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Playful Puppetry Workshop
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I Got Rhythm – Uke Got Rhythm
THREE ukulele workshops will be held, facilitated by Bruce Watson across the Tablelands Region in the townships of Herberton, Yungaburra and Atherton in the week leading into Tablelands Folk Festival in October 2024. Bruce Watson, who will facilitate the workshops is a multi-award-winning performer of nearly 40 years’ experience, and has led workshops for nearly…
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September Sessions featuring TAFE Music Students
In keeping with the Tablelands Folk Festival policy of encouraging and enabling emerging artists, the September Yungaburra/Janggaburru Sessions will feature TAFE Music Students. Saturday September 28 sees the Cairns Tafe Music Dept. present its first ever showcase at the Sessions in the Yungaburra pub. This follows on from many years of being perennial favourites at…
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Woyaya
11 am Sat – Curtain Fig Motel 2 pm Sat – Curtain Fig Motel – Sing Your Heart Out w/shop
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BellaCappella
10 am Sat – Curtain Fig Motel
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Raine Dance
7.30 pm Fri – Nick’s Restaurant
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Tenni
7 pm Sat – The Chapel 10 am Sun – The Chapel
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Shake Your Booty
Elle and Taciano (FNQ Samba) Sunday 11 am at The Gem Gallery
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FNQ Samba
7 pm Fri – Community Hall 1 pm Sun – The Fringe
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2024 Festival Performers
Checkout our fabulous Tablelands Folk Festival 2024 Performers –www.tablelandsfolkfestival.org.au/festival-performers/
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Shibashi movement with Syb
9 am Sat and Sun – TAFE Stage area
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Whiskey
11.45 am Sat- Garden Stage
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PJ Myers
1 pm Sat – Nick’s Restaurant 12.45 pm Sun – Silver Ash Cafe
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Stevie Roberts
3 pm Sat – The Chapel 11.45 am Sun – Silver Ash Cafe
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Aussie Folk Legends Tribute
Mangrove Jack 2 pm Sunday – The Chapel
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Woody’s Ukulele School
Woody’s World 11.45 am Sat – TAFE Stage
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Winds Of Change
Tom and Keryn 11 am Sunday – Nick’s Restaurant
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Sing Your Heart Out!
Jane Younghusband 2 pm Sat – Curtain Fig Motel
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I Got Rhythm – Uke Got Rhythm – Ukulele fun- with songs that don’t suck
Bruce Watson 4.30 pm Sat – The Fringe
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Record that Song
Jeff Cripps 4 pm – Sat – Gem Gallery
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All about The Blues
Lucky Lester and T-Bird M 4 pm Sat – St Mark’s Church
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Chiller’s fiddle
Austral 3 pm Sat – St Mark’s Church
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Salty Seas Shanty Writing
The Salty Sirens 2pm Sat – Gem Gallery
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Mongolian Horse Fiddle
Mark Easton 1 pm Sat – Gem Gallery
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Choonbacker
Austral 12 noon Sat – Gem Gallery
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Vocal and Stage Craft
Julian James 11 am Sat – Gem Gallery
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Bush Dance
Presented by Woody’s World 10.45 am Sunday – TAFE Stag area (Children’s Fair)
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Your Voice, Your Journey, Your Story
Keesha McLean 10.30 am Sat – St Mark’s Church
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Singing Up the Women
Jessie and Pearl, Nicole Nighthawk, Talitha Jae 1.30 pm Sun – Pub Ballroom
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Slide Right In
Mark Easton 3pm Sat – Gem Gallery
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Poet’s Breakfast
8.30 am Sunday – The Fringe Stage
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The NQ Kazoo Challenge
On The Street 6.30 pm Saturday
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The Shine a Light Project
Saturday from 1 pm – TAFE Stage and Community Hall
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The Man and the Woman and the Edison Phonograph
Bruce Watson 12 noon Sat – St Mark’s
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Snackapella Lunch
12 noon Sat – Curtain Fig Motel
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Rockin ’the Hall
Carns String Orchestra, Mississippi Shakedown, Lucky 13 Blues Band and Pelicana 11 am to 4 pm Sat – Community Hall
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Tropical Kazoos
All Weekend around the Festival and leading The NQ Kazoo Challenge Saturday 6.30 pm
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Roving Dragonfly Puppets
Various Characters Around the Festival site – all weekend
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Living Harmony Yoga
Rachel and Nick 8 am Sat and Sun – TAFE Stage area
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Bubbles, bubbles EVERYWHERE!
