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Welcome to our 43rd Maldon Folk Festival,
We have another great line-up for you this year, with performers from the UK, US and across Australia. Thanks to the
residents of Maldon for your wonderful support. Thanks to all our volunteers, billeters, our sponsors and performers. It is a joy
to work on this festival with all of you and I hope to catch up with most of you during the weekend.
We hope you have an enjoyable weekend!
Pam Lyons,
Festival Director
Committee
Pam Lyons
Festival Features
Festival Director
Graham Dodsworth Vice President
Greg Ginger
Treasurer/Production
Evelyn Jackson
Secretary/Performer Accommodation
Bob Briggs
Bar Manager & Concessions
Brian Cuffley &
Jill Findlay
Instrument Makers Exhibition Coordinators
Peter Winn
Rodney F Cooper CPA - Honary Auditor
To All Sponsors
Thanks for your continued support. We have a diverse group of supporters
who provide sponsorship in many ways - this also includes the businesses
that advertise in this programme.
Special Thanks
Wendy Ealey and Patrick Robertson (Roddy Read Songwriting. Competition
Coordinators), Brian Rhule, Malcolm McDonald, and Geoff Palmer (Festival
Photographers), David Miller and Lyn Kirby (Maldon Minstrel Award Contest
Coordinators). Also thanks to Marty Mullholland - Tarrangower Plumbing,
resolutionX for the supply of lighting equipment, Scott Mitchell - Race Services
for Technical Support. Maldon CFA, Maldon CERT for First Aid, the Maldon
Community Centre Committee, Leech earth moving contracting for use of
safety equipment, Jon Willis at CVP Events, Film & Television, Renee Thompson
for managing the Performers CD Sales, Ciel Lindley for Marketing & promotion,
Justine Henery for Graphic Artwork Logo, poster & T Shirt designs, John
Naismith of brandcreate for Festival maps, Waller Realty for donating event
boards, signage and more, Gordon Prossor of Gottempary Fencing, The Maldon
Hotel for support above and beyond. Thanks also to Peter Thompson for his
general assistance, the Maldon Men’s Shed for their excellent shuttle bus driving
and the members of the Maldon Vintage Machinery Museum for moving,
fetching, carrying, etc. Remember to drop in and see them over the weekend they are giving free entry to festival ticket holders.
Festival Choir
Come and join the Festival Choir! All welcome to sing in the workshops
and do a short performance at the culmination of Sunday’s workshop! (with
perhaps a surprise outdoor appearance too!)
No skills or experience needed... the choir this year will be led by Polly
Christie and Margaret Crichton.
Troubadour Wine Tent features Martin Pearson’s comedy Saturday, Sunday
and Monday mornings followed by a round robin of first songs by festival
performers.
Victorian Goldfields Railway - On Saturday we have three return trips
to Muccleford on the steam train with festival performers. Travellers with
festival wristbands will receive a special reduced rate of $25 to do this trip.
Trains depart from our Historic Railway Station, Venue 17.
Old Time Bush Dance - Wedderburn Charming Emus, Gay Charmers of
Lake Charm & Emu Creek Old Time Dance Band Venue 13, Baptist Church
Hall, Fri 8pm.
Bush Concert - Wedderburn Charming Emus, Gay Charmers of Lake
Charm & Emu Creek Old Time Dance Band Venue 5 Anglican Church Hall,
Sun 2pm.
Maldon Brass Band – Main St, Sat 10.30am.
Gospel Concert – Venue 4, Sun 1pm with Jeanette Gillespie, Duncan Brown
and Danny Spooner and friends.
Irish Ceili - Venue 13, Baptist Church Hall Sat 7.30pm.
Vintage Machinery Museum, Vincent Street – Sat & Sun 10am – 4pm Free
entry for festival ticket holders.
Workshops, themed concerts, and spoken word - check out the tables pp
21-23.
The Maldon Primary School Market
Quality merchandise on Saturday at the Primary School, 8am - 3pm as well
as festival performers. This is a major fundfaiser for the school and they ask
for a gold coin donation on entry if possible.
For The Kids
Three days of kid friendly entertainment. Saturday – at Maldon Primary
School, the annual Market day including music & entertainment for the
young & the young-at-heart as well as on Saturday and Sunday at the
Rotunda and Children’s Marquee in the Memorial Gardens in the centre of
town, and in the Band Hall (venue 1a) on Monday morning.
Church Services
Bread, Wine & Song: A Celtic Folk Service – Venue 4, Anglican Church Sun
10.30am featuring The Platform Souls.
Baptist Church Service Celebration of MusicVenue 12, Sun 10.30am.
The Sessions & Chalkboards
FESTIVAL Contacts
Maldon Folk Festival
PO Box 135 Maldon Vic. 3463
Web Site: www.maldonfolkfestival.com
email: [email protected]
Phone: 0421 643 478
Our philosophy is to give everybody a chance, where possible, to participate
in our Festival session venues - Kangaroo Hotel (Venue 9), Wicked
Temptations Cafe (Venue 11), Band Hall (Venue 1a). Check out the pubs for
sessions & buskers are welcome.
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The Competitions
The Instrument Makers
RODDY READ MEMORIAL SONGWRITING
AWARD
Exhibition coordinators are Brian Cuffley and Jill
Findlay. From across the country, talented artisans
make the annual pilgrimage. A wide range of
acoustic instruments, introduced by their creators.
They are to be found in the Wheel & Loom building
in Main Street. Venue 16, Sat & Sun 10am - 5pm.
Entrants have submitted their songs in advance
of the festival for selection of final songs for
judging at the traditional Saturday afternoon event
(Neighbourhood Centre Venue 3, 12noon-2pm).
The song judged the winner at this concert will be
awarded a Guitar courtesy of our sponsor, Maton.
Prize presentation and winner’s performance on the
Main Stage Sunday (Community Centre Venue 1,
12. 15pm).
Contest coordinators: Wendy Ealey and Patrick
Robertson
Previous Winners:
1993 Don Cowling ‘The Ordinary Man’
1994 Steve Dennis ‘Don’t Cry for Me’
1995 Enda Kenny ‘My Own Road’
1996 Geraldine Hughes ‘Caravans’
1997 Tiffany Eckhardt ‘On My Knees’
1998 Mark Jackson & Cassy Nunan ‘I Just
Received’
1999 Graham Dodsworth ‘Excuse Me’
2000 Ben Smith ‘One Little Black Face’
2001 Bek Fletcher ‘Fly’
2002 Bruce Watson ‘Dad’s Clothes’
2003 Caithlin Meave ‘Buddha and Steel’
2004 Mark Cryle ‘Anytime You’d Fall’
2005 Heidi Hibberd ‘Lyndee I Have Lost Your
Number’
2006 Neil Robertson ‘Celebration’
2007 Rose Bygrave ‘Erarerama’
2008 Geoff McArthur ‘Sparkle and Shine’
2009 Tony English ‘Leaving Liverpool’
2010 Lauren Lee Williams ‘Stash Your Dreams’
2011 Oh Pep! ‘Fooling Around’
2012
Michael Waugh “Heyfield Girl”
2013
Melissa Main “Black Silk”
2014
Ann-Maree McKee & Bernard Robertson
2015
Peny Bohan “Jonny”
Maldon Minstrel Award
A special event for budding singer-songwriters on
Sunday morning (Neighbourhood Centre Venue 3)
10.30am-12.30pm. This is for singer-songwriters
to demonstrate their ability to tell a story with
their own music in a purely acoustic venue. The
winner will receive a recording session, courtesy
of our sponsors at Bald Hill Studio in Carisbrook.
Registration - Saturday, Festival Office (Venue 15)
9.30am.
Contest coordinators: Dave Miller and Lyn Kirby
Previous winners:
2005 Andrew Corbett
2006 Mandy Connell
2007 Ewan Cloonan
2008 Dave Lambert
2009 Sarah Wilkinson
2010 Sam Qualtrough
2011 Tim Woods
2012 Lloyd Dodsworth
2013 Lauren Lee Williams
2014 Sadie Mustoe
2015 Tina Nabb
Festival Office
The festival office is located at 42 High St. opposite
the Visitor Information Centre. Office Hours are:
Friday 8am to 11pm, Saturday 8am to 7pm and
Sunday 8am to 5pm.
Tickets
Our tickets are for the weekend & on arrival you will
get a wristband sensitively placed upon your person.
The wristband is non-transferable, non-refundable
and invalid if tampered with or broken. Children
under 12 (accompanied by a paying adult) will be
given a wristband but not toddlers or ankle biters.
Your wristband will allow access to all venues and
must be shown to festival door staff & security on
request. You can perform your ablutions with your
wristband in place without fear or favour. Saturday
Day Tickets, and Sunday Day Tickets are available
from the Festival Ticket Office.
Festival Staff
These are volunteers who are undertaking allocated
tasks, with the sole purpose of keeping the show on
the road. Please help them to help you.
Merchandise
Musicians CDs etc and Festival t-shirts will be
available for purchase from the Wheel & Loom
building in Main St with the Instrument Makers
(Venue 16). The Festival does not take a commission
from the artists. If you are chasing a particular CD,
remember some musos leave on Sunday, and so
their CDs are unlikely to be available on Monday,
so buy what you want from the office BEFORE they
take off with their stuff! They will also sell at gigs,
and drop into the office to replenish stocks and do
impromptu signings and dedications.
Community EFTPOS is available in the office. This is
sponsored by the Maldon and District Community
Bank Branch of the Bendigo Bank.
In Emergencies
First Aid provided by Maldon CERT - located at the
Troubadour Wine Bar enclosure (Venue 2).
Important Phone Numbers:
Maldon Hospital
5475 2000
Mount Alexander Hospital (Casualty) (Castlemaine)
5471 1555
Ambulance (emergency)
000
Maldon Pharmacy 5475 2102
(open Fri 9am-5 & Sat 9am-12noon) Other useful numbers include:
Fire Brigade 000
Police 000
136 196
V-Line RACV 5472 4333
Taxi 131 008
5470 6706 (mobile callers only)
site and the town shopping precinct. The buses
will run from the designated stop at the reserve to
the Maldon Community Centre (Venue 1). These
will run Friday to Monday. Please note that the
driver and staff have the right to refuse admission
to anybody being discourteous. Remember, there is
no need to drink & drive at Maldon. Sandy Creek
Clydesdales will again be providing transport around
town proudly sponsored by the Maldon Lyons Club.
Drinking Water
We have the Coliban Water Cart at the Troubadour
Wine Bar enclosure (Venue 2), and you’ll also be
able to purchase bottles from the Guinness Bar and
other vendors.
Eftpos/Banking
Our Maldon & District Community Bank in High
St, next to the CFA, will be open Saturday morning
and Monday. It also has an automatic teller. The
Post Office has banking facilities for many different
banks and is open on Saturday morning and all
day Monday. There is an ATM at the Maldon
Newsagency in Main Street & EFTPOS facilities are
available at most outlets in the town. The Festival
Office has EFTPOS & credit facilities sponsored by
the Maldon & District Comunnity Bank.
Parking
Be careful where you park your car. There are some
restricted areas which are not always easy to identify
& the regulations are often enforced. Ample parking
exists around the town.
Security Staff
If you have any concerns throughout the weekend
please contact Security staff or Police on 000.
Busking & Other Street Performers
Musicians are welcome to busk along the streets,
and in the Band Rotunda (outside of scheduled
programmed times). Out of courtesy, please ask
permission of the shop/cafe before busking outside
its entrance/windows. Please do not obstruct the
footpath. Amplification is not allowed.
The Festival committee reserve the right to
dematerialise buskers who unnecessarily disrupt the
general activities of the town or the Festival or sing
outrageously rude songs! Be aware of rampaging
Morris Dancers, who have right of way!
