston Jones Architects Jing Jo Café Restaurant Glenmack Park Kangaroo Valley Chamber of Tourism & Commerce Kangaroo Valley Voice Kangaroo Valley Public School The Friendly Inn St Joseph’s Church Church of the Good Shepherd Randall Sinnamon, KVFF Resident Artist Mike Gorman, Kangaroo Valley Electrical KV residents who billet performers

Noise We need to consider residents who live close to the showground and have a right to a good night’s sleep. Please keep sessions after midnight reasonably quiet, with definitely NO DRUMMING. Quiet sessions around the campfire at Glenmack Park will be allowed, but please consider other campers.

official noise restrictions. A free shuttle bus runs to and from Bendeela on Saturday.

Keeping It Green Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival is aiming to be the Greenest Folk Festival in Oz. Choose your own china cup from the rack for your coffee.

When returned it will be washed and reused.

Free water will be provided (no need to buy those pesky bottles that get used once).

Bring along your water bottle or buy one of our exclusive KVFF bottles to use throughout the festival. The bar will have re-useable middy's and wine glasses, getting rid of single use cups!

Kangaroo Valley is Australia's first mainland plastic bag free town. Let's make it a waste free festival.

Alcohol Our liquor licence is restricted to the fenced off bar area. Consumption of alcohol is not allowed in the venues or anywhere else in the showground. Please do not bring your own supplies into the showground.

First Aid There is a first aid post in the Committee Room next to the Bar. In an emergency phone 0473 373 024

Camping

Smoke Free Festival

Please note that camping is not allowed in the showground, apart from performers, volunteers and stallholders. Anyone who is not booked in at Glenmack can go to Bendeela, where camping is free and there are no

Smoking and vaping is not permitted anywhere on the festival site.

Dogs Dogs are allowed in the festival site, but please do not bring them into venues, assistance dogs

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excepted. Ensure they are on a lead and supervised at all times. Do not leave dogs tied up outside venues since they can easily become distressed.

Poets’ Brawl

Parking

The Happy Nest—Blackboard

Patrons are encouraged to use the off-street parking provided in the dog show area of the showground. The entrance is through the public car park next to the police Station. If all the parking in the main street is taken up with festival-goers, it can affect local shopkeepers.

The Nordic Tipi Tent on the oval is our dedicated venue for youth and adult blackboard performers, plus yoga, meditation and other surprises. See some up-and-coming young talent or add your name to the blackboard.

Access to Oval To avoid the steep steps, the venues on the oval can be accessed via breaks in the fence just below the La Petite Grande and along the road to the Pony Club, the “yellow brick road”.

Geebungs vs Cuff & Collar See Allan Stone to join a team Sun 11.30am La Petite Grande

Koori Camp Indigenous performers and activities all weekend at Sam’s Caravan on the oval. It’s also the venue for the Kids’ Festival .

Dance Till You Drop Dance workshops in the Hall all weekend and dances every night.

Festival Shop

Ukulele Muster & Singalong

Festival t-shirts and other merchandise are on sale at the shop, between the Bar and the Pavilion. Performers will be selling their own CDs at the venues.

in the Pavilion, Saturday and Sunday morning at 8.30,am - aiming for 24 songs each day. You don't need a uke, you can just sing or whistle or bring your kazoo or other appropriate instrument (maybe a mouth trumpet). Sheet music supplied.

Outdoor Gospel Service An hour of southern USA gospel singing, led by a visiting singer. People will be invited to sing along to some songs. It's free and all are welcome to attend.

Good Shepherd Anglican Church opposite primary school, Sunday 10am

Poets’ Breakfast 8am Saturday & Sunday in The Wombat

Reciter of the Year Competition for the best performance of a poem (original, contemp0rary, freeform or traditional). This is a walk up event, see Allan Stone to enter. The winner will receive custody of a beautiful hand crafted red cedar trophy for one year, a certificate and two weekend passes to come back and judge next year's winner.

Saturday 11.30am La Petite Grande

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Tai Chi with Pamela 8am Saturday and Sunday in the Hall.

Saplings Sessions Youth musicians (about 8 – 18) experienced to beginners, bring your instruments, and come and have some fun learning Australian tunes and songs, or learn some percussion. Expert tutors will be there to help you no matter what level you play at. Music available or play by ear.

