National Folk Festival

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Introduction

The National Folk Festival is held in Canberra every Easter and draws together people from all around the world with songs, dancing, tunes, and verse.

For five days Exhibition Park in Canberra is filled with colour and sound, as hundreds of the world's best musicians perform daily, in a non-stop flow of entertainment across twenty two fabulous venues. Every day is packed with workshops and sessions, where you can join in the dancing, singing and playing and become part of the celebration.

The National Folk Festival has also begun developing educational resource material to assist teachers to educate about music and musical instruments.

Below are links to the National Folk Festival educational materials posted on FTfs:

Education Websites

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Rhythms of the World Music-focused cross-curricular lesson ideas and activity sheets. Discover the history and origins of various violins/fiddles with an interactive world map. Multiple choice quiz to test your violin/fiddle knowledge. Amazing interactive 3D model of a violin which allows you to view it from different angles and break it down into parts to learn how it is constructed and the name of the individual parts. Interesting facts about the violin/fiddle written specifically for students.

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Class IWB Multimedia

LEARNING AREAS	TITLE	STUDENT LEVEL
Arts	3D Violin Fiddles throughout the world interactive map Multiple choice Violin Quiz	lower primary primary middle years Go

Request Free Resources

TITLE	STUDENT LEVEL
CD containing music highlights from a previous National Folk Festival.	lower primary primary middle years Go

Lesson Ideas & Student Activity Sheets

LEARNING AREAS	TITLE	PRIMARY	MIDDLE YEARS
Arts	The violin/fiddle: Curriculum-linked lesson and activity ideas and four printable student activity sheets about the violin/fiddle. There are also two IWB interactives.	lower middle upper Go	lower upper Go

Facts & Articles for Students

LEARNING AREAS	TITLE	PRIMARY	MIDDLE YEARS
Arts	The violin/fiddle: Interesting information about the violin/fiddle, including the different parts of the instrument and its history.	lower middle upper Go	lower upper Go

For Your Calendar

TITLE	PERIOD
National Folk Festival.	29 March 2013 to 1 April 2013 Go