November 29th, 2023Blackwood hosts festival of music and culture

The tiny town of Blackwood is getting set to host an impressive line-up of live music and dance when it stages the Blackwood Festival of Music and Culture over December 2-3.

The line-up preparing to play the Blackwood Hall features the Foghorn Stringband from USA, and includes:

‘Is The Big Man Within’, Greater Glider Stringband, Johnny Can’t Dance, Mick Coates and The Shallow Gravediggers, Rhiz and The Sugarplums, Fingerbone Bill, Pete Daffy Trio, Cross-Eyed Cat, Gumbo Express, The Rummagers, The Strating Sisters, The Free Wheelers, Daffy and Rhiannon and Blue Mount Stringband

There’ll also be workshops and dance including country dance and cajun zydeco dance followed by a dance featuring Foghorn Stringband, Sound Bath meditation, a singer circle trad session, traditional bluegrass, old time, and Irish sessions

Organisers say there’ll also be food trucks and other refreshment options including a cocktail bar.