Sat & Sun 11am on the Verandah

Workshops In the Pony Club Old Words, New Music Chloe & Jason Roweth share their joy in bringing pieces together musically and thematically, riffs and dance tunes running under poems and expanding into songs, until the sum is somehow greater than its parts. A workshop for reciters looking to integrate music in and/or around their poems, and musicians interested in setting to music or accompanying spoken word.

Sat 10am

Songwriting - Simple & Concise With over 30 years as a touring musician and a professional school teacher, Luke O’Shea has that special knack of explaining and condensing complex concepts - into a simplistic, concise and entertaining nutshell.

Sat 11am

presented by the composers themselves. Sheet music supplied.

Sat 4pm

Improv Comedy for beginners with Rob Barratt, comic poet from the UK. Sat 5pm

The Heart of Collaborative Songwriting With Baggage & Stuff. Do's and Don't's of writing partnerships.

Sun 10am

Sing for Your Tucker Come and have a singalong with the Tuck Shop Ladies and experience the wonderous feeling of singing harmonies as part of a group. Explore the differing effects of low versus high harmonies, thirds, fifths, sixths and more.

Sun 11am

Harmony & Humour

Traditional Songs with Sontaneous Harmonies

The Other Noonans will go through methods of developing harmony as well as how it can be used to imply/enhance humour in music.

Sat 12pm

Sing traditional chorus songs with Andsome Friends who will offer insights into how spontaneous harmonies come about.

Sun 12pm

Harmonica Talk

Country Yodelling

Do you want to play The Blues Harmonica? in traditional and modern Americana with Come and blow your heart out with C.D Ly- Mischa Vickas. ons, experienced harmonica educator and Sun 1pm performer.

Techniques of the Great Sat 1pm

Using Guitar Pedals Benji from The Saltwater Sound System uses a dazzling array of pedals on stage. What do they all do?

Sat 2pm

Write a Song in 50 Minutes

American Songwriters

George Mann delves into songwriting techniques through the example of songs such as Woody Guthrie's "So Long, It's Been Good to Know Ya" to show how a good folk song works Sun 2pm

An intensive and fun group songwriting expe- Turning the Insight Out Songwriting & performing on the spectrum rience, facilitated by Daniel J Townsend with Joshua Batten.

Sat 3pm Sun 3pm

Learn Some New Tunes

With Tunique. Contemporary compositions and arrangements of folk tunes and songs

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Performers Aljamia

Austral

is a recently founded dance, fire arts and mu- Winners at the 2022 Australian Folk Music sic collective inspired by medieval Europe and Awards, Austral are a high-energy, four-piece La Convivencia. Songs and dances from the Australian tunes band combining didgeridoo, golden age of Islam and Judaism, Christian Irish pipes, high energy fiddling, journeying musician kings, visionary saints, anonymous songs and energetic foot percussion. Whether minstrels and street performers. Aljamía takes you see them on stage or at the session afterwards, Austral will get your festival going.

HUP! Friday 8.20pm Marquee Saturday 12.30pm Marquee Saturday 8.40pm Marquee Sunday 1pm Happy Nest Sunday 3.10pm Marquee

you on a journey to a forgotten and erased past of multiculturalism, wisdom and beauty.

We will take you on a medieval journey throughout centuries and continents. TogethBaggage & Stuff er as a collective, we bring to the stage a Dance Men With Day Jobs have teamed up with Au& Fire show, with live music. brey & Purton. Their originals run a wide gamSaturday 11.20am Marquee ut of genres, tempos, moods and subjects.

Saturday 9.50pm Pavilion They share a passion for music and life in genSunday 10.30am Marquee eral, a concern for people and the wider world, Andsome Friends a feeling for Sydney’s many stories, and a is a vocal group performing original composi- sense of humour that manages to be both tions and arrangements. Whether a suite of sharp and daggy.

Irish slip jigs with witty Australian lyrics, a Friday 4.50pm Marquee traditional chorus song, jazz number, or a Saturday 10.20am Pavilion mash up of 1960s tv themes, our music has Saturday 7pm Wombat something for almost every taste. We’re peo- Sunday 10am Pony Club ple who have songs.

