2016 Fairbridge Festival Youth Program – guide

youth art space
Honkey Nut Hoedown
You know what’s
Nut Hoedown will
better than being part Honkey
have you helping a heap of
of the crowd? Immersing honkey nuts to realise their
yourself in the thick of potential as instruments
a honkey tonk band.
things. Artspace is your in
Come and try your hand,
chance to do just that. join the band, and show
your handsome handiwork
Take the plunge…
youth art space activities
12-18 years
ART JAM
Origami Folding
Inspired by the water
cycle, each participant will
make a paper object to be
part of a hanging mobile
sculpture. The end result is
only possible through this
community effort, each
small contribution adding to
off when the Honkey Tonk
the scale and depth of the
Orchestra takes to the stand mobile sculpture.
in the parade.
Tri-Me: Learn How To
Weave A Paper Triangle
Drop into this workshop to Learn how to weave a
contribute your creativity
triangle using coloured
to the walls of Backlot.
card. No previous weaving
Learn street art skills such as experience is necessary,
wheatpasting and stencilling and people can drop-in
to add life to any surface,
at any time during the
starting with our own
workshop period.
collaborative installation
piece. Anyone 12+ is
welcome to come have a
go, just don’t be afraid to
get your fingers dirty and let
your imagination run wild!
Bombing the Backlot
Tacky Tiki Totems
Come and carve your very
own kitsch tiki totem with
artist Lewis Horne. Create
a simple tiki head design to
carve a take-home stone
totem using tools provided.
Peace Flag Workshop
Learn how to create your
own set of Peace Flags in
the tradition of Tibetan
Prayer Flags. Hang them up
around your tent site and let
the wind carry your wishes,
hopes and dreams around
the world.
SEEDBOX
backlot
Three days of bands, beats and shared spaces
for the young, and the young-at-heart.
Ruby Paints on People
Grab a friend and come
down to learn how to
paint each other's faces
– enchanted forest style
– with body painter Ruby
Spinning. You'll use pro
materials and learn nifty
tricks to add a touch of
enchanting festival glam to
your face or body.
GOOD FOOD
FOR COOL
DUDES
Hungry youth with an
interest in food can come
and cook up some healthy
vegetarian dishes. Fun and
interactive classes will have
you make 4-5 things to take
away and munch on. We’re
talking soups, frittatas,
slices, stuffed things and
more. Suit students 1117 years. Clubhouse
Kitchen.
SAT AND SUN
9am, 10am, 11am
Warm up with a hot
cup of chai from our
stall in Backlot!
double entendre
Double Entendre sound like a
pack of untamed gypsies singin’,
pickin’, screamin’ and skankin’
with flailing limbs to a grinding
Balkan barbershop-doof-quartet
at a drunken rasta-hoedown.
eddie green
Together, jazz-trained drummer
Tyler, glam-rock/funk guitarist
Conor, metal-minded bassist
Elliot and folk/neosoul singer
Sophie make an eclectic sound
scape from blues-rock to funk-folk.
galloping foxleys
Country, bluesy, rocky,
croony folk-fiends!
Half country, half blues, and the
rest is just stunning good looks.
jacob diamond
An alt-folk oddity with a bursting on-stage fervour and attention to detail. A phenomenal
voice, with excellent control
and impressive range... an artist
worth paying attention to.
jacob wylde
The better part of Jacob
Wylde’s teenage years have
been spent writing music and
playing in various bands.
His latest EP It’s All About To
Go is a restrained & beautiful.
jason freeman-fox
jordan mcrobbie
Limitlessly creative and playful.
The Opposite of Everything,
both beautiful and absurd,
transform Freeman-Fox’s violin
compositions into a party.
strong vocals and intricate
finger-style guitar work, Jordan
McRobbie’s explosive performances have held audiences
around the country in awe
Los kumbia killers
Four-piece Colombian dance
floor experience. Get ready to
shake your butt off! The Kumbia
Killers, play popular Caribbean,
Colombian music from the ‘70s
and ‘80s with a rude boy edge.
the mai trio
A breath of fresh air on the
contemporary folk scene.
