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If one Australian festival was to take over the world as the British/American Hallowe’en has this year, which one should it be? Cockroach races? Todd River Regatta, which is run on legs in a dry river bed by contestants wearing beer-can boats? The People’s Republic of Woodford, largest folk fest in the southern hemisphere? Billycart […]
I was uncomfortable at Woodford to hear the Tibetan monks who had been hired to chant the festival’s “Dawn Ceremony”, alongside the thrilling singing of Tenzin Choegyal, being largely ignored or at best treated as background muzak while many people chatted and caught up, hugged loudly and with much syrupy performance, anointed one another with […]