Dwellingup 2010

Dwellingup 2010 is getting close - this year we'll be down there from Friday, 19th to Sunday, 21st November. 

Last year’s festival was our best yet and raised over $8000.00 for cancer research. 2010 will be our fifth festival and is promising to continue this success and achieve an even better result.

If you haven’t attended before, the festival is held every November at Banksia Springs Lodge in Dwellingup, and has featured a wide range of talent from WA, interstate and overseas. The range of musical styles presented has been fantastic, encompassing English, Irish and Australian folk, comic a capella, Cajun music and dance, Swiss yodelling, contemporary Australian songwriters and more.

There is a Ceilidh on the Friday night to welcome you to the weekend and get you into festival mode. This is usually followed by a movie or workshop and a late night singing session.

Saturday and Sunday are filled with concerts and workshops – but never more than one performance at a time so you don’t have to miss out on any of the action.

We also find time to fit in popular events from previous years;-  a breakfast concert over cooked bacon and eggs on the deck, a bushwalk on Sunday morning, casual music and singing sessions and a blackboard concert.

We hope you can join us for a fantastic weekend of music, song and dance, and help us make this event Little Folk’s biggest contribution yet to children's cancer research.

GUESTS

Our interstate guests this year are Margaret Walters and Danny Spooner. From WA we'll have Robert Zeilinski, David and Jenny Hoffman, Graham Wilson, Continental Drift (barbershop quartet), Take 3, Norma Holmes, Ken Kenny, Peter (Murf) Murphy and many more.

All of these performers will, as always, be providing their time and talents freely to help add to the $65,000+ we have already raised for children's cancer research at Princess Margaret Hospital.

Ticket sales are now open, and as numbers are limited we expect to sell out fast. Call Noel on 0418 656 785 or Connie on 0402 914 365 to grab your place now. Make sure you call early as places are only confirmed once paid in full.

Festival Weekend : Friday 19th to Sunday 21st of November.

Make sure you lock this in your calendar now!

TICKETS

WA’s cheapest festival at $50.00 per person

(See details below for how to pay.)

ACCOMMODATION

Camping / Dossing                   $25.00 per person / per night
Beds                                        $50.00 per person / per night

There is plenty of camping available on site. Tents, vans or trailers are welcome in the fantastic grounds of Banksia Springs. There will be power available for most of the sites, and access to the kitchens in the lodge. There is also limited space available in the dosser’s dorm for swags or camp beds. Motor homes can also be accommodated.

Beds in the lodge and cottages are allocated to visiting performers first, after this the remaining beds  will be allocated to the first comers, until they are all gone. Beds are allocated individually in shared rooms of 3 or 4 people.

For those who feel a little less adventurous, there is also a range of accommodation available in Dwellingup, including the Dwellingup Pub - 08 9538 1056, and various chalets, caravan parks and B&B.
Most of these venues are within 5 minutes of the festival site.

MEALS

The only meal available on site is the cooked Breakfast in the Bush on Saturday morning.
This is available for $10 per person and includes:

·         Sausage, Bacon, Eggs (scrambled or fried), Beans, Tomatoes, Mushroom, Toast and Tea or Coffee. 

If you wish to partake, please let us know in advance. (Payment can be made on the weekend.)

All other meals are self-catered.  The kitchen in the lodge can be used, but there are only two stoves so there can be  queue.  
Meals are also available from the pub, café, or supermarket in Dwellingup town. These are only five minutes from the festival site. Menus will be available during the weekend.
There may be soup and/or mulled wine available for a small donation on the Friday and Saturday nights, but aside from this you will need to make your own arrangements.
If you would like any further information, or you know anyone who would like to attend, you can contact us using the details below.

BOOK SALE

Last year we added a new feature to the weekend in the form of a second-hand book sale.  This proved to be very popular so we will be repeating it this year. 
Browse through a wide selection of fiction and non-fiction books and select as many as you want at very reasonable prices.  As usual, all books are donated and the proceeds go to the Princess Margaret Foundation.

