Woodford Folk Festival

It’s coming, that hot and sweaty summer that Queenslanders know best!

At this time of year the camping gear comes out and the diaries are thrown out the window as the annual Woodford Folk Festival is on again.

The six-day happening, which closes out one year and welcomes the next, strives to be more than just a “festival”, more than an “event”.  According to Head of Programming Chloe Goodyear, “It is a coming together of souls; a bubbling cauldron of expression and creativity; an exploration of our cultures and a celebration of a compassionate community.”

The festival theme, Imagining a Beautiful Future, aims to encourage organisers, artists and patrons alike to explore the ways in which we might counteract some of the negative rhetoric surrounding the future of the world.

Though 65% of the programme are completely new-to-the-festival artists and presenters, patrons will enjoy much-loved returnees including Kate Miller-Heidke, Harry Manx, Electric Fields and Archie Roach in his first shows with Paul Grabrowsky for his ‘Tell Me Why’ memoir and accompanying album.

As always, the programme offers the equivalent of a full festival programme of speakers and panel discussions, which this year features, the incomparable Dr Karl; Leigh Sales interviewing Michael Gudinski; visiting US guest and author of Biology of Belief, Dr Bruce Lipton; journalist Kerry O’Brien with Noel Pearson; and Rhoda Roberts (AO) in her annual ‘Ancient Culture, New Conversations’ series, amongst over 100 others.

Friday 27th December to Wednesday 1st January

The Children’s Festival will also be on, so take the kids along and experience Woodfordia together!!