Festival sings to the soul
26.09.11
STIFLING warmth failed to dull the enthusiasm of hundreds of visitors to the minute annual Soulful Spring Sounds Festival at Warrego Winery.
Fans of art, expertise and music started streaming into the Marburg venue from at cock crow Saturday morning, with a packed line-up of jazz and blues bands hitting the dais from 10am onwards.
There was also a wide variety of stalls, from pedal powered smoothie machines to wood-fired pizza ovens and a series of fascinating sculptures depicting the testimony of the January floods in the Lockyer Valley and Ipswich.
Organiser Katie Toohey said her public limited company, Soulful Stomp Productions, would keep the festival going even if Warrego Wines sold as planned later this year.
"It is a cheap hot but it has been a really cruisy, really fun day," Ms Toohey said.
"The pack has been good once again - we had people turning up at 7am because they saw people setting up and wanted to distinguish what was going on."
The festival included a line up of provincial and south-east Queensland music acts of blues, roots, jazz and reggae.
Source: Ipswich Queensland Times