Guinness Bar (outside Venue 1) and
Troubadour Wine Bar (Venue 2)
Hours
The Guinness Bar & Troubadour Wine Bar will be
open for alcohol sales Fri 5pm - Sat 1am / Sat 11am
- Sun 1am / Sun 11am – Mon1am. Service is only
available for patrons wearing an adult wristband
& underage drinking or unruly behaviour will
not be tolerated. You may be required to present
identification. Strictly no BYO.
Fires/Camping
Parks Victoria, who manage the Tarrangower
Reserve, have ruled that private campfires are
not allowed but there will be places set aside for
community campfires. And watch for possible
falling tree limbs.
Shuttle Buses
Our wonderful men from the Maldon Men’s Shed
will again be driving the free mini buses which will
operate between Mt Tarrangower Reserve camping
Showers
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Showers are available to campers at Mount
Tarrangower.
Country than through singing songs about it.
All drawings in this programme are by the late
Neville (Fatty) Wilson.
“Music is a universal language’ says White, “It tells
stories. It helps communicate love for land, deepen
knowledge of country and strengthen community.
People singing together about country is a
powerful force for uniting and galvanizing action.”
Singing from Country: Festival
within a festival at Maldon
The workshops at Maldon will be conducted by
local experts who truly understand the country
around Maldon from several perspectives.
A Special Mention
Maldon Folk Festival will host an exciting festivalwithin-a-festival the last weekend in October.
Saturday afternoon will see a series of workshops
and the evening, an all-star concert tapping into
the spirit of the land.
Singing from Country brings together songwriters
with traditional land owners, naturalists and
ecologogists in central Victoria to create new
songs that reconnect people to place — songs that
community choirs and schools can learn and sing
to celebrate and express the deep story of their
country.
Neil Murray, writer of the iconic ‘My Island
Home’, ARIA award winning Kavisha Mazzella,
the multi-talented Carl Pannuzzo, and indie artist
and community musician Eva Popov are at the
core of this exciting project.
But all songwriters are urged to get involved. And
not just songwriters — everyone will get something
out of the workshops and concert.
“Many Victorians are street-wise but not landliterate,” says the project’s originator, Terry White.
“The word ‘gum tree’ means a website to many
people these days, not native vegetation.” What
better way to learn and revive understanding about
Central to this understanding is the role of the
local Dja Dja Wurrung language in connecting
to place, people and seasons. Participants will
learn how Dja Dja Wurrung people have seen this
country for thousands of generations and how that
knowledge can enrich their own understanding.
“Victoria’s Aboriginal Languages reflect a deep
connection to the land, providing us wisdom
about how to care for it,” says Paul Paton, of the
Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages.
Other workshops will be presented by experts in
local flora and fauna and land management. They
will offer fascinating insights into the natural world
which we so often do not see or hear because we
are not able to ‘read’ nature or we are distracted by
our busy lives.
The four songwriters central to this project will
also lead a workshop focused on writing songs
about country. Murray, Kavisha, Pannuzzo and
Popov will share their experience of putting
together songs which have come out of a similar
series of intensive workshops held specifically for
them in September.
The Saturday evening showcase concert will
feature Murray, Kavisha, Pannuzzo and Popov
performing and talking about the songs that they
are writing for this project. As these four
songwriters unveil their songs, concert goers will
have the privilege of observing the act of creation.
And be prepared to sing along, as these songs are
being written specifically to be sung together!
The Singing from Country project will continue
beyond the Maldon weekend. Local choir-leaders
will arrange and rehearse the new songs with their
singing groups, culminating in a performance by
community choirs in a celebratory event as part of
Castlemaine State Festival in March 2017.
Those songwriters who attend and are inspired
by the Maldon event will be invited to write their
own songs about the country around Maldon and
submit them to the Singing from Country project.
A panel will then select some of these songs to
become part of the project.
It is the first step in a project that is planned to
eventually expand across the whole of Victoria. To
keep in touch with the project, go the Facebook
page.
Singing from Country is funded by the Regional
Arts Fund and led by Community Music Victoria
in partnership with the Victorian Aboriginal
Corporation for Languages.
Enquiries: David Juriansz: [email protected]
Find us on Facebook: search for “Singing from
Country”
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Performers
For the purposes of this programme 12.30am is 30 minutes after midnight etc. 12.30pm
is 30 minutes after noon etc.
Anatole Road
Sunday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 3.15pm-4pm
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 6.15pm-7pm
2016 Stars on
Lake winners.
Beautiful vocal
and instrumental
arrangement, Celtic
styling but from
traditional from
all over the world.
Superb harmonies
and delicate
arrangements.
Bookings:
geoffmca@ncable.
net.au
Saturday
Venue 6 Maldon
Hotel 12noon12.45pm
Venue 4 Anglican
Church 8pm8.45pm
Campbell The Swaggie
The only fair dinkum
reciter of Aussie Bush
Poetry who doubles
as the last Australian
swagman. Everyone
knows Campbell, from
govt house in Darwin,
right down the east coast
to the Sunday market
in leafy Camberwell,
and every festival and
market in between.
All weekend at
Poets Breakfasts and
everywhere else!!
Brewers Own Bush Band
We the Brewers
Own Bush
Band have been
playing since
1978!
We carry on
the tradition of
performing live
music, setting
up and teaching
a range of Set
and old time
dances in
fun ways. We
realised that not only is this mode of dance presentation different for all the
right reasons. It also gives us the player the biggest Buzz that we cannot let our
dancers down and have to play another one next year! What better medicine
for mankind? Come join us at the dance! The core word is the “F” word!!!!!
FUN! We all laugh together and have a great afternoon.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall Family Bush Dance 3pm-6pm
Britannia Morris Men
The Britannia Morris Men and friends will bring colour and movement to the
streets of Maldon during the festival, with a waving of hankies and clashing of
sticks in that fine old English tradition that is Morris Dancing
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall Morris Dance w/s 11am-12pm
All weekend: Around the streets
Caroline Schmidli
An EnglishAustralian,
Caroline
played in the
British Legion
Band as lead
trombone
for many
years, sang in
choirs, plays
piano, has
dabbled in
guitar, flute,
clarinet and
has played and sung in a number of bands. Caroline started playing the
whistle 10 or so years ago and has had lessons from both Barb Scott and
Lynnelle Moran. She has played in a number of Celtic groups and is a
regular at Irish sessions around Melbourne. She was also a Mini Maestros
teacher for five years and is now the National Manager for Simply Music,
an innovative music teaching method.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations beginners whistle w/s 11.30am-12.30pm
Sunday
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations advanced whistle w/s 11am-12noon
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Cat Canteri
fiddle, military snare, the highland bagpipes and even a didgeridoo, it is
little wonder Claymore are one of Australia’s most popular festival acts. A
not to be missed extravaganza.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 1 Community Centre 10.45pm-12.15am
Sunday
Venue 1 Community Centre 11pm-12.30am
Comhaltas Melbourne
Early in 2016, Cat Canteri released her new 6-track EP Late At Night. It
captures the vitality and intimacy of her live shows and showcases the
verve and passion Cat brings to her guitar playing and the soulful depth of
emotion she conveys in her songs. You can hear traces of The Pretenders,
Bonnie Raitt, Eleanor Friedberger and Ryan Adams filtered through the
organic rock ’n’ roll of The Faces. The new EP follows her acclaimed solo
debut album When We Were Young (2014), which shone a spotlight on
her own alt-country/Americana style. Previously Cat was a member of
award-winning band The Stillsons. Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre 9.30pm-10.15pm
Saturday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 1.15pm-2pm
Sunday
Venue 7 Athenaeum Hall w/s 12.15pm-1pm
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre w/s & concert 3pm-3.30pm
Venue 1 Community Centre 6.45pm-7.30pm
Monday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar First Songs 10.15am - 11.30am
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 4pm-4.45pm
Claymore
With a mixture of traditional Scottish and Irish music and modern self
penned celtic rock the band represents the best of new age Folk Music.
Through a diverse and unique mix of sound’s featuring guitar, mandolin,
Recreating
the sound
of the great
Ceili bands. A
crack lineup of
players will rock
the hall with
classic tune sets
played with the
dynamic speed,
lift and lilt that
dancers love. Some of Victoria’s finest players of traditional Irish music
along with Irish dance caller Marie Brouder will create some truly great
craic!
Saturday
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall 6.30pm-7pm “Taste of Irish” - music, song
& dance
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall 7.30pm-10.30pm Traditional Irish Ceili
Sunday
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations Joan & Ray Mundy Slow session on Irish
Music 2pm-3.30pm
Danny Spooner
Danny Spooner
sings traditional and
contemporary songs of
Britain and Australia. He
learned his craft in the
bomb shelters of WW2 and
around the kitchen table at
home, and then discovered
history with his singing
skipper on a sailing barge.
When he came to Australia
in the 1960s, the folk revival
was underway, introducing
him to the Australian
tradition. So he passes these
songs on at festivals and
concerts across Australia
and NZ, Britain and North
America - where you can be sure he’ll ask you join in the chorus!
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 10 Primary School 2pm-2.45pm
Venue 4 Anglican Church 4.30pm-5.15pm “The Copper Family”
Sunday
Venue 4 Anglican Church Gospel Concert with Jeanette Gillespie and
Duncan Brown 1pm - 3pm
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Dodsworth & Dodsworth
Fiona Ross (Scot)
A gifted singer, songwriter, guitarist and performer since his childhood,
Graham Dodsworth uses his long association and intimate knowledge
of folklore to deliver powerful interpretations of Australian, Celtic and
contemporary Folk Songs. He won the Roddy Read song award for 1999.
Graham will be joined on stage by various members of his family.
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre 8.30pm-9.15pm
Saturday
Venue 5 Anglican Church Hall Folk song accompaniment w/s
11am-12noon
Venue 17 Victorian Goldfields Railway 3pm-4pm in Macedon Pullman Car
Monday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 11.45am-12.30pm
Eric Purdie, Storyteller - Extraordinaire!
Delivered in a ‘standup’ Glasgow style,
Eric Purdie’s comedy
presentation features
humorous stories and
anecdotes about life
in Glasgow and the
humour of the streets.
His outrageous gags
and unaccompanied
songs provide a
window into a culture
few of us have seen.
Eric’s stories tell of an
Industrial Scotland
and the Socialist
Struggle in which
he grew up. Eric
describes life in the
shipyards and on the
building sites where
he encountered
many characters
and witnessed many
improbable but true sets of circumstances.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 1a Band Hall Yarn Event MC/Featured Eric Purdie 1pm-3pm
Venue 17 Victorian Goldfields Railway 5pm-6pm in Tambo Parlour Car
Sunday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 2.15pm-3pm
Monday
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations 11.30am-12.15pm
Respected in
Scotland as a
fine interpreter
of Scots song,
Fiona’s singing
style represents
the essence of the
tradition. Fiona
has performed
throughout
Scotland and
internationally,
including the
Tradition Bearer
concert series
of Glasgow’s
prestigious Celtic
Connections
music festival.
This concert combines Scots songs sung in the traditional unaccompanied
style, with songs beautifully accompanied by renowned clàrsach (Scottish
harp) player Michelle Burton. Fiona will also be presenting “The Songs
of the Travellers – traditional Scots song workshop and presentation. This
workshop & presentation explores the songs, singing style and background of
the Scots Travellers - renowned carriers of Scotland’s traditional culture. You
will learn songs from Scotland’s rich and very varied repertoire. The sang’s the
thing!
Bookings: [email protected]
Sunday
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre Song of the Travellers - trad Scots song w/s
1pm-2.15pm
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 4.15pm-5pm
Folktales and furrytails
Enter a
world of
fairytales...
fairies,
dragons,
knights
and
princesses!
