If you purchase your ticket online you will receive an eTicket. eTickets are electronically issued tickets, i.e. they are delivered to you by email. The Festival partners with Trybooking for tickets to the festival. Please print out these tickets and bring them to the festival with you. When you first arrive at the festival, please go to the box-office where we will then issue your wristbands.

Yes! However, we strongly suggest purchasing your ticket online.

The onsite Ticket Office Hours will be open from 4.30 pm 25th October for entry to the Fesival site.

No. Please take care of your wristband as we will not replace your damaged wristband with a new one.

No, you cannot re-sell your ticket as the name on the e-ticket must match that of the person entering the Festival. Please contact ticketing@dorrigofolkbluegrass.com.au to request a refund or defer your tickets to next year’s festival.

Camping is available at the Dorrigo Showgrounds where the Festival is held. Book Here. 

Other accommodation in Dorrigo includes the Dorrigo Mountain Holiday Park, Heritage Hotel Motel, Lookout Mountain Retreat, Dorrigo Town House B&B,  The Frontier Motel, Bush Pepper Lodge, and Fay’s Cottage.

Yes. Powered Camping books out the quickest. If you have a health condition which requires Power please contact ticketing@dorrigofolkbluegrass.com.au and we will do our best to accommodate you.

 The Festival has Rubbish Rooms where you can get help placing your waste into the correct bins. We do encourage campers to take as much waste home with them as possible.

Camping Registration is at the North Dorrigo entrance on Tyringham Road.

Camping Registration hours:

Monday 2pm-6pm, Tuesday 8am-6pm, Wednesday- Friday 8am-8pm, Saturday 8am-4pm.

Please leave your site by 4pm on the day of your departure. If you wish to camp at the Dorrigo Showgrounds before the 21st or after the 28th please contact Ray White +61 2 6657 1777.

There are Amenities (hot showers and toilets) on site at the Showground. Please be respectful and clean up after yourself. Hot showers in the permanent brick buildings require $1 but the Showtime Toilets & Showers amenities are free.

We have limited Powered Sites (55) available but there are plenty of Unpowered Sites.

When purchasing please make sure that you read the Camping Terms & Conditions Camping Terms & Conditions as we want to make your stay as pleasant as possible.

We LOVE animals but unfortunately we do not allow pets at the Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival site or camping grounds.

Campers and Festival Goers with Assistance Animals may attend with them. Please contact us prior to the Festival if you plan to travel with an Assistance Animal.

Assistance animals can provide a variety of support to alleviate the barriers people with disability experience in daily activities.  In addition to animals that assist people who are blind or have low vision, assistance animals can also provide support to people who are Deaf or hard of hearing; for people who require physical support for mobility or other functional tasks; people who are experience episodic and serious medical crisis; and people who experience psychiatric disorders.

The Assistance Animal must be suitably trained to be taken into public areas.

Yes. The Festival Merchandise shop will open over the Festival weekend and will sell both Festival Merch and Merch from the bands. The Merchandise shop will be open from 5:30pm Friday 25th. There will be a signing table for bands.

You can also purchase Festival Merch online here!

Both Festival Merchandise and Performers Merchandise will be for sale at the Festival.

Only Festival Merchandise is available online. T-shirts, Caps, Water-bottles, Totes and Tea-towels are available.

Hard copy programmes will be available at the Ticket Office over the Festival weekend for a small charge.

Head to the Artists page to see the Line-Up!

The 2023 schedule is available on the front page of our website. We encourage you to purchase a hard copy of the programme upon your arrival at the festival to have access to all the information needed to know your way around the Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival.

Absolutely! There will be a range of activities on offer including workshops, concerts, dancing and lots more.

Please be mindful that the Kids Area is NOT childcare! Parents must remain with their children at all times.

Volunteer Applications for 2023 are now closed!

 If you volunteer for the 2023 festival you will receive a festival pass – 12 hours volunteering entitles you to a Full Weekend Pass… so when you’re not “on duty” you can enjoy the Festival!

Yes! There is priority parking, bathrooms and all venues are wheelchair friendly. There are dedicated wheelchair spaces in venues.

Dorrigo is on a plateau so come prepared for all weather conditions! Typically the nights are cold and the days are warm and sunny. The Festival has often received a small rain shower.