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Woodford Folk Festival: world famous music and multicultural event in Queensland

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Woodford Folk Festival: multicultural entertainment, music and fun

 

Woodford Folk Festival is a musical and entertainment smorgasbord that occurs during the last week of every year, finsihing on New Years Day with The Fire Dance. The folk festival is held in a mountain environment in the foothills of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia about halfway between Brisbane and Mooloolaba. The Woodford Folk Festival had its origins in the famous Maleny Folk Festival.

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Woodford Folk Festival: organised by volunteers 

The Woodford Folk Festival is organised and run by the Woodford-based, Queensland Folk Federation which is mainly a volunteer run organisation, headed up by Bill Hauritz and Amanda Jakes. The folk festival began in 1987 as the Maleny Folk Fetival but has grown to international standing through the dedication of lovers of music and entertainment. Volunteers have planted thousands of trees on the Woodford Festival site and enabled the creation of a truly multicultural and musical event of world statue.

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Woodford Folk Festival on Flickr 

Cooroboree Venue at Woodford by VajraCath

The Woodford Folk Festival attracts one of the largest gathering of Aboriginal a...

Woodford Cricket by geor gia

Taken at Woodford Folk Festival 07/08

puppets at Woodford by mralan

Another from the Woodford Folk Festival. We had such fun I had to sharethis one...

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Tribalicious at Woodford Folk Festival, Australia

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all the people going to or from the grande at the woodford folk festival where w...

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Friendly kangaroos attract a lot of attention at the Woodford Folk Festival.

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The slope we spent out afternoons on at the Woodford Folk Festival. I got bitten...

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Tim Freedman, Woodford Folk Festival, 30/12/2006I have seen Tim from the Whitl...

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Kid's dancing at the Woodford Folk Festival

Blog Posts about the Woodford Folk Festival 

Kev Carmody - Freedom
to maybe 30 people and the last time I saw him was at the pig city festival, where he had everyone singing along by the end. In the early days of the Maleny/Woodford folk festival he was an incredible support, always there for the ...
27th December 2008 - 1st January 2009 : Woodford Folk Festival ...
... Devil Goat Family String Band, The Uzbek National Folk Puppet Theatre, Ashleigh Mannix, Dream Puppets, Controlled Falling, Dynamic Thrills, Elissa Hawke, Dolly Putin, Ghostboy, Ivan Sen, LightnUp Inc & Krinkl Theatre, La Lola Salon, ...
Kamerunga becoming famous
They have already been booked for the Woodford Folk Festival and Port Fairy Folk Festival, and the other biggie, the National Folk Festival in Canberra. "Then it's overseas," says band member and local writer Tony Hillier. ...
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Woodford Folk Festival News from Google 

Live Music
An explosive first performance at Woodford Folk Festival rapidly changed that and by his second show audiences were spilling out of the venue. ...
Where Next for Live Music on Island?
Early this year co-owner PJ Woodford teamed up with Colin Ruel, an Island musician who had played at the cafe in an evening of music he had helped to ...
Live Music
Tete's first explosive performance was at Woodford Folk Festival where word soon spread across Australia that he was an act not to be missed. ...
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The 14-year-old has previously performed with Flipside Circus at the Woodford Folk Festival and the Adelaide Fringe Festival. It's hardly surprising that ...

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