When we are invited to a community, it is with open hearts and gratitude we accept the invitation. Festival of Small Halls is an advocate for the rural communities it partners with – many of the communities we visit are trying to save their small halls. With what most call “progress”, we are seeing more…
There is a saying out here on the road to Australia’s Small Halls, “if these floors could talk, what stories would they tell?” Most of the halls that open their doors to us were built in the era of Saturday night community dances, a time when most people were born and raised in the same…
Scandinavian folk trio Fru Skagerrak and Australian troubadour Liam Gerner have arrived in Tasmania to begin a five week journey across Tasmania, New South Wales and Queensland with the Festival of Small Halls Summer Tour 2019. Australian touring musician Liam Gerner is looking forward to the stories and characters dotted through the regional landscapes of…
Week 3 We kick off week 3 with Melbourne Cup day and a public holiday in the town of Aramac! Our hosts fell in love the the Kimberley boys, and according to the MC Dawn ‘The Best’ James, Harry & Elwood were lucky all the local ladies were married because otherwise they wouldn’t have been…