TICKETS have gone on sale for the Lake Bolac Eel Festival on the March 25-26, 2022.<\/p>\n
The program includes impressive local talent headed up by renowned singer\/songwriter Neil Murray.<\/p>\n
After two years in abeyance due to the pandemic, festival chair Rachel Taylor, has announced the return of the \u2018little festival with the big heart\u2019.<\/p>\n
Confirmed musicians and performers include Benny Walker, Liam Gerner, Phil and Trudy Edgeley, Sarah Carroll and Shannon Bourne, Gypsy Smash, Jim Williams, and Glynn Coulson.<\/p>\n
The festival on the Lake Bolac foreshore includes workshops, stalls, markets and displays.<\/p>\n
The popular Festival Forum will feature Warrnambool\u2019s Professor John Sherwood as one of the guest speakers. The Art Auction and Tibetan Dinner, showcasing regional artists, will open the festival on Friday March 25.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing the partial destruction of the ancient eel stone formation last year in Lake Bolac, which is still subject to investigation, it\u2019s important we focus as a community on caring for country and culture which the festival celebrates and commemorates,\u201d Ms Taylor said.<\/p>\n
The theme \u2018Caring for Country and Culture\u2019 underscored that, she said.<\/p>\n
Tickets are available from the festival website at eelfestival.org.au<\/p>\n
Tickets purchased for the postponed 2020 festival will be honoured at the 2022 festival.<\/p>\n
The festival is a fully vaccinated event. All attendees (artists, stall holders, volunteers, audience) able to be vaccinated will need to show their vaccination certificate on arrival.<\/p>\n
The festival commemorates the annual autumn feast of eels in the lake by surrounding Aboriginal communities which were said by witnesses to number more than 800 people.<\/p>\n
Established in 2005, the festival is held every two years and attracts attendees from across Victoria and interstate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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