Saturday 9.20am Marquee Saturday 4.40pm La Petite Grande Sunday 12pm Pony Club Sunday 3pm St Josephs Church

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The Beez

In the dark days of 2004, the Australian MorA yodellin´, thigh slappin’, lederhosen wettin´ ris dancing scene was capering towards a doledancefest of German flavoured music and ful grave. When Lo! Black Joak Morris was comedy. Thrill to comic classics from born. A wailing infant crying for a small beer, Rammstein to Kraftwerk; tear off that dirndl come to revive the old dances and imbue them and shake a tailfeather to teutonified Oz Rock with vigour and youthfulness. With their disclassics from Oils to Icehouse but, most of all, tinctive bells and ribbons, they perform at festivals far and wide, drinking beer and be entertained - that´s an order! spreading cheer.

Saturday 1.50pm Pavilion Saturday 12pm Hall Saturday 11pm Marquee Sunday 12.20pm Hall Sunday 12pm Wombat Around the festival and the village

Benji and the Saltwater Sound System

Blighty’s Revenge

Not your bog standard builders tea! Our serifuse pacific flavours with jazz, reggae, world ously good dance band invites you to step out folk and African roots to create hypnotic to newly composed dances and a few old fasoundscapes underpinned by painfully catchy vourites from the dance halls of Canberra and beyond. This is Ceilidh dancing with an English accent where the new and old collide to bring frolicking good fun. Dance to some of the latest tunes coming out of the UK dance scene. Madness and mayhem is mandatory!

The Blues Preachers will take you to another place and time, somewhere between 1920 and 1940. They perform a fusion of good old blues, rags, gospel and hillbilly folk. Driving finger-style and slide-guitar, melodies. Add to this the beautifully poignant combined with tasteful harmonica and oldlyrics that Ben has become known for and you school vocal harmonies, create a traditional can't help but expect something special from sound that will have you on the edge of your seats. this line-up.

Friday 9.30pm Marquee Saturday 2pm Pony Club Saturday 6.20pm Pavilion Sunday 12.50pm Marquee

Black Joak Morris

Friday 8.50pm La Petite Grande Saturday 1pm Pony Club Saturday 5.10pm Marquee Sunday 3pm Pavilion

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plied.

Saturday 10am Bar (Aussie tunes) is a true Australian character who lives and Sunday 10am Bar (Aussie tunes) breathes folk music traditions in his daily life. Sunday 12pm Bar (Aussie songs) Pulling old songs and new from a camp by the river with a voice scratchy but sure, his songs Casuarina Light Phenomenon distill an essence of our land that has been largely drowned out by the hum of progress and modernity.

Saturday 10am St Josephs Church Saturday 5.10pm Pavilion Sunday 1.10pm La Petite Grande

Brodie Buttons

The Bush Music Club will host join-in sessions of Australian collected songs and tunes. Song/tune books sup-

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is George, Tegan and friends. They are a product of where they have walked, picking up pieces of the world’s music on their journeys, ranging from South American influence to Fijian reggae to good old fashioned 70s folk & rock. The toe tapping team with their rhythm and rhymes stir nostalgic feelings of light and happy times.

Saturday 9.20am Koori Camp Saturday 9.20pm Wombat Sunday 11.30am Pavilion

Cherry MaMalade Jackee B, a singer/songwriter, along with the band Cherry MaMalade, plays a selection of groovy, fun and quirky dance tunes. Their lyrics and arrangements include some soul searching storytelling.

Saturday 9.50pm Marquee Sunday 1.10pm Wombat

new and old Australian material presented with easy and confident warmth from the stage.

Friday 5.20pm La Petite Grande Saturday 10am Pony Club Saturday 2.20pm Wombat Sunday 3.30pm Wombat

The ChOOks are 2 feisty Melbourne birds, Wendy Ealey & Moira Tyers. They’re a multi-instrumentalist duo who have been collaborating since 2005 playing to audiences across Australia- in true troubadour tradition they continue ruffling their musical feathers up the Hume Highway to bring you folk,blues n golden standards.

Come along- promise you won’t be disappointed!

