Festival was on for young and old
1 Nov 10
One of the notable attractions of the Folk Festival 2010, was the attendance of performers and audience spanning many generations.
The provisions of a “Kids tent” program was clearly well received by parents and the attendance of “littlies” at some of the major performances, in no way distracted from the enjoyment of the moment (and in some cases the sponteneity of the childern participation in song and dance added volumes to the experience as shown in the photograph top right where the hugely talented Mal Webb of Totally Gourdgeous had many youngsters literally at his feet.
Although
it is early days for a full review of this year’s event, already
tributes and congratulations have been pouring in to the organisers who
are all entitled to take a deep bow.
We have reprinted some on this page interspersed with photographs of some of the battalion of performers in action.
“Just
wanted to thank you for the excellent weekend of music and dance. We
were very happy with the dance program and the mixture of dance styles
was very good. We were pleasantly surprised that so many came to our
early (for me) morning workshop. Good to see some not so experienced
dancers taking part. The evening dance on Saturday was also a good
mixture of styles and we had a lot of fun both dancing and calling”.
“Great
festival all you people who worked so hard to put it on. The farmers
should be glad that the festival once again encouraged the rain. Really
loved all the acts and also the decoration of the venues”.
“Congratulations
on a great festival! I thought everything about it was superb: great
atmosphere, organisation, range of music etc.
As a member of the Thirsty Night Singers I felt privileged to have been able to take part in such a joyous event. Am looking forward to the next one already”
“Best so far, Thank you for all your hard work, it is really starting to come together as a festival”.
“Thanks again for a great weekend. The Fest seems to just keep getting better and better”.
“I had so much fun - thank you everyone”!
“I had a jolly ole time at the Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival ...at least I think I remember having some sort of good times”.
