The Cygnet Folk Festival, run since 1982, is a three-day
folk music
Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...
festival held in
Cygnet
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Cygnet may also refer to:
Places
*Cygnet Island, a small islet in south-eastern Australia
*Cygnet, Ohio, a village in the United States
*Cygnet River, South Australia, a locality on Kangaroo Island
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, Australia, that occurs annually on the second weekend in January.
History
The festival has developed as one of the premier cultural events in Tasmania's arts calendar. Every year on the second weekend in January, the small village of Cygnet, situated in the
Huon Valley
The Huon Valley, or simply the Huon, is a valley and geographic area located in southern Tasmania, Australia. The largest town is Huonville, with other smaller towns spread across the area. It includes Australia's most southern permanent settle ...
in the bay of Port Cygnet, presents a variety of music, dance, and related arts, over three days. Performances take place in the pubs, halls, cafes, churches, parks and streets of Cygnet. The festival allows for a range of concerts, workshops, master classes, poetry reading, youth awards, children's events, gourmet food stalls featuring local produce, sessions, arts and crafts market and dances. The program features an eclectic mix of artists including local Tasmanians, mainland Australians and international guests.
Some of the well-known festival headline acts over the years include
Riley Lee
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,
Afenginn
Afenginn, which means intoxication and strength in old norse, is a post-classical/nordic folk music band formed in Copenhagen in 2002.
Composer and band-leader Kim Rafael Nyberg creates inquisitive and imaginative pieces that take an anarchic a ...
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[ ]My Friend the Chocolate Cake
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Arts and entertainment
* My (radio station), a Malaysian radio station
* Little My, a fictional character in the Moomins universe
* ''My'' (album), by Edyta Górniak
* ''My'' (EP), by Cho Mi-yeon
Business
* Market ...
,Zulya Kamalova
Zulya Nazipovna Kamalova (russian: link=no, Зуля (Зульфия) Назиповна Камалова; tt-Cyrl, Зөлфия Нәсип кызы Камалова; born in Sarapul, Udmurt ASSR) is an Australian singer. She currently resides ...
, Rory McLeod and Frank Yamma
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The 2021 Festival was cancelled in May 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
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.Omicron variant
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of COVID-19, the festival was cancelled on 21 December 2021.
References
External links
Festival Website
Folk festivals in Australia
Festivals in Tasmania
Huon Valley
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