YARRA JUNCTION FIDDLERS CONVENTION

PROGRAM- 7th to 9th February 2025

IF YOU WISH TO PERFORM,15-MINUTE BLACKBOARD SPOTS WILL BE

AVAILABLE

THURSDAY 

Gates open for registered volunteers only from 2.00 pm. Please do not come before this, as

we need to get things ready (including marking out roadways through camping areas)

before you arrive.

FRIDAY 

Gates open to the general public at 10am. Meet your friends, settle in.

EVENING CONCERT: 7.55PM            BIG HALL

7.55         Welcome

8.00         The Burning Bridges

8.50         Alluvium

9.40         Backwater

SATURDAY 

WORKSHOPS:                 

10.00        Kitchen                Beginner Fiddle

10.00        Rec Hut               Clawhammer Banjo

10.00        BBQ                  Bluegrass Guitar Basics

10.00        Big Hall               Slow Jam

11.00        Kitchen                 Mandolin

11.00        Rec Hut                2 Finger Banjo

11.00        BBQ                   Bluegrass Banjo

11.00        Big Hall                Bluegrass Fiddle (TBC)

BLACKBOARD CONCERT: 12.00pm       BIG HALL  

  See  Alan Lazarus by the stage from 11.30 am  for a spot - get in quick!  

AFTERNOON CONCERT: 3.00 PM         BIG HALL

3.00        Introduction

3.05        My T Fine Stringband

3.45        Duck Down Pickers

4.25        Watershed Stringband

5.05        Bass Coast Pickers

6.30    CAJUN DANCE CONCERT      BIG HALL

Craig Woodward & band

7.45  OLD TIMEY DANCE             BIG HALL 

Maggie Duncan with Rod and Judy Jones & Yarra Junction Old-Timey Monster Big Band               

LATE NIGHT BLUEGRASS CONCERT  In the Rec Hut

9.30           Oh Gibson

10.00         TBC

10.30         Front Porch

11.00         The Old Crossroads

SUNDAY  

10.00 -11.00: GREAT BIG HARMONY SINGING SESSION         BIG HALL

WORKSHOPS:                  

10.00          Kitchen              Dobro

10.00          Rec Hut              Ukelele

10.00          BBQ                 Beginners Old Time Jam

11.00          Kitchen               Double Bass

11.00          Rec Hut              Advanced Bluegrass Guitar

11.00          BBQ                  TBC

11.00          Big Hall              Old Time Fiddle

11.00          Outside Rec Hut      Gum Leaf

12.00             Lonesome Still                

12.40             Dave Diprose & Hillbilly Radio                

1.20              The Weathered Heads                    

2.00              Double Dole Stringband                

2.45          BLACKBOARD CONCERT:                                                              Big Hall

See  Alan Lazarus near the stage for a spot from 2.15 -  get in early

                         Followed by the all night party in the kitchen

                              You are welcome to stay Sunday night, but you must

                      have your camp packed ready to go by 11.00 Monday.

  Watch this website if bushfires are likely to be a problem and

we have to change the date or venue at the last minute !!!