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Jamie McKew - Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Jamie McKew - Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Judy Collins, Clare Bowditch, Lanie Lane To Play Port Fairy Folk Music Festival

by Paul Cashmere on October 25, 2011

in Live,News

Jamie McKew - Photo By Ros O'Gorman

Jamie McKew - Photo By Ros O'Gorman

The Port Fairy Folk Music Festival will celebrate 35 years in March with performances from Judy Collins, Clare Bowditch and Lanie Lane.

You can add to that Eric Bibb, Staffan Astner, Abigail Washburn, Pierre Bensusan, Madison Violet, My Friend The Chocolate Cake, Chris While & Julie Matthews, Passenger, Ahab, Ben Sollee, April Verch, Beoga, Frigg, Kristina Olsen, The Bamboos, Mama Kin, Jeff Lang, The Davidson Brothers, Licie Thorne, Tripod, The Stiff Gins, The Pigs Watussi, Flap, Ami Williamson, Carus Thompson, The Cartridge Family, George Kamikawa & Noriko Tadano, Woohoo Review, Blue Heat, Hat Fitz & Cara Robinson, Damian Howard, Jugularity, Kamerunga and The Junes.

The Port Fairy Folk Music Festival was established in 1977 and was inducted into the Australian Tourism Hall of Fame in 1995. The festival has sold out every single year it has been on.

2012 dates are March 9-12.

Find out more at www.portfairyfolkfestival.com

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