By now you should have your dancing shoes polished and ready to go to the free festival opening at the Candelo Town Hall on the evening of March 27 with a dance spectacular focusing on dances from different countries and culminating in a bush dance with Kameruka Orchestra hosted by Mike Martin.

There is an outstanding line-up for this year’s festival.

Frank Yamma is without a doubt one of Australia’s most significant Indigenous songwriters with an ability to cross cultural and musical boundaries – a love song sung in Pitjantjatjara will make your heart sing in whatever language you speak. 

Road-worn, painfully honest and deeply human, Canadian Scott Cook’s straight-talking tunes weave together folk, roots, blues, soul and country with spacious fingerstyle guitar and clawhammer banjo arrangements.

Get those dancing shoes out again for Azadoota, who will make you smile, dance and grove to dynamic Cuban, Latin, Iraqi and pop-rock melodies and beats. 

Queen Porter Stomp plays authentic New Orleans Jazz and distinctive gypsy originals that create an atmosphere reminiscent of a bygone era.

As it is NSW Election Day if you forget to vote then just pop up to the primary school and make your mark.

Check out the rest of the line-up here.