Harmony Festival
Promoting peace and harmony in the Byron Bay shire with a yearly multicultural music and dance festival.
Taste of Harmony
Diverse Cultural and musical activities are organised throughout the year.
Byron Harmony Festival
This year we are again welcoming international visitors to perform at Byron Harmony Festival. Solomon Islands custodian Natty Dolaiasi will make a return tour to Australia to coincide with Byron Harmony Festival 2020 on Sat 21 March at Mullumbimby Civic Hall!
The festival is held every year in the iconic Mullumbimby Civic Hall and represents the largest festival of its kind in the NSW North Coast. With over 250 performers onstage for a 10-hour concert representing all world cultures – Natty Dolaiasi will be the special international guest of the Festival!
Many thanks to all our sponsors including Solomon Airlines for sponsoring our Solomon Islands Cultural Exchange Project as well as : Regional Arts NSW, Multicultural NSW and Byron Shire Council.
Festival Program :
Byron Harmony Festival Program
MAIN STAGE: 1pm-6pm
$5 Donation at the Door
1pm Mana Aloha Hula
1.20pm Phillip Anastassiou
1.30pm Romani Gypsy
1.50pm Mehreen Faruqi
2pm The Atmospherics
2.30pm Mark Isaacs (Refugee Activist/Author)
2.45pm Thai Dance Group
2.50pm Northern Rivers Thai Dancers
3pm Kobya Panguana
3.30pm Bollywood Sisters
4pm Veil of Dreams Belly Dancers
4.30pm JT Rasta Samurai
5.00pm Gipsy Spark Flamenco
5.10pm Northern Rivers Folk Choir – Peter Lehner
5.40pm Go Happy Africa
MAIN STAGE : RFS BENEFIT CONCERT 7pm-10pm
$20/$12 Donation for RFS
7pm Spirit Belly Dance
7.15 Yoyo Tuki Band
7.45pm Natty Dolaiasi Band
8.15pm---- Raffle Draw
8.20pm Lucy Gallant
8.50pm Flying Sorcerer (Indigenoise)
9.30pm Ben Janz
YOUTH STAGE:
12 Noon WELCOMING CEREMONY
Welcome to Country – Nickolla Clark
Uncle Magpie
Gudji - Malu Dancers
Tamara Smith MP
Senator Mehreen Faruqi
1pm Indonesian Kids Gamelan
1.30pm Indonesian Gamelan Workshop
2pm Aloha Hula Group
2.30pm Solomon Islands Cultural Group
3pm Kai Fi
3.30pm African Kids Drumming Circle
4pm African Drumming workshop
5pm Nakula
YOUTH WORKSHOP SPACE – CWA Hall
1pm Mundu Training – Mind, Body Spirit Sculpting (Aboriginal Culture)
By Coedie McCarthy from Indigenoise
2.30 pm Hawaiian Hula Workshop for Young People
With Anna from Aloha Hula NSW
3.20pm Hoko Dance workshop for Young People (Easter Islands)
With Yoyo Tuki
4pm Let’s Flamenco with Azahara
TALKING CIRCLE/ BayFm Media Tent:
MC: Kera
Interviewers : Malikeh, Raffa, Mico, Darren
Sound: Wompie
1.30pm Erfan Daliri
2.10pm Mehreen Faruqi
2.40 pm Coedie McCarthy - Indigenous
3pm Mark Isaacs
3.30pm Lucy Gallant
4pm Ben Jansz
4.20pm Pat McCabe
5pm Manish Jain
5.40pm Yoyo Tuki
GARDEN STAGE
Art Womb – Music and Art
Judith Shelley
Mob: 0476197922
National Coordinator AIAA
http://www.aiaa.org.au
Main Presenter, Multicultural Nation
Tuesdays 1-2pm on Bay FM 99.9
http://programs.bayfm.org/multicultural-nation/2019-07-30
Festival Coordinator
http://www.byronharmony.com
