MEDIA INFORMATION 

Media enquiries to Peter O’Neill - marketingmedia@illawarrafolkclub.org.au
tel: 0429 674 005

General festival enquiries to Robyn at 1300 887 034

2012 FESTIVAL

• Click here for the 2012 FEstival MEDIA KIT

• Click here for the Full Festival Souvenir Program

• Click here for electronic copy of the festival flyer

2012 MEDIA RELEASES

• Illawarra Folk Festival 2012 - Review 18 January 2012

• Singing in the Bulli rain 16 January 2012

• Bulli Showground transformation underway 10 January 2012

• Farewell to Peggy Seeger 6 January 2012

• Sydney gets a taste of the Illawarra Folk Festival 28 December 2011

• Countdown to the Illawarra Folk Festival 9 December 2011

• All Aboard the Green Music Train 2 December 2011

• Folk festival summer school scholarships for young musicians 9 November 2011

• American roots musicians to feature at folk festival 28 October 2011

• Squeeze, strum or pluck: you choice at the folk instrument expo 25 October 2011

• Community groups can raise funds through folk festival 23 September 2011

• Autoharp - 2012 Festival Feature Instrument

• Early Bird tickets get folk festival rolling

• Early Artist Bookings and plenty more to come 

• Illawarra Folk Week - part of the 2012 Festival Fringe

• 2012 Festival Call for Volunteers

IMAGES

Images of the 2012 Artists and general images have been uploaded to our Artistic Director's Picasa Web Album.

Click here for David De Santi's Web Album with general images and 2012 Festival Artist images.

High resolution versions of the photos can be downloaded as follows:

1. Firstly go to the web album
2. Click on the album and then the image that you want to download
3. Click on ‘Actions’ above the image and next to ‘Prints’. A drop down menu appears.
4. Select the very last option – ‘Download photo’

2012 Festival Artists Images

Click here to go to Artists Images from Picasa

General Media Images

Click here to go to General Images from Picasa

 

2011 Festival

• 2011_FESTIVAL_MEDIA_PACK
• 2011_FESTIVAL_PROGRAM
• 2011_FESTIVAL_ADVERT
• 2011 FESTIVAL ARTWORK - ready made Ads, Poster download
• 2011_FESTIVAL_MEDIA_RELEASES
• FESTIVAL_FEATURES
• Download 32 second Audio Promotion, MP3 format, 1MB

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2011 FESTIVAL MEDIA PACK - 21 pages

Includes, Festival poster, press release, major artist biographies, background information

Click here to download (PDF) as at 23 November 2010, 1.4MB

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2011 FESTIVAL PROGRAM

Full program of all of the events for the festival from Wednesday to Sunday including the Folk Summer School and the Folk Music Train

 

• Artists biographies and performance times (5.6MB PDF), 18 pages
   
• All 4 days program grid (venues / performances) (2MB PDF), 6 pages
   
• Wednesday / Thursday / Friday program grid (0.7MB PDF), 2 pages
   
• Saturday program grid (0.8MB PDF), 2 pages
   
• Sunday program grid, (0.7MB PDF), 2 pages
   
• Summer Folk School, (0.4MB PDF), 1 page
   
• All of the information above and more, as extracted from the Souvenir Program (13.5MB) 31 pages

 

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2011 FESTIVAL ADVERT

Click here to download a high resolution advert, 275mm x 200mm wide.  10.5MB

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2011 FESTIVAL MEDIA RELEASES

MEDIA RELEASE 1 - 13 November 2010

Eric Bogle heads stellar line-up for Illawarra Folk Festival

click here for Word Document format

MEDIA RELEASE 2 - 10 November 2010

State's Largest Folk Festival calls for community support

click here for Word Document format

MEDIA ARTIST 1 - 24 December 2010

Illawarra Folk Festival to secede and declare
FOLK REPUBLIC OF BULLI on 7 January 2011

click here for PDF Document format

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FESTIVAL FEATURES

The Festival presents are of special events. Click below for more details.

• THURSDAY 13 JANUARY, Midday - Lunch Italian Style - food and music to celebrate!
• THURSDAY 13 JANUARY, 7.30pm - Great Tripe Dinner and Concert
• WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY - FOLK SUMMER SCHOOL - 30 classes for young and old 
• SATURDAY and SUNDAY - FOLK MUSIC TRAIN - 3 services with 8 carriages and 16 acts performing
• ALL FESTIVAL - GREEN FOLK GOING FOR ZERO - The Festival is fully committed to recycling all its waste!

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IMAGES

Some images to download:

   

Bettina Schelker | Eric Bogle

   

Orkestra del Sol | The Barons of Tang | The Tealeaves

   

The Good Ship | Ami Williamson | The Go Set

OTHER 2011 ARTIST PHOTOGRAPHS - click here

GENERAL FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHS - large format - click here

    

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2009 Festival MEDIA RELEASES

• Kevin Rudd to get No.1 Ticket - 24th Illawarra Folk Festival Launch, 21 November 2008
• Message From Minister for Tourism - Jodi McKay MP
• Message From Minister for Illawarra and Transport - David Campbell MP