Friday 3.40pm Marquee Saturday 10.20am La Petite Grande Saturday 3pm St Josephs Church Sunday 3.30pm La Petite Grande

Chloe and Jason Roweth Daniel J Townsend

have been researching and presenting the living tradition of Australian music for over twenty-five years, forging unique combinations of music, poetry and folklore. They bring you powerful and delicate songs, room stopping recitations, seamless combinations of

An AFMA-nominated storysinger, celebrated poet and awardwinning educator, Townsend has a head full of stories, a soul old enough to have lived them and a heart young enough to believe in their power to move us.

Saturday 3pm Pony Club Saturday 7.30pm Pavilion Sunday 1pm St Josephs Church

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Dela Ensemble

and be wooed into the land of love and rois a Persian classical music band, whose aim is mance. Kim Hair’s soulful vocals and theatrito introduce the traditional/classical music of cal stage presence, the international skill of Iran. This music relies on both improvisation accordionist Milo Bros and the versatility of and composition and is based on a series of Moira Lawry on the Celtic harp bring all the modal scales and tunes. Compositions can flavours of Paris to the village of Kangaroo Valley. vary immensely from start to finish.

Saturday 3pm Koori Camp Friday 9.10pm Pavilion Sunday 12.20pm Koori Camp Saturday 2.50pm Marquee Sunday 9.20am Marquee

The Djaarmby Band blend traditional sounds and original lyrics to create their brand of Ozrock. Yidaki, clack stix and boomerangs meet guitars and drums; punctuated by hypnotic chants and catchy melodies.

Friday evening Koori Camp Saturday 6pm Koori Camp

The Drifting Doolagahls Is a 6 piece Koori band established in 2012 from the South Coast of NSW, playing a deadly mix of covers & originals.

Friday evening Koori Camp Saturday 4.50pm Koori Camp Saturday evening Koori Camp

Felicity Dowd Dhawaari Dance Group

has always believed a song is only as good as is from Vincentia High School. They perform its story. A full-time troubadour emerging with pride and passion, presenting an out- from the Far South Coast, Felicity uses her standing showcase of traditional dance stories acoustic performances to tell stories of the world around her. Inspired by an eclectic and from the Yuin Nation ever-changing landscape of influences, her Saturday 1.10pm Koori Camp music is diverse, drifting between the boundaries of genre. Don’t miss seeing this young storyteller in her element!

Friday 9.50pm Wombat Saturday 5.50pm La Petite Grande Sunday 9.10am La Petit Grande

Diva and the Harp with Milo Come on an evocative and entertaining musical journey with Diva and The Harp plus Milo

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George Mann

with their love of storytelling through music, is a songwriter's folksinger, just as happy sing- humour and four-part harmony. ing the songs of his mentors as his own power- Friday 10.20pm Pavilion ful stories. He's a walking jukebox with a Saturday 1.10pm Wombat strong focus on labour history and songs of Saturday 7.30pm Marquee struggle, a former union organiser and activist based in New York (USA).

Friday 3.20pm Pavilion Saturday 8.10pm La Petite Grande Sunday 2pm Pony Club

Glenn Skuthorpe With 7 highly regarded albums and music featured in movies and documentaries such as The Emu Runner and John Pilger’s Utopia, Nhunggabarra, Kooma, Muruwari man and international touring singer-songwriter Glenn Skuthorpe is a powerful lyricist and composer who gives voice to those whose stories must be Isabel Rumble invites listeners into a cocoon of reflection on heard. the subtleties of love, nature and human relaFriday 7.40pm La Petite Grande tionships. DrawSaturday 6.20pm Marquee ing upon a strong Sunday 10.20am Pavilion folk roots influSunday 1.40pm Koori Camp ence, Rumble offers a contemporary sound likened to Laura Marling and Mazzy Star. Isabel released her debut album, Bird Be Brave in March this year.