Our
audience
can help to
create the
story of
Long, long
ago... set to
music and
acted out in mime. Enjoy original and traditional songs, rhymes, stories and
dances with our cast of crazy characters. Even “Scribble the possum” gets into
medieval fun, making drawings with his magic quill for the children to take
home and paint.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 8 Rotunda 10.45am-11.45am
Sunday
Venue 8 Rotunda 3.30pm-4.30pm
Monday
Venue 1a Band Hall 9am-10am
Fred Smith
Fred Smith returns to Maldon with a new book, The Dust of Uruzgan, recently
published by Allen and Unwin. This remarkable songwriter reveals influences
from Paul Kelly via Lou Reed to Loudon Wainwright III to Leonard Cohen.
His dual career as songwriter and diplomat in war zones from Bougainville
to Afghanistan was the subject of an Australian Story documentary. He will
be appearing at this year’s festival with band presenting his acclaimed Dust of
Uruzgan show as well is a lighter set!
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Goose’s Bridle
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre book launch 3.30pm-4.30pm
Venue 1 Community Centre 7pm-7.45pm
Geoffrey W Graham
He’s a storyteller, a poet, muso, and actor – a theatrical communicatorsuffering from an obsessive disorder based on a passion for Australian heritage.
Thrives on connecting to an audience on an emotional level and spreading
the word across Australia about icons like Banjo, Henry and CJ Dennis. His
Dinkum Oz style encompasses layback humour, audience interaction and a
stunning grasp of bush verse. Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Wicked Temptations Venue 11 Poet’s Breakfast 9am-11am
Sunday
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations Poet’s Breakfast 9am-10.45am
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre The Sentimental Bloke 5.45pm-6.45pm
5 Piece Goodtime Music Band, based in Guildford, Central Victoria. Vocals &
Harmonies, Ukuleles, Bass, Drums, Bells, Whistles & Stuff, a quirky whiz bang
combo from the Forties to the Noughties.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 9pm-9.45pm
Monday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 7.45pm-8.30pm
Greg Champion
Songwriter,
singer, comedian
and prominent
radio personality
Greg Champion
captures what it is
to be Australian
through his unique
combination of
comedy, sports
parodies and
country/folk music.
Born in Benalla
Victoria and raised
in South Australia,
Champs is
Australia’s leading
writer of AFL and
cricket songs, with
several Aussie Rules
hit songs since the
1980s. His musical
diversity however,
extends beyond
the sports fields
to include more
moving and descriptive songwriting capturing the emotion of Australian life in
the way John Williamson, Eric Bogle and Ted Egan are renowned for.
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 1 Community Centre 8.30pm-9.15pm
Saturday
Venue 7 Athenaeum Hall songwriting w/s 12.30pm-1.30pm
Venue 1 Community Centre 3pm-3.45pm
Sunday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 12noon-12.45pm
Venue 5 Anglican Church Hall songwriting w/s 4.30pm-5.30pm
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 8.30pm-9.15pm
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Hannah Schmidli
At the tender age of 15, Hannah
is honing her craft as a talented
singer-songwriter with a “...
Beautiful, gentle tonality, a subtle
huskiness, yet really pure... Her
voice is heartfelt and authentic.”
She has been writing and
performing extensively over the
last couple of years with Sadie from
“Girl on the Hill” and is excited to
be showcasing her own material
from her debut EP at Maldon in
2016.
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre
7.30pm-8.15pm
Saturday
Venue 1 Community Centre 1pm1.45pm
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 3.30pm-4.15pm
Sunday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 3.45pm-4.30pm
Harpers Bizarre
Harpers
Bizarre
enjoy
playing
tunes from
the Celtic
countries
as well
as a mix
of music
from Latin
America.
Their
Musical
Director
Andy Rigby
is just back from a cultural and teaching tour of the Americas and brings a grabbag of exciting new tunes from the environs of Paraguay, Argentina and Nova
Scotia. Many of the group play Harps fashioned by Andy in his local Workshop.
Each year Harpers Bizarre run a Music Camp at Cave Hill Creek near Ballarat
with experts who encourage Harp Culture among all age groups of players and
styles of playing.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 4 Anglican Church 6pm-6.45pm
Sunday
Venue 4 Anglican Church - Church Service 10.30am-11.30am
Herft, Geri, Roberts & Smith
Suzette Herft, Janette Geri, Tracey Roberts and Jo Jo Smith on stage together
(they do have trouble with the alphabet!!). Take a peek in the greenroom - a
bunch of top-class singer-songwriters, all together on stage, “round-robining”
their songs with some seriously good “off-the-cuff ” musical accompaniment and
harmonies, telling their stories with a fair dose of fun and spontaneous banter.
Who knows WHAT could happen!!
Bookings : [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 8pm-8.45pm
Jane Thompson and James Rigby
“Imagine a singer
who is also a
dancer and a
midwife, and you
have the mix of
joyful strength,
subtle skill and
gentle grace that is
Jane Thompson. If
you’ve been lucky
enough to come
under her spell
as a performer,
you’ll know how
you come away from her concerts with your faith in human nature restored.
James Rigby is a powerful, singer and guitar-player of exceptional rhythm and
delicate sensitivity. Together they make delightful harmony, with warmth,wit and
humour.” Jane’s pure, clear voice has charmed audiences for years, performing
songs addressing matters of the heart and issues of our time;playing whistle,
accordion and maracas.An award-winning song-writer,Jane released her debut
solo album ‘Here’, in November 2013, complemented by James’ beautiful multiinstrumental playing
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 11.45am-12.30pm
Venue 17 Victorian Goldfields Railway 5pm-6pm in Tambo Parlour Car
Sunday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 5pm-5.45pm
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 8.45p-9.30pm
Monday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 2pm-2.45pm
Janette Geri
Janette will be launching of her newly completed album: “Among The Flowers”.
Adolf “gorhand” Goriup, FolkWorld: “She has a hauntingly beautiful and warm
voice that
puts instantly
a spell on
the listener.
Wonderful
harmonies
coupled
with stirring
rhythms
and angelic
singing make
her music a
real treat for
your ears.”
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Janette will again be running her “Recording your Music Workshops”, passing
on her extensive experience. Bring your questions and tips to this friendly
forum style workshop, where Janette Geri will take you through setting up a
home studio and getting the best out of recording. With many years experience
in all kinds of studios, Janette loves helping musicians get the results they’re
after. Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 7 Athenaeum Hall beginning home recording w/s 2pm-3pm
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar Herft, Geri, Roberts & Smith 8pm-8.45pm
Sunday
Venue 7 Athenaeum Hall more advanced home recording w/s 2.45pm-3.45pm
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar Venue 2 CD launch 7.45pm-8.30pm
Jodi Martin (SA)
Jodi Martin returns to Maldon with a string of recent tours under her belt from
Port Fairy Folk Festival to Coober Pedy to Cairns! Jodi’s stunning latest album
Saltwater was born on a songwriting road trip across the United States with
her mentor, folk legend Arlo Guthrie. Jodi’s latest single and music video is
the quirky true story, ‘Diesel’; a fun, toe-tapping yarn about op-shopping and
keeping what you love on the road, despite the odds!
‘Martin’s take on folky/soul is her own’ Time Out Magazine, London. ‘If you
like James Taylor or Jack Johnson, you’ll love Jodi Martin... Authentically
Australian.’ Arlo Guthrie.
Bookings: [email protected]
Jeanette Gillespie & Duncan Brown
From down the road at Guildford, Jeanette
and Duncan (Scottish born Australian, with
a voice as mellow as a good single malt!)
have performed at virtually every Maldon
Festival since it’s inception. Inspirational
singers, these two have covered nearly every
Folk Festival on the eastern sea-board and
beyond. A much appreciated duo who have
encouraged countless others over the years.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 4 Anglican Church 4.30pm-5.15pm
“The Copper Family”, with Danny Spooner
& Gael Shannon
Venue 17 Victorian Goldfields Railway 1pm2pm in Tambo Parlour Car
Sunday
Venue 4 Anglican Church 1pm-3pm (Gospel
Concert with Duncan Brown and Danny
Spooner)
Jo Jo Smith
Jo Jo Smith is one of Australia’s greatest
treasures, an inspirational performer who
takes her audiences on a lyrical, musically
diverse journey of blues, soul, funk, R&B,
Latin and jazz. “I was blown away by Jo Jo.
It’s statistically rare to see a woman locking it
down on drums and also statistically rare to
see a drummer laying down such amazingly
powerful, soulful vocals. Put both of these
together and you’re left with the statistic of
one!! I have never seen anything like the
show I saw at Mullum Music Fest, I was
blown away!!” – Ash Grunwald
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 9.30pm-10.15pm
Saturday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar First Songs Round Robin 10.15am-11.30am
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar Herft, Geri, Roberts & Smith 8pm-8.45pm
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 10pm-10.45pm
Venue 7 Athenaeum Hall singing w/s 3.30pm-4.30pm
Sunday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 12noon-12.45pm
Venue 1 Community Centre 2.45pm-3.30pm
Friday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 7pm-7.45pm
Saturday
Venue 10 Primary School 1pm-1.45pm
Sunday
Troubadour Wine Bar Venue 2 First Songs 10.15am-11.45am
Venue 5 Anglican Church Hall Behind the Songs songwriting w/s 12.30pm1.30pm
Venue 1 Community Centre 5.45pm-6.30pm
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 9.30pm-10.15pm
Monday
Venue 1a Band Hall How to Write a Song in a Day – for Kids! 10.30am11.30am
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 10pm-10.45pm
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Joe Quinn (Scotland)
Joe has been playing guitar and performing
from the age of twelve. From Irish and
Scottish folk music, through the Beatles and
Motown and was then heavily influenced by
Bert Janch, John Renbourne, Ralph McTell,
John Martyn, The Incredible Stringband and
Dylan. From the tender age of 17 he would
do floor spots (illegally) in pubs and folk
clubs, meeting some great talent along the
way and ending that period as the compere at Strathclyde University Folk Club,
meeting many great performers including Billy Connolly, Hamish Imlach, The
McCalmans,Matt McGinn and many more. He was the Musical Director for
Lomond Folk Festival a 3 day festival on The Bonnie Banks.
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 10.45pm-11.30pm
Saturday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar First Songs Round Robin 10.15am-11.30am
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 2.45pm-3.15pm
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 6.15pm-7pm
Sunday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 2.30pm-3.15pm
Keith McKenry
Knot o’ the Gate
The boys of Knot O’ the Gate have been performing for over 50 years
combined as individuals, and together for over 10 years as a group. Their
recent tour (2015) of Scotland and Ireland was a blast! Their music ranges
from Scottish and Irish traditional to modern classics all with their unique
contemporary style guaranteed to please any audience.
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 1 Community Centre 10.30pm-11.15pm
Saturday
Venue 1 Community Centre 5pm-5.45pm
Sunday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 10.45pm-11.30pm
Monday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 11pm-11.45pm
Kyneton Street Band
An award-winning performance poet and folklorist, Keith presents a mix of
whimsy, humour and social comment that defies stereotype. He remains the
only person to have recited McArthur’s Fart at a reception on the 50th floor of
the United Nations Building in New York, The Spirit of the People in the foyer
of the Australian High Court and A Study in Linguistics in the Concert Hall of
the Sydney Opera House. His solo album Bugger the Music, Give Us a Poem!
won the Golden Gumleaf for Album of the Year at Tamworth.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre Martyn Wyndham-Read & Keith McKenry
Down the Lawson Track 2.15pm-3.15pm
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre The Lies That Made Australia 5.45pm-7.15pm
Sunday
Venue 1a Band Hall Yarn Event 2pm-4pm
Kyneton Street Band brings the unique combination of marimbas,horns and
percussion to the festival streets. Vibrant tunes and rhythms from Africa, Latin
America and the Balkans will have your feet tapping. Andy Rigby has created
a whole new range of mobile marimbas for this band, which may well be the
world’s first marching marimba band...
