First Announcement – Port Fairy Folk Festival 2022
Line-up 1 Port Fairy Folk Fest 2022 Mandolin Orange – Photo: LTTL Courtney Marie Andrews – Photo: LTTL Mick Thomas – Weddings Parties Anything – Photo: LTTL Eilen Jewell – Photo: LTTL Eric Bibb – photo LTTL Port Fairy Folk Festival 2022 First Artist Announcement 11 to 14 March It might be over twelve months away, but what positive news! Port Fairy Folk Festival has announced the first round of...
Guy Clark Documentary Premiere – ‘Without Getting Killed Or Caught’
Without Getting Killed Or Caught Doco Without Getting Killed Or Caught The Story of Guy Clark, Susanna Clark and Townes Van Zandt A Film By Tamara Saviano and Paul Whitfield To Premiere at South-By-South-West 2021 Without Getting Killed or Caught is a documentary film about the mythical, complicated relationship between legendary songwriters Guy Clark, Susanna Clark and Townes Van Zandt, and the music and art it inspired. The...
FAA Recognises John Thompson
Folk Contribution Award 2021 John Thompson and Cloudstreet – Photo: Cloudstreet Website Folk Troubadour John Thompson Passes Away Receives Inaugural Services To Folk Music Award From Folk Alliance Australia Folk Alliance Australia (FAA) has announced a “Services to Australian Folk Music Award 2021” to John Thompson. FAA is currently considering the Awards it will present to members of the folk community and are in the process of...
New Australian Folk Music Awards
Aus folk awards flagged From the Woody Guthrie Centre – Tulsa Oklahoma – Photo: LTTL Folk Alliance Australia (FAA) has announced the launch of the Australian Folk Music Industry Awards in 2021 In a newsletter to members, FAA last week advised of the proposed Australian Folk Music Industry Awards to take place this year, and are seeking feedback on how best to recognise the achievements of the folk music industry nationally...
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RIP Tony Rice
We salute Tony Rice Vale Tony Rice Master Acoustic Guitarist 8 June 1951 to 25 December 2020 By Rob Dickens It has been a terrible year as we all know. If you forget about the pandemic (and that requires some mental acuity!), we have lost some truly great artists this year – John Prine and Jerry Jeff Walker spring first to mind. Now we have the news that all-time great acoustic guitarist Tony Rice passed away on Christmas Day....