Every year, at Easter, thousands of people pour into the EPIC showgrounds in Canberra, for the National Folk Festival. For five days, the showgrounds become a village, full of the smells of food of every nationality imaginable, the colour of the costumes of the dancers and the street performers and the stalls selling locally made goods, and above all, the music. It’s magic.
Folk Festivals are different from other festivals. They celebrate the culture of everyday life, our folklife, and its history. They celebrate our English, Scottish and Irish ancestry, and the ancestry of the hundreds of ethnic groups contributing to our unique multicultural society.