Catch them in the streets throughout the festival.
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and more than a dash of humour, and
these very human attributes, along
with her fine singing voice, is why she
invariably establishes such a seemingly
effortless rapport with her audiences....”
Eric Bogle
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 9pm9.45pm
Saturday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar First
Songs Round Robin 10.15am-11.30am
Venue 1 Community Centre 2pm2.45pm
Sunday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 5.15pm6pm
Monday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 12noon-12.45pm
Maldon Brass Band
The Maldon Brass Band has continually entertained the local community
and visitors to the area since its formation in the gold rush days. With an
entertaining selection that displays the musical versatility of the band, be
prepared to wander away with a rhythmic foot-tapping motion, satisfied that
the Maldon Brass Band has exceeded the expectations of the musical senses
Saturday
Main St 10.30am-11.30am
Margaret Crichton
Leading two choirs, a ukulele group
and a group that combines both
are among Margaret’s busy musical
schedule. Add writing many of her
own three part harmony arrangements,
working for Community Music
Victoria , teaching harp and playing in
an English Country Dance Band . . .
Making music is fun - sharing it with
others is even better!
Margaret Crichton and Polly
Christiewill be running the festival
choir this year.
Bookings: margaretsbears@hotmail.
com
Saturday
Venue 1 Community Centre Saturday
10.45am-11.45am Festival Choir
workshop
Sunday
Venue 1 Community Centre 10.45am-11.45am Festival Choir workshop
Venue 1 Community Centre 11.55am-12.10pm Festival Choir performance
Maria Forde
“Maria Forde is a fine singer and a gifted songwriter. Like all good songwriters
her lyrics often reflect an understanding of, and compassion for the human
condition, with all it’s triumphs and disasters, all it’s bright peaks and dark
corners. At her live performances she presents her songs with sincerity, passion
Martin Pearson
Folk singing comedian and story
teller, Martin is a quirky comic
genius, who presents unpredictable
ramblings with great wit. He is an
authority on a range of obscure
subjects and never fails to bring
the tent down. Martin returns
with another year’s worth of song
and story. Hear more about travel
and travail, Moroccan triads and
Cornish pasties. It is even possible
he might be a bit grumpy with the
government by then. Come and
watch Martin age gracelessly before
your very eyes.
Bookings: martinpearson@iinet.
net.au
Friday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 7pm-7.45pm
Saturday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 9am-10am Comedy Quiz
Sunday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 9am-10am Comedy Quiz
Monday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 9am-10am Comedy Quiz
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Martyn Wyndham-Read (UK)
O’Shea-Ryan Irish Dancers
Martyn
WyndhamRead has
been a full
time folk
singer for
over 50 years,
and was at
the forefront
of Australia’s
Folk Revival
in the early
1960s. He
had been
sent out from
England as
an 18 year
old to work on a sheep station and while there fell in love with the old songs he
learned from the other workers, and he took them to Melbourne and Sydney,
and in 1967 back to England.
He recorded with the great song collector A.L. Lloyd, along with Martin
Carthy, Dave Swarbrick and Trevor Lucas, and since then has produced around
twenty albums, of both traditional and contemporary folk songs.
He is one of the great figures on the English folk scene, and continues to work
worldwide, but says that 2016 is probably his final tour of Australia.
www.martynwyndham-read.com
Saturday
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre Martyn Wyndham-Read & Keith McKenry
Down the Lawson Track 2.15pm-3.15pm
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 4.30pm-5.15pm
Sunday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar First Songs 10.15am-11.45am
Venue 1 Community Centre 1.45pm-2.30pm
Monday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 1pm-1.45pm
Irish dance
displays
performed by
dancers of all
ages. This highly
professional group
wear colourful
costumes, and
will keep you
entertained with
jigs, reels and
hornpipes. They
have danced
their way around
Australia and overseas, and have recently been involved in the filming of a
DVD for the “History of the Irish in Australia”, for the National Museum in
Canberra.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 8 Band Rotunda 1.30pm-2.15pm Irish Dance display
and around the streets during the weekend
Michael the Balloonologist
especially children. 11.30am-12.30pm
And anywhere else around town all weekend
Balloon sculpting - making
animals etc - involves audience
participation especially children.
Michael the Balloonologist is an
entertainer who is twisted but
not bitter. He continues to delight
festival goers, young and old,
with boggling balloon brilliance –
hot air optional.
Bookings: crichton_michael@
hotmail.com
Saturday
Venue 10 Primary School around
the market
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall
3pm-6pm Family Bush Dance
Sunday
Rotunda Venue 8 Balloon
sculpting- making animals etcinvolves audience participation
Paper Mouse (Liz Frencham & Robbie Melville)
A small
town
in rural
Victoria
was the
accidental
meeting
place for Liz
& Robbie
when they
crossed
paths in
a café in
2013 and
soon were
seeking out
copportunities to play together. From their first rehearsal it was evident that a
lengthy musical relationship was on the cards. The obvious chemistry between
the pair is intensified by a willingness to never play any song the same way
twice. Frencham’s warmth is met by Melville’s beautiful harmonic dissonances,
and every nuance is distinct. Featuring lots of much loved songs from Liz’s back
catalogue and a whole swag of new material.
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 8.15pm-9pm
Saturday
Venue 17 Victorian Goldfields Railway 1pm-2pm in Macedon Pullman Car
Venue 4 Anglican Church 9pm-9.45pm
Sunday
Venue 1 Community Centre 3.45pm-4.30pm
Peny Bohan
Peny Bohan is an urban songstress whose vocal stylings will make you want to
stay and wrap yourself up in her melodies. Sweet, strong and insightful, Peny
sings her way through all that is in her heart. Supported by her talented back
up line, the trio creates a unique folk jazz sound. Peny is our 2015 Roddy Read
Songwriting Award winner.
Bookings: [email protected]
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Saturday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar
1.45pm-2.30pm
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 7.30pm-
Polly Christie and Andy Rigby
When
one of
8.15pm
Sunday
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre
3.45pm-4.30pm
Monday
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations
12.30pm-1.15pm
Pete Titchener
A familiar name perhaps
around the Australian folk
scene, due largely to his work
with Colcannon; Munro,
O’Callaghan,Titchener; and
the great man himself, Eric
Bogie. However, it’s now time
to unleash the solo artist that
has been lying dormant for
all those years. Audiences can
expect a well balanced mix of
self penned, thoughtful and
humorous songs mixed with
dubious witty banter.
Bookings: peter.t@internode.
on.net
Friday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 10pm-10.45pm
Saturday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 12.45pm-1.30pm
Venue 17 Victorian Goldfields Railway 3pm-4pm in Macedon Pullman Car
Sunday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar First Songs 10.15am-11.45am
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 7.30pm-8.15pm
Platform Souls
The Platform Souls specialise in playing an assortment of music from around
the world. They are multi-instrumentalists featuring harp, accordions,
mandolin, recorders, Irish whistle, drums and percussion. They play tunes
from the Celtic Countries as well as Eastern European and Latin styles and
medieval European music. Specialising in beautiful vocal harmonies the
Platform Souls are
often heard performing
acoustically in some of
the grand old buildings
that grace the historic
townships of Maldon and
district.
Bookings: jfindlay@vic.
chariot.net.au
Sunday
Anglican church service
10.30am-11.30am
Australia’s leading folk harp exponents (and makers) meets the honeyed vocals
of a world music and choral diva, you’re in for a rich feast of music. Andy
Rigby specializes in Celtic and Latin American styles, while Polly Christie
sings jazz, gospel, Indian and a whole lot in between. A sublime acoustic
experience…..
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 1 Community Centre 7.30pm-8.15pm (Polly & Andy)
Saturday
Venue 1 Community Centre Saturday 10.45am-11.45am Festival Choir
workshop (Polly Christie & Margaret Crichton)
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre 4.45pm-5.30pm (Polly & Andy)
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 7pm-7.45pm (Polly & Andy)
Sunday
Venue 1 Community Centre 10.45am-11.45am Festival Choir workshop
Venue 1 Community Centre 11.55am-12.10pm Festival Choir performance
Venue 7 Athenaeum Hall 4.15pm-5.15pm Hands-on folk hark w/s with Andy
Pollyphonics Choir
This vibrant,
dynamic
choir
performs
songs to
make you
swoon, click
your fingers
and revel
in delicious
harmonies.
Conducted
by Polly
Christie, the
choir has
performed
at Canberra National Folk Festival, Melbourne Federation Square and local
venues. The choir rehearse in Woodend but some travel far to share their voice
with the choir....from Maldon to Riddells Creek. Fabulous soloists Joseph
Bromley and Dean Michael let their voices soar and the choir is accompanied
by the beautiful harp playing of Andy Rigby.
Bookings: [email protected]
Sunday
Venue 1 Community Centre concert 12.45pm-1.30pm
And in the streets over the weekend
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Raging Bull
Noel Bull aka “The Raging Bull” named
because of his antics on stage, performs
humourous and serious bush poetry. He
is a lovable larrikin who has lots of tales,
associated with working in the outback
in his younger days, to share with you.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations Poet’s
Breakfast 9am-11am
Monday
Wicked Temptations Venue 11 Poet’s
Breakfast 9am - 11am
and likely to pop up at other spoken
word sessions
Rudy The One Man Band
Rudy has been a One Man Band now
for 25 years after winning several “Battle
of the Buskers” competitions, then
representing Victoria at the Festival
of Sydney and playing at the Hobart
Summer Festival. He carries a drum on
his back with Macadamia the monkey
beating the drum, Pistachio a baby gorilla
playing the tambourine, Nutmeg the
Monkey sitting on a swing under the
drum, and finally Mr P Nut, an adult
gorilla, sitting on top of the drum playing
the cymbals. To complete the picture he
wears a large umbrella over the top, a
piano accordion over which he plays a
guitar, and finally a mandolin and fiddle
are suspended on either side of the drum.
He has recently added a trombone, which makes it quite colourful.
Bookings: [email protected]
All weekend
busking in the streets
Sal Kimber & The Rollin’ Wheel
Sal Kimber
& the
Rollin’
Wheel are
a band
steeped
in talent,
personality
and
connection.
Described
by Rolling
Stone as
‘Australians
aIt-country
at its
finest, Sal’s
authentic
and warm stage presence, storytelling and antipodean vocals, along with
the captivating musicianship of her close-knit band has seen the five piece
effortlessly win over audiences all over Australia.
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 1 Community Centre 9.30pm-10.15pm
Saturday
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall bush dancing w/s 1.30pm-2.30pm
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 10pm-11pm
Sunday
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre 4.45pm-5.30pm
Venue 1 Community Centre 8.45pm-9.30pm
Monday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar First Songs 10.15am - 11.30am Sal
Sean Kenan
Sean lives and teaches Irish fiddle in Maldon.
He has made several trips to Ireland to study
the instrument and in 2009 Sean received
the Comhaltas TTCT teaching certificate in
advanced Irish fiddle. This course has been
running in Dublin for over thirty years and
Sean was the first Australian to be awarded this
Certificate. In 2004 Sean set up Fancy Yourself
Fiddling to instruct adults in the art of fiddle
playing. Regular group meetings, concerts and
fiddle weekends provide Sean’s students with
an opportunity to further develop their musical
skills. Sean will be playing a selection of Irish
dance tunes and melodies at the Anglican Church acoustic concert.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 4 Anglican Church 7pm-7.45pm
Singing from Country: Festival within a festival at
Maldon
Singing from Country
brings together
songwriters with
traditional land
owners, naturalists and
ecologogists in central
Victoria to create new
songs that reconnect
people to place — songs
that community choirs
and schools can learn
and sing to celebrate
and express the deep
story of their country. Neil Murray, writer of the iconic ‘My Island Home’,
ARIA award winning Kavisha Mazzella, the multi-talented Carl Pannuzzo, and
indie artist and community musician Eva Popov are at the core of this exciting
project. Singing from Country is a festival-within-a-festival. The project is a
unique eco-cultural-arts collaboration between traditional landowners, holders
of ecological wisdom and songwriters. It is a pilot project part-funded by the
Regional Arts Fund.
