Enchanted Forest Faerie Ball
Welcome to an Enchanted evening under the stars and among the trees. Eat, drink, dance and embrace the beauty of spring as the faerie folk come out to celebrate the magical evening with us.
This is an enchanted costume event, Alcohol available at the venue for purchase 18+ only.
Delight in a magical evening, of laughter, fun, yummy food, entertainment & dancing. Capture some amazing photos of you and your friends in the beautiful garden & photo backdrop area. Will be a wonderful mystical evening.
Dress up in your most mystical creations to enjoy the fun and music.
Special Faerie Cocktails available also. Come dressed in your amazing costume creations, dance with the Faeries in their finest gowns, Wizards, Pixies, Elves, Avatars, Vikings, whatever your heart desires, let your creativity flow. Prizes for best dressed costume.
28 September 6:30pm – Midnight
Enchanted Costume Event
$100 per person – Limited Tickets
Includes food and dessert
Vegetarian dishes available
Live Music
Amazing Fire Show
Comedy Performance
Special Photo Area
Sublime Farm – 33 Priddy Road, Kia Ora
Faerie Ball Program
6:30pm – Opening of Faerie Ball
6:35pm – Bohemian Bardess Harp Player
7:00pm – Faerie Feast Dessert and Mingle
7:15pm – Ancient Alkemy Sound Scape
8:00pm – Comedy Act – Claire in the Air
8:15pm – Moonsets
9:15pm Faerie Pole Dance – Aurora
9:30pm – The Barley Shakes
10:30pm – Dragon Fire Show Ember Empyre & Syren
11pm – Barley Shakes till Midnight
Entertainment Line Up for the Ball
BARLEYSHAKES
Brewed in Ireland and distilled in Australia, the Barleyshakes are a Celtic band with worldly influences, combining intense energy, beautiful harmony and driving dance rhythms in their live performances.
Queensland Music Award winners in the World Music category, the Barleyshakes are loved for their blend of traditional and original material, and their uplifting and joyous approach to live performance. The Shakes skilfully blend their “bent” Irish sound with many other styles in their fast-paced songs and instrumentals.
Using fiddles, banjo, flutes, bass, drums, guitar, mandolin, and vocals, the Shakes are a collaboration of Irish and Australian performers.
Vocalist and guitarist Alan Kelly is from Dublin and sings traditional and original songs in the Irish language, as well as English. Alan has recorded as a bodhran soloist for the Lord of the Rings soundtrack.
Fiddler Kristin Kelly has an intriguing musical story, she was a highly respected strings teacher on the Atherton Tablelands and on the Sunshine Coast. Before joining the Shakes in 1997, Kristin was a member of Patterson’s Curse Bush Band before teaming up with members of the Czech Velvet Revolution to form Prague based band Puca Rua.
Flautist Belinda Tucker won the Declan Affey Award for best young folk musician of the year at the National Folk Festival, Canberra. Belinda runs the music program at Mount Maria
Veteran instrumentalist Steve Cook is hugely respected throughout Australia for his work with acoustic Irish band Tulca Mor. With the Shakes he plucks a mean dizzy banjo.
The younger members, are the Kelly’s offspring, and they effortlessly infuse present day influences to the group eclectic sound. Mocara Kelly at 23 is a fine fiddler and her vocal harmonies add a sublime quality to the songs. Rory Kelly adds saxophones, bodhran, and vocals to the Shakes. Rory is a consummate performer and he loves to blend modern drum grooves with traditional tunes. His jazz style saxophone melodies take the songs to a new and exciting horizons.
Completing the line up on bass is American Bassist Joe Morris, who background in Ska, and Reggae gives the Shakes a contemporary dance edge.
“Any event looking for great musicians with talent, a solid traditional foundation and tasteful experimental leanings should look no further than the Barleyshakes. Combining great musicianship, thoughtful social comment and an impressive stage presence the Barleyshakes are more than capable of raising whatever roof has the good fortune to be sheltering them.” Woodford Folk Festival.
Ember Empyre
Unique and spectacular fire performances for festivals and private events.
THE MOONSETS
Electric Harp, Bass and Drums trio The Moonsets deliver an eclectic, psychedelic blend of folk, world and quirky funk.
Combining Electric Harp, Bass, drums and soulful vocals to create an eclectic blend of psychedelic folk laced with soul, funk, world, blues and a splash of subtropical groove. It’s difficult to pin these musical adventurers down to one genre so be prepared to have any preconceptions blown in the best possible way.
Kayt Wallace artfully bends the organic tones of her 36-string electric Harp with guitar effects and a playing style that’s all her own. Her smoky vocals sweep from whispers to soulful roars layered with the harmonies, rich grooves and the playful rhythms of Andrea Joy Norden on drums and songwriting partner Stephan Beattie on bass / guitar.
Over the years the trio have had the pleasure to share their unique sounds at Woodford Folk Festival, Palm Creek, Mitchell Creek Rock n Blues, Wallaby Creek, Australian Body Art, Rush, Island Vibe, Kuranda Roots, Folk Rhythm and Life, Earth Frequency and MONA and have been acknowledged with highly commended 4 times in the Blues & Roots, Folk and World categories of the QLD Music Awards.
The Moonsets independently produce and record on 100% solar power in their old wooden shack on the northern edges of the Sunshine Coast.
Siren – Fire Performance
Felicity Lawless stimulates the senses and elevates the soul with music fusing Gypsy, world rock and folk elements. From deep in the forest she creates music to heal the world and remind people of their connection to nature. Her sound is characterised by a flashy, Spanish guitar style, soaring vocal melodies and hypnotic rhythms. She performs with an energy that elevates and inspires while infusing her crowds with enthusiasm and joy.
Claire in the Air
Will be entertaining us at the Faerie Ball.
Claire In The Air has been learning, performing and teaching after finding her passion for circus arts around the turn of the century. She is an accomplished stilt walker as well as many ground based acts.
Aurora
Introducing Aurora 
a lifetime performer of many creative arts with a special love for dance and fitness. Pole dancing is a beautiful, expressionate passion of hers as it is filled with creativity and fluidity. Once she feels the music, nothing can stop her! She welcomes you to an entrancing enactment of pole
Bohemian Bardess Harp Player
Bohemian Bardess weaves musical tales from distant lands, bringing an enchanting blend of fantasy-folk music to the Faerie realm with her harp. Based on the Gold Coast, she is a composer and storyteller who finds magic in every note. Beyond performing, Bohemian Bardess shares her passion by teaching piano, ukulele, folk harp, songwriting, composition, music theory, and more, both online and in person. Join her on a musical journey crafted especially for the Fae.
Fairy Dust Face Painting
Beautiful, magical face painting creations.
Let Emma add a little fairy magic to you.
Darren and Maya
Ancient Alchemy. Heart is hearing:
Intuitive freestyle soundscape music journey.
Family Event
Faerie Festival
9:30am – 4:00pm
Food ~ Entertainment ~ Stall Holders
VENUE: Sublime Farm
33 Priddy Road, Kia Ora
