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The Nariel Creek Folk Festival is a celebration of traditional folk music, song and dance, with a focus on the Nariel old time style of Australian traditional music and dance. The festival has been an ongoing event since 1963 making it the longest running folk festival in Australia, and one of the oldest in the world. Some of the longer term festival goers refer to it as the “musicians” festival. The festival is generally an informal affair, held on the banks of the Nariel Creek at the Nariel recreation reserve, from 27th December to 3rd January, although many people arrive earlier and depart later than this.
The committee works hard to maintain the original intent of the festival, which is a focus on promoting and preserving traditional music and dance (Australian, Irish, Folk etc) without turning the event into a commercial exercise. The whole event is non profit and it is generally the wish of the festival goers (up to 1000 people) that the festival remain as it has always been.
In addition to the small organised programme, there are many campfire sessions every night that attract some top performances of excellent music including great sessions of traditional Irish, Scottish, and Australian music and song.
Currently no commercial enterprise occurs on site, except at the request of the festival committee.
