Australian folk and roots music — festivals, artists, features
The major folk festivals are the long-running public gatherings that still publish a program under their own name — among them the National Folk Festival in Canberra, Port Fairy, Woodford, the Blue Mountains Music Festival, Fairbridge, Cygnet, Illawarra, Maldon, and the National Celtic Folk Festival in Portarlington. Confirm every year on the official festival website.
The major folk festivals are the long-running public gatherings that still publish a program under their own name — among them the National Folk Festival in Canberra, Port Fairy, Woodford, the Blue Mountains Music Festival, Fairbridge, Cygnet, Illawarra, Maldon, and the National Celtic Folk Festival in Portarlington. Confirm every year on the official festival website.
Those names are a starter set, not a ranking and not a census. A festival is “major” here because it has a public organising body and a habit of publishing, not because this magazine gave it a score.
Open the official site for the year you mean to travel. Dates, line-ups, camping and access belong there. Folk Magazine is not a box office.
Read the longer choose-a-weekend essay on the festivals hub. The calendar explains season as a habit of months.
If a page from the old WordPress years brought you here, you are in the rebuilt magazine — same path, new writing, no invented quotes.
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