Woodfordia, an hour north of Brisbane
Summer 27th December to 1st January
Showcasing more than 400 acts across 25 venues during the six days of the annual summer event (Dec 27 – Jan 1), Woodford Folk Festival’s 31st programme is an evolution of the cultural, artistic and social expression it has become internationally known for.
Festival goers venturing to the stunning 500 acre parkland north of Brisbane will be treated to genre-crossing performances in music; trad, blues, folk and rock, world and indigenous, right through to dance, circus, spoken word, comedy, a series of pertinent conversations in the speaker’s programme and a full-to-the-brim Children’s Festival.
Head of Programming, Chloe Goodyear said it was hard to narrow down a list of acts to name as features this Festival: “There are so many performers we’ve been having conversations with over many years from Australia and across the world, this is both a year of firsts along with a year of great past-performers returning. We are pretty sure there are going to be some delighted supporters and as always, an abundance of new discoveries,” she said.
Buffy Sainte-Marie (CAN), Paul Kelly & Charlie Owen
Half Moon Run (CAN), Wallis Bird (IRE), The Bamboos
Dr Karl, Urthboy, Amanda Palmer (USA), Meow Meow
Lake Street Dive (USA), Thelma Plum, The Little Stevies
Tash Sultana, Keith Potger, Swamp Thing, Hot Potato Band
Tim O’Brien (USA), Chad Morgan, Sharon Shannon (IRE)
Steve Poltz (USA), Jerron ‘Blind Boy’ Paxton (USA), Yirrmal
Kev Carmody, Die Roten Punkte, Gregory Page (USA), Vieux Farka Toure (MALI)
Jaron Freeman-Fox and the Opposite of Everything (CAN/USA)
FourWinds (IRE), Gang Of Youths, Dubioza Kolektiv (Bosnia)
Xylouris White (Greece/AUS), Judith Lucy, Charles Firth