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Back for 2025, the Town Folk Festival is a single-day music festival on Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Castlemaine.
The festival celebrates the many wonderful sounds which live under the umbrella of folk. Set across four stages, all a short walking distance from one another, it's a family-friendly afternoon-into evening of performance, food, drinks and friendly faces.
The lineup includes:
Sunken Oval, Walker Street, Castlemaine, 3450, View Map
Walker Street , Castlemaine 3450
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