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Speaker 1: Now the Top End is gearing up to host a

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Speaker 1: folk festival at Mount Bundy Station in Adelaide River in August.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like it's going to be awesome. There's going

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Speaker 1: to be performances for more than forty artists with hundreds

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Speaker 1: expected to attend. Joining us on the line to tell

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Speaker 1: us more is the festival coordinator Lewis boyle Bryant. Good

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Speaker 1: morning to you, Lewis, morning, Katie. Lovely to have you

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Speaker 1: on the show now. I understand it's a fifty fifty

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Speaker 1: third edition, So fifty third year that sounds well. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you've got a massive, massive event lined up to

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Speaker 1: mark the occasion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we sure do. It's one of the oldest regional

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Speaker 2: folk festivals in the country and we're doing our biggest

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Speaker 2: ever festival we've had in the Top End.

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Speaker 1: How cool? So forty artists, how are you going to well?

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Speaker 1: Have you lined them all up already, Lewis?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we just released our program two days ago. We've

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Speaker 2: got three stage and music from ten o'clock in the

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Speaker 2: morning until eleven o'clock at night and.

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Speaker 1: At Mount Bundy Station. It sounds like it'll be incredible.

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Speaker 1: What an iconic location to have the event.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. We were sort of hunting around for a

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Speaker 2: new venue about this time last year and looking for

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Speaker 2: somewhere within that sort of two hours Driver Darwin and Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Mount Mundy was just the obvious pick, and the new

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Speaker 2: management there have been really supportive of our festival as well.

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Speaker 1: So talk me through some of the artists that you

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Speaker 1: have secured. I know a lot of people listening this

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Speaker 1: morning it'll be you know, peaking their interests and they're

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Speaker 1: probably wondering if they'll be able to get themselves along

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Speaker 1: to a teend.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Sure. Well, about fifty percent of our artists are

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Speaker 2: Territory based, about half of those from the Top End

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Speaker 2: and the other half from the Red Center. Tracy Barne,

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Speaker 2: the Sunday night. Sally Belfer, who many of your listeners

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Speaker 2: will know, is going to play You'll set with some

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Speaker 2: kids from Milkwood STEINUS School on strings. Yeah, Glennie Ray's

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Speaker 2: coming up from our springs and Bantua. And then as

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Speaker 2: far as international and interstate acts go, we've got an

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Speaker 2: act coming over from East Team or tim or Leste

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Speaker 2: who are playing over here for the first time as

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Speaker 2: a band. It's some Comenia and the Noise Project, and

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Speaker 2: there are a few bands coming up from interstate as well.

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Speaker 1: So how long does it go for? Like talk us

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Speaker 1: through you know how kind of like I guess how

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Speaker 1: it rolls out.

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Speaker 2: So it'll go from Friday through Monday. On the first

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Speaker 2: weekend of August, first of the fourth, we'll sort of

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Speaker 2: kick things off on Friday evening and have a bit

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Speaker 2: of a taster where a lot of our acts will

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Speaker 2: get up and play twenty minute sets, just give people

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Speaker 2: a bit of an idea of what to expect over

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Speaker 2: the weekend. Music workshops, sessions, kids program all day Saturday

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Speaker 2: and Sunday, and then a festival farewell on the Monday

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Speaker 2: morning and people can wrap up in the head home

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Speaker 2: about mid.

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Speaker 1: So it sounds like it is very much a family

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Speaker 1: friendly event as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, kids under the age of twelve are free

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Speaker 2: and we've already got over one hundred kids coming this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Oh how wonderful. Hey tell me In terms of like

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Speaker 1: where exactly it, I know it's obviously they're at Mount

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Speaker 1: Bundy Station, but do people just camp out there? Like?

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Speaker 1: What does it? How does it work in terms of accommodation?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so most people who are coming out will be camping,

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Speaker 2: and there's a whole bunch of unpowered and powered camping

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Speaker 2: on site. Unfortunately, we're out of accommodation at the venue itself,

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Speaker 2: but there's still some accommodation left at the Adelaide River

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Speaker 2: in the town and we're running a bus back and

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Speaker 2: forth for the duration of the festival as well.

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Speaker 1: And if anybody is listening this morning and they're keen

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Speaker 1: to find out a bit more detail, where can they

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Speaker 1: head to?

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Speaker 2: They can google Top Half Folks Festival and that'll either

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Speaker 2: take you to the Top End Folk Club's page and

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Speaker 2: we're selling tickets on Humanitics.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff will Lovely to talk to you, Lewis, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's going to be a fantastic event. I

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Speaker 1: think my producer might be keen to hit out because

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Speaker 1: she wanted to know whether you can or what you do,

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Speaker 1: so I reckon she's lining up, lining herself up.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic, good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Lovely to talk to you, thanks mate,