The 13th Annual Cobargo Folk Festival ~ 22^nd. 23^rd &  24^th February, 2008

South Coast, New South Wales, Australia

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The historic town of Cobargo is celebrating its 13th Festival of music, dance, song comedy, theatre and poetry. Over 200 performers will converge on the Cobargo showground over the last weekend in February and provide a pageant of Australian and international talent including Peggy Seeger (USA), Judy Small & Vardos.
	The Cobargo Folk Festival is run by the Yuin Folk Club which is a non-profit, incorporated association whose objectives are to promote and present folk music, lore and dance to and for the South Community. The emphasis is on the mix of the indigenous and multicultural in Australia's music today. Nice things said about Cobargo 2007: Thank you and all the committee members for yet another fabulous festival. Its such a delightful festival and you are all to be congratulated on running such a great event. (Margaret Fagan)
Congratulations on such a fantastic weekend - and thanks for all your work on behalf of the rest of us. (Heather O'Connor) What a great festival once again. Congratulations to you all. (Bob McInnes) At the Cobargo Folk Festival there are seven venues operating simultaneously with continuous concerts, performances, dance displays, choirs, workshops and instrument forums. There are intimate blackboard concerts and sessions and a separate program and venue for the kids including craft workshops, Punch and Judy and a pirate's show. There is also an excellent session bar ("best session bar in Australia" – Tracy Bunn, Towsucking Cowgirls)

	There are plenty of activities specifically for children during the day on both Saturday and Sunday. These are held in a dedicated children's venue - The Bunyip. Activities will include music making and percussion workshops, singing, storytelling, dancing - plenty to keep the children occupied and entertained. Specially for Young Performers The Cobargo Folk Festival has again combined with The Crossing Land Education Centre to provide The Crossing Youth Music Expo. This venue will showcase youth talent and give yong musicians experience performing in front of a live audience. There will be a Youth Talent Quest on both Saturday and Sunday morning at 10am hosted by Jim MacQuarrie.
At the Cobargo Festival you can join in and have fun in a wide range of music song poetry or dance. All festival goers are invited to join in the Festival Choir (led by Miguel Heatwole), the instrument sessions and the singalongs. The facilities include exotic foodstalls, a bar and refreshment area, craft and market stalls and a Festival Shop where you can buy performers' CDs, Festival T shirts, pottery mugs and raffle tickets. The Festival is a short walk from Cobargo village where there is a good pub, coffee shops, supermarket and tempting craft and antique shops
	Camping facilities include hot and cold showers, some powered sites. Camping is available only for weekend ticket holders and camping must be paid for before entering onto the Festival site. Free parking is available. PLEASE NOTE - (by request of the workers setting up the festival) - no entry to the camping sites before Thursday 21st Feb. A full program of dance will be held at the 'The Brolga Venue' - which will include Bush Dancing, Contra Dancing, Special Tango Dancing, A Reggae Dance - so bring your dancing shoes and be prepared to dance the nights away. So for a great time - head for COBARGO!! Earlybird tickets (weekend only) $60 Adults, Youth $20 (before 15th Feb) See link to Festival highlights Performer applications have closed.

Tickets can be purchased by downloading the ticket form below and sending a cheque to:

Cobargo Folk Festival
PO Box 5126
Cobargo NSW 2550

or you could contact the TICKET OFFICE (02) 6493 6758 to order by phone. (VISA & Mastercard accepted)

The program will be available from this web site.

Blackboard Concerts are scheduled over the three days and any performer is welcome to come to the Festival and to sell their CDs through our Festival Shop.

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