About The National Folk Festival
13th-17th April, 2006

Posted Monday, January 3, 2005

Queensland, The Italians in Australia, The Working Life

Easter Weekend
13th-17th April, 2006
Exhibition Park
Canberra, Australia

• Programmed concerts, blackboard concerts, 16 hours of entertainment each day.
• Instrumental, singing and full dancing and dance display sessions – come all ye!
• Street performers, ooh! aah! circus , the Children's Festival.
• The Spoken Word - yarns, storytelling and poetry - including The 10th World Poetry Debate.
• Gloriously colorful dances to watch, dances to learn; frock up for the Colonial Ball and The Scottish Ball!
• Toot, whistle, plunk, boom - that’s where the music comes from – visit our Instrument Makers’ Pavilion to admire and buy.
• Art and craft workshops - create a take-home treasure or a leave-it-there mural.
• Daily parades, gospel singing, films and historial displays, the National Library of Australia and ScreenSound Australia on site.
• Shopping - for beanies, boots, brooches or banjos - they're all there in 110 stalls along with Food, glorious food - everything from Japanese sushi to German sausage, from Spanish paella to Ethiopian and Indian curries to Australian bush tucker - and drink , glorious drink as well in 3 bars and 2 wine bars

All for the price of an entry ticket. What are you waiting for?

Tickets
(02) 6249 7722

See the web site for full details.