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
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
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
This is available for $10 per person and includes:
· Sausage, Bacon, Eggs (scrambled or fried), Beans, Tomatoes, Mushroom, Toast and Tea or Coffee.
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
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
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