Two connected events, included in the 2016 Maldon Folk Festival Program,
promise an experience that will change the way you think, feel and express the
stories of our great land.
For more info: http://cmvic.org.au/sfc;
David Juriansz: [email protected]
Facebook: “Singing from Country”
Saturday
Venue 5 Anglican Church Hall workshops 1pm-6pm
Venue 1 Community Centre 8.15pm-10.15pm
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Suzette Herft
The Capitalist Pigs
With her exotic features from
her Sri Lankan background,
her sublime vocals, soulful and
heartfelt songs, Suzette Herft
is a captivating performer who
shines with a natural grace and
presence that lights up any stage
and entertains and engages the
audience. Suzette has also received
many accolades for her moving
and brilliant solo tribute to Joan
Baez, receiving many standing
ovations at music festivals around
Australia, including successive
Port Fairy Folk Music Festivals.
She is also well known or
facilitating wonderful singing
sessions, with her huge repertoire and her passion for inclusion and giving
everyone a voice. Suzette will be performing songs from her new album ‘Roses’
(produced by Shane O’Mara) as well as other favourites. She is ‘Sublime,
Soulful & Shining’. Patrick Evans will be performing with Suzette.
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar Acoustic singalong & session with hot mulled
wine, Suzette Herft and other great musos 11pm - late
Saturday
Venue 1 Community Centre 12noon- 12.45pm
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 5pm-5.45pm
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar Herft, Geri, Roberts & Smith 8pm-8.45pm
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar Acoustic singalong & session with hot mulled
wine, Suzette Herft and other great musos 11pm - late
Sunday
Venue 5 Anglican Church Hall songwriting w/s 11.15am-12.15pm
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar Acoustic singalong & session with hot mulled
wine, Suzette Herft and other great musos 10.45pm - late
Monday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 3pm-3.45pm
Four dodgy
characters,
with loud
voices, a bunch
of honky tonk
instruments
and way too
much attitude.
Meet the
Capitalist
Pigs! In other
lives, members
are known
as Rob Moss,
Kate Crowley,
Joshua
Collings and
Amy Pinkster (AKA Stinky Pinky). A solid commitment to fun unites these
weirdos in a folk, punk, old timey experiment you have to see to believe.
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 1 Community Centre 6pm-6.45pm
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 8.45pm-9.30pm
Sunday
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations Kate Crowley (solo) 12.30pm-1.15pm
Venue 1 Community Centre 7.45pm-8.30pm
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 9.45pm-10.30pm
Monday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 5.15pm-6pm
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The Chat-Warblers
The Mae Trio
Delightful
25-voice
women’s
choir from
Castlemaine
who sing
songs of place,
purpose and
with gentle
humour and
good taste!
Many of
their songs
are locally
written, and
delicately arranged. They sing under the watchful ear of Jane Thompson.
bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 4 Anglican Church singing workshop 3pm-4pm
Sunday
Venue 4 Anglican Church 3.15pm-4pm concert
and around the streets during the weekend
It has been a
magical two
years since
The Mae Trio
released their
award-winning
debut album
Housewarming
and hit
international
stages from Celtic
Connections
(Glasgow) to
Cambridge
Folk Festival and Americana Festival (Nashville), not to mention national
Australian tours winning the hearts of critics and fans alike. Winners of the
Maton Class Act Award and the National Film & Sound Archive Award for
Folk Recording of the Year, The Mae Trio is renowned for their sophisticated
instrumentation (incorporating cello, banjo, fiddle, guitar, mandolin and
ukulele), powerful songwriting and stunning three-part harmonies.
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 1 Community Centre 6.30pm-7.15pm
Saturday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 2.30pm-3.15pm
Venue 4 Anglican Church 10pm-10.45pm
Sunday
Venue 1 Community Centre 4.45pm-5.30pm
Monday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 12.45pm-1.30pm
The Haywood Billy Goats
The Rhymer from Ryde
An Old-time string band out of Chatham County, NC, the Haywood Billy
Goats have become one of the most respected string bands in the North
Carolina Old-time music scene. The band’s tight, hard-driving sound has
earned them top finishes in a number of reputable string band and twin
fiddle contests and put them in demand for dances throughout the Southeast.
Members of the group have won blue ribbons at prestigious individual contests
in the US such as the Mt. Airy, Union Grove, and Fiddler’s Grove Festivals, and
first place at the 2015 Australian National Bluegrass Mandolin Championship.
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 1 Community Centre 11.30pm-12.15pm
The ‘Rhymer from Ryde’ is a true
entertainer in every sense of the word.
He lives for the stage and the thrill
of connecting with a crowd and the
‘adrenaline rush’ that performing brings.
Graeme’s audiences become an integral
part of his shows as he draws them into
his wide range of stories sourced from
his extensive repertoire of Traditional,
Contemporary & Original Bush Verse.
Comedy forms the backbone of his
performances as he lets loose his larrikin
nature to ensure the audiences leave
the marquee laughing! He’ll also invoke
their deepest emotions with his touching
serious recitations and throw in a good
old fashioned yarn or joke for good
measure. He’s a ‘live-wire’ sort of character, good with a quick ‘ad-lib’ or pithy
observation on life’s funnier moments. Whatever you do, don’t miss him!
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 7 Athenaeum Hall A chip off the old writer’s block or can writing poetry
really be fun? w/s 11am-12noon
Sunday
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations Poet’s Breakfast 9am-10.45am
Venue 1a Band Hall I don’t like microphones! or becoming a performance poet
w/s 12.45pm-1.45pm
Monday
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations Poet’s Breakfast 9am - 11am
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The Willie Wagtails
Tina Nabb
The Willie
Wagtails
are an oldtime ocker
jazz band
who seek
to make
connections
with
Australian
history,
landscape
and politics
in their
songwriting.
They write energetic, discordant folk-jazz songs that smell distinctly like the
bush, and they are sure to captivate you with stories of solar panels, creek-side
rendezvous and Geoffrey Rush. Good for a raucous dance, their foot stomping
rhythm is better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick!
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations Jazz jam w/s 1pm-2pm
Venue 1 Community Centre 4pm-4.45pm
Sunday
Venue 7 Athenaeum Hall Mandolin w/s 11am-12noon
Venue 1 Community Centre 9.45pm-10.30pm
Monday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 6.30pm-7.15pm
Winner of last year’s Maldon
Minstrel Award, Tina
discovered her musical mojo
when the kids left home
and she bought her first
ukulele. Then she went to a
songwriting workshop …
Tina has been performing
her songs for four years, at
folk clubs, open mic nights,
and other events in and
around Victoria’s Dandenong
Ranges. Her songwriting style
ranges from black comedy
to social commentary, and
is characterised by a strong
narrative. Topics include
cyber bullying, how to
handle the undead, domestic
martyrdom, and making rash
decisions. Tina has recently
recorded her first album, ‘Town & Country’, the title track being a tribute to the
place she has called home for 18 years. Originally from the UK, the cockney
twang still comes through.
Friday
Venue 2 Troubadour Wine Bar 8pm-8.45pm
Saturday
Venue 10 Primary School 11am-11.45am
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 3.45pm-4.30pm
Sunday
Venue 6 Maldon Hotel 1.45pm-2pm
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Uke joint Jumpers
The Uke Joint Jumpers
were established in a
sly grog shop under
an old speakeasy in
the regional gold
mining city of Bendigo,
Victoria. Cutting their
chops at the second
Bendigo Blues and
Roots Festival, this
eclectic group play
their unique ukulele
barrelhouse blues,
covering the songs
of Robert Johnson,
Muddy Waters, John
Lee Hooker and Louis
Jordan. Good enough
to get the crowd
jumping like bed springs on a honeymoon, get on board the Uke Joint Jumpers
Blues Express.
Bookings: [email protected]
commences with entertainment from the band, but incorporates items from
the floor and in which the audience end up entertaining the band.
Friday
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall 8pm-11pm Old Time Bush Dance
Sunday
Venue 5 Anglican Church Hall 2pm-4pm Bush Concert
Woody’s World
Catch them around the streets during the weekend. Sit down and join them.
Ukes D’Jour
Ukes D’Jour love strumming, singing, laughing and performing together and
sharing the fun
with whoever will
listen. Feet won’t
stop tapping and
the smile won’t
leave your face
with music that
includes old style
blues with a bouncy
mix of Bluegrass/
Jug and Jazz. Not
only Ukuleles! Our
sound explodes
with Ukes, Bass, Banjo, Guitar, and Washboard; plus Sax, Kazoo, Harp and
Jug! A mix of ages from youngens to grey heads, Ukes D’Jour hits the streets to
delight both young and old!
Bookings: [email protected]
Friday
Venue 15 Festival Office, High St 7pm
Saturday
Baptist Church Hall Venue 13 Uke w/s 12.15pm-1.15pm
Busking in the streets
Sunday
Venue 7 Athenaeum Hall Family Sing-a-long Play-a-long 1.15pm-2.15pm
Busking in the streets
Wedderburn Charming Emus, Gay Charmers of Lake
Charm Old Time Band & Emu Creek Bush Band
Long time stalwarts of the Maldon Folk Festival, the Celebrated Emu Creek
Bush Band, will once again be providing the toe tapping opening dance of this
year’s festival as they have done for many years. Despite the passing of their
leader Peter Ellis OAM last year the band he nurtured over thirty or more
years will continue to provide the best of bush dancing. Bring the kids and be
prepared for a fun filled evening. You won’t be disappointed. The Bush Concert
Woody’s World is the complete family experience. Young and old are
transported into a delightful and enchanting world bursting with music,
stories, theatre, puppetry and loads of laughter! The Good Morning Kids Show
celebrates life, adventure, friendship – audiences are invited to sing with alleycats, have a cuppa with mice and join the Big Bush Band Bash! With Woody
at the helm and his kids and parents in toe, this 3-generation family band
bring a wave of joyful energy when they perform. Beloved friends “Herc the
Alley-Cat” and “Ralph the Tiger Snake”, are joining them at Maldon for a funpacked weekend of merriment. This show is a musical and theatrical treat not
to be missed! Inspired by their acclaimed debut album ‘Good Morning Kids’,
it is highly interactive and fun for the whole family with antics that keep kids
and parents totally enthralled. Laughing, dancing, singing and snake handling
guaranteed!
Bookings: [email protected]
Saturday
Venue 8 Rotunda Woody & Herc Show 9.30am- 10.15am
Venue 8 Rotunda Dave Splatt - puppeteer12noon-12.30pm
Venue 10 Primary School Woody’s World girls concert + bush dance 12noon12.45pm
Venue 8 Rotunda Dance w/s with flash mob a bit later 2.30pm-3.30pm
Sunday
Venue 8 Rotunda colouring in and puppet making/concert 10am-11.15am
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Themed Concerts/Presentations
Saturday 1pm-6pm
Singing From Country Workshop
Featuring stunning presentations from three interwoven threads of
knowledge - ecological experts, holders of indigenous wisdom and skilled
songwriters. Ecological experts will open your mind to the power of
observation, how to notice subtle changes in our environment. Your
listening will be expanded – connecting the sounds of nature with the
origins of our musicality. Leaders from the Dja Dja Wurrung Community
will highlight the importance of language in the preservation of culture.
Skilled songwriters will share tales of their composition process.
Saturday 2.15pm-3.15pm
Down the Lawson Track
Henry Lawson ‘s iconic yarns and poems, and the songs crafted from them,
are a national treasure. Martyn and Keith travel together down Lawson’s
track, swapping songs and poems, and exploring little known aspects of
Lawson’s troubled life.
