Yes, the rumour on the street is true - Maleny has a new festival and it is only months away! .

The Utribe Festival – three days of music, healing, arts, culture, ecological awareness and dance – will set the hills alive from 25 to 27 September at Green Park, Conondale in the beautiful Sunshine Coast Hinterland.

The Maleny Folk Festival left town in 1994, after seven successive festivals at the Maleny Showgrounds.  It moved to the Woodford site and morphed into the Woodford Folk Festival.

A crew of enthusiastic festival devotees - headed up by long-time Woodford crew member, Corey Skipper - have decided that the time is ripe to create a brand new festival in the Hinterland. The Utribe festival was born.

Support from local and interstate musicians has been tremendous.  Ash Grunwald, Red Eyes, Dubmarine, Tijuana Cartel, Toothfaeries, Loren and Kooii have already jumped on board to play the inaugural festival with many more bands showing great interest. To see the full line-up to date, go to www.utribe.org

Getting a three day festival together from scratch is a massive job.  Despite enormous support from the Woodford Folk Festival, Utribe needs the local community’s help.  Utribe Coordinators are waiting for volunteers to assist with coordinating camping, and Youth and Children’s Festivals and other important aspects of the Festival. 

All volunteers will get a free three day festival ticket and camping pass. If you would like to be involved and able to look back and say “I helped Utribe get off the ground”, then contact Terry on 0407 656 142 as soon as possible to find out where you can fit in.

The first 500 people to buy early-bird tickets will get a special price of only $137.50 for a season’s pass with camping.  Tickets are available through QJump - www.qjump.com.au/event/3967/Utribe-Festival-2009

Expressions of interest from stall holders, workshop presenters and food venues are welcome.  The number of stalls and food outlets will be limited for this first festival so get in as soon as possible.

Green Park is renowned to motorcross riders as the best facility in Australia.  Set among rolling green hills and farmland the site has its own pebbled creek, plenty of shady trees and lush forest glades that make it the perfect camping location.

Utribe invites everyone to celebrate our togetherness, to connect and to share with like-minded others in this picturesque setting.   Utribe believes that sharing our knowledge, talents and gifts will create a sense of unity, mutual respect and understanding in one, unified tribe - Utribe.

Contact Corey Skipper, Utribe Festival Director, on 0431 102 322 for more information or check out www.utribe.org for further information and updates to the line-up. Watch this space for details on Utribe’s Maleny office – opening very soon.

Utribe musos to date:
•    Ash Grunwald    •    Red Eyes    •    Toothfaeries    •    Dubmarine    •    Kooii   •    Kingfisha   •    Innana’s Dream  -Matt & Dean   •    Loren   •    Chocolate Strings    •    Kafka    •    Fyah Walk   •    Barons of Tang    •    A French Butler called Smith   •    Tijuana Cartel   •    Mihirangi   •    Georgia Potter  •    Deb Bond   •    Jimmy & the Real Gone Hiccups   •    Tim Loydell and The Deckchairs    •    Grassroots Street Orchestra   •    Rapskallion   •    The Express