Get involved!
There are lots of ways you can get involved in the Folk Festival
Opening parade
Help celebrate 10 years of the Yack Folk Festival! Find out more here.
NEW EVENT!
Chalkboard *Free Entry*
The Chalkboard is your opportunity to seize the day and have your 15 minutes in the spotlight. Experience or forethought is not necessary! Simply turn up at the beginning of the day and write the name of your act down on a spare spot on the chalkboard in The Shed. Give it a go!
Chalkboard
Sat: 12pm – 2pm
Sun: 10.30am -12.00pm
Performers
Download the performer application form for the 2008 Festival.
The Great Yackandandah Jam Project
is seeking fun loving people who would enjoy making music with others.Community members of all ability levels are encouraged to participate in the Great Yackandandah Jam project that involves multitudes of people playing a range of instruments and singing. The musical piece to be performed as a highlight of the Yackandandah Folk Festival on March 15th 2008 will be a creative extension of the recent Y-Talk report that reflects the uniqueness of life in Yackandandah.
The composition, commissioned by the Yackandandah Folk Festival through funding from the Festivals Australia Regional Residencies program, will be composed and directed by community music champions and members of acclaimed folk group Blackwood James Rigby and Jane Thompson who have recently researched and gathered local stories and material that has inspired their creative work.
Anyone with a voice or musical instrument –string, brass, wind or percussion (doesn’t matter how long since you’ve played it) is most welcome to participate. Community parts will be very easy to learn and students from Yackandandah Primary school will be included in the project. There will also be opportunities for those with higher skills to take leadership roles. Some of the festival’s featured performing musicians will also participate.
Rehearsal sessions with the Yackandandah Strum Club will be held adjacent to Sunday festival choir rehearsals. Written and listening resources are available on line at www.makingmusic.com.au
The composers would like to have an idea of the range of musicians who will be participating in the project to inform their musical arrangements and so we are inviting people to register their interest to participate as soon as possible.
Click here for registration form or contact Great Yackandandah Jam Project co ordinator, Karen Roben (karenroben@bigpond.com, phone 0458 454 050) for further information.
Folk Festival Choir
Come and enjoy the challenge and fun of being part of our community choir. More information here
Volunteers
We need volunteers in two hour blocks from 10-6 on Saturday and 10-1 on Sunday. Email: bridge.family@bigpond.com or ring 0260271709 or drop into the festival office on Friday or Saturday
Stalls and Market Day
Stall sites are still available for the market on Sunday. Ring Yackandandah Primary School for site bookings on 02 60271431 or email yackandandah.ps@edumail.vic.gov.au
Buskers Wanted
As always, buskers are welcome to put their hat out at the festival. We welcome musicians and performers of all types. Our judges will be on the lookout for talent and will be awarding prizes once again for the best buskers in the junior and senior sections. If you are interested email Geoff Simmons: gsimmons@csu.edu.au
