Yackandandah Folk Festival
Highlights
- Experience vibrant folk music across seven performance spaces in the picturesque Yackandandah township.
- Join the Friday night Street Parade, showcasing local school children and a lively brass band.
- Support emerging artists at the dedicated stage, fostering youth talent in a welcoming environment.
- Enjoy a sustainable festival atmosphere, with waste sorted and solar energy powering the event.
Yackandandah Folk Festival is an annual live music event held in the scenic township of Yackandandah. The festival is now in it’s 29th year.
A three day festival offering seven performance spaces, a 600 seat marquee, and small intimate venues including a 120 year old church with sensational acoustics and intimate seating for 80 people. Buskers will entertain on High Street on Saturday and Sunday. An Emeging Artists Stage in High St acts as the venue for the Friday night free Bush Dance and also hosts and encourages youth performers all weekend in safe, welcoming environment, providing many with their first taste of live performance. A Friday night Street Parade, featuring children from all surrounding schools, plus, a brass band.
Join in to support local, interstate and international artists who make their way to regional Victoria to take part in this fantastic festival. Yackandandah Folk Festival is now the greenest festival in the country. In conjunction with TRY (Totally Renewable Yackandandah) the festival has now funded solar panels into the community generating eight times more power than what is used over the festival weekend. The green team sort all of the waste and the last completed festival sent only five bins to landfill with the remainder recycled or composted – not bad for 2500 visitors over three days.
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Dates & times
- Next occurrence: reoccurring
Features
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Companion Cards are accepted.
- Employs people with disabilities.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
- Asks all visitors if there are any specific needs to be met.
- Website meets <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/" target="_blank">WCAG 2.0</a> accessibility standards
- Advise tour guides of the access needs of guests at the time of booking (includes pick up and drop off requirements)
- Assistance with booking arrangements (includes providing clear itineraries with written instructions on what to do at various destinations)
Communication
Welcomes and assists people who have challenges with learning, communication, understanding and behaviour. (includes people with autism, intellectual disability, Down syndrome, acquired brain injury (ABI), dyslexia and dementia)
- Staff are trained in communicating with people with learning or behavioural challenges.
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
- A quiet space is available at the venue/ facility.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Uses floors/coverings which are slip resistant, firm and smooth
- Uses non-slip tiles in the bathroom or slip resistant matting
- Grab rails in the bathroom
- Seating in common areas including reception area
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A doorbell or intercom at an accessible height and display a contact number (accessible height is 900mm-1100 mm)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Step free access to restaurant, lounge and bar
- An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
- A wheelchair accessible toilet / shower and change room is available.
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