Well another folk festival has come and gone and excellent music and related activities were indulged in. The National Folk Festival is held in Canberra each Easter long weekend and is an opportunity to renew acquaintance with traditional Australian music and to hear some contemporary musicians working on what they no doubt hope will one day be traditional Australian songs.

Unlike the more regulated nature of the Port Fairy Folk Festival the NFF can be described as amiable semi-chaos. You arrive with your tent/caravan and put it basically anywhere there is a vacant piece of dirt and you can have power as long as you have enough extension cords and double adaptors.

There is a wide cultural mix at the NFF and a greater emphasis on dance than at Port Fairy. All in all it was an excellent time with the highlight undoubtly being the Spooky Men's Chorale but more on them later.

Not that all the locals were that excited indeed some were completely laid back about the whole thing.

We stumbled on these fellas in a park nearby.