Woodford Folk Festival announces 25th anniversary programme

With 25 years under their belt, the Queensland Folk Federation's festival at Woodfordia has announced a huge programme to mark their quarter century.

Featuring 3000 performers, artists and thinkers alongside two former Prime Ministers, Woodford has once again assembled one of the most diverse programmes on the Australian festival calendar. Having consistently delivered on their promise of an epic journey into the kaleidoscope of Australian culture, Queensland's Woodford Folk Festival aren't letting anyone down with the set of names thrown together for their silver anniversary.

Musically, you are incredibly well catered for, with international guests Arrested Development, The Dynamites, Daara J Family, Dan Mangan and Passenger all making the trek to our shores. Meanwhile, the local bill is filled with some of our finest, with You Am I, The Cat Empire, Tim Freedman, Jeff Lang, Basement Birds and Kate Miller-Heidke some of the most notable amongst the endless run of names.

Add to all that the sequel to last year's incredible arts installation Disturbia, an endless array of environmental talks by names such as Prof. Ian Lowe and a swathe of workshops and events, and you've got yourself a week of festival that's going to extensively fill up your diary. 

Running from the 27th of December to the 1st of January and located in the stunning 500-acre festival site of Woodfordia, this is a festival that's much loved by the thousands of regular attendees and ourselves, as you can see with our extensive coverage of year's prior at the Woodford Festival profile.

Check out the full line-up highlights below with the entire programme online now at www.woodfordfolkfestival.com

LOCALS:
You Am I, The Cat Empire, Kate Miller-Heidke, Katie Noonan and The Captains, , Tim Freedman, Archie Roach, Mama Kin, Jeff Lang, Lior, Microwave Jenny, Dubmarine, Felix and The Phoenix, Hermitude, Marshall and The Fro, Cumbia Cosmonauts, The Barons of Tang, Basement Birds, The Break, TinPan Orange, Vika and Linda Bull, Christa Hughes and The Honkytonk Shonks, Flap!, Blue King Brown, Tijuana Cartel, Drawn from Bees, The Chemist, Leah Flanagan, kooii, Laneous and The Family Yah, Radical Son, Jackie Marshall, That 1 Guy, The Little Stevies, Shane Howard and his Band, Yeshe.

INTERNATIONALS:
Arrested Development (USA), The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker (USA), the incredible Katzenjammer (Norway), Baskery (Sweden), BBC World Music Award winners Daara J Family (Senegal), and from Canada, Tom Fun Orchestra, Jill Barber, Dan Mangan and Matthew Barber. From the UK Passenger, from the USA Love in the Circus, Stevie Salas and Bernard Fowler, and The Whitetop Mountaineers, and from the 70’s Mani Neumeier with Etsuko Watanabe.