Recipients of the Folk Alliance
Australia Youth Award, and the
NFSA Folk Recording of the
Year for their debut album.
messer’s lore
Expect a unique and entertaining show with dubbed out sonic
highs, beltic hoedowns, driving
odd time rhythms, three part
blockey harmonies and a bit of
piracy to boot.
nadia reid
Gloriously fresh and eloquent
new folk sound, 24-year-old
Nadia Reid has claimed her
place as one of New Zealand’s
most evocative and profound
young songwriters.
one up, two down
One Up, Two Down bring
together raw old-time groove,
bluegrass dexterity and folk
storytelling, with a powerful
musical connection bringing
people together.
Racoo Charles & Moke folk
Racoo Charles and her Mokes
sings tangled stories of vision
quests and backwater magicians.
Sprawling, shambolic, new-ageold-time music played by
musical larrikins.
RILEY pearce
Pearce’s alternative-folk style
has organically grown from his
changing surroundings. Growing
up in Holland, Melbourne & Perth
he manages to make you feel like
you’re in all three places at once.
tinpan orange
Sixty’s inspired folk with a
melancholy, candid and somewhat playful edge.
Critically acclaimed Melbourne
indie-folk darlings Tinpan
Orange enter their tenth year
as one of Australia’s most loved
brother-sister outfits.
the tommyhawks
The Tommyhawks are four
lasses who explode with gutsy,
sax-y, blues-fuelled songs. Their
songs find that sweet spot between rollicking folk melodies
and downright hard-driving,
punk-infused blues.
Quest Winners
Be inspired by WA’s youngest
emerging songwriters: the 2015
winners of Fairbridge Festival's
own songwriting competition
take to the stage.
DJ ndorse
NDORSE is a chin tickling, finger
clicking, bass wobbling, tea
drinking button masher with a
hammer and a spade, looking for
the funky shades of grey. Check
him out at WHAT THE FUZZ,
for ages 9-14.
WHAT THE FUZZ
jam with Junkadelic
Chai TENT
bullhorn
Brisbane-based, dynamic, new
wave, brass juggernauts
Bullhorn is an acoustic force of
nature with a huge line-up, including seven horn players, one
drummer & one monster MC!
OUTDOOR
activities
What The Fuzz is the festivals
only event for ages 9-14. Join
DJ Ndorse & TOTES RIDIC
Blackboard
as you tear up the d-floor, you
Open mic sessions in the
little groover you. Glow sticks
Seedbox will feature you! Get
provided. Zany outfits highly
down early to get your name
encouraged. ages 9-14
on the blackboard. We’ve also
FRI KALEIDOSCOPE 7:30-10PM
got some great secret shows
SAT KALEIDOSCOPE 6:30-10PM
and special projects lined up
for the Seedbox stage, keep Shanty Club
Spiralling Sight
Instant Choir
yogateens
an eye out.
Spiralling Sight will take
Come join Shanty Club,
with Iris
A
fusion
of
Yoga
and
Qigong
you
through a visual scope
a group of young men
Come and immerse yourself
Camera Story
to get you out of your
exploring the elements
and women who sing
in the joy of singing with
In this workshop participants work chants and old folk
head
and
into
your
body.
of light on the festival
others in this instant choir
will explore the world through songs. The emphasis is
Feel the energy of gentle
environment. Designing
workshop with the lovely
the camera lens. Learn how on inclusivity and group
Qigong movements, stretch a Projection Gateway
women from Iris. From,
to creatively express yourself participation. Sometimes
the body with yoga asanas allowing the young people
those who have never
through photography and
and relax with a wonderful to enter the Backlot space
accompanied by a violin or
sung in a choir before, or
collaborate with each other piano accordion, sometimes seasoned professionals –
meditation to bring together through a transformational
in this creative photography a cappella, and always a
body, mind and spirit.
entrance.
all are welcome.
workshop and treasure
SAT AND SUN
Friday & Saturday
good time!
Sun seedbox 12:00 pm
hunt. Come and join the fun Sun seedbox 8:45 pm
Club West 8-8.45am
nights
and learn how to turn your
photos from ordinary to
extraordinary. Please bring a
camera or camera phone!
Get involved with the street parade with Junkadelic. Make
Fri seedbox 2:00 pm
all types of junk percussion, then use them to learn simple
Sat seedbox 10:00 am
clave rhythms and improvise within the groove. Also learn
simple second line dance moves, so you can really get into
the groove! You’ll soon catch on to the rhythm and be able
to jam with the Junkadelic core group. Sunday 3pm on
parade leaves from the open space north of
Backlot and toward Fields Camping
The Recycled String Band Exposed
This band play surprisingly inventive instruments
fashioned out of an assortment of discarded materials
such as hub caps, cigar boxes, tea tins and kitchen
utensils. Come and have a close look at these handmade
devices. Lots of fun!
