10/23 - Yungaburra Folk Festival
This weekend was the Yungaburra Folk Festival. On Friday night a group of us were dropped off to volunteer, I worked a fun 5 hours behind on of the bars next to a performance space. The music was really cool, pretty different from a lot of what I have heard before. There was, of course, Australian Folk music but there was also a lot of Celtic music that everyone got up to dance for, myself included. I didn’t get back to the center until after midnight. Saturday morning we did data processing for our DR’s and then got dropped off in Yungaburra again, first for the monthly market and then to the festival to walk around. People who had not volunteered last night volunteered Saturday. We had a deal with the people running the festival, each person volunteers for 6 hours and we get into the festival for free. A weekend ticket was normally $85, so this was really nice of them. I had a fun time walking around and listening to all the music. The whole group camped there overnight and in the morning we had more time to explore. There was an amazing duo, Nick and Liesel, that we heard, I even ended up buying their CD and getting it signed. They had a certain style that is a bit hard to describe, it definitely had folk in it but there were many other influences. All in all it was a very enjoyable weekend.