We'll be back in the valley! 🌿
On Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 October we're singing at Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival, in beautiful Gangagruwan. And we're singing twice!
Saturday 17 at 12:40pm in the Koori Tent, then 2:30pm in the Pavilion.
Sunday 18 at 12 noon in St Joseph's Church.
A whole weekend of music, poetry and dance, 16 to 18 October, and we get to be part of it again. Big shout out to the festival for having us back. Yadingji 🙏🏽
Every Sunday, we gather.
Not for show preparation. Or recording. Just for the singing.
We have done this since 2022. Hiring halls and filling up loungerooms.
We all bring a plate. Someone is always late 😀
Lyric sheets on laps and the kettle going in the background, and at least one moment where the whole room loses it laughing and we have to start the verse again from the top.
This is where the songs live. The stages, the festivals, the cameras: that is just what happens when other people are watching.
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