Friday 5.10pm Wombat Saturday 2.20pm La Petite Grande Great Aunt Sunday 1.50pm Pavilion There’s a buzz about Great Aunt: theirs is an eclectic and joyous approach to making music. J.J.Spence Band Raw and austere, simple and bold; with Brought together through African drumming stomping feet and clapping hands, chants and classes, J.J. Spence band’s essence and founharmonies, Megan Bird and Chelsea Allen sing dation was built through the shared love and stories of joy and grief, whiskey and wine, interest of traditional African rhythm. They gratitude and purpose-seeking. have created a refreshing, soulful sound that Friday 8.40pm Wombat draws inspiration from a wide variety of genSaturday 1pm St Josephs Church res extending from World Music, Folk, Sunday 2.20pm La Petite Grande through to Desert Blues n’ Roots. They deliver a heartfelt, grounded performance with focus The Humbuckin' Pickups on hypnotic grooves that will be sure to uplift Wielding guitars, dobros, banjos, double bass your spirits. and mandolins the quartet will draw you in

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Friday 10.40pm Marquee Saturday 10.30pm Wombat Sunday 10.50am Wombat

Kira Dowling & Stringfiddle

Scottish Country Dance Workshop with Kira Dowling Jim Williams and Stringfiddle. has been teaching Bavarian dancing for over Come and experi20 years. He lived in Bavaria, southern Gerence the fun of Scotmany, for almost 10 years and has over the tish Country Dancyears collected dances that are danced in Baing! This introducvaria on a regular basis. tory workshop will Saturday 9am Hall include dances to JOCEAN delight both newer The crazy cool cats duo, "JOCEAN" from and more experiShellharbour are always super keen to play up enced dancers alike. Experienced Scottish a storm. It's a mixed bag of super fun acoustic Country Dance teacher Kira Dowling will lead indie-folk, folk-rock, soul, funk & blues. So you through reels and jigs with brilliant tunes strap on your dancin' shoes, hang onto your played by Bob McInnes and Jane Ellis of hats & get ready to stomp & clap!!! They've got Stringfiddle. the good vibes, & good music times, on tap.

Saturday 10.30am Hall Friday Koori Camp Leanne & Riley Saturday 1.30pm Koori Camp perform original songs that are woven togethJoshua Batten er with didge, guitar, piano and song. is a modern-day troubadour, using music as Sunday 2.20pm Koori Camp his language to connect with his audience.

Based in Melbourne, Batten's personal brand Liam Matika of Alternative Roots Rock is characterised by Local talent from Ulladulla. passionate vocals, accomplished guitar play- Sunday 1pm Koori Camp ing, layered arrangements and insightful lyr- Lucky Jim ics. Drawing on personal experience, his music is a Canberra based musician, storyteller and provides both an escape and perspective in a teacher specomplex world. cialising in Friday 6.30pm La Petite Grande music for PriSaturday 11.30am Pavilion mary aged Saturday 4pm St Josephs Church children and Sunday 3pm Pony Club their families.

Kiama Sea Shanty Club

His live per-

is on a mission to celebrate and sing the songs formances are of the sea and keep them alive for the next full of toegeneration. These songs are connected to the tapping tunes, sailors of the oceans from many different cul- ridiculous tures over many centuries. Some land shanties stories, imagihave also crept into their repetoire. They can't native lyrics general wait to sing loud and strong and have some and silliness. fun with the good people at Kangaroo Valley Saturday 10.20am Koori Camp Folk Festival. Ahoy!

Saturday 1pm Happy Nest Saturday 5.30pm Bar Sunday 10.30am Koori Camp Sunday 2pm Bar

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Luke O’Shea

Margaret & Bill Winnett

Somewhere between John Williamson and simply love dancing and teaching Irish dancMidnight Oil you ing. Margaret has will find the 16 x been Irish dancing Golden Guitar since 1957 and Bill recipient – Luke since 1964. They O’Shea - carrying have travelled to on the ancient Ireland almost tradition of singyearly since 1989, ing up country! researching and Luke proves to be collecting the danca powerful link es they teach. Their between the old workshops are fun and new, a master filled and informative and have everyone enstoryteller who draws inspiration from the joying themselves and ready to join in at the heartbreaking and the humorous.

Céilí.

