I've been to a number of Festivals over the years

12th national 78 in FREMANTLE based at the Fremantle Community Arts centre (not the maritime Museum) 16th 1982 SYDNEY - based at Uni of Sydney, was on the orginial organizing committee with Bob Bolton, until the "Professional" Folkies through us off the committee

18th 1984 CANBERRA - based at ANU - very good festival with a fantastic chorus singing sessions.

22nd 1988 SYDNEY, NSW - a flop. Orginially the NSW folk fed and BMC applied for the festival in 1980 when the goverment announced that there would be millon of dollors for grants for events to be run in 1988 for the Bi-centenery, it was going to be a public festival run in the Rocks area but due the takeover of the running of the 82 festival all that work was thrown out. In the end a small group from the BMC and NSWFF through together a festival in a few months.

23rd national Easter 1989 MALENY, SE Qld - very good festival hot weather and Friday was a grog free (Dry) day due to Qld laws.

26th 1992 CANBERRA - again another good festival but spread out over the uni.

30th 1996 Canberra - again very good

35th 2001 CANBERRA - again another good festival

Bruce Downes