Cygnet, TAS · Summer
Cygnet Folk Festival
Second weekend of January (3 days)
The Cygnet Folk Festival fills a Huon Valley village with folk, roots and world music over the second weekend of January. Running since 1982, it stages hundreds of performances across halls, churches, pubs and street stages, with the town's main street becoming the festival's spine for three days.
Around 10,000 people attend, comfortably outnumbering the locals, and the village scale is the charm: everything is walkable, sessions spill into the streets, and the line between performer and audience stays thin. Cygnet sits under an hour from Hobart among orchards and water, at its best in high summer.
- Music
- Regional Tourism
- Community Event
- When
- Second weekend of January (3 days)
- How often
- Every year
- Venue
- Townwide venues
- Crowd
- Estimated 10,000
- Entry
- Paid
- Setting
- Mixed
Dates shown follow the event's typical pattern; exact dates change each year, so confirm on the official site before booking travel.
Getting there by bus
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