The Woodford Folk Festival is an yearly melodies carnival held beside the little homeland village of Woodford, 72 km north of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It is one of the large-scale yearly heritage happenings of its kind in Australia.
The carnival takes location over six days and nights from 27 December to 1 January each year. It characteristics a broad variety of presentation methods, melodious genres and nationalities, in numerous simultaneous venues over the site. About 130,000 patrons join every year, living in marquees on-site—some just overnight—many for the full carnival experience. The last night of the Woodford carnival culminates in a stunning New Year's Day concluding observance, Fire Event.[
The Woodford Folk Festival evolved from the Maleny Folk Festival which started in Maleny in 1987. In 1994, the carnival was shifted 20 km away to Woodford when it outgrew the Maleny Showgrounds site.
Unlike numerous carnivals which are held in or beside built-up hubs, the Woodford Folk Festival takes location on a 200 ha (500 acre) country house in a plantation setting. The land is belongs to by the Queensland Folk Federation, manufacturers of the carnival and is furthermore dwelling to The Dreaming Festival, Australia’s International Indigenous Festival, which is held every year in June.
The last night of the Woodford carnival culminates in a stunning New Year's Day concluding observance, Fire Event. Over 20,000 carnival goers seated on a covered with grass hillside observer a scene of promenade, melodies, theatricality and blaze - with the flaming of a large structure proclaiming the New Year. The Fire Event was evolved by Neil Cameron at the previous Maleny carnival and preceded at Woodford; Paul Lawler worked with Cameron and took over as creative controller of the happening in 2003. His January 2000 Fire Event was featured in the global live TV broadcast heralding the new millennium.
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