Sunday March 8th, 2009. Posted by Alex:

Portugese street festival in Petersham

Folkloric food (barbequed sardines of course – mmm), folkloric music, and folkloric beer. Interestingly, it was clear that what is often thought to have been Australia’s contribution to white-peoples’ folk-music – I speak of the lagerphone, of course – is in fact only a devolved version of this Portugese folkloric instrument, which I can only assume is called the lusophone:

Otherwise we have more obviously Portugese musicians (don’t worry about the guy in the middle, this is Sydney, after all:

The dancing mistress and leader of the pack:

And dancers in full swing:

Oh yes, and folkloric wine was there too. Oh, and folkloric sausage.
(Click pictures for a closer look, as usual)

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