HOW TO PAY

In Cash:        Pay in person to a Committee Member

By Cheque:    Mail to Little Folk Inc, 11 Montreal Road, Woodbridge 

By EFT:        From your web banking page into our account as follows:

Account Name:           Little Folk Inc

BSB:                          066 115

Account Number:       010274813

Commonwealth Bank

23 Old Great Northern Highway

Midland

**Please**
Ensure that both your own name and that of the event are specified so we can identify your payment

 Looking forward to seeing you all at Folk in the Forest 2010
The Little Folk committee

noel.kenny@newmont.com.au
conniekenny@hotmail.com
alliance@iexpress.net.au

  

House Concert - 4th September 2010

If you missed the House Concert on Saturday, 4th September, you missed an excellent evening.  We had a great variety of performers from poets to unaccompanied singers to fiddlers to groups - everyone, as always, donating their time and talents to benefit others.  Robert Zielinski was his usual virtuoso self, not only on the fiddle, but also on the whistle!!

Ellie Wilkie performed some of her own very amusing poems, accompanied by the paintings that inspired them - as well as some interesting anecdotes - I especially enjoyed the one about the man in the bookshop:)  He probably enjoyed it too!  Ellie very generously donated a proportion of the proceeds from sales of her books, cards and DVDs to Little Folk.  If you get the chance to see her perform, you will be in for a treat!

Jane and Robert performed two duets that were enjoyed by all - we don't often get the chance to hear this type of early church music - short but sweet!

Take 3 made their debut appearance on the night - the general consensus seemed to be favourable.  (I would say they were very good, but I might be accused of bias......) Jean, Fiona and Anne are all Scottish and performed mostly Scottish songs - some traditional and some contemporary, some with conventional topics and some slightly unconventional, like the story of Sawney Bean and his family of incestuous, murdering cannibals!  Definitely different.

Ken sang a couple of amusing Irish songs, followed by a newly written poem with a great twist in the tail - or tale - either applies! Watch this space for news of an upcoming publication.

Murf gave a varied performance - one music hall song, one traditional folk song about a young man doing what young men do (getting young women in "trouble").  His final song was very brave, considering his recent return from the UK and the associated jet lag - Keith Marsden's "The Manch". Murf managed to get to the end in great style, not missing any of the pubs on the extensive pub crawl that is the subject of the song - well done!!

Thanks to Karen for allowing the use of her home, Martin for the photos and everyone who attended and performed on the night.

Little Folk AGM

Little Folk AGM 2010 will take place on Sunday, 29th August at 5.00pm.

Address:   11 Montreal Road,
                Woodbridge
                W.A. 6056                

House Concert - 4th September 2010

Our next event is a House Concert on Saturday, 4th September.  It will take place in Landsdale, north of the river.  The line-up will include:

Robert Zielinski (Stafford) - fantastic traditional fiddler
Ellie Wilkie - English humourous poet
Take 3 (aka Jean Wilson, Anne Cormack and Fiona Ferguson) performing traditional and contemporary Scottish Folk
Patrick Gethin - another humourous versifier,
Jane and Robert - madrigal singing duet
and several of the usual suspects.

Tickets are $10 each and can only be obtained by ringing Karen Ford on 9303 4204 or 0439 844 024. As this is a house concert, numbers are limited and you may like to bring a chair with you in case! Refreshments will be available during the interval.

Little Folk for Little Folk - Children's Concert

The annual Children's Concert was held at the Irish Club on Friday, 6th August and it was the best one yet.  The performers were all terrific - talented and confident as well as being generous to enough to donate their time and talents to a worthy cause.  The grand sum of $2,120 was raised, bringing the total raised for Cancer Research to $65,000 - a great effort by all concerned and a special thanks to Sean Doherty and the Irish Club for their hard work .

About Little Folk Inc

Little Folk Inc…………




Is a licensed Australian charity funding Children’s Cancer Research.

Founded in Perth, Western Australia, our membership reaches across Australia to Indonesia, Ireland and the UK.
Little Folk is a unique charitable organization with 100% of donations going to Children’s Cancer Research. We are affiliated to the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation and they are the sole recipient of all funds raised.

Little Folk has no paid administrators, members or collectors.

We operate within the folk arts community and our committees comprise people with an active interest in folk music, song and dance. Donations come from the general public, folk artists and the business community.

Our fund raising activities include concerts, dances, raffles, quiz nights, Folk Festivals and other Folk Arts related presentations. New members are welcome and we value your suggestions, your constructive criticism or any help you can give.

Your ideas and support can help us save lives.

Membership is $5.00 per year.