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Festival FOLKus
The latest news and stories from the Whare Flat Team (past and current) and other folky types with something to say. A blog by any other name is still a blog.
Festival Folkus
Special announcement!
8th May 2023
Kia ora folk community and Whare Flat Folk Festival enthusiasts. Thank you to all who attended our recent festival. It was terrific to get the festival underway again after a temporary hiatus. Despite...
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SETTLING IN FOR WHARE FLAT FOLK FESTIVAL
31st December 2020
Otago Daily Times article by Daisy Hudson. Photo by Christine O’Connor Getting set up for some festival fun at Whare Flat yesterday were (front) Raff Hyland (5), (middle, from left) Scar...
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It's a good place
19th February 2019
Impressions from a guest 'flogger' - Kieran Ford. Charlotte enters the marquee. It’s the evening concert. She’s been gone a while. She’s looking pale. “I’ve...
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A Whare Flat Festival Experience
21st April 2018
For those who have a keen interest in folk music and its traditions in Dunedin, Whare Flat Folk Festival has become an institution. Although Jo and I have been playing our own brand of country folk fo...
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A Final Note
25th January 2018
From former director Anna Bowen. And another bead has been threaded onto the long and colourful necklace of Whare Flat Festivals reaching back into time and always around to find again its Folk beg...
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FESTIVAL MUSINGS FROM BERNADETTE #2
15th November 2017
Written by Bernadette Moroney. I was just watching a documentary on the weekend that was made about the Whare Flat [Folk] Festival and it made me think about what inspired me to become the coordina...
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FESTIVAL MUSINGS FROM BERNADETTE #1
3rd November 2017
Written by Bernadette Moroney. I first attended the Whare Flat Festival in 1979/1980 having been asked by a friend to help him run a singing workshop. I had no idea what to expect and was ast...
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SONG BIRDS AND NIGHT OWLS
17th September 2017
Written by Anna Bowen (Former Festival Director) I really do like the poster for the festival this year, the stars above the manuka, the moon and the morepork, the outline of the tent with its guy ...
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The First Post
12th September 2017
Written by Mike Moroney. Every year in late December when I turn up the Silverstream Valley Road and head into the glen where the Waiora Scout Camp is nestled, I experience the same feeling...
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