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SongFest Inc – an advocate for community singing

Fremantle SongFest

KEY OBJECTIVES

SongFest Inc is an advocate for community singing and actively organises, promotes and encourages events that foster people coming together to sing.  Some key policies of SongFest Inc are;

  • To increase opportunities for people to participate in community singing

  • To raise public awareness of the many benefits of participating in community singing

  • To enhance community capacity by promoting the advantages of community singing

  • To advocate to and on behalf of organisations seeking to incorporate community singing into their programs

  • To enable access to community singing for the most disadvantaged segments of society such as those living with dementia  

Click here to read more about SongFest Inc’s policies and ideas

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Busselton Choral Society

SONGFEST CHOIR FESTIVALS

There are a number of SongFest events around WA including;

  • Dunsborough SongFest operated by SongFest Inc every November
  • Kalgoorlie SongFest operated by the Two Up Two Down choir on alternate years (2015, 2017, 2019…2026)
  • Merredin Songfest operated by A Choired Taste on alternate years (2018, 2020…2027)
  • Guildford SongFest operated annually every September by the SongFest Inc
  • Fremantle SongFest operated from time to time by SongFest Inc
  • Busselton SongFest operated by SongFest Inc each year in June

Information about each of these events can be accessed via the main menu

WandanaSong

SONGFEST PROJECTS

 SongFest Inc is actively looking for new ways to promote its objectives.  Some of the projects already underway are:

WandanaSong    Community singing group called WandanaSong within the Wandana housing units in Subiaco with the purpose of building community.

Tuart Place  Leading the Tuart Place Singers group every Monday at Tuart Place in Fremantle.

ShedSong Mosman Park   A men’s shed choir based at the Mosman Park Men’s Shed

Four Dementia-firendly singing groups operating around Perth and in Busselton

HISTORY

Predecessors to SongFest

  • The SpringSong singing festival, first run in Subiaco in 2007, was held in Dunsborough for the first time in 2010.

  • The 2010 festival participants were The Spooky Men of the West, Cleanskins, SSB, Voicemale, A Kappella Munda, Summerhouse, Voices of the Vasse, Riversong and A Cappella West.

  • In 2011 the Dunsborough event became known as Dunsborough SongFest and was run under the auspices of the Dunsborough and District Progress Association (DDPA)

  • In 2017 SongFest Inc was registered and became the operator of Dunsborough SongFest with seed capital gifted by the DDPA and with Judy Waterman as the inaugural President.

  • Dunsborough SongFest has grown each year to become the largest gathering of singers in WA with some 40 groups and 700 singers attending the 10th anniversary of the festival in 2019.