2023 Festival dates: Fri Nov 24 to Sun Nov 26

Applications to play at the Festival in 2023 are now closed.

Thank you to everyone who applied to play. We are still in the process of finalising the line-up.

Ticket sales for the 2023 Wirrina Festival are now open

Wirrina Music Camp 2023

After the success of the Wirrina Music Camp in 2022, we are now well into the planning for the Wirrina Music Camp 2023!
For $285, come along and participate in tutoring for a range of instruments over the three days leading up to the Wirrina Bluegrass & Acoustic Roots Festival. We have a number of tutors already booked including the members of the Foghorn String Band, from Canada and the USA. They will also be a featured act at the Festival. Check them out here! 

Watch this space for info about more tutors.

Interested? Please send us an email to express your interest in attending the camp: [email protected]

Announcing more performers for the 2023 Festival

The committee members have been working our way though the impressive list of applicants for the year’s Festival. We are excited to announce that the first performers have been booked—with more to come in the next weeks. As well as the Foghorn String Band from Canada and USA we have:

• Tony O’Rourke
• Green Fieldz
• The High Street Drifters
• McHarg Creek
• Bluegrass Junction
• Crooked Road
• Andrew Clermont
• Kate Battersby
• Vetter Og Villska

The Foghorn String Band

The Foghorn String Band, from Canada and USA, are coming our way in November! Not only will they be playing at the 2023 Festival, they will also be tutoring at the Wirrina Music Camp 2023, in the three days leading up to the Festival. From their website:

The Foghorn Stringband is the present day gold standard for real-deal hard-hitting genuine old-time American string band music, with eight albums, thousands of shows, over 15 years of touring under their belts, and an entirely new generation of roots musicians following their lead … The Foghorn Stringband is comprised four master performers and historians: Caleb Klauder (vocals, mandolin, fiddle) – From Orcas Island, Washington; Reeb Willms (vocals, guitar) – From rural Farmer, Washington; Nadine Landry (vocals, upright bass) – From the Gaspé Coast, Eastern Quebec; Stephen ‘Sammy’ Lind (vocals, fiddle, banjo) – From Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Each member of Foghorn Stringband exemplifies the best of the roots music traditions from their respective native cultures …  In performance, Foghorn Stringband gather around one microphone, balancing their music on the fly, and playing with an intense, fiery abandon.