Martyn
Wyndham
Read and Keith
McKenry
Venue 3
Neighbourhood
Centre
Saturday 4.30pm-5.15pm
The Copper Family
Danny Spooner,
The Copper Family of Rottendean, Sussex have some two or three hundred
Duncan Brown
songs that they have kept alive over a couple of hundred years.. The family
& Gael Shannon
name has been known in that area since 1593. Sussex is one of the most
beautiful counties in England, the upland verdant green downs make
fine pasture and the limestone soil is good for growing crops. The Downs
also look out over the cliffs and the English Channel, and some of the
people from the area ventured to the sea for their livelihoods as sailors and
fishermen. In this illustrated tribute Danny Spooner, Duncan Brown & Gael
Shannon will explore the history of the family, their songs & their influence
of the folk song revival, come & join in.
Venue 4 Anglican
Church
Saturday 5.45pm-7.15pm
The Lies That Made Australia
Every society embraces myths that define its national self-image. In this
celebrated solo tour de force Keith examines the myths of Australia and its
history through poetry, humour and audience participation. This is great
fun,but not for the faint-hearted.
Venue 3
Neighbourhood
Centre
Venue 5 Anglican
Church Hall
Keith McKenry
Saturday 8.15pm-10.15pm Singing From Country Concert
Venue 1
Community Centre
This performance will unveil the songs written following the introductory
Singing from Country Workshop, which was held in Fryerstown in
September 2016. It features ARIA award winners Kavisha Mazzella, Neil
Murray (writer of the iconic ‘My Island Home’), the multi-talented Carl
Pannuzzo, indie artist and community musician Eva Popov plus other
surprise guest artists and speakers. The final stage of the project will see
local choir-leaders arrange and rehearse Singing from Country songs with
their singing groups and perform them in the Castlemaine State Festival
in March 2017. “Music is a universal language’ says the project’s originator,
Terry White, “It tells stories. It helps communicate love for land, deepen
knowledge of country and strengthen community.
Anyone who attends the Singing from Country event/s will leave both
inspired, and with plenty of opportunities to stay connected with the
project! For lovers of nature, culture and music, this is a creative melting
pot connecting people to place.
Sunday 1pm-2.15pm
Sunday 5.45pm-6.45pm
The Songs of the Travellers – traditional Scots song workshop and presentation
This workshop & presentation explores the songs, singing style and background of the Scots Travellers - renowned carriers of Scotland’s traditional
culture. You will learn songs from Scotland’s rich and very varied repertoire. The sang’s the thing!
Fiona Ross
Venue 3
Neighbourhood
Centre
The Sentimental Bloke
Geoffrey W
Graham
Venue 3
Neighbourhood
Centre
Dances & Dance Workshops
Friday 8pm-11pm
Old Time Bush Dance
Wedderburn Charming Emus, Gay Charmers of
Lake Charm & Emu Creek Old Time Dance Band
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall
Saturday 11am-12pm
Morris Dancing workshop
Britannia Morris Men
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall
Saturday 1.30pm-2.15pm
Irish Dance display
O’Shea Ryan Irish Dancers
Venue 8 Band Rotunda
Saturday 1.30pm-2.30pm
Bush Dancing workshop
Sal Kimber
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall
Saturday 3pm-6pm
Family Bush Dance
Brewers Own Bush Band
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall
Saturday 6.30pm-7pm
“Taste of Irish” - music, song &
dance
Comhaltas - Marie Brouder
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall
Saturday 7.30pm-10.30pm
Traditional Irish Ceili
Comhaltas
Venue 13 Baptist Church Hall
...and don’t miss the Britannia Morris Men & the O’Shea-Ryan Irish Dancers in Main Street throughout the weekend
Singing workshops
Saturday 10.45am-11.45am Festival Choir workshop - all welcome!
Polly Christie & Margaret Crichton
Community Centre Venue 1
Saturday 3.30pm-4.30pm
Singing Workshop
Jo Jo Smith
Athenaeum Hall Venue 7
Sunday 10.45am-11.45am
Festival Choir workshop - all welcome!
Polly Christie & Margaret Crichton
Community Centre Venue 1
Sunday 11.55am-12.10pm
Festival Choir performance
Polly Christie & Margaret Crichton
Community Centre Venue 1
Saturday 3pm-4pm
singing workshop
The Chat Warblers
Anglican Church Venue 4
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Workshops
Saturday 11am- Folk Song Accompaniment – the procedural A to Z of finding and
12noon
choosing songs as well as how to accompany and enhance the essence of
an existing folk song.
Graham
Dodsworth
Venue 5 Anglican
Church Hall
Saturday 11am- A chip off the old writer’s block or can writing poetry really be fun? (for
12noon
Adults) How do I start my poem? How do I finish it? Writers block?
Why isn’t my poem as good as his? Why can’t I win a prize? What does
rhyme & metre mean? How do I get published? The answer to these &
other perplexing questions are answered in this presentation.
The Rhymer
from Ryde
Venue 7 Athenaeum
Hall
Michael the
Balloonologist
Venue 8 Rotunda
Greg Champion
Venue 7 Athenaeum
Hall
Sunday
11.30am12.30pm
Balloon sculpting- making animals etc- involves audience participation
especially children
Saturday
12.30pm1.30pm
Tools of Songwriting part 1
Greg will take you through all the steps of songwriting
Saturday 1pm6pm
Singing from Country workshops
Saturday
Bush Dance workshop
1.30pm-2.30pm
Venue 5 Anglican
Church Hall
Sal Kimber
Venue 13 Baptist
Church Hall
Saturday 2pm3pm
Recording your Music - a beginning
Bring your questions and tips to this friendly forum style workshop,
where Janette Geri will take you through setting up a home studio and
getting the best out of recording. With many years experience in all kinds
of studios, Janette loves helping musicians get the results they’re after.
Whether it’s just a corner of the bedroom, or a studio space at home, this
forum will give you insights, technical advice and guidance on setting up,
as well as good advice and tips on getting the best results and value out
of studio time. Topics covered will include: computer needs, recording
software, analogue gear, mixing, using EQs and effects, sound proofing
and treatments, mics, production, arranging and more.
Janette Geri
Venue 7 Athenaeum
Hall
Sunday
11.15am12.15pm
Songwriting 101
Do you want to write a song or learn to write better songs? Come and
learn about some of the structures and tools of songwriting. Where does
inspiration come from? How do you make your melodies and words
more exciting? Hear Suzette speak about some of her learnings and experiences of engaging the muse.
Suzette Herft
Venue 5 Anglican
Church Hall
Sunday
12.30pm1.30pm
‘Behind the Songs’ - songwriting
Jodi Martin shares her passion for the craft in this dynamic songwriting
workshop. Jodi will unveil her own tricks of the trade, and techniques
she has learned along the journey, co-writing with esteemed songwriters
including Kasey Chambers, Jeff Lang and Arlo Guthrie.
Jodi Martin
Venue 5 Anglican
Church Hall
Janette Geri
Venue 7 Athenaeum
Hall
Sunday 2.45pm- Recording your Music - advanced
3.45pm
Bring your questions and tips to this friendly forum style workshop,
where Janette Geri will take you through setting up a home studio and
getting the best out of recording. With many years experience in all kinds
of studios, Janette loves helping musicians get the results they’re after.
Whether it’s just a corner of the bedroom , or a studio space at home, this
forum will give you insights, technical advice and guidance on setting up,
as well as good advice and tips on getting the best results and value out
of studio time. Topics covered will include: computer needs, recording
software, analogue gear, mixing, using EQs and effects, sound proofing
and treatments, mics, production, arranging and more.
Sunday
12.45pm1.45pm
I don’t like microphones!” or “becoming a performance poet
I think I can. I think I can. Can I? The nuts & bolts of getting yourself up
on a stage…& enjoying it!
The Rhymer
from Ryde
Venue 1a Band Hall
Sunday
12.15pm-1pm
Performance and industry workshop for young people part 1
Cat and Justin will take you through the basics of performance including
stage and performance skills, This workshop is followed by a performance opportunity.
Cat Canteri
& Justin
Bernasconi
Venue 7 Athenaeum
Hall
Sunday 3pm3.30pm
Performance and industry workshop for young people part 2
This is your opportunity to perfom on stage, putting into practice what
you’ve learnt in the porceeding workshop.
Cat Canteri
& Justin
Bernasconi
Venue 3 Neighbourhood Centre
Greg Champion
Venue 5 Anglican
Church Hall
Jodi Martin
Venue 1a Band Hall
Sunday 4.30pm- Tools of Songwriting part 2
5.30pm
Tools of Writing. Finishing/editing a song
Monday
10.30am11.30am
How to Write a Song in a Day – for Kids! – Hey kids! Jodi Martin has
written songs with Kasey Chambers, Josh from The Waifs and many
more. At Maldon, you can join Jodi’s Songwriting Ideas Circle to inspire
a brand new song to grow right before your very eyes! Come and learn
some special tricks so you can write your own songs at home!
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Friday 28th October
Community Centre
Venue 1
Band Hall
Venue 1a
Troubadour Wine Bar Neighbourhood Centre
Venue 2
Venue 3
Maldon Hotel
Venue 6
Baptist Church Hall
Venue 13
6pm
6.15
6.30
6.45
7pm
The Mae Trio
6.30pm-7.15pm
Polly Christie and Andy Rigby
Jodi Martin
session
space
7pm-7.45pm
Hannah Schmidli
7.15
Martin Pearson
7pm-7.45pm
7.30
7.45
7.30pm-8.15pm
7.30pm-8.15pm
old time
bush dance
Tina Nabb
8pm-8.45pm
Dodsworth & Dodsworth
Greg Champion
8.30pm-9.15pm
Wedderburn Charming
Emus, Gay Charmers of
Lake Charm Old Time
Band & Emu Creek Bush
Band
8.00 - 11.00 pm
This dance is armband
entry.
If there is space entry can
also be purchased at the
door for $25 from 8pm
Maria Forde
9pm-9.45pm
Cat Canteri
9.30pm-10.15pm
Jo Jo Smith
9.30pm-10.15pm
Pete Titchener
10pm-10.45pm
Knot o’ The Gate
10.30pm-11.15pm
The Haywood Billy Goats
Acoustic singalong & session
with hot mulled wine, Suzette
Herft and other great musos
11.30pm-12.15am
11pm - late
8.15
8.30
Paper Mouse
8.15pm-9pm
8.30pm-9.15pm
Sal Kimber & The Rollin’
Wheels
9.30pm-10.15pm
8pm
8.45
9pm
9.15
9.30
9.45
10pm
10.15
10.30
10.45
11pm
Joe Quinn
10.45pm-11.30pm
11.15
11.30
11.45
12mid
Instrument Workshops
Sat 11.30pm12.30pm
Whistle Workshop - beginners
These workshops are aimed at those who already have some experience in
playing whistle. We will learn a traditional celtic tune by ear using the method of trading and explore ornamentation, phrasing, harmonies and building
your repertoire. You will need a D whistle (or flute) and feel free to record
the session. Written music will be available to take home as a reference.
Caroline
Schmidli
Wicked
Temptations
Venue 11
Saturday
12.15pm1.15pm
All Abilities Ukulele Workshop – a supported jam session and giant singalong too. Focus on a few basics, learn a few bouncy tunes, build confidence,
skills to join with others.
Ukes D’Jour
Baptist Church
Hall
Venue 13
Saturday 1pm2pm
Jazz Jam – Instrumentalists of all skill levels welcome to jam over some classic tunes and learn the fundamentals of improvising over jazz chords.
The Willie
Wagtails
Wicked
Temptations
Venue 11
Sun 11am12noon
Whistle Workshop - advanced
These workshops are aimed at those who already have some experience in
playing whistle. We will learn a traditional celtic tune by ear using the method of trading and explore ornamentation, phrasing, harmonies and building
your repertoire. You will need a D whistle (or flute) and feel free to record
the session. Written music will be available to take home as a reference.
