Mount Roland Folk Festival in Gowrie Park, Tasmania, Australia | Festival

Mount Roland Folk Festival

Locality: Gowrie Park, Tasmania, Australia

Address: 1447 Claude Rd 7306 Gowrie Park, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.mountrolandfolkfest.org/

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25.01.2022 We are excited to announce that we are planning a small and 'Covidsafe' 2020 Mount Roland Folk Festival, to take place at The Old Black Stump in Gowrie Park, November 6-8th. We're going to announce the line-up and open ticket sales to current FolkTas members this Monday August 31st, and to non-members one week later on September 7th. If you aren't already a FolkTas member, you can join here: www.folktas.org/join/join-the-fft/ . It's $25 for an adult for one year, or $30 for a... family. It will give you a $10 discount to the festival, as well discounts to other FolkTas events, and a subscription to the best and only Tasmanian folk newsletter Drumbeat. You'll be able to see the artist line-up and book tickets through www.mountrolandfolkfest.org, and after you've booked tickets you have the option of also booking accommodation at Gowrie Park Wilderness Village - call them on 64911385 (we are not managing accommodation bookings this year). So keep an eye out on Monday, we are aiming to release tickets at 6pm. Numbers are limited this year for obvious reasons, and we sincerely apologise in advance to anyone who misses out. We hope we'll be able to put on a bigger bash in 2021 to make up for it! From the Mount Roland Folk Festival Committee (Kate, Dom, Teri, Colin, Abbey, Anna and Raku) Photo credit: Katherine Tattersal

25.01.2022 Leueen Barber on fiddle, Matthew Dames on guitar and Anna Talbot on bodhran. Saturday concert at the Old Black Stump lawn venue

25.01.2022 Artwork by Kate Case

24.01.2022 Tickets for the 2020 festival have sold out! There are still places left for the Friday Night Garden Party, which will involve a longtable dinner to a live soundtrack, under the stars and under the mountains. It would suit people who live fairly locally, or anyone else who has bought a Saturday/Sunday ticket only (there is no other programme on the Friday night, other than cards in your tent). These Garden Party Tickets will open to non-Folktas members at 6pm this evening, from www.trybooking.com/BLGOP Thanks for your support, it means a lot to us that people are excited about little MRFF. To anyone who missed out on a ticket, we really are sorry, and we'll have the bonfires burning for you next year.

22.01.2022 Gowrie Park puts on some glorious weather for our second Mount Roland Folk Festival

21.01.2022 Found - bagpipe practice chanter

21.01.2022 Thankyou to everybody who was a part of the 2020 Mount Roland Folk Festival - the decorators, performers, sound people, volunteers, hosts, coffee and food makers, bushdancers, fire-stokers, workshop participators, open-micers, session-players, the attentive audience, and the mountains. It was so much fun, and we can't wait until next time.

21.01.2022 Heya folks, if there are any Hobart / Huon Valley people out there who enjoyed the MRFF choir, Teri is starting a Living Room Choir at Kingston Beach next Wednesday evening. Go here to sign up: https://www.trybooking.com/BHWIJ

13.01.2022 Tickets for the Mount Roland Folk Festival have just gone live to FolkTas members! You can see the 2020 artist line-up here: www.mountrolandfolkfest.org... And buy tickets here: https://www.trybooking.com/BLGOP If you are not already a member of FolkTas you can join here: https://folktas.org/join/join-the-fft/

11.01.2022 Festival day has arrived! There are some people who have tickets who can no longer come, so if you would still like a last minute ticket, post your name here and we'll try and hook you up. See you very soon!

09.01.2022 People in NW Tassie might be interested in this bushdance in April :)

08.01.2022 Hi festival folks, we just want to give you an update on our unplannable hopes and dreams for the next MRFF. It had been pencilled in for Oct 30th - Nov 2nd - and we haven’t ruled that out just yet, in some form or other - but it may well have to be postponed by several months or more. The only thing we are committing to at this stage is that it WON'T be a Zoom festival. For now, artist and volunteer applications are OPEN, so please apply if you're that way inclined, and tell... your favourite local and Australian artists to as well. We’ll keep them all on file for whenever the festival happens. Find the application forms at www.mountrolandfolkfest.org Best wishes to you all from the organising committee xx Ps thanks Kate Case for another wonderful poster.

08.01.2022 *UPDATE* there are now only people with tickets for the Friday Night Garden Party, all available Sat/Sun tickets gone. Hello! A few people are looking to sell their Mount Roland Folk Festival tickets for next weekend. If you or someone you know would like to buy either 1, 2 or 3, for both the Friday night Garden Party and the Saturday/Sunday festival please email [email protected] . www.mountrolandfolkfest.org

06.01.2022 Hey folks, we are happy/sorry to say that festival tickets are officially SOLD OUT! Now that everyone who's going knows that they're going, we've made this 'event' to facilitate some rideshares. If you would like to request or offer a lift to the festival, just make a post saying when you're going and where you're travelling from, and see who you might be able to link up with. Travel well!

02.01.2022 Hi everybody, thanks again for such a wonderful weekend. We have decided it was too much fun NOT to run another festival next year, so pencil in October 30th - November 2nd to your diaries, and we'll see you all back at Gowrie Park... this time for a long weekend! Artist and volunteer applications will open in a few months' time. For now, enjoy these pictures from the weekend, with many thanks to our festival photographer Katherine Tattersall. Also, some things to do while ...you're thinking of it... 1) Sign up to our email list for us to keep you posted about future happenings: http://eepurl.com/gyjva1 2) If you haven't already, become a Folk Federation of Tasmania member or just sign up to their email list to keep in the loop about various music and dance events around Tasmania: www.folktas.org 3) Complete our short survey so that we can learn as much as possible from this experience, and hopefully make more festivals happen in the future: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/F6VF5JL

02.01.2022 For anyone who's interested, this is a bit of documentary gold. Footage from the 9th Nariel Creek Folk Festival in 1971, the oldest running folk festival in Australia, up in the hills near the NSW / Victoria border. The festival was evacuated on the eve of New Year's eve last year because of a bushfire that came within a few hundred metres, and some of the folks who were there on that day lost their homes in those very fires. It's been a devastating year for so many communities with fires and this pandemic, for the folk community not least of all. But the festivals that are the life springs of these communities are still there, just below the surface, waiting to spring up from their ground when the moment comes. How sweet that moment will be, like water on dry land!