All Weekend throughout the Festival site.
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Pub Verandah Session
ALL WEEKEND
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Welcome to Country with Elders Uncle Laurie and Auntie Syb
Friday 6 pm – Fringe Stage
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A Sonic Journey
Capt Bluetongue 3 pm Sun – St Mark’s Church
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Feeling, Finesse and Fear
Julian James 3 pm Sun – CWA Hall
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Scandi-style
Sue Ferrers 2 pm Sun – CWA Hall
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Clawhammer Banjo
Ryland Moranz 2 pm Sun – Gem Gallery
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Song Construction
Tim Woodz 1 pm Sun – Gem Gallery
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Noodling, Doodling and Googling
JuJu Moon 1 pm Sun – St Mark’s Church
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DADGAD
Todd Cook 12 noon Sun – Gem Gallery
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Will it blend?
Austral 12 noon Sun – CWA
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Yee Haw!!
Brodie Buttons 12 noon – St Mark’s Church
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Let’s party like it’s Nineteen Twenty Three
Django in the Djungle 12 noon Sun – The Fringe
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Bubbleology
Bugzee Bumblebee 11.45 am Sun TAFE Stage
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Songwriting with History
Broken Creek 11 am Sun – CWA Hall
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Throat Singing
Mark Easton 11 am Sun – St Mark’s Church
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Woody’s World – Vic
2 pm Sat – TAFE Stage 10.45 am Sun – TAFE Stage BUSH DANCE (special event) 11.45 am Sat – TAFE Stage – Woody’s Ukulele School – w/shop
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Wind & Wood
10 am Sat – Silver Ash Café 7.45 pm Sat – Silver Ash Café
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Whiskey Boat
7 pm Fri – Community Hall 1.45 pm Sat – Garden Stage 10 am Sun – Garden Stage
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Toria Richings – NSW
9.15 pm Fri – The Fringe 11 am Sat – TAFE Stage 1 pm Sat – Silver Ash Cafe
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Tim Woodz and the Dirty Shoes – Vic
7 pm Sat – Pub Ballroom 4.45 pm Sat – The Chapel 10 am Sun – TAFE Stage 3.45 pm Sun – Pub Ballroom 1 pm Sun – Gem Gallery – w/shop
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The Salty Sirens – Bris
8.30 pm Fri – Pub Ballroom 11 pm Sat – Pub Ballroom 12 noon Sun – Nick’s Restaurant – Shanty Session (special event)
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Tessa Devine Band
11.15 pm Fri – Garden Stage 1.45 pm Sun – Garden Stage Tessa solo: 7 pm Fri – Silver Ash Café 10 pm Sat – Pub Ballroom 11.45 am Sun – Pub Ballroom
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Talitha Jae – Bris
7 pm Sat – The Fringe 12.30 pm Sat – Silver Ash Café 10 am Sun – The Fringe 1.30 pm Sun – Pub Ballroom – ‘Singing Up The Women’ (special event)
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Steve Williams
10.15 am Sat – Pub Ballroom 4.45 pm Sun – The Fringe
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Sonic Bloom
12.45 pm Sun – TAFE Stage
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Raconteurs
7 pm Sat – Community Hall 11 pm Sat – Garden Stage 3.45 pm Sun – Garden Stage
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Peter Willey – NSW
7.30 pm Fri – The Fringe 11 am Sat – Silver Ash Café 2.30 pm Sat – The Fringe 8.30 pm Sat – The Fringe
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Pelicana
7 pm Fri – TAFE Stage 12.45 pm Sat Garden Stage 3 pm Sat – Community Hall – ‘Rockin’ the Hall’ (special event)
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Olive Mae – WA
11.45 am Sat – Silver Ash Café 3 pm Sat – Pub Ballroom 3 pm Sun – The Chapel
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Out of Abingdon – Bris
10 pm Fri – Garden Stage 12 noon Sat – Nick’s Restaurant 9.15 pm Sat – The Chapel
