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Speaker 1: The York Festival is on this month, September twenty to

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Speaker 1: twenty nine. You can get tickets through York Festival dot

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Speaker 1: com dot au. Joe Bryant is the coordinator of this

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Speaker 1: York stravaganza and she's with us now. Good morning, Joe, Jo, Welcome,

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Speaker 1: Good morning guys yorky Wood as we're calling now, Joe.

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Speaker 1: Considering you are the hot spot of all sorts of stuff, we.

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Speaker 2: Are, we are. There's barely a person in town who

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Speaker 2: haven't had an extra role.

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Speaker 1: Cool. There must just be such a fun atmosphere to

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Speaker 1: be in the midst of all that. I mean, Brian

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Speaker 1: Brown in town.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well absolutely sorry, go on.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, this is the eighth year

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Speaker 1: of the Festival and and your cultural event celebrating York's

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Speaker 1: cultural history, heritage and wonderful arts community.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, absolutely so. We call ourselves the Multi Arts

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Speaker 2: Festival and that allows us to pull in all sorts

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Speaker 2: of for an acts, to really showcase a diverse range

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Speaker 2: of disciplines and offer something for everyone.

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Speaker 3: Really, when you say something for everyone, so it's not

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Speaker 3: just done and as a huge jazz component here, but

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Speaker 3: what else what can people get their teeth into with

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Speaker 3: this one look, we've got.

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Speaker 2: A variety of performances, so we've got a small play

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Speaker 2: happening in one venue. We've got workshops like paint and

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Speaker 2: sip and collage boarding and sculptured play workshops. We've got

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Speaker 2: Flir Alder, who's a stunning dancer who's performing for us,

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Speaker 2: but she's also running some workshops on contemporary and creative

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Speaker 2: dance techniques, and drawing workshops where instead of life drawing,

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Speaker 2: it's live drawing, so you're drawing live dancer capturing those shapes.

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Speaker 2: We have got, as you say, a very strong jazz component,

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Speaker 2: but we've also got a broader range of musics as well,

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Speaker 2: so we have some beautiful pieces at the Holy Trinity

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Speaker 2: Church with our Silver Sounds Guitar Quartet, and we've got

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Speaker 2: Melody Paul as well, who's an Australian singer songwriter and

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Speaker 2: she is launching her latest single in advance of her

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Speaker 2: international tour.

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Speaker 1: It's great that jazz is part of this because a

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Speaker 1: lot of us do remember the Old York Jazz Festival

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Speaker 1: of Days of Yore. It was such an amazing weekend

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Speaker 1: and it's a beautiful thing about York with a festival

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Speaker 1: like this is. It's not just the events that you

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Speaker 1: can attend, it's the buildings that they're in.

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Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, yeah, so we have we're the first inland

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Speaker 2: town in WA and we have maintained a fully heritage

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Speaker 2: main terrace and a lot of properties around town. So

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Speaker 2: we're utilizing the Old West Australian Bank for one of

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Speaker 2: the venues. We've got the Imperial Homestead Hub. We've got

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Speaker 2: a new live music venue called the Rookery that's in

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Speaker 2: the back of the ancient shoemaker's shop. So there's lots

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Speaker 2: of lots of activities taking place in really interesting buildings

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Speaker 2: as well as, of course our town hall, which is stunning.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I'm pretty sure I saw that during the film

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Speaker 3: and during the watching the twelve last week I did bad.

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Speaker 2: They renamed it as the Courthouse.

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Speaker 3: You're running what September twenty to twenty nine, So there's

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Speaker 3: plenty of chances for people to come up. The many

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Speaker 3: people come and stays are much accommodation for them. I

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Speaker 3: pop in for one day quite often.

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Speaker 2: Look, you can do either. York is a tourist town,

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Speaker 2: so we do have plenty of beautiful accommodation. Although I

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Speaker 2: think we're filling up very rapidly. Yeah, yeah, but you know,

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Speaker 2: we're just we're ninety minutes from the center of Perth.

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Speaker 2: We're an hour from Midland. It's a beautiful drive, a

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Speaker 2: nice drive. It's a lovely drive and I think people

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Speaker 2: are often surprised. They think it sounds further away and

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Speaker 2: then when they get here they're like, oh, it only

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Speaker 2: took me seventeen minutes.

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Speaker 3: It's not Candenden.

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Speaker 2: It's pretty easy, quite drivable.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and what are our chances of running into a

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Speaker 1: celebrity filming about town during that week? Joe, Are we

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Speaker 1: on a down sort of time at the moment because

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Speaker 1: Runt's about to open that of course film there. I

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Speaker 1: believe Brian Brown had been in town filming.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Sam Neil was in town. So yeah, it's been

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Speaker 2: very busy. Obviously we can't say we all.

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Speaker 1: Go oh really, the whole town's that is why they

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Speaker 1: like filming.

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Speaker 3: That's a collective one. What happens in York days.

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Speaker 2: In Europe, Yeah, absolutely absolutely, it is so the name drop.

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Speaker 1: It's the eight year at the festival, so much to do,

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Speaker 1: so much to see. It's September twenty to twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: Can get tickets through York Festival, dot com, dot you Joe,

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Speaker 1: thanks for chatting to us.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much,