What do Loudon Wainwright III, Richard Thompson, Janis Ian, Bruce Cockburn, Eddi Reader, Luka Bloom, Eric Bibb, Paul Kelly, Ralph McTell, Sarah Blasko, The Whitlams, Kate Miller-Heidke, Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, Jeff Lang, Bert Jansch, Harry Manx and Martin Carthy all have in common? Over the past few years they’ve all travelled to Katoomba to play at the Blue Mountains Music Festival, Folk, Roots and Blues. They and a long roll call of some of Australia’s and the world’s best acoustic performers have helped to establish this upper mountains gig as one of the country’s essential festival experiences.

March 12, 13, 14 2010 will see the Blue Mountains celebrate this internationally respected event for the fifteenth time. The years have been a huge parade of exceptional music. And now there’s a lot more to come.

In 2010 you will see Chris Smither, Uncle Earl, Josh White Jr., John McCutcheon, The Pigram Brothers, Dougie McLean, Truckstop Honeymoon, The White Top Mountaineers, Eleanor McEvoy, Grace Barbé, Kerrianne Cox, The Kransky Sisters, Jeff Lang and Djan Djan, Bruce Mathiske, Emily Smith and Jamie McClennan, Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen, Bob Malone, Kim Richey, Brian Kennedy, Genticorum, The Vince Jones Band, Glenn Cardier, The Little Stevies, Mojo Juju and the Snake Oil Merchants, Chris Wilson, The Blues Preachers, Gail Page Trio, Pat Drummond, Circus Solarus, Tom Richardson, The James Valentine Quartet, The Crooked Fiddle Band, Noriko Tadano, Nikki Madden, Kate Rowe, Sime Nugent, The Snaketown Rattlers, Claude Hay, Andrea Soler, Gregg Borschmann’s Conversations and more to be confirmed.