The Maldon Folk Festival is on again this year. The dates are October 31st to 3rd November 2008.
Maldon
Folk Festival was established in 1974 as a festival for musicians
- "somewhere for them to meet and play." As patronage increased, limited
costs were covered by donation and a paid dance.
With
more artists than available venues, it was necessary to broaden the
perspective of the Festival. As a result, Maldon Folk Festival sought
and gained more administration and assistance through the local community
and outside interested bodies such as folk clubs and other Festival
organizations.
From 1991 the Festival began to take on a higher profile and became
an event at which artists attended in greater numbers.
Corporate
sponsorship has enabled the committee to further improve our facilities and significant
changes have occurred in infrastructure, improved advertising and
a much larger and varied number of performances.
Recognition from the local community was gained when the Festival
was awarded the Australia Day Event of the Year for its efforts.
The committee now looks forward to improving and developing the Festival into
a major Victorian and National event each year.