Caroline
Schmidli
Wicked
Temptations
Venue 11
Sunday 11am12 noon
Mandolin Workshop with Daniel Tedford – Beginner to intermediate
level – strumming and picking technique, basic chords and handy tips for
rhythmic accompaniment.
The Willie
Wagtails
Athenaeum Hall
Venue 7
Sunday
1.15pm2.15pm
Family Sing Along, Play Along – a performance that invites the audience
to bring their Ukes, guitars, banjos, fiddles, voices, dancing shoes. Find out
how much fun it is to “join the band”.
Ukes D’Jour
Athenaeum Hall
Venue 7
Sunday
4.15pm5.15pm
Hands-on folk harp
Come and learn a couple of tunes from Andy’s extensive repertoire. All
levels of experience welcome.
Andy Rigby
Athenaeum Hall
Venue 7
Spoken Word
Event
Venue
MCs/featured Poet
Saturday 9am-11am
Poet’s Breakfast
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations Cafe
Raging Bull & Georffrey Graham
Saturday 1pm-3pm
Yarn Event
Venue 1a Band Hall
Eric Purdie
Sunday 9am-10.45am
Poet’s Breakfast
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations Cafe
The Rhymer from Ryde $ Geoffrey Graham
Sunday 2pm-4pm
Yarn Event
Venue 1a Band Hall
Keith McKenry
Monday 9am-11am
Poet’s Breakfast
Venue 11 Wicked Temptations Cafe
The Rhymer from Ryde & Raging Bull
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Saturday 29th October
8am
Community
Centre Venue 1
Band Hall
Venue 1a
Troubadour Wine
Bar
Venue 2
Neighbourhood
Centre
Venue 3
Anglican
Church
Venue 4
8.15
8.30
8.45
9.15
9.30
9.45
Martin Pearson
Comedy Quiz
9am-10am
10am
11am
11.15
11.30
11.45
12noon
12.15
12.30
12.45
1pm
1.15
1.30
1.45
2pm
2.15
2.30
2.45
3pm
3.15
3.30
3.45
4pm
4.15
4.30
4.45
5pm
First Songs Round Robin
Hannah Schmidli
3.30pm-4.15pm
The Willie Wagtails
4pm-4.45pm
8pm
Singing from Country
8.15pm-10.15pm
10pm
10.15
10.30
10.45
12mid
12.15
12.30
12.45
The Mae Trio
2.30pm-3.15pm
Singing from Country
workshops
Session
3.30pm-4.30pm
Polly Christie & Andy
Rigby
4.45pm-5.30pm
space
Troubadour Specials
5.30pm-6.45pm
Keith McKenry
The Lies That Made
Australia
5.45pm-7.15pm
Polly Christie & Andy
Rigby
7pm-7.45pm
Danny Spooner
“The Copper Family”
The special acoustic
Saturday night concert is
armband entry. If there are
vacant seats, concert entry
can also be purchased at
the door for $25 from 6pm
Tina Nabb
3.45pm-4.30pm
Suzette Herft
5pm-5.45pm
Harpers Bizzare
6pm-6.45pm
Joe Quinn (Scot)
6.15pm-7pm
Sean Kenan
7pm-7.45pm
Peny Bohan
7.30pm-8.15pm
Anatole Road
8pm-8.45pm
The Capitalist Pigs
Goose’s Bridle
Paper Mouse
9pm-9.45pm
9pm-9.45pm
Jo Jo Smith
The Mae Trio
10pm-10.45pm
10pm-10.45pm
Claymore
10.45pm-12.15am
1pm-6pm
Fred Smith book launch
4.30pm-5.15pm
Martyn Wyndham-Read
4.30pm-5.15pm
Herft, Geri, Roberts &
Smith
8pm-8.45pm
8.15
8.30
8.45
Cat Canteri
1.15pm-2pm
Martyn Wyndham-Read
& Keith McKenry
Down the Lawson Track
2.15pm-3.15pm
3pm-3.45pm
Fred Smith
7pm-7.45pm
11.15
11.30
11.45
The Chat Warblers
3pm-4pm
Peny Bohan
1.45pm-2.30pm
Joe Quinn (Scot)
2.45pm-3.15pm
Greg Champion
7.15
7.30
7.45
11pm
MC/Featured
Eric Purdie
Roddy Read
Songwriting
Competition
12noon-2pm
Anatole Road
12noon-12.45pm
singing workshop
1pm-3pm
The Capitalist Pigs
6pm-6.45pm
9.15
9.30
9.45
Peter Titchener
12.45pm-1.30pm
Yarn Event
6.15
6.30
6.45
9pm
Folk song
accompaniment w/s
11am-12noon
Jane Thompson & James
Rigby
11.45am-12.30pm
Hannah Schmidli
1pm-1.45pm
Maria Forde
2pm-2.45pm
Graham Dodsworth
10.15am-11.30am
Suzette Herft
12noon- 12.45pm
Knot O’ The Gate
5pm-5.45pm
7pm
Jo Jo Smith, Joe Quinn
(Scot), Maria Forde
Festival Choir workshop
with Polly Christie &
Margaret Crichton - all
welcome!
10.45am - 11.45am
5.15
5.30
5.45
6pm
Maldon Hotel
Venue 6
workshop venue
9am
10.15
10.30
10.45
Anglican
Church Hall
Venue 5
Acoustic singalong &
session with hot mulled
wine, Suzette Herft and
other great musos
11pm - late
8.45pm-9.30pm
Sal Kimber & The Rollin’
Wheel
10pm-11pm
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Saturday 29th October
Athenaeum Hall
Venue 7
Primary School
Venue 10
Rotunda
Venue 8
FOR THE Children
A chip off the old writer’s
block or can writing poetry
really be fun? w/s
11am-12noon
Richard Leitch
Poet’s Breakfast
9am-11am
MC/Featured Poet
Raging Bull
Folktales and
furrytails
10.45am-11.45am
Tina Nabb
Britannia Morris Men
11am-11.45am
& Geoffrey Graham
Dave Splatt
Caroline Schmidli
Morris Dance w/s
11am-12pm
12noon-12.30pm
beginners whistle w/s
11.30am-12-30pm
Ukes D’Jour
All Abilities Ukulele
w/s
12.15pm-1.15pm
12noon-12.45pm
12.30pm-1.30pm
O’Shea-Ryan
Irish Dancers
1.30pm-2.15pm
Janette Geri
home recording w/s
singing w/s
3.30pm-4.30pm
Jodi Martin
The Willie Wagtails
1pm-1.45pm
Jazz jam w/s
1pm-2pm
Woodys World
dance w/s with flash
mob later
2.30pm-3.30pm
raffle drawn 3pm
Clowns-face painting,
games
Michael the Balloonologist
throughout the day
around the market
1pm-2pm
Paper Mouse
in Macedon Pullman Car
in Tambo Parlour Car
3pm-4pm
Hosted by Peter Winn
3pm-5pm
This is a major fundraiser for
the school and they ask for a
gold coin donation on entry
if possible
Wheel & Loom Building
Main St
10am-5pm
12.15
12.30
12.45
bush dancing w/s
1.30pm-2.30pm
VICTORIAN
GOLDFIELDS
RAILWAY
Where the journey is just as important as
the destination
We are pleased to be a part of this
year’s Maldon Folk Festival, with live
music on the Steam Trains running
between Maldon and Muckleford on
Saturday.
Full bar service is availiable in our first
class carriages.
For more information about our
railway and other sertvioces we offer,
please visit our web site.
www.VGR.com.au
FAMILY
BUSH
DANCE
Brewers Own Bush
Band
&
Michael The
Balloonologist
3pm-6pm
Please be at the station by 2.45pm to
ensure a seat
Pete Titchener
in Macedon Pullman Car
Dodsworth & Dodsworth
in Tambo Parlour Car
5pm-6pm
Please be at the station by 4.45pm to
ensure a seat
Eric Purdie
in Macedon Pullman Car
Comhaltas - Marie
Brouder
“Taste of Irish” - music,
song & dance
6.30pm-7pm
Irish Ceili
Comhaltas
7.30pm - 10.30pm
This dance is armband
entry. If there is space
entry can also be
purchased at the door
for $25
from 7.30pm
10.15
10.30
10.45
12noon
Jeanette Gillespie & Duncan Brown
Blackboard session
10am
11.15
11.30
11.45
Please be at the station by 12.45am to
ensure a seat
2pm-2.45pm
9.15
9.30
9.45
11am
Sal Kimber
Danny Spooner
Instrument Makers
Exhibition
Venue 16
Festival wristband gives you a special
discounted train ticket for only $25. this
gives you a first class seat on the historic
Victorian Goldfields Rail journey, Maldon
to Muccleford return.
Primary School poetry club
10am-10.30am
Woody’s World girls concert
+ bush dance
8am
9am
songwriting w/s
Jo Jo Smith
Victorian Goldfields Railway
Venue 17
8.15
8.30
8.45
Woodys World Woody & Herc Show
9.30am- 10.15am
Greg Champion
- beginning
2pm-3pm
Baptist Church
Hall
Venue 13
Maldon Primary
School Market
8am-3pm
raffle drawn 3pm
workshop venue
The Rhymer from Ryde
Wicked
Temptations
Venue 11
Jane Thompson & James Rigby
in Tambo Parlour Car
1pm
1.15
1.30
1.45
2pm
2.15
2.30
2.45
3pm
3.15
3.30
3.45
4pm
4.15
4.30
4.45
5pm
5.15
5.30
5.45
6pm
6.15
6.30
6.45
7pm
7.15
7.30
7.45
8pm
8.15
8.30
8.45
9pm
9.15
9.30
9.45
10pm
10.15
10.30
10.45
11pm
11.15
11.30
11.45
12mid
12.15
12.30
12.45
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Sunday 30th October
8am
8.15
8.30
8.45
9am
Community Centre
Venue 1
Band Hall
Venue 1a
Troubadour
Wine Bar
Venue 2
10.15
10.30
10.45
First Songs
Martyn WyndhamRead (UK), Pete
Titchener, Jodi
Martin
and more
10.15am-11.45am
12.15
12.30
12.45
1pm
1.15
1.30
1.45
2pm
2.15
2.30
2.45
3pm
3.15
3.30
3.45
4pm
4.15
4.30
4.45
5pm
5.15
5.30
5.45
6pm
6.15
6.30
6.45
7pm
7.15
7.30
7.45
Festival Choir workshop
with Polly Christie &
Margaret Crichton
10.45am-11.45am
11.55am-12.10pm
Roddy Read Winner
12.15pm-12.30pm
Pollyphonics concert
12.45pm-1.30pm
Martyn-Wyndham-Read
1.45pm-2.30pm
Jo Jo Smith
12.45pm-1.45pm
Troubadour Specials
1pm-2pm
MC/Featured
Keith McKenry
Eric Purdie
2.15pm-3pm
2pm-4pm
Anatole Road
3.15pm-4pm
Paper Mouse
3.45pm-4.30pm
Fiona Ross
4.15pm-5pm
Maria Forde
5.15pm-6pm
Session
Troubadour Specials
6.15pm-7.30pm
Sal Kimber & The Rollin’
Wheel
Jane Thompson &
James Rigby
8.45pm-9.30pm
8.45pm-9.30pm
The Willie Wagtails
The Capitalist Pigs
9.45pm-10.30pm
11pm
11.15
11.30
11.45
12mid
12.15
12.30
12.45
1am
Claymore
11pm-12.30am
Song of the Travellers trad Scots song w/s
Cat Canteri & Justin
Bernasconi
w/s & concert
3pm-3.30pm
Peny Bohan
songwriting w/s
Gospel
12.30pm-1.30pm
Concert with
Jeanette Gillespie,
Duncan Brown,
bush concert
Danny Spooner and
friends
Wedderburn Charming
Emus, Gay Charmers
1pm - 3pm
of Lake Charm Old
Time Band & Emu
Creek Bush Band
The Chat Warblers
concert
2pm-4pm
3.15pm-4pm
Greg Champion
Sal Kimber & The
Rollin’ Wheel
4.45pm-5.30pm
Geoffrey W Graham
The Sentimental Bloke
space
9pm
9.45pm-10.30pm
Fiona Ross
3.45pm-4.30pm
The Mae Trio
4.45pm-5.30pm
Cat Canteri
6.45pm-7.30pm
Jodi Martin
1pm-2.15pm
Yarn Event
2.45pm-3.30pm
Jodi Martin
5.45pm-6.30pm
Suzette Herft
songwriting 101 w/s
Jo Jo Smith
12noon-12.45pm
Behind the Songs
7.45pm-8.30pm
10.15
10.30
10.45
Maldon Minstrel
Award
10.30am -12.30pm
Greg Champion
12noon-12.45pm
Janette Geri cd
launch
7.45pm-8.30pm
10pm
10.30am-11.30am
11.15am-12.15pm
The Rhymer from
Ryde
I don’t like
microphones!
