The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #54308 Message #842192
Posted By: Bob Bolton
06-Dec-02 - 06:51 AM
Thread Name: OzCats: Tasmania, SA, Vic Jan-03
Subject: RE: BS: OzCats: Tasmania, SA, Vic Jan-03
G'day again Helen,
I think the Cygnet festival is something like the second or third weekend - and the Tamar Valey (Georgetown) festival the week after. I only bother checking the dates if I'm going to be in Tassie around that time - this year I was down in February, so missed both. I played at Cygnet around 1989 ... the local bands loved the Australian music we (Selectors Bush Band) played - they hadn't heard anything Australian before!
Now there are keen local collectors and performers of Australian traditional music (such as Steve Gadd ... just over the Huon River, in Franklin) as well as half of Selectors - who fell in love with Tassie and moved down there!
Lately the emphasis at Cygnet has been very "World Music" (not so much spelled ... as beaten out - on drums!) while Georgetown has a more traditional (UK / Irish expatriate) feel to it.