27th Festival Artists
12-15 January 2012

Over 500 Artist applications were received and the Booking Committee has been busy.

The Committee selects around 150 international, national and local acts with around 600 performers.

  

INTERNATIONAL

Ain't Got No Cents (USA), Barbara Giamalvo (USA), Betty Scott (USA), Bukhu (Mongolia), Cindy Harris (USA), David Hakan (USA), Donna & Rick Nestler (USA), Dougie Maclean (Scot), Eileen Kozloff (USA), Fred Coon & Bill Burke (USA), George Kamikawa & Noriko Tadano (Japan), Half Way Home (USA), Indigie Femme, Jonathan Bob Lynn (Canada), La Petite Manouche (NZ), Lindsay Haisley (USA), Melisande (Canada), Pete & Keith Daigle (USA), Simon Bradley Trio (UK), The Beez (Germany)

NATIONAL

A Seated Craft, Andrew Winton (WA), Anton Wood (ACT), Azadoota, Bernard Carney & David Hyams (WA), Brendan Gallagher, Brian Bell, Bush Music Club, CJ Shaw, Coolfinn Mac, Dani Karis, Dennis O'Keeffe (VIC), Emma Barlow, Enda Kenny (VIC), Evelyn's Secret(VIC),  Folklore, Franklyn B Paverty Bush Band (ACT), Fred Paterson Tribute, Get Folked, Gleny Rae Virus & her Tamworth Playboys, Glover & Sorrensen, Graeme Fletcher(VIC), Gregory North, Heath Cullen & the 45, Jack Flash (QLD), James Fahy & his Trio, James Gastineau-Hills & Andrew Russell, Jay Fraser, Jim Haynes, Joe Oppenheimer, Judy Small (VIC), Karen Lynne Bluegrass Circle, Kazband (VIC), Kiran Shah, Lime & Steel, Lorraine McCrimmon, Lucy Wise & The B'Gollies (VIC), Mandy Connell (VIC), Margaret & Bob Fagan, Martin Pearson (VIC), Merryweather, Michael Fix (QLD), Mike & Thom Jackson (VIC), Mitch Smith, Moira's harp & Karella's cello, Neil Adam & Judy Turner (VIC), Newcastle People's Chorus, Nick & Liesl, Penny Davies & Roger Ilott (QLD), Pete Denahy (VIC), Pukara, Quarry Mountain Dead Rats (VIC), Ricketty Bridge (VIC), Shez Wright (QLD), Skipping Girl Vinegar (VIC), SNUGs, SqueezeBox Boogaloo, Strelley, Sunas (QLD), Sydney Trade Union Choir , The Bearded Gypsy Band (SA), The Ramshackle Army (VIC), The Rhymer from Ryde, The Strangest Dreamers (QLD), The String Contingent (ACT/UK), The Woohoo Revue (VIC), Wheeze & Suck Band

LOCAL

Big Erle & the Limb Looseners, Chord-eaux, David Hellens & David Harman, Dinah the Designer, Festiphiliacs Anonymous, Gatesway to Harmonica, Gobsmacked!, Illawarra Union Singers, Jane Aubourg, John Broomhall, Kenny Bartley, Lilli Pilli Tales, My Secret Window, No Such Thing, Penny Hartgerink, Sheena-na-gig, Songs From The Scaffold, South of The Big Smoke, Stewart Holt, Swingaleles, The Beatmeisters, The Butcher Boys, The Con Artists, The King & Queen of Green, The Trainset, Tia Juana & Her Depths of Despair, Winyanga Ngamai, Wollongong Cello Ensemble, Wongawilli, Zondrae King, Zorba's Kefi, Zumpa

YOUTH LOCAL

24/8, Annalivia, Ash-Leigh, Forever Archie, Friends & Passengers, Kay Proudlove, Once Upon A Song, Paddy & The Wonderband, Replay, Rosie & the Bluesters, Woodhouse & Keys

DANCE

Albion Fair Morris, Black Joak Morris, Canberra Contra Club, Chango, Cinnamon Twist Belly Dance, Flamenco Fusion by Ruido, Kalalaya Dance Group, Spirit of Serpentine Shcool of Bellydance Infusion, Sydney Irish Ceili Dancers, Sydney Sri Lanka Academy of Fine Arts

   


Evelyn's Secret   |  Simon Bradley Trio (UK)
The Woohoo Revue

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APRIL 12, 2012
Expression of interests to perform at the 2013 Illawarra Folk Festival are now open. Applications will close on 30 June 2012. Click here to read the artists application and remuneration guidelines and for the link to the application form.
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