Treeferns : January 2014

The Woodford Folk Festival is held over eight days, starting on Boxing Day and includes celebration of the new year and finishes with a fire festival.

The festival has 28 venues hosting 500 acts. More statistics at http://www.woodfordfolkfestival.com/resources/media/fact-sheet.pdf which includes the vital information that 1000 kms of toilet paper will be used.

We arrived at 1pm on Christmas Day to get a good camping site. We were diverted to No 2 Car Park as the main car park was full.

We were allowed to move to the camping area 2 hours later - bear in mind the festival does not start until 27 December!

Scrambled to get a good site near the main gate. There are no rules or marked camp sites, but the area fills up without any sign of tension. Good vibes

The gazebo is placed over the tent to provide extra protection against storms

I can't really explain the next three photos except the animals shown are for sale.

View from our camp site

Not only are the camps sites temporary but the whole festival village is dismantled at the end of the festival. Venues are mainly in marquees, nicely decorated.

Hare Krishna wagon. They operate one of the restaurants

There are only a few photos of the acts as our camera cannot manage the distance and lack of light in the venues.

TaikOz drummers

Irene studying the program in the "Spaghetti Junction" restaurant

With temperatures in the 30c range reaching 41degrees C on one day, we frequented the venues with the best ventilation. Below is the Grande which must seat more than 500 people.

The Greenhouse is the place for serious discussion on green matters

Amazing cloud formation as it started to rain.

Many street attractions including an unreal elephant

The new labyrinth on sculpture ridge

Sculptures

four poster bed

View of the village from Sculpture ridge

Holy Cow Chai Tent

Street Scenes

Artisania

"paint what you hear"

Bill's Bar entrance

Hare Krishna Wagon

The Concert Stage

A welcome beer at the Orchard Bar overlooking the Concert Stage

Folklorica Venue

The Dance venue

Woven Sky project

“In a joint project with Cave Urban, and architect, Nici Long, Wang Wen-Chih has been building with a team of 30 people for the last two weeks to create a 100 metre bamboo tunnel and tower in the final stages of the walk into the festival’s largest venue.

“The world renowned artist and his team are building the entire structure out of bamboo poles that have been split into four pieces by a device Wen-Chih himself created.

“Organisers hope the installation, entitled “Woven Sky” will stand for three years and become a symbol of inspired transition”.

Amphitheatre - the hillside seats 25,000 people for various events including the "fire" event, and the following photos show rehearsals and preparations