The Teskey Brothers, Marlon Williams, Ngaiire and A. Savage lead this years Town Folk Festival expanded program lineup
Castlemaine Town Folk Festival, Victoria’s beloved single-day music festival, announces its expansion in 2024, bringing an enormous lineup of local and international talent to Djaara / Castlemaine on Saturday, 16th November 2024.
Maintaining its family-friendly, community-oriented atmosphere, the festival will activate local venues such as The Bridge Hotel and Shedshaker Brewery, with the exciting addition of a major festival site at the Sunken Oval.
Castlemaine Town Folk Festival Details
- When: Saturday 16 November 2024
- Where: The Bridge Hotel, Shedshaker Brewery, Sunken Oval
- Tickets: On sale now, purchase here
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Castlemaine Town Folk Festival lineup
- A. Savage
- Aplegate
- Don’t Thank Me, Spank Me!
- Felicity Cripps Band
- Grace Cummings
- Harmony Bryne
- Jess Ribeiro
- M79
- Marlon Williams
- Merryn Jeann
- Ngaiire
- Queenie
- Ruby and Loretta
- Tek Tek Ensemble
- The Maes
- The Teskey Brothers
- Yirinda
In the first Town Folk Festival lineup announcement, a mammoth 17 artists will take over the Castlemaine township. The 2024 lineup includes A. Savage (US), the solo project of Parquet Courts frontman Andrew Savage, adored New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams (NZ), and Four-time ARIA award-nominated future-soul powerhouse Ngaiire.
In their only Victorian appearance for 2024, global touring juggernaut The Teskey Brothers will perform on the main stage, along with Yirinda, the project of Fred Leone and Samuel Pankhurst, who combine ancient Aboriginal language with sublime modern production. The mesmerising Grace Cummings will play songs from her acclaimed third album, Ramona, alongside Jess Ribeiro, Queenie and many more.
A. Savage
Savage, known to many as the frontman of US art-punk band Parquet Courts, visits Australia for the first time in 2024 promoting his two amazing solo albums. Savage is a one-of-a-kind lyricist, wandering through themes of urban life, modern society, and personal introspection with a strikingly singular delivery over a beautiful, minimalist take on folk, country, rock’n’roll and everything in between. It’ll be the most honest hour of fun experienced on the Sunken Oval.
Grace Cummings
Recorded with Jonathan Wilson (Father John Misty, Angel Olsen) at his Topanga Canyon studio, Grace Cummings’ third album RAMONA is a master work of unbridled theatricality and emotion. Delicate soundscapes, swirling world-building, a voice with a depth that can be almost felt, as if your senses are moving from hearing to physically touching…enlisting her poetic lyricism and singular vocals to pull the listener into somewhere new.
Jess Ribeiro
Folk chameleon Jess Ribeiro’s latest album, Summer of Love, is a poignant tribute to resilience and introspection amidst tumultuous times. Summer of Love was born from the depths of vulnerability and instability, capturing Jess’ journey through isolation, loss, and the delicate interplay between expectation and reality. Witness her perform these exquisite new songs plus more in the intimate Bridge Garden.
Marlon Williams
New Zealand’s Marlon Williams possesses one of the greatest voices of his generation. His effortlessly distinctive tone and heartstring-plucking vibrato have garnered widespread adoration around the world. Drawing on folk and country traditions, Williams has the unique ability to traverse genres seamlessly and build his own story-filled world of undefinable music. Town Folk will see the acclaimed singer in captivating full-band mode, adding more than a dash of swagger, class and transcendance to Main Stage proceedings.
Ngaiire
Ngaire Laun Joseph, known by her stage name Ngaiire, is a Papua New Guinea-born Australian-based R&B and future soul singer-songwriter. Her latest single ‘I’m A Woman’ appeared on television series Ladies In Black in a pivotal moment for the series, and 2024 saw her release a live album, Live At The Sydney Opera House in what captures a spectacular historic performance. Ngaiire is must-see at the Town Folk Festival for this year.
Queenie
Queenie is the trash queen alter-ego of Melbourne musician Eloise Thetford. Slaying her way as fearless performer who wears her heart on her sleeve. Her live shows shake, shudder and smoulder with fiery charisma and freewheeling stagecraft whether she’s performing solo or with her band, a rogues gallery of Melbourne’s finest musicians.
The Teskey Brothers
The headline slot at Town Folk Festival goes to none other than The Teskey Brothers in their only Victorian appearance for 2024. The multi-ARIA winning, Grammy-nominated brothers are on a world-conquering run, playing to massive crowds across North America and Europe in support of their chart-topping 2023 album The Winding Way. Onstage the seven-piece band is in devastating form with Josh Teskey’s soulful vocals combining perfectly with Sam’s silky Stratocaster and the rest of the ensemble igniting around them. It’s as touching as it is epic. The perfect way to close a heart-filling day of music in Castlemaine.
Yirinda
Butchulla Songman Fred Leone and musical polymath Samuel Pankhurst are Yirinda. They unite an ancient Aboriginal language with sublime modern production to invoke thousands of generations of story and culture, whilst emerging as something entirely new. In a live context it takes on a weighted significance—with Fred, whose background encompases a culture stretching back millenia with contemporary hiphop, introducing and contextualising songs in his inimitable fashion.
Further information on the lineup and ticketing can be found here.
