BRIDGETTE ALI Brisbane’s local music talent are set to have a brighter spotlight shining on them thanks to the latest addition to the city’s already stellar line-up of music venues, The Fortitude Music Hall. The Fortitude Music Hall … [Read more...]
Rockabilly festival reaches 20-year milestone
Aug 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment
BRITTINY EDWARDS The Greazefest Kustom Kulture Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary year in the Redlands area this weekend, showing that the Southeast’s love of 1950s rockabilly culture is still going strong. The festival, … [Read more...]
Storytelling runs deep with Chasing Smoke
Jan 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Storytelling is as foundational an aspect to community as a rigger is to a circus act, and only at Woodford Folk Festival, in an evocative performance like Chasing Smoke, would you find these two facets intertwine so seamlessly. Lara Croydon … [Read more...]
Removing the taboo of mental illness
Jan 1, 2019 by 2 Comments
by Jade McGarry REMI drawing an enthusiastic crowd at the GrandePhoto cred: Dylan Crawford Finally, it feels like we can talk about mental illness and it’s about bloody time. The struggles faced by people silently enduring the pain of … [Read more...]
Step in to the world of “The Game”
Dec 31, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Snuffles - Death's Assistant. (Dylan Crawford @seewhatdsees) By Isaac Gregor There’s a world within a world here at the Woodford Folk Festival – it’s called The Game. A fantastical journey through time and space, where factions compete and … [Read more...]
The Menstrual Revolution
Dec 31, 2018 by Leave a Comment
by Jade McGarry “Half the world menstruates, so we may as well talk about it.” So says Fiona McKeague, member of the ‘Menstru-Revolutionaries,’ a team of women working to innovate the menstrual process and eradicate the internalised shame … [Read more...]
REVIEW – The art of body percussion with Junkyard Beats at Woodford Folk Festival
Dec 31, 2018 by Leave a Comment
by Haley Smith Junkyard Beats show the art of body percussion - WFF stock photo “Skimdadaboo!” Oded Prior seduces the audience in a made-up language, waving to the crowd gathering under the Parlour tent at Woodford Folk Festival. He begins … [Read more...]
Chris Tamwoy taps and strums his way in to the hearts of Woodford
Dec 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
by Isaac Gregor Chris Tamwoy captivating the audience at the event 'Always Has, Always Will Be' - The Grande, Woodford Folk Festival. An undeniable aspect of Woodford Folk Festival's ethos is connectivity, and that theme has acted as a catalyst … [Read more...]
The 33-Year Long Woodfordian tradition
Dec 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
by Jade McGarry John Emmett sets up for another busy day at Woodford Folk Festival Woodford's everchanging ethos of connection and understanding, has people coming back time and time again, to learn, grow and share ideas among likeminded … [Read more...]
Mu’ooz – the little food stall with a big story
Dec 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
JADE MCGARRY Saba Abrahams, founder of Mu'ooz, prepares the morning's Eritrean coffee More than 20-thousand refugees come to Australia every year, leaving many women, men and children experiencing unemployment, trauma and social … [Read more...]
