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22 October, 2024
Line up out of the Ball Park
Brisbane indie rockers Ball Park Music will join musical pioneers Yothu Yindi as part of a pulsating program for Woodford festival goers this year.
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An immersion into music, art and culture with artists and presenters from more than 20 countries will come together to celebrate the event’s 30th anniversary at Woodfordia.
Yothu Yindi will be joined alongside a lineup of local talent, with North-East Arnhem land’s Yolŋu surf-rockers, King Stingray, Aussie queen of country Beccy Cole, the alt' rock storyteller Dan Sultan and five-piece much loved indie outfit Ball Park Music.
Jaguar Jonze makes a welcome return as does soul, gospel, pop singer sensation Ngaiire, who will be performing with polymath pianist Paul Grabowski.
Indie powerhouse Tia Gostelow and ‘Fresh New Prince’ Baker Boy will have everyone dancing with Josh Pyke, Ash Grunwald, Husky, Alex the Astronaut and Tjaka’s melodies and storytelling making waves across the 20+ stages.
This year Woodford has several musical partner showcases including Ishkōdé Records, an Indigenous, women-owned record label from Northern Turtle Island, created to foster and amplify Indigenous voices, with returning genre-blending indie band Digging Roots, heartland rocker Amanda Rheume and Aysanabee, who made history to become the first Indigenous artist to win the Juno award for alternative album of the year.
Supporting Southeast Queensland, they will feature a Sunshine Coast special with Peace Run Records, featuring 12 hand-picked acts.
Some of the speakers include Mad Max’s Quaden Bayles alongside activist Yarraka, diversity champions Like a Photon, Sea Shepherd’s Jeff Hanson, Jinibara Traditional Custodians Uncle Noel Blair and Uncle Kenny Murphy, along with SBS’s Elder in Residence, Rhoda Roberts.
Organisers add that kids will be sorted with activities designed for all ages, including a whole festival dedicated to the young ones called TinLids and featuring the ever-popular dirtgirlworld.
Costa Georgiadis’s tour of Woodfordia, Grammy-winning 23 Skidoo and the Secret Agency.
Permaculture electro-swing Formidable Vegetable.
A children’s comedy gala, cool kids’ yoga, line dancing, hip hop, and spoken word events.
Over 110,000 people are expected to attend the festival, which will culminate on New Year’s Eve with the traditional three-minute silence before heralding in the New Year with the harmonic force of Tibetan lineage Tenzin Choegyal.
“To mark 30 years of the festival at Woodfordia, this is one of our most exciting programs to date,” festival director Amanda Jackes said.
“We are thrilled to reveal the vast array of artists and presenters who will bring people together to herald in the new year with creativity, music and culture from around the world.”
In 2023, the festival attracted almost 10,000 out-of-state visitors to Queensland, generating 171,449 total direct visitor nights and injecting $26m into Queensland.
