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Thread #159388 Message #3776010
Posted By: Sandra in Sydney
01-Mar-16 - 08:47 AM
Thread Name: OzCatters @ 2016 National Folk Festival?
Subject: OzCatters @ 2016 National Folk Festival?
well, I was planning to leave it for a day or 2, but with BruceD saying It's time! here it is.
So, who will be there & the perennial question, where do we meet?
It's the 50th National, so there are lots of celebrations happening.
As I wrote on 50 years of the Australian National Folk Festival my good friend Phyl Lobl was involved with the first & is re-creating several concerts.
Trocadero Fri 1.40 - 2.40 Wasn't that a time? Phyl Lobl & friends
Budawang - Sat 2-3.40, Founder's concert - cast includes Phyl Lobl & Margaret RoadKnight
Trocadero - Sun 11.20 - 1.10 Songwriter's concert - Revisiting the First NFF & it's impact on the future
Her good friend Margaret RoadKnight is also involved, as is the Victorian Folk Music Club (founded in 1959 as the Bush Music Club)
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Sydney's Bush Music Club has a full program -
Songs workshop -
Saturday Night Carnival - Carnival Stage, 5-6pm Songs of Reedy River
tunes workshop - Waltz-a-thon Part 2, The Terrace, Sunday, 7-9pm, all musicians welcome
4 daily Saplings workshops for young musicians 8-16 years + one 30 min concert for these performers.
Billy Moran tent, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday - 11.30 to 12.30
Performance - Central Park - Monday - 3.30 to 4pm.
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Sunday 9.30, Billy Moran Tent (not the best venue for a singing session)
Community Hymn singing with Hrothgar & his beautiful assistants - his lovely wife Anne, JennieG & me! Best singing session in the whole festival.
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I'll be at every singing session possible, including the late night sessions, especially the shanty sessions with the Redfern Shanty Club an amazingly energetic group of under 30s!
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UK Catter Brian Peters will also be there.
sandra