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13 September, 2024
Peter Garrett joins Folkie line-up
PETER Garrett and his band ‘The Alter Egos’ will join the line-up of performers at next year’s Port Fairy Folk Festival.
At their side will be fellow local artists Andrea Kirwin and Claire Evelynn, Gusto Gusto, and Meghan Maike and The Cactus Flowers, plus exciting young folk-country star Jenny Mitchell from just across the seas in southern New Zealand.
Joining these extraordinary local acts will be returning blues legend Ruthie Foster, and fellow US singer/songwriters Jon Muq and Simon Joyner who will play the Folkie stages for the very first time.
On the back of her award-winning new album, indie-folk Londoner Bess Atwell will make her Australian debut, alongside Ireland’s 17-year-old country blues guitarist Muireann Bradley and fearless fiddler Clare Sands.
Visitors to next year’s event also won’t want to miss Scotland stars Talisk, fresh from making waves at the Cambridge Folk Festival.
Premiering on the Folkie stages will be India’s wholesome bluegrass duo Grassy Strings, the joyful and uplifting music of Réunion’s Lindigo, and one of our favourite Canadian folk singers Old Man Luedecke.
These fantastic artists will join The Brother Brothers (USA), Chikchika, The East Pointers (Canada), Dean Owens and The Sinners (Scotland), Hana and Jessie-Lee’s Bad Habits, Hannah Aldridge (USA), and England’s John Smith and Katie Spencer.
Other artists set to take to the stages include America’s Kristin Hersh, along with Kutcha Edwards, Lian Husi Timor, Little Quirks, Mick Thomas’ Roving Commission, Missy Higgins, Niamh Bury, Síomha and Skerryvore.
