Fairbridge Festival
09 Apr, 2010
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11 Apr, 2011
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Festival Type:
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Folk
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Location:
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Fairbridge Village,
Fairbridge,
Western Australia
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Website:
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www.fairbridgefestival.com.au
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FAIRBRIDGE FETIVAL ANNOUNCES FINAL LINE-UP
Fairbridge Festival (9-11 April, Pinjarra) is delighted to announce it’s final line-up. If you like world music, rhythms and dancing then this is the festival for you. Of course there’s masses of other stuff too but the range of percussionists and dance groups, covering an extraordinary array of world music genres, is truly outstanding. The spectacular combined live music and dance shows include ‘Spice’ from percussion geniuses Tetrafide and the Temple of Fine Arts Dancers. We’ve the top flamenco troupe in Australia, Arte Kanela from Melbourne, Balkan dance fusion from Mara! and even a specially commissioned Irish Dance show The Three Tunes. Add to that Greg Sheehan and Tunji Beier with Linsey Pollak as well as Taal Naan and it starts to look like a programmer’s dream.
And that’s before we even start to look at the international acts: Eddi Reader, Genticorum, James Keelaghan & Hugh McMillan, Andrew Cronshaw, Nano Stern, Tom McConville, Vin Garbutt – the list goes on and on. Closer to home a lot of people are getting excited about Melbourne act The Barons of Tang’s punk-Gypsy dance stage melt-down following their astounding success at CircusFest.
In Youthopia The Dave Mann Collective, Toby and Code Red - just back from their Winter Wonderland tour of Canada - and the Simon Kelly Band will be rocking your socks, along with Echoes of Django, Carolann, Prita, Elk Bell and many more and workshops galore. Over at the Children's Festival the all-time favourites from England, Chipolatas, are back and Adam Hall and the Velvet Playboys will perform one of their first ever children's shows - and don't forget that children up to 13 get free entry to the festival this year. The Kid's Craft Club is back along with lots of other exciting workshops for the littlies.
Other amazing acts include Andrew Winton, Nathan Kaye, Dream State Circus, Lucky Oceans and his all star Darling Rangers, Jane Germain and the Yahoos, Beleza, Daniel Champagne, The Fiddle Chicks, The Giant Seagulls (watch out for your chips and your kids), Iris, Nathan Kaye, Five Point Turn, The Fancy Brothers, Lemonwise, Richard Niyoyankuze and the Burundi Children's Choir, the amazing Sally Dastey from Tiddas, Suitcase Circus, Tin Dog, Wadumbah Noongar Dance Group and more - far too many to mention here.
The program listing is up on the website - www.fairbridgefestival.com.au - which is also where you go to buy tickets..
Press and media enquiries: Phoebe Corke Management, phoebe@corke.org, 0407606696.
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How to get there:
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The Fairbridge Festival is located at the historic Fairbridge Village on the South West Highway about an hour south of the fair city of Perth, Western Australia, and five minutes north of the town of Pinjarra [see Location map below]. We recommend taking the Kwinana Freeway south to Mundijong Road, then heading east to the South West Highway and turning right (south). You'll see a large Fairbridge Village sign 5 Km north of Pinjarra.
The site is completely self contained and closed to traffic, offering a range of camp site areas, all in a distinctive bushland setting.
The Village makes a perfect setting for a family music festival. Your ticket allows unrestricted entry between all concert, dance, workshop and craft venues, with plenty of street activity, busking and stalls in between.
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