or becoming a
performance poet
w/s
The Capitalist Pigs
9.15
9.30
9.45
Bread WINE &
Song - A Celtic
Folk Mass around
the theme of Peace
with Harpers Bizzare and Platform
Souls
Festival Choir performance
8pm
8.15
8.30
8.45
Maldon
Hotel
Venue 6
workshop venue
10am
12noon
Anglican Church
Hall
Venue 5
12noon-6pm
Martin Pearson
Comedy Quiz
9am-10am
11.15
11.30
11.45
Anglican
Church
Venue 4
Live Broadcast Phoenix FM
Bendigo
9.15
9.30
9.45
11am
Neighbourhood
Centre
Venue 3
Acoustic singalong &
session with hot mulled
wine, Suzette Herft and
other great musos
10.45pm - late
5.45pm-6.45pm
Tina Nabb
1.15pm-2pm
Joe Quinn (Scot)
2.30pm-3.15pm
Hannah Schmidli
3.45pm-4.30pm
songwriting w/s
4.30pm-5.30pm
Jane Thompson & James
Rigby
5pm-5.45pm
Anatole Road
6.15pm-7pm
Pete Titchener
7.30pm-8.15pm
Greg Champion
8.30pm-9.15pm
Jodi Martin
9.30pm-10.15pm
Knot O’ The Gate
10.45pm-11.30pm
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Sunday 30th October
Athenaeum Hall
Venue 7
Rotunda
Venue 8
Wicked
Temptations
Venue 11
Monday 31st October
Band Hall
Venue 1a
Troubadour Wine
Bar
Venue 2
Maldon
Hotel
Venue 6
Wicked
Temptations
Venue 11
8.15
8.30
8.45
workshop venue
Poet’s
Breakfast
MC/Featured
The Rhymer from Ryde
& Geoffery Graham
Jodi Martin
Mandolin w/s
How to Write a Song
in a Day – for Kids!
w/s
For the Kids
Woodys World
colouring in and puppet
making/concert
10am-11.15am
advanced whistle w/s
11am-12noon
Kate Crowley (solo)
12.15pm-1pm
Michael the Balloonologist
Balloon sculpting- making
animals etc- involves
Ukes D’Jour
audience participation
Family Sing-a-long Playespecially children.
a-long
11.30am-12.30pm
1.15pm-2.15pm
Janette Geri
home recording w/s
Caroline Schmidli
clowns -face painting,
games
- advanced
2.45pm-3.45pm
Raging Bull
First Songs
Cat Canteri, Sal
Kimber
10.15am - 11.30am
9am - 11am
10.30am-11.30am
Dodsworth &
Dodsworth
11.45am-12.30pm
Eric Purdie
11.30am-12.15pm
Maria Forde
12noon-12.45pm
Peny Bohan
(The Capitalist Pigs)
12.30pm-1.15pm
Joan & Ray Mundy
Slow session on Irish
Music
2pm-3.30pm
Folktales and
furrytails
3.30pm-4.30pm
The Mae Trio
12.45pm-1.30pm
Martyn WyndhamRead
1pm-1.45pm
Jane Thompson &
James Rigby
2pm-2.45pm
Suzette Herft
3pm-3.45pm
Blackboard session
Hosted by Peter Winn
Andy Rigby
MC/Featured
The Rhymer from
Ryde
&
The Willie Wagtails
11am-12noon
Poet’s Breakfast
Martin Pearson
Comedy Quiz
9am - 10am
9am-10.45am
Cat Canteri & Justin
Bernasconi
8am
4pm-5pm
Cat Canteri
4pm-4.45pm
The Capitalist Pigs
5.15pm-6pm
Wheel & Loom Building
The Willie Wagails
6.30pm-7.15pm
Main St
Baptist Church
Venue 12
Venue 16
Baptist Church Service
10am-5pm
Celebration of Music
10.30 - 11.30am
9.15
9.30
9.45
10am
10.15
10.30
10.45
11am
11.15
11.30
11.45
12noon
12.15
12.30
12.45
1pm
1.15
1.30
1.45
2pm
2.15
2.30
2.45
3pm
3.15
3.30
3.45
4pm
4.15
4.30
4.45
5pm
Hands-on folk harp w/s
4.15pm-5.15pm
Instrument Makers
Exhibition
12.30pm-1.15pm
9am
5.15
5.30
5.45
6pm
6.15
6.30
6.45
7pm
7.15
7.30
7.45
Goose’s Bridle
7.45pm-8.30pm
Jodi Martin
9pm-9.45pm
Knot O’ The Gate
10pm-10.45pm
8pm
8.15
8.30
8.45
9pm
9.15
9.30
9.45
10pm
10.15
10.30
10.45
11pm
11.15
11.30
11.45
12mid
12.15
12.30
12.45
1am
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INSTRUMENT MAKERS EXHIBITION
Exquisite workmanship showcases an impressive range of Australian made musical instruments
Venue Wheel & Loom Building, Main St
Saturday & Sunday 10am-5pm
Entry Free
Exhibition Coordinators: Brian Cuffley & Jill Findlay
Alan Funk - banjos
Greg McKinnon – Cigar Box Guitars
White Swallow Banjos have been around for over 40 years, now, the last 22
years made in South Australia, with the wooden and metal parts, except tuners
& fret wire made by me in my Reynella workshop. Over forty years, and 300
plus banjos have the White Swallow name on them. A wide variety of timbers
are used, both native & imported.
There is one rule for cigar box guitars and that is “there ain’t no rules” So you
build ‘em how you like, string ‘em how you like and play ‘em how you like.
I always try and use reclaimed timbers whenever possible and Australian
hardwoods are my speciality. My guitars are three string fretless tuned ‘open g’.
Any further info www.brookwoodguitars.com
Andy Rigby & Steven Oram - harps
Jeff Wilmott – Ocarinas
Andy Rigby has been playing the folk harp for over twenty-five years, and
is regarded as one of Australia’s leading players, teachers and makers of this
noble instrument. His harp-making orders cover modern folk harps as well
as medieval Gaelic brass-strung harps, Spanish Baroque chromatic harps,
Welsh triple harps, and West African koras. His designs take features from
the Celtic and Paraguayan traditions, leading to a unique hybrid style of harp
which he has called the “Paraceltic Harp”. Andy has just returned from a tour
of Paraguay, Argentina and Nova Scotia. Demand is considerable, and after
making 200 harps, Andy now makes only the larger harps while his assistant
Stephen Oram makes the smaller “lap harps”. Andy runs harp-making
workshops in central Victoria. Andy and Stephen make extensive use of
Australian timbers in their harps.
After a two year ceramic certificate course in 1971-72, Jeff began a life of
pottery, folk music and photography. In 1987 he began making Ocarinas (clay
flutes), combining his pottery and folk music skills. Jeff plays Ocarina, Guitar,
Fiddle, Mandolin, Gum Leaf and Didgeridoo. He loves sharing his knowledge
of making and playing of these instruments.
Ben Stewart – guitars & ukuleles
In the thriving cultural hub of Castlemaine, instrument makers operate
alongside other significant artisans; writers, sculptors, painters, foodproducers, metalworkers, hot-rodders and fabric-workers. Within this eclectic
community, Benedict crafts guitars from the Baroque period to the early
Twentieth century, and his own design. Benedict also offers a program of
Guitar and Ukulele Building Workshops. He teaches instrument making at
NCAT Preston and in Verona, Italy with Bon Bon Creative Tours. He also
crafts Baroque & Romantic period and contemporary woodwind musical
instruments for professional and enthusiast players. Benedict’s high quality
musical instruments that have found their way around the globe.
Joe Gallacher – Guitars, Mandolins and Irish Bouzoukis.
Joe has been building guitars, mandolins and Irish bouzoukis for over 20 years.
The guitars he builds are influenced by some really nice old instruments he has
played over the years but has a few of his own design. Joe tends to go for less
than more in ornamentation and enjoys the look of the wood on the bindings.
The timber’s he prefers are Rosewood, Mahogany, Australian Blackwood,
European and Adirondack Spruce but has experimented with lots of tone
woods. Check out his website at www.gallacherguitars.com
Mark Aspland – KikBox Cajons
Woodskin™ has significantly advanced the traditional cajon, enabling use in a
wide variety of musical genres. With patented built-in kick drum, switchable
snare, tone and depth controls it offers versatility and a uniquely crisp and
powerful sound. Additional to traditional hand playing Woodskin’s™ KiKBox®
Cajon employs foot pedals to produce the rich bass and snare and tom sounds
it is renowned for. Woodskin’s™ KiKBox® is used by professional musicians of
all types, from percussionists to guitarists, the world over.
Gillian Weiss - harps
Ray Black – Mandolins, Bouzoukis and Banjos.
Gillian has been making harps for 20 years in all shapes and sizes from 19 to
40 strings, working mostly in Australian timbers. She is mostly self taught
but a 2002 Churchill
Fellowship enabled her
to spend several months
visiting and/or working
with harpmakers in
Europe, and North
America – a life
changing experience!
A luthier since 1980 , Ray has built many Octave Mandolins, Bouzouki, Banjos
and Mandolins using imported and Australian woods. His carved top and back
mandolins are particularly prized by musicians of all genres while his banjos,
both resonator and openback use components crafted in his workshop. 2016
was a highpoint with Peter Denahys’ CD “ Singing Shoes”, featuring one of
Rays’ F Style mandolins, winning duel Golden Guitars at Tamworth Country
Music Awards
Trevor Phillips
I build guitars, banjos and ukuleles, along with occasional relatives of
these, generally preferring Australian timbers. My instruments usually owe
something to those being made in the early 20th century without being
slavish copies. I prefer a hands-on-wood approach, building to a sound, not a
formula and using a french polish technique to finish all of my instruments.
More modern finishes may be quicker and tougher but don’t appeal to me
environmentally or aesthetical.
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1.
Community Centre - Guinness Bar
10. Primary School
1a. Band Hall
11. Wicked Temptations Cafe
2.
Troubadour Wine Bar
12. Baptist Church
3.
Neighbourhood Centre
13. Baptist Church Hall
4.
Anglican Church
14. First Aid - Maldon CERT
5.
Anglican Church Hall
15. Festival Office
6.
Maldon Hotel
16. Instrument Makers Exhibition
7.
Athenaeum Hall
17. Victorian Goldfields Railway Station
8.
Rotunda in Maldon Memorial Gardens
18. Bill Woodfull Reserve (Family Camping Ground)
9.
Kangaroo Hotel
19. Mount Tarrangower Camping
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