Friday 7.30pm Wombat Saturday 2.30pm Hall Saturday 11am Pony Club Saturday 8.45pm Hall Saturday 4pm Marquee Matt Joe Gow & Kerryn Fields Sunday 11.40am Marquee With multiple awards to their names and Luke Robinson thousands of miles between them, Matt Joe With carefully-crafted lyrics and a rich bass Gow and Kerryn Fields are bonafide masters voice accompanied by acoustic guitar, Luke’s of their craft who share a natural chemistry as rousing anthems, contemplative ballads and songwriters and fellow troubadours. No matcomical compositions range from our First ter where they are, Aotearoa is firmly at the Peoples to refugees, larrikins to mongrels, heart of the music they create, their connecmilitary misadventures to the war on drugs, tion to home and one another gives depth to fracking, farming, coal, climate change, their storytelling and their songs, a sense of corona and other themes of Australian life and place and purpose. politics. Be sure not to miss this powerful Friday 6pm Marquee voice for a better Australia.

Sat 5.30pm Hall Sat 11pm Pavilion Sun 11.30am La Petite Grande (Poets’ Brawl)

Mayfair Lane consists of couple Rhys and Esther Duursma who combined individual projects to explore an indie-folk sound together. Their sweet harmonies, crafted story-songs and inviting folk style make this married couple a duo worth

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listening to and journeying with.

Friday 4pm Wombat Saturday 1.40pm Marquee Saturday 7pm La Petite Grande Sunday 9.20am Koori Camp

Mischa Vickas

Maypole with Molly Enjoy sharing music and dance with kids.

Their interactive and energetic dance sessions encompass music from Mozart along with Austrian influences from accordionist Erika Cleaver (Molly). Adults are invited to join the kids to create intricate ribbon patterns around the maypole or play percussion. No experience is a Sydney-based folk and country musician.

He pulls together a three-octave vocal range, needed! guitar, clawhammer banjo and harmonica to Saturday 11.10am Oval croon high lonesome weepers, forgotten outSunday 11.10am Oval law gems and late-night cattle calls. He draws Meremba on songs from a library of traditional and Intricate guitar and rich sonic piano-scapes modern Americana, as well as a growing colform the basis of this group’s original music. lection of original music.

Their Americana and Celtic roots are a subtle Friday 5.40pm Pavilion aftertaste in their thoughtful explorations of Saturday 9.20pm La Petite Grande love, loss and the human connection. Laura’s Sunday 1pm Pony Club “spine-tingling” compositions combine with Susie’s “beautiful sound full of storytelling” Mudjingaal Yangamba Choir Mudjingaal Yangamba means Spirit Singing in and results in their truly unique sound.

Dhurga, one of the original languages spoken Friday 6.50pm Pavilion on the South Coast. Mudjingaal Yangamba is a Saturday 4.40pm Wombat Koori women's choir revitalising language Sunday 12pm St Josephs Church through song. Bringing together Elders, Aunties sisters and young ones, embracing traditional Aboriginal language through music and song.

Saturday 12.30pm Koori Camp Saturday 2pm Pavilion

The Other Noonans blend political satire, parody, environmental justice and more with harmony and musicali-

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ty. Oh and they're both blind so don't expect Pavs call and teach bush dances from expert any dancing! What you can expect however is level to complete novices as well as kids danchumour, banter, contemporary and trad folk es for the younger folk. Always a fun musical combined with snarky originals. Ever heard night with the Pavs.

Kesha done folk style? You will.

Saturday 12pm Wombat Friday 4.10pm La Petite Grande Saturday 7pm Hall Saturday 12pm Pony Club Sunday 2.30pm Hall Saturday 3.30pm Wombat

Rheinberger & Wilson

are a unique musical comedy duo - a real life couple who perform razor-sharp songs about modern life and love. It’s “musical couples therapy” as they work out their relationship Paul Greene Band problems live on stage.

Veteran artist Paul Greene has not only accu- Saturday 3.30pm La Petite Grande mulated a quiver of albums, classic songs and Saturday 8.10pm Wombat enviable collaborations, he has also found Sunday 2.20pm Wombat THE people to make music with live and this Rob Barratt in itself has been worth the wait. is a brain-tickling, word-mangling comic poet, Friday 8pm Pavilion humourist and Saturday 8.40pm Pavilion singer from the Sunday 4.20pm Marquee UK who combines clever word play, verse and song with satire, parody and audience participation, covering such important topics as squid, dataPaverty Bush Band driven education, With its distinctive, creative and entertaining his relationship presentation, Paverty is one of Australia’s with potatoes and distressed furniture. leading folk/bush bands. Fresh from winter Saturday 12pm St Josephs Church hibernation Pavs features strong vocals and a Saturday 5pm Pony Club sellout season at the Yarralumla Woolshed, Sunday 10.20am La Petite Grande

