Port Fairy Folk Festival has announced 21 more artists for its 50th edition, with Joan As Police Woman, Midlake and Newton Faulkner on the bill.
Port Fairy Folk Festival is turning 50 and has just dropped another 21 names ti its incredible lineup.
Port Fairy Folk Festival runs across the Labour Day long weekend, and the new additions take in folk, roots, indie-rock, contemporary pop and traditional music.
US singer-songwriter Joan As Police Woman, indie-folk band Midlake, Australian bush band The Bushwackers, English guitarist Newton Faulkner and sea shanty group The Longest Johns head up the list.
Plenty of the new acts are coming from further afield. Canadian musician Kaïa Kater, Catalan-Spanish vocalist Maria Arnal, Scottish Gaelic singer-songwriter Norrie Tago MacIver, Irish-English collective Ranagri, Newfoundland band Rum Ragged and Scottish-Australian act Good Guy Hank are all in. Australian acts The Little Stevies and Pierce Brothers are also returning.
Port Fairy Folk Festival
- Where: Port Fairy, Victoria
- When: 5 to 8 March 2027
- Gates open at 12pm on 5 March
- Tickets here
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The rest of the new names
The remaining additions are A.C. Saunders, Daisy Kilbourne, Joe H Henry, Norwood, Wilsn, The Southern Ocean Sea Band and Gina Williams-Ghouse and the Woolah Band.
Wilsn makes soul and R&B, while Gina Williams-Ghouse and the Woolah Band bring Noongar language and culture into their music.
Melbourne alt-folk group Norwood are returning with their full band, and The Southern Ocean Sea Band lean into maritime music and seafaring traditions.
There’s also Shackleton 3, a revived Australian holiday folk-rock project featuring Mick Thomas, Anna Burley of The Killjoys and Olivia Bolmat of Norwood.
All of them join a lineup that already includes The Waifs, John Butler Trio, Sixpence None The Richer, The Milk Carton Kids, Kate Rusby, Kutcha Edwards, Luka Bloom, Grace Petrie, Eleanor McEvoy, Skerryvore, Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen, The Burning Hell, Steph Strings and Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission.
The festival marks five decades of taking over the coastal Victorian town, with the busking stage at Fiddlers Green and the historic streetscape part of the setting. More artists, special events and activities are still to be announced.
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