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Nick Atherton
7 pm Fri – Nick’s Restaurant 5 pm Sat – Pub Ballroom 7 pm Sat – Nick’s Restaurant
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Nicole Nighthawk
8.15 pm Fri – The Fringe 9:15 pm Sat – The Fringe 10 am Sun – Silver Ash Café 1.30 pm Sun – Pub Ballroom – Singing Up the Women (special event)
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Mississippi Shakedown
1 pm Sat – Community Hall – ‘Rockin’ The Hall’ (special event) 4 pm Sat – Gem Gallery – Jeff Cripps – Record that Song w/shop
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Lucky 13 Blues Band
2 pm Sat – Community Hall – ‘Rockin’ The Hall’ (special event) 10 am Sun – Gem Gallery – T Bird M & Lester – All About The Blues – w/shop
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Julian James & the Moonshine State – Vic
9 pm Fri – Garden Stage 3.45 pm Sat -Garden Stage 8 pm Sat – Community Hall 11 am Sat – Gem Gallery – Vocal & Stagecraft – w/shop 3 pm Sun – CWA Hall – Feeling Finesse & Fear – w/shop
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JuJu Moon
8 pm Fri – Community Hall 10 am Sat – Garden Stage 11 am Sun – Garden Stage 1 pm Sun – St Mark’s Church – Noodling, Doodling & Googling – w/shop
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Jo Davie – Bris
3.45 pm Sat – The Chapel 10.45 am Sun – Pub Ballroom 1 pm Sun – The Chapel
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Jessie and Pearl
7 pm Fri – The Fringe 1.30 pm Sun – Pub Ballroom – Singing Up The Women (special event) 4 pm Sun – The Fringe
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Ivy Amara
12 noon Sat – Pub Ballroom 11 am Sun – Silver Ash Café 2.30 pm Sun – The Fringe
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Gottani Sisters – T’ville
11 am Sat – Garden Stage 7.30 pm Sat – Nick’s Restaurant 2.45 pm Sun – Pub Ballroom
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Django in the Djungle
10 am Sat – The Chapel 7.45 pm Sat – The Fringe 12 noon Sun – The Fringe – Let’s Party Like it’s Nineteen Twenty-Three w/shop
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Broken Creek – Vic
7.45 pm Fri – Silver Ash Café 11 am Sat – Pub Lounge 7.45 pm Sat – The Chapel 11 am Sun – CWA Hall – Song writing with History w/shop
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Austral – Melbourne
10 pm Fri – Community Hall 9 pm Sat – Community Hall 4.45 pm Sun – Garden Stage 12 noon Sat – Gem Gallery – Choonbacker w/shop 3 pm Sat – St Mark’s Church – Chiller’s Fiddle w/shop 12 noon Sun – CWA Hall – Will it Blend? w/shop
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Abi Muir
8.30 pm Fri – Silver Ash Cafe 11 am Sat – The Chapel 8.30 pm Sat – Silver Ash Café
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Festival tickets for sale!
Don’t stand back, JUMP in!! We understand that lots of people are doing it tough right now so we’ve managed to keep our Weekend ticket at the 2023 price. It’s gotta be the best deal in town, in Queensland, in the Country, possibly in the World!! The program is already starting to take shape and…
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Stalls Applications are now OPEN!
Please read TABLELANDS FOLK FESTIVAL ASSN. INC. PERFORMERS POLICY AND GUIDELINES – www.tablelandsfolkfestival.org.au/stalls/ Then Complete and send the form –www.tablelandsfolkfestival.org.au/stalls-eoi/
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TFF 2024 Management Committee
Congratulations and thank you to our re-elected Management Committee. TFF 2024 is off to a great start L to R: Michael Jigirr Jigirr Hodgkins, Bronwyn Jijuluru Hodgkins, Sarah Manley, Cathie Warrabal Archer, Martin Williams, Jenni Kruck
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2024 AGM President’s Report
I wish to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet, the Dulgubarra Yidinji peoples, and pay my respects to their Elders past and present, for they hold the Traditions, the Culture, the Memories and the hopes of indigenous Australia. I remind every one that it always was and always will be…
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