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Sally Andrews

audiences. We will provide an experience that sings historical ballads and original songs ac- is a combination of a display and participatory companied by her accordion. Through songs workshop rolled into one. It will feature the of lament, war and exile, this performance will wonderfully infectious rhythms of Irish music. walk you through the stories of the great Not to be missed! queens of Scottish and English history, from Sunday 11am Hall the triumphs of Elizabeth I to the tragedy of Stafford Sanders & Russell Neale the Nine Days’ Queen. will perform their Friday 6.20pm Wombat ASA award winning Saturday 9.10am La Petite Grande comedy song Saturday 2pm St Josephs Church “Christmas Cheer”.

Sapphire Tribal Belly Dance Catch one of their Dazzling swords, swirling skirts, fans, baskets witty and entertainand more – Sapphire Tribal presents a colour- ing performances in ful and dynamic bellydance showcase. Music the Happy Nest, when they’re not performing elsewhere with Black Joak Morris or Baggage & Stuff!

Timothy Nelson was a hyperactive child, a red-haired boy with a penchant for making noise and breaking things. One day his mother, Perth rock singer Jenny Wrenn, heard an unusual silence from her troublesome son, only to find him enthralled by the stereo which was playing Beatles For Sale. Thus began Nelson’s love affair is from around the world, extravagant coswith pop music. tumes reflecting this global mix. The set will Saturday 11am St Josephs Church include a blend of choreographed and improSaturday 4pm Pavilion vised pieces including sword, basket, fans, Sunday 2pm Marquee shawl tambourine and sassy skirt.

Saturday 4pm Hall

Saplings Youth musicians (about 8 – 18) experienced to beginners, bring your instruments and come and have some fun learning Australian tunes and songs, or learn some percussion. Expert tutors will be there to help you no matter what level you play at. Music available or play by ear.

Saturday 11am Verandah Sunday 11am Verandah

Set in their Ways is a fun-loving bunch of enthusiastic Irish Set dancers from Canberra. We are keen to share our passion for the dance style with festival

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Trilogy

Tunique

Singing Shoalhaven sisters Trilogy; Joy, Robin was formed around that age old tradition of and Kathy Sharpe, present their Peter Paul just getting together to play some songs and and Mary tribute. Half performance, half audi- tunes, just for the enjoyment of it. The diverse ence singalong, the show features the best tunes are all original compositions of memloved and most well known classics from PPM, bers of the group and you are most welcome to delivered with Trilogy's signature vocal har- come and play along, sheet music will be availmonies able, or just come to have a listen if you prefer.

Saturday 2.50pm Pavilion Saturday 4pm Pony Club

Tripple Effect

We Mavericks

is an award-winning acoustic folk trio com- Masterful strings meet captivating vocals and prising sisters Carrie and Lynden Jacobi with barefoot rhythm, all in a wild and fascinating Len McCarthy. Using guitars, ukuleles, man- connection. With echoes of soulful Americana dolin, banjo, bodhran, recorder and sweet and Celtic roots in their gritty, evocative mateharmonies, their repertoire is informed by rial, We Mavericks bring award-winning musitheir backgrounds of activism in contempo- cianship wrapped in a trademark tightness. rary social and environmental issues, as well as songs of humour and heart.

Friday 4.30pm Pavilion Saturday 2.20pm Koori Camp Saturday 5.50pm Wombat Sunday 2pm St Josephs Church

Tuck Shop Ladies The triceps ain’t what they used to be, but the funny bone has only gotten sharper. Strapping on a pair of ukuleles, Australian folk music darlings Sam Lohs and Rosie Burgess pull back the curtain to share an intimate selection of their often ridiculous, but always harmoni- Friday 7.10pm Marquee Saturday 10.50am Wombat ous songs.

Saturday 10.30pm La Petite Grande Friday 10pm La Petite Grande Sunday 12.40pm Pavilion Saturday 1.10pm La Petite Grande Sunday 11am Pony Club Sunday 4.10 Pavilion

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