I was hoping to get to the Folklore conference but as I'm relying on friends for a lift & we normally arrive sometime after lunch ...

2023 NATIONAL FOLKLORE CONFERENCE

This will be on 6 April at EPIC in Canberra, immediately preceding the National Folk Festival, between 10am and 2.30pm.

The venue will be the Singing Room and the program will feature:

Keith McKenry. Searching for Ron Edwards -

Daniel Kelly. A Factory Lad: The Songs of Colin Dryden A Factory Lad - 5 blog posts
A Factory Lad: The Songs of Colin Dryden - 13 videos

W. Benjamin Lindner. Giving Birth to ‘Waltzing Matilda’: A Forensic Analysis

Jo Henwood. Happy Ever After? A Quest for Australian Fairy Tales and Fairy Stories

Emma Gallagher. Mythologising bushland: Bunyips, bush faeries and the childhood imagination in early twentieth-century Australia

Ruth Hazleton & Judy McKinty. The Pandemic Play Project: documenting kids' culture during COVID-19

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