The National Folk Festival is starting to take shape for 2017.
The 51st edition of the annual music soiree, which takes over the nation’s capital every Easter, will feature more than 200 international and local acts – and now, the first six names on the bill have landed.
English folk darlings Rheingans Sisters, Irish vocalist and bouzouki player Daoiri Farrell, and songwriter and storyteller Greg Champion lead the maiden announcement. They’re joined on the list by Conchillia (South Australia) and Tracey Bunn and Her Band Of Handsome Devils (Northern Territory), part of the festival’s special feature on acts from SA and the NT, and Victorian festival favourites The Drowsy Maggies.
The 2017 National Folk Festival takes over Exhibition Park, Canberra from Thursday April 13 – Monday April 17. Earlybird tickets are on sale now.
