2012 Artists - see below and click on the Website link for more
Below is a sample of the 150 acts performing at the 2012 Illawarra Folk Festival from around the world and Australia.
Dougie Maclean
Dougie MacLean is one of Scotland's most successful, respected and popular musicians. He is touring solo in Australia 2012 and is the composer of Caledonia.
Peggy Seeger
Born in 1935, Peggy's family connections are well-known in folk and classical music circles. She is Pete Seeger's half-sister, Ruth Crawford Seeger's daughter; partner to Ewan MacColl, who wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her and to whom she bore three children. A singer and multi-instrumentalist, she is considered to be one of North America's finest female folksingers.
The Beez
The Berlin cabaret band renowned for eccentric cover versions are now covering their own original material with accordion, banjo, dobro guitar, acoustic bass guitar and The Beez´ trademark soaring four-part harmonies. Embracing the musical traditions of their respective homelands, the four German, American and Australian members take on styles as diverse as klezmer, punk and bluegrass with wit and charm.
Simon Bradley Ttrio
The Simon Bradley Trio comprises of three award winning multi instrumentalists Matheu Watson, Anna Wendy Stevenson and Simon Bradley. They play fiddles, viola, mandolin, banjo and guitar in a polished, lush and dynamic sound reminiscent of The Easy Club/Fine Friday/Django/Session A9 - “traditional swing”.
Skipping Girl Vinegar
In amongst the madness and fervor that has been the last four years, Melbournian fivepiece
Skipping Girl Vinegar have become one of Australia's most talked about bands. Comprising of brother/sister duo Mark and Sare Lang and their respective childhood friends Chris Helm, Amanthi Lynch & Kelly Lane, their debut single One Chance was the Australian iTunes single of the week, added to high-rotation on Triple J and championed by major alternative and ABC radio nationwide.
The Woohoo Revue
Call them what you will- 'Balkan gypsy brass band, roaring twenties swing ensemble, Wild West fiddle contest or a soundtrack for Looney Tunes'- it barely scratches the surface. There are few, if any parallels to the sound of The Woohoo Revue. This fiendishly talented sextet create an adrenalin-fuelled celebration fit for dancing, drinking, and ignoring tomorrow.
George Kamikawa & Noriko Tadano
George and Noriko met by chance in Melbourne and after uncovering the similarities between traditional Japanese music and blues began to explore the uncharted musical possibilities. Both musicians were born and raised in Japan but have made their lives in Australia. Mixing well known blues songs with ancient Japanese music enables people to, not only through sound but also sight, experience first hand the coming together of traditional and contemporary.
Gleny Rae Virus and her Tamworth Playboys
Gleny Rae Virus and her Tamworth Playboys reach back to the 1940's, when jazz collided with country to make western swing. Gleny Rae combines her rural background and love of the ridiculous with fine fiddling and squeezebox to create an entertaining country cabaret show, backed by the exquisite musicianship of Roy Payne (guitar/lap steel) and Dougie Bull (bullfiddle). The trio will perform songs from their new album "Beyond Horizontal", which they recently showcased at the Americana Music Association Festival in Nashville.
Brendan Gallagher
BRENDAN GALLAGHER is a music all rounder - singer, multi instrumentalist, songwriter, performer, producer, composer, author. In a career spanning over thirty years he has played on recordings for artists from David Bowie to Kylie Minogue and produced records like Jimmy Little's Messenger. With Karma County he has released six albums and toured the world. In the last five years he has released two solo albums. Brendan is also the author of internatioinal best seller The Open Tuning Chord Book For Guitar favoured by guitarists from Peter Buck (REM) to Arlo Guthrie.
International ARTISTS 2012 so far
2012 ARTISTS BOOKED SO FAR
Dougie Maclean (Scot)
Peggy Seeger (USA)
Betty Scott (USA)
Bukhchuluun Ganburged (Bukhu) (Mongolia)
Cindy Harris (USA),
David Hakan (USA)
Donna & Rick Nestler (USA)
Eileen Kozloff (USA)
Fred Coon and Bill Burke (USA)
George Kamikawa & Noriko Tadano (Japan)
Half Way Home (USA)
Indigie Femme (US/NZ)
Jonathan Bob Lynn (Canada)
La Petite Manouche (NZ)
Lindsay Haisley (USA)
Melisande (Quebec)
Pete & Keith Daigle (USA)
Simon Bradley Trio (UK)
The Beez (Germany)
National ARTISTS 2012 so far
2012 ARTISTS BOOKED SO FAR
more to come...
A Seated Craft
Andrew Winton (WA)
Bernard Carney and David Hyams (WA)
Brendan Gallagher
Dennis O'Keeffe (Vic)
Enda Kenny (Vic)
Evelyn's Secret (Vic)
Franklyn B Paverty,
Gleny Rae Virus and her Tamworth Playboys
Glover & Sorrensen
Graeme Fletcher (Vic)
Gregory North
Heath Cullen & the 45
Jack Flash (Qld)
James Fahy
Jay Fraser
Jim Haynes
Joe Oppenheimer
John Dengate
Judy Small (Vic)
Karen Lynne Bluegrass Circle
Kazband (Vic)
Lucy Wise and The B'Gollies (Vic)
Margaret & Bob Fagan
Martin Pearson
Michael Fix (Qld)
Mike Jackson & Thom Jackson (Vic)
Neil Adam & Judy Turner (Vic)
Penny Davies & Roger Ilott (Qld)
Pete Denahy (Vic)
Quarry Mountian Dead Rats (Vic)
Ricketty Bridge (Vic)
Skipping Girl Vinegar (Vic)
SqueezeBox Boogaloo
Strelley, Sunas (Qld)
The Bearded Gypsy Band (SA)?
and more
The Woohoo Revue (Vic)
Wheeze & Suck Band
2012 Local FOLK
2012 ARTISTS BOOKED SO FAR
more to come...
Big Erle
The Con Artists
The King & Qeen of Green
Wongawilli
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JANUARY 18, 2012
Acclaimed Scottish folk singer Dougie Maclean summed up the 27th Illawarra Folk Festival when he praised the festival’s emphasis on the musical experience, saying the performers were “just the icing on the cake”.
Maclean had just played to a packed crowd at one of the biggest of the festival’s 12 performance stages, the Black Diamond Marquee, where the audience had...
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