Festival of Small Halls has announced that Ryan Young and Alana Wilkinson will feature on their upcoming Summer Tour 2024: Woodford Folk Festival to Illawarra Folk Festival.
Presented by the world-renowned team behind Woodford Folk Festival (Woodfordia Inc), the Festival of Small Halls is Australia’s largest regional music tour. This tour marks the 37th
venture into rural, regional and remote areas of the country, with a van full of bunting, instruments, and folk spirit.
The Summer Tour 2024 will commence at Woodford Folk Festival, before heading south and inland, then crossing the Great Dividing Range and heading back north up the coast,
stopping at the Illawarra Folk Festival along the way. Focusing on traditional Scottish music, Ryan Young brings new life to very old, often forgotten tunes by playing them in his own unique way. His fiddle playing is brimming with fresh melodic ideas, an uplifting rhythmic drive and a great depth of dynamics and precision.
Combining delicate melodies with disarmingly insightful vignettes about the human condition, Alana Wilkinson is a smiling assassin. Her songs skewer ex-lovers, would-be suitors,
ridiculous social norms and the absurd challenges of a suburban upbringing in a merciless, yet strangely affectionate way, leaving audiences feeling like they’re sitting in her living
room, chatting about life over a steaming cuppa.
Festival of Small Halls Summer Tour 2024 starts from the 27th December -1st January at the Woodford Folk Festival before heading south to Yetman on the 3rd January. The tour
continues to 16 communities across New South Wales, including the Illawarra Folk Festival between 19th-21st January, before concluding at Wardell on 28th January 2024.
Date: 24 January 2024
Venue: Broke Community Hall
Tickets: http://www.festivalofsmallhalls.com