Tickets available via: https://fourwinds.com.au/2022-fourwinds-festival/

The festival finale for 2022 is a celebratory ritual that physically encompasses the Four Winds Sound Shell, animating the site with a series of unexpected musical, performance and audience experiences. Heading our terrific line-up of performers is one of Australia’s most celebrated musicians: composer, performer and multi-instrumentalist, William Barton. Through his appearances with orchestras around the world, with his prodigious musicality underpinned by his Kalkadunga heritage, Barton has vastly expanded the horizons of the didgeridoo, and the cultures and landscapes it represents. In the shimmering afternoon light of the spotted gum forest, Barton will give a special Four Winds performance of two of his most powerful works, Petrichor and the beautiful Birdsong at Dusk.

Surrounding Barton in this exuberant finale is a star-studded ensemble of musicians, concluding with a stirring performance of Tan Dun’s Prayer and Blessing, created in response to Covid 19, with a message of community within its text by Chinese philosopher Laozi.