Ryan Young and Alana Wilkinson will be headlining the 2024 Festival of Small Halls Summer Tour.
Presented by the world-renowned team from Woodfordia Inc, the Festival of Small Halls is Australia’s largest regional music tour. This tour marks the 37th venture into rural, regional and remote areas of the country, with a van full of bunting, instruments, and folk spirit.
Local residents will have their choice of two venues this Summer, with the tour landing in Orange at the Bloomfield Hall on 7th January and then at the Woodstock Soldiers Memorial Hall on 10th January.
The Summer Tour 2024 will commence at Woodford Folk Festival, before heading south and inland, then crossing the Great Dividing Range and heading back north up the coast, stopping at the Illawarra Folk Festival along the way.
Festival of Small Halls has announced that Ryan Young and Alana Wilkinson will feature on their upcoming Summer Tour 2024: Woodford Folk Festival to Illawarra Folk Festival.
Focusing on traditional Scottish music, Ryan Young brings new life to very old, often forgotten tunes by playing them in his own unique way. His fiddle playing is brimming with fresh melodic ideas, an uplifting rhythmic drive and a great depth of dynamics and precision.
“I have long wanted to tour in Australia and see this model of grass roots touring as a wonderful way to get a real sense of the communities, landscapes, cultures in beautiful New South Wales,” Ryan said.
Combining delicate melodies with disarmingly insightful vignettes about the human condition, Alana Wilkinson is a smiling assassin. Her songs skewer ex-lovers, would-be suitors, ridiculous social norms and the absurd challenges of a suburban upbringing in a merciless, yet strangely affectionate way, leaving audiences feeling like they’re sitting in her living room, chatting about life over a steaming cuppa.
“I am over the moon to be heading out on the Small Halls Tour. Something very special happens when music veers off the beaten tour track and settles into regional towns,” said Alana.
Tickets are on sale now at www.festivalofsmallhalls.com