Albert Gray
This young Kimberley songwriter
binds his audience with astounding guitar work and a voice that
growls and soars.
& The Opposite of Everything With dynamic song writing,
backlot
friday 15
12PM
1PM
art space
backlot Stage
CONCERT / SHOW
WORKSHOPS / LEARN
2PM
PARTICIPATE
3PM
OTHER
Face Painting
1 pm- 3 PM
Peace Flags
1 pm - 4 PM
6PM
7PM
Edie Green
6:35 - 7:20 PM
8PM
Galloping Foxleys
7:40 - 8:25 PM
9PM
Messer's Lore
8:45 - 9:30 PM
10PM
Los Kumbia Killers
9:50 -10:35 PM
11PM
Tommyhawks
11:00 - 12:00 PM
Camera Story
2 pm- 3:30 PM
Racoo Charles & Moke Folk 10-10:35
Jacob Wylde 10:50-11:25 AM
12PM
Albert Gray 11:40 - 12:20 PM
1PM Galloping Foxleys 12:40 - 1:25PM
2PM
Riley Pearce 1:40 - 2:20 PM
3PM
Edie Green 2:40 - 3:25 PM
Jacob Diamond 4:45 - 5:30 PM
6PM
The Mae Trio 5:45 - 6:30 PM
7PM
NADIA reid 6:45 - 7:30 PM
8PM
Tinpan Orange
7:50 - 8:50 PM
3PM
4PM
spiralling
sight
6 pm- 9 pm
7PM
8PM
9PM
10PM
11PM
art space
tri-me
10 am - 12 PM
tacky tiki
totems
1 pm- 3 PM
origami
10 am - 12 PM
seedbox/outdoor
Camera Story
10 am- 11:30 PM
Peace Flags
10 am - 12 PM
Recycled String Band
Exposed
12 pm - 1 PM
HonkEy Nut
Hoedown
1 pm - 4 PM
4PM One Up Two Down 3:45 - 4:30 PM
5PM
2PM
6PM
backlot Stage
11AM
9PM
2 pm- 5 PM
HonkEy Nut
Hoedown
5PM
saturday 16
10AM
Art Jam
2 pm- 5 PM
Riley Pearce
5:30 - 6:15 PM
12PM
1PM
4PM
5PM
seedbox/outdoor
10AM
11AM
12PM
1PM
2PM
Face Painting
3 pm- 5 PM
3PM
Art Jam
3 pm- 6 PM
4PM
5PM
spiralling
sight
6 pm- 9 pm
6PM
7PM
8PM
9PM
10PM
Jaron Freeman Fox
9:10 - 10:10 PM
11PM
Bullhorn
czech
DVA 9:30-10:30
10:40 - 11:40 PM
11PM
Double Entendre 12 - 12:45 AM
12AM
12AM
10PM
sunday 17
10AM
11AM
12PM
backlot Stage
Riley Pearce 10:15 - 11:00 AM
One Up, Two Down 11:15 - 12:00 PM
art space
Face Painting
10 am - 12 PM
tacky tiki
totems
10 am - 12 PM
1PM THE Quest Winners 12:30-1:40PM
2PM
Jacob Wylde 2:00 - 2:30 PM
3PM
Albert Gray 2:45 - 3:15 PM
4PM Galloping Foxleys 3:30 - 4:05 PM
Edie Green 4:20 - 5:00 PM
5PM
6PM
7PM
8PM
9PM
seedbox/outdoor
origami
1 PM - 3 PM
11AM
tri-me
12 PM - 2 PM
instant choir with iris
12 pm - 1 PM
12PM
1PM
2PM
jam with junkadelic
3 pm - 4:45 pm
3PM
4PM
5PM
j o i n t h e P ARADE 5 : 1 5 - 6 p m
6PM
Jordan McRobbie 6:00 - 6:40 PM
7PM
Jacob Diamond 7:00 - 7:45 PM
The Tommyhawks 8:00 - 8:45 PM
10AM
8PM
Shanty Club
8:45 - 9:30 pm
9PM