National Folk Festival
Exhibition Park, Canberra April 1-5, 2010
Experienced festival manager and renowned musician Sebastian Flynn has been appointed as the new
managing director of Australia’s premier folk event, the National Folk Festival.
Media Release now available online
In its submission to the Federal Government, the National Folk Festival strongly supported the Government’s intention to develop a national cultural policy. The submission said that understanding and preserving our cultural heritage and creating an environment in which it can evolve, in a way which is creative, dynamic and innovative, should be an integral component of a national cultural policy.
The submission also said that a national cultural policy framework also provides an opportunity to better align cultural policy with other national policy agendas such as education (for example, the development of national curricula for history and the arts) and social cohesion.
A copy of the submission can be found here
Early Bird 2 Tickets for the 2010 National Folk Festival and National Folk School are now available online and via the Ticket Hotline 1300 235 849.
To access the link to online Ticket Sales please go to the Tickets page.
The conference explores the more cerebral aspect of the National Folk Festival, with presentations, lectures and activities looking at the rich vein of folklore. In 2010 it will be held on the folklorically appropriate date of Thursday, April 1 at the National Library of Australia.
The Organising Committee are seeking expressions of interest from people interested in giving a presentation on an aspect of folklore. For more information see the National Folklore Conference webpage.
Click here to listen to performance highlights for the 2009 National Folk Festival, including performances by Colum Sands, The Fiddle Chicks, Old Man Luedecke and Neil Murray - just to name a few.
