When Mark Dullow and his wife first went to the Majors Creek Festival, their eyes were opened.
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“We’d gone to the National Folk Festival as most Canberrans do, and somebody said there was a place called Majors Creek that had a folk festival,” he said.
“We didn’t know that Majors Creek existed, let along that it had a folk festival.”
They fell in love, not only with the festival, but with the region itself.
Like most Canberrans, Mr Dullow had never deviated from the Kings Highway on coastal trