by Pam Merrigan | Jul 19, 2022 | Articles, Industry News, Member News
Folk Arts deserve a place in the new National Cultural Policy – Have your say! The new Federal Government is currently inviting interested individuals and organisations to take part in a consultation process to inform a new National Cultural Policy. The Folk...
by Wayne Richmond | May 22, 2022 | Articles
Frank O’Gallagher, arrived in Sydney in 1959 having been brought up to the sound of Irish music. After a career at Alcan and later as Chief Engineer of John Fairfax Limited he eventually turned back to the music of his youth and the Australia Folk scene. He was a...
by Pam Merrigan | May 5, 2022 | Articles, Industry News
Festival of Small Halls is a series of tours that takes the best folk and contemporary acoustic artists and sends them on the road performing in tiny halls in communities all over Australia. Organisers have just announced that celebrated songwriters Ash Bell and Sara...
by Pam Merrigan | Apr 23, 2022 | Articles, Industry News
Folk Alliance Australia held its AGM at the recent National Folk Festival held over Easter. Some thirty people attended in person and the FAA welcomed three new members Sam De Santi, Erin Heycox and Louise Coomber, adding skills, experience and regional representation...
by Pam Merrigan | Mar 10, 2022 | Articles
Bob Bolton’s collection of photographs is arguably one of, if not the most, extensive pictorial record of the folk scene in Australia. Some years ago Bob gave the negatives to Rob Willis for inclusion in the National Library of Australia collection. Before material...
by Pam Merrigan | Jun 18, 2021 | Articles
16 June 2021 MEDIA RELEASE The Inaugural Australian Folk Music Awards (AFMAs) Folk Alliance Australia today announces the launch of The AFMAs, the Australian Folk Music Awards a new National Awards program for the folk music sector. Full information...
