Top Quality Music and Entertainment

We're putting the finishing touches to our line up for 2018 right now and will be announcing more details very soon - watch this space.

To give you a taster, this is our 2017 line up which featured a BBC Young Folk Award winner and top-quality artists from the UK and beyond.  At the Rockhampton Folk Festival we punch above our weight !

​If you're interested in performing at our festival we'd love to hear from you - find out more here.

Greg Russell
​Ray Hearne

Greg was the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award winner in 2013 and is one of the most sought after young acts on the English folk scene.  
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Fife and Strum

Enchanting folk melodies, with a pulsating rhythmic heart.  At times fun and lively, at times gentle and ethereal, but always full of passion and emotion.  
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Vocal Global

​With influences from their origins in the Middle East and French-Caribbean, Vocal Global crosses borders in an exotic performance.  
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The Hosen Ones

Bringing the Bavarian beer hall to the party wherever they go, the Hosen Ones bring the festival to a fun and quirky close.
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The Schmoozenbergs

Conjuring up the mood of 1930s Paris, fused with the energy of a campfire jam session, The Schmoozenbergs bring a bouncy, uplifting gypsy swing show.
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​Supporting young musicians

The Rockhampton Folk Festival also provides an opportunity for the best young musicians to perform.  They may be young, but boy, are they good !
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Wriggle Jigglers

Young folk doesn't come much better than this.  Vibrant, exciting and full of energy, 
this is a young band going places !
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Panache Steel Band

For 23 years, generations of the Panache Steel Band has been wowing audiences  across the south west and on tour in France, Germany and Barbados. 
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