The popular Whare Flat Folk Music Festival started on December 30 and will run until tomorrow at Waiora Scout Camp, North Taieri.
The festival was organised by the Dunedin Folk Club and is pegged as a true "family-oriented and community festival".
The festival, originally set up as a camping trip between friends back in the 1970s, exploded into the four-day camping fest it has become today.
Choir tutor Cath King, from Inverness in Scotland, is a longtime attendee of the festival and was asked this year to run a choir workshop throughout the festival, culminating in an a cappella group performance on the final day.
"I’ve been asked to do Scot songs specifically. We’ve got a warm-up song from Glasgow, a poem from Fife and some with bits of Gaelic in it.
"I have three hours altogether with whoever shows up to get them performance-ready — it may be a disaster, or it may be absolutely awesome."
Festival director Stephen Stedman said international performers and visitors returned this year.
"We have a group from the USA, one from the UK and a few from Australia — it’s the first time in quite a while we’ve had anyone from overseas."
Mr Stedman and Mrs King were two out of 90 volunteers who donated their time to make the festival a special one.
He said the volunteers made the festival and brought it to life.
"It takes a special type of person to throw themselves into a volunteer role with such passion and energy."
The festival lineup also included Dunedin band Dodd and Egenes, TUi MAMAKi, who performed a "neo-folk" set, and Monty Bevins with his soul-folk songs.
There were also activities for children and adults, as well as dancing, jamming and singing.
