Guest applications for the 2021 Festival close on 7 February!

If you have a great offering for our festival next October we’d love to hear from you. Variety is the spice of festival life and want to hear from you even if you think you sit outside the traditional expectations of “folk music” – whatever they are!

To do that we are looking for great talent to perform, host workshops and lead our kids’ and dance programmes. If you’d like to be in the programme in any of these capacities (or know people who might), here is a link to our online application form: https://form.jotform.com/203071709496863

Feel free to forward this email and link to your friends or anyone you’d like to see on our guest list. Applications are encouraged in any of these areas:

• Concerts or other performance
• Dance in a variety of traditional and modern styles
• Workshops on dance, musicianship, performance, specific instruments, cultural and historic influences and evolution of folk music and dance
• Learning (and fun) activities for kids

The application form has specific guidance on how to put together your application. It’s important to complete the form in full so we have a consistent basis for comparing potential guests and preparing a rough programme. The application form is not for village green (stallholders and traders) or catering. We’ll arrange those separately.

Because the world is still affected severely by Covid-19 we are working on the basis that we are highly unlikely to be able to consider applicants from outside New Zealand (and possibly Australia). We will keep you informed by email, Facebook and our web site of any developments that affect our planning.

We look forward to reviewing all the applications. Subject to pandemic constraints, we expect to be in contact with shortlisted guests by the end of April.

Cheers

Gerard
for the Wellington Folk Festival Committee