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National Folk Fellowships were offered by the National Library for established and emerging folk practitioners from 2004 to 2024. The Fellowship is not being offered in 2025.
The outcome of this residency at the National Library would result in a performance at the following National Folk Festival and a presentation at the National Library. It was a requirement that Folk Fellowship creates material suitable for inclusion in the Library’s Oral History and Folklore collection.
The Fellowship provided support for professional development of artistic practice through research in the Library's extensive folklore and related collections, as well as the documentation of the Fellow's work for the Library’s Collection.
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Details of all winners are here with links to their presentations
2024 Mr John Shortis Worth Fighting For (Australian protesters and their songs) - songs from Phyl Lobl & Dale Dengate were included in his presentation!
2023 - Ms Martie Lowenstein "What Wendy Found" - The Story of the 1950-60's Australian folk music revival, the 1st National Folk Festival in 1967, and the 1969 outback "Australian Folklore Expedition" BMC Archival material contributed to this presentation.
2022 - Dr Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan - Quadrilles
2021 - Archer - Dougie Young, In the Land where the Crow flies backwards: The songs of western NSW
2020 - Luke Byrnes - Songs of the Northern Rivers NSW
2019 - Shane Lestideau - Scottish-Australian musical traditions after the first waves of immigration to Australia in the early 19th Century.
2018 - Dr Salvatore Rossano - Italian Folk Songs
2017 - Jessie Lloyd - Mission Songs, Indigenous songs from Christian missions, Aboriginal reserves and the fringes of townships where Indigenous people were relocated.
2016 - Chris Sullivan - concertina music
2015 - Miriam Jones - bluegrass & old time music
2014 - Jan Wositzky - WE (Bill) Harney (1895-1962)
2013 - Cath Ovenden - traditional fiddle music, Joe Yates
2012 - Emma Nixon & Chris Stone - Australian Scottish fiddle music, early 20th century
2011 - Toby Martin - Indigenous country music
2010 - BMC Member Christina Mimmocchi - Australian folk songs for choirs
2009 - Dr Jennifer Gall - Picking up the Threads: Australian women’s folk music
2008 - Dr Ronald McCoy - the contribution of the Scots and Gaels to Australian folk culture
2007 - Ian Blake - create a suite of musical and sound works combining live and electro-acoustic music drawing on children's songs and games found in the Library's folklore recordings.
2006 - Ben Stephenson and Adrian Barker - Australian dance music of Irish origin
2005 - Graham Dodsworth - songs that have "slipped through the net of attention"
2004 - Dave de Santi & Jane Brownlee - unpublished recordings in the Folklore collection, in particular the collections of Chris Sullivan, Norm O'Connor, John Meredith, Rob Willis, Alan Scott and the Wattle Records collection.
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