Wallaby Creek Music Festival
A three day festival celebrating music & the arts in the Far North Queensland rainforest presented by Cape York Folk Club Inc.,Wallaby Creek Festival is a small, friendly event set in Far North Queensland’s World Heritage Wet Tropics.
The daily program offers music on 2 stages including some of Australia’s well loved festival bands as well as showcasing artists from the surrounding towns and indigenous communities; breakfast with the poets; workshops; street theatre and walks to the spectacular Home Rule Falls and unique rainforest displays. Children's Activities are plentiful and include crocodile free swimming in the crystal clear waters of Wallaby Creek.
Some of the acts for 2009 Barons of Tang
OKA
Flamin Canetoads
Gudju Gudju
Kamerunga
Carinda Christie
Daniel Champagne
Paris Texas
Sian Evans / Bessy Lou
Gypsy Jazz fusion Blues
Hillbilly Goats
The Sideliners
Greenzone
Joon Graham
Roadtrippers
Black Image
Barefoot Belles
Tumbuna
plus many more
Free camping amongst the lush grounds at Home Rule Rainforest Lodge is available to all ticket holders. Food and market stalls are presented to tempt your viewing, tasting and shopping pleasures. The festival provides an ideal September holiday destination for families.
Artists, Musicians or Stallholders interested in participating in the festival should contact the festival organizers.
Volunteering - The Wallaby Creek Festival is put on by hard working volunteers from the Cape York Folk Club with the generous help of others. We are always looking for more volunteers to help in a variety of ways to make this event a success. If you are interested in helping out please contact our Volunteer Coordinator on
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Website | | the bands 2009 25 - 27 september 2009 Home Rule Rossville Far North Queensland | |
a celebration of music & the arts in the Far North Queensland rainforest. The Bands 2009
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| | Barons of Tang Lashing Tango, Rockabilly, Latin and Gypsy with breaks, hard hitting guitar riffs, double kick blast beats and massive horn arrangements.
The Barons serve up a tasty dish hard to refuse! The 7 piece ensemble use mainly traditional gypsy and tango feels played in the most bastardized and inappropriate way possible. With accordion, double bass, saxophone and tuba to name just a few The Barons of Tang have self-coined the term 'gypsy death-core'.
www.myspace.com/thebaronsoftang | | | OKA World, Roots, Reggae/Dub, Electrorganic
A live collective of feel good Roots, Reggae, Dub and Jazz, marinated in Electronica and served on Island Time.
www.okamusic.com | | Flamin Canetoads
Blues
They love to shuffle, they love to boogie, they love to rock, they love to swing and they love to play the Blues. theflamincanetoads.googlepages.com/home | | Kamerunga put a fresh and funky twist on Aussie and Celtic music, combining folk influences with jazz, rock, reggae, classical and world music elements and melding mandolin, fiddle and guitar wizardry with sizzling saxophone, keyboards and a dynamic rhythm. www.myspace.com/kamerunga | | Gudju Gudju Soulful blend of roots and reggae music
from the rainforest village of Kuranda NQ promote cultural awareness through their soulful blend of roots and reggae music and inspired performances www.myspace.com/gudjugudju | Carinda Christie
One Woman, original acoustic feast with stomp box, slide & acoustic guitars, big soulful voice and songs about life, love & living.
www.carindachristie.com | 
| Daniel Champagne
folk blues
Characterised as "one of a kind" 2 hand percussive guitar style and exciting delivery of original and reworked traditional numbers,
Daniel Champagne is rising rapidly through the ranks at folk and blues ranks winning over crowds at the likes of Woodfood
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| Paris Texas
Funk jazz, celtic/country and swinging blues are their trademark sound
All the crucial elements that make music popular, Paris Texas convey a feeling of joy, hope and celebration. Being still a relatively new outfit one would think that they had been around for years. The way the group inter locks and supports each other is unique and inspiring. Led by the amazing vocals of Gabrielle O'shanassey on bass, Mic Porter guitar and David Breeze guitar/bass weaver spellbinding textures that interlace Brett Evans urban upon funk sax lines that cry out for attention every beat of the way. Special guests abound around this tight knit group of disciples of groove, So just like music you can never know what is around the next beat. Take the trip and experience Paris Texas www.myspace.com/paristexas | |  | Sian Evans / Bessy Lou
Gypsy Jazz fusion Blues
Best depictes as urban folk-pop and twisted Gypsy jazz with the blues, Sian Holds her own with or without an ensemble
www.myspace.com/sianevansmusic Greg McHugh
Blues & Roots
The Loose N Nasty Show is an explosion of energetic blues and roots, showcasing the multiple talents of "one-man-band" Greg mcHugh!
www.myspace.com/gregtmchugh |  |
Hillbilly Goats
Bluegrass, hillbilly & roots Country Knee slapping, toe tapping high tempo fun. www.myspace.com/hillbillygoats |  
| The Sideliners
Rockin' Country Honk
A unique blend of bluegrass, western swing and rock and roll, guaranteed to entertain. www.sideliners.com.au | | Greenzone
rock & roots
Greenzone is a six piece band with harmonica keyboards and guitar - rock and roots music with a north queensland influence. With newcomer Paul Langley on keyboards (amongst other instruments) we have a very colourful sound! www.myspace.com/greenzone | 
| Joon Graham
Jazz/ swoony blues
Our lovely lady of the far north with her rich husky voice, singing stories experiences and tales of days gone by and history relived.
www.myspace.com/joongraham | | And the Local Locals | | | | Roadtrippers Described by the ABC's Richard Fidler as "The Doors meets Jack Kerouac and Slim Dusty", the Roadtrippers perform their strange far northern tales with a manic machinery shed aesthetic. Combining accoustic country with raucous rocknroll they occupy a unique place in Australia's northern music scene, The bands ethic arises from a fanatical commitment to their northern geography literally and spiritually, though never too seriously. At this years Wallaby they will be releasing the long awaited follow up to their cult classic "100 Smokes to Kununurra" with the new Roadtripper/Toadripper double album set "Open Country Demon Country". www.roadtrippers.com.au |  
| and their alter-ego Toadrippers The demonic alter-ego of Roadtrippers thrash country music into a post punk mire of man-eating crocodiles, cane toads & alien abduction | | Black Image Country Rock/Reggae Winner of 2007 Indigenous Deadly Award. Black Image is a 6 piece indigenous band from Wujal Wujal, Hope Vale and Cooktown in Queensland Australia. After forming in 1997 the band has travelled throughout Australia performing their blend of rock, reggae, country, blues and traditional indigenous music. www.blackimage.com.au | | | | Barefoot Belles
Barefoot Belles, alternative acustic semi-rock trio. All girl local group, performing original honest rock ballads with post punk influences. | Tumbuna Country/Folk/Pop, acoustic percussive romantic melodic Yellow Bus and TAFE | | | |
    
Wallaby Creek Festival gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance from the Queensland Government through: Arts Queensland www.arts.qld.gov.au and the Queensland Arts Council - Regional Arts Fund www.qac.org,au and from Cook Shire Council. www.cook.qld.gov.au website by sandy
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