Festival of Small Halls is a series of tours that takessome ofthe best folk and contemporary acoustic artists andsends them on the road to halls in communities all over Australia. Each night on the tour is a beautiful occasion for original music, and a chance to catch up with family and friends over cake and tea during a supper break.
ABOUT THE SPRING TOUR 2022:
- This is the 30thFestival of Small Halls Tour in Australia.The tours have grown from just a single tour in 2013 to presenting seven tours a year in every Australian state
- The Spring Tour is made up of 15 performances in Small Halls, and 1 festival
- Catherine comes from Prince Edward Island, where the originalFestival of Small Halls was created.
- This is Karl’s second Festival of Small Halls tour, after taking on one the first tours post-lockdown,the Summer Tour 2020 with women in docs.
Woodfordia Inc presents Festival of Small Halls Spring Tour 2022: Outback Queensland to Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival featuring Catherine MacLellan (CAN) and Karl S. Williams (AUS)
Festival of Small Halls has announced that Canadian folk gem Catherine MacLellan and genre-defying songwriter Karl S. Williams will feature on their upcoming Spring Tour 2022: Outback Queensland to Dorrigo Folk and Bluegrass Festival.
Karl S. Williams -A genre defying, multi-instrumentalistand award-winning artist, with a voice and conviction so powerful it takes your breath away. Karl’s music is timeless and deeply rooted in tradition yet ever conversant with the present. This is blues, roots, folk, and a unique Australian distillation of Americana, steeped in the swamp water and cane country of northern NSW (the landscape of his childhood). His 
songs distil life, love and the human condition; his music calls with urgency; his solution and vocation are to love more and sing without apology.A Karl S. Williams performance is frequently referred to as a visceral ‘spiritual experience’, leaving an audience slightly altered in the best way possible.
Catherine MacLellan is one of folk music’s true gems.Catherine’s latest album, COYOTE, is reflective and hopeful;a travelogue through heartbreak, loss and the joy of life.Catherine is respected by her peers for her talent and dedication to the craft of songwriting -a craft she had a front row seat to at an early age, watching her father, the legendary Gene MacLellan.As with many songwriters, Catherine feels most at home on the stage, representing Canada at home and across the globe.
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