Programme Guest Artists
Featuring world class musicians ...
... from New Zealand and around the world, Whare Flat Folk Festival is four days of music, sun, camping, workshops and jams in the idyllic native bush surrounds of Waiora Scout Camp. Just 15 minutes' drive from Dunedin, Whare Flat is the best way to see in the New Year.
Guest artists 2025/26
Jennifer Reid (UK)
Folk music has lost its way, and people have lost track of their geographical heritage. The working classes made music as a provocation and this is a tradition Jennifer continues. She is a performer o...
Skin & Bone
Skin & Bone are a Dunedin five-piece swing band specialising in Great American Songbook standards with a healthy dose of their own quirky originals: John Dodd (double bass, vocals), Steve Hudson (...
Ellen Barry
Ellen is a singer and song weaver based in Ĺtautahi, Christchurch. A lover of the paired-back simplicity of guitar and voice, Ellen blends creative, vocal melodies and poetic verse with lush fingerpi...
Dragkroka (SWE)
Dragkroka drives its hook into the folk music of all the Nordic countries - with the heavy bass groove of the cittern, a fiddle that continuously tests the limits of harmonic possibilities, and an anc...
Yujing Cui
Based in Christchurch, Yujing is a sound explorer who loves mixing Eastern and Western sounds in her own way. She plays guitar and pipa (a traditional Chinese instrument that Christchurch folk club ...
Adam & Turner (AUS)
Neil Adam and Judy Turner started playing together in 1995, after years of playing with groups as diverse and well known in their homelands as Silly Wizard in Scotland and Paradiddle in Australia. Jud...
Old Man Luedecke (CAN)
Old Man Luedecke is one of Canada’s best loved and most intriguing roots singer-songwriters. Known for his masterful banjo playing, he was born and raised in Toronto and now lives rurally on the...
Triske
Triske are a Celtic group from Wellington, formed in 2021 around an eclectic range of music from Ireland and New Zealand. Their original songs are a uniquely Kiwi take on the Celtic sound; mixed with ...
RD1
RD1 is a new trio that brings together seasoned world music explorers and multi-instrumentalists Craig Denham (accordion, keyboards, whistles and vocals) and Nathan Torvik (guitar, bass, mandolin, cel...
Shaky Hollows
Shaky Hollows are an alt-country band hailing from Dunedin, New Zealand. After a brief hiatus following their debut EP A Communion of Sorrows in 2017, singer/songwriter Casey Hilder put together a ...
Madillionette
Madillionette (Jude Madill & Joseph Coleman) tell us they're excited to be leading the festival choir for the 50th anniversary at Whare Flat. They’ve got something old, something ne...
