Yungaburra Folk Festival
The festival celebrates world-wide folk traditions through music, storytelling, circus, dance, and crafts, and features musicians, dancers, circus and fire artists, comedians and festival performers. Yungaburra is surrounded by World Heritage rainforests, lakes, waterfalls and Queensland's tallest mountain, Mount Bartle Frere.
Festival Name Change
From 2010, the festival will be called: Tablelands Folk Festival. This development means the festival celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2010 with the first Folk Festival held on the Tablelands in 1981 at Herberton.
The Festival was called the Tablelands Folk Festival (TFF) for 21 years, the name was then changed to Yungaburra Folk Festival (YFF) for 8 years. The membership voted to return to the former name in February 2010.
The members of TFF Assn. Inc. have always been the organising team behind the Yungaburra Folk Festival. The TFF Members' post-festival analysis and plenary session of November 2007 led to an awareness of the need to plan for the longer term, within the TFF Objects and Mission Statement.
This development allows for future events at locations around the Tablelands region, and provides an avenue to umbrella periodic events, showcase performances, bush dances or other festivals. Confusion amongst the public was apparent in 2009, with the Yungaburra Folk Festival presenting the Thursday night anniversary concert at Herberton. The change of name will alleviate such issues.
References
- ^ "Tablelands music festival to play on". The Cairns Post. The Cairns Post. Retrieved 1 February 2024.
External links
- Yungaburra Folk Festival website
- Tablelands Folk Festival website
- Tablelands Folk Festival and Children's Parade photographs, State Library of Queensland. Photographs of the 2019 Festival