1/24Former prime minister Bob Hawke backstage at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
In pictures: Woodford Folk Festival 2018
Crowds have descended on Woodfordia for another year for the popular Woodford Folk Festival.
2/24Former prime minister Bob Hawke and wife Blanche d'Alpuget at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
3/24Clare Casey and Bodhi Freeman, 10, at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Claudia Baxter/AAP
4/24Bodhi Freeman, 10, at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Claudia Baxter/AAP
5/24Bridget McHugh and Laura Dickson at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Claudia Baxter/AAP
6/24Lucia Mazzella and Jasmine Mary-Anne at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Claudia Baxter/AAP
7/24Members of the Jinibara emerging dance troupe (from left) Antwaun Bani-Ghee, 4, Megan Fisher and Hagz Fisher at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
8/24Jinibara emerging dance troupe teach festivalgoers their dances at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
9/24Members of the Jinibara emerging dance troupe with Xavier Rudd who came down to watch their performanceat the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
10/24Members of the Jinibara emerging dance troupe with Xavier Rudd who came down to watch their performance at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
11/24Jinibara emerging dance troupe member Allira Fisher, 23, at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
12/24Tree man Ross Horrocks gets help watering plants on site with Cade Walker, 6 at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
13/24Tree man Ross Horrocks gets help watering plants on site with Cade Walker, 6, and Luka McHenry-Williams, 5, at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
14/24Chloe Stark and Judy Wood set up their camper van at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Claudia Baxter/AAP
15/24New friends (from left) Gina Limpus, James Barrie, Tanith Roberts and Rina Schulte goofing aroundat the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
16/24Crowds at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
17/24Crowds at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Claudia Baxter/AAP
18/24Crowds at at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Claudia Baxter/AAP
19/24Crowds at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
20/24‘The elders’ with Zoey Jeppeson, 3, of Elcho Island at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
21/24Maddie Nicholls, 4, and brother Aidan Robson, 7, with Evelyn Waskow, 5, and Max Heers at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
22/24Josephine Rayner and Georgia Meehan at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Claudia Baxter/AAP
23/24Bess Mckay, Semih and Muzy Baskurt at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Megan Slade/AAP
24/24Sofia Kelly from The Kelly Family Band at the Woodford Folk Festival. Picture: Claudia Baxter/AAP
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