Over 74 mnutes of playing time with 24 tracks with: The Borderers, Penny Davies & Roger Ilott, Andrew Winton, Enda Kenny, Chloe & Jason Roweth with Jim McWhinnie, women in docs, Settlers Match, The Counterfeit Gypsies, Wongawilli, Jigzag, John Dengate, Penelope Swales, Coolgrass, Ann Lehmann and Anna Jarrett, Alan Musgrove, Lucy & Larissa, Hoddle, Azadoota, Pettibone, Dave de Hugard, Junior, Wheeze & Suck Band, John Broomhall, Slacky Flat Festival Band playing The Coopers Song.
This is the 22nd folk festival conducted by the Illawarra Folk Club and the sixth compilation CD of the talented and varied performers who will be part of making this years festival a memorable event.
Last year was a new beginning for us as we moved our 20 year old festival from Jamberoo to Bulli. We were unsure of the outcome and called our CD ‘The Tradition Continues’. Fortunately the Festival was a success and now seems to have permanently bedded down at Slacky Flat in Bulli. We’re ‘Back on Track’ and sit just beside, what some folk like to call the oldest track in the world - a track down the escarpment said to be used by Aborigines for the last 20000 years.
What better name than to call our CD - BULLI, BAKONTRAK.
We still have the diversity of genres that sit comfortably under the umbrella of what constitutes folk music and events these days. Though there may be some who find this compilation a trifle more traditional than in previous years, we believe it is a true taste of the flavour of this year’s festival.
Our sincere thanks go to the performers who have donated their music to make this CD possible. It acts not only as a promotion of this, our twenty-second Illawarra Folk Festival at Bulli, but in years to come will be a constant reminder and an historical record of an event that is fast becoming entrenched in our culture.
I said this last year but I think it’s worth repeating. It may be trite, but this recording represents one of the few ways that you can take part of the Festival away with you - you can relive some of the magic moments that this festival provides.
You may not hear much of this music on commercial media outlets. It has almost all been recorded independently and rarely appears in record shop chains. This recording is merely a sample of what’s on offer so if any of the artists on this CD takes your fancy then by all means support them by buying their own recordings. They are all on sale at the Festival Products Shop.
I hope you enjoy this compilation as much as we’ve enjoyed putting it together.
Russell Hannah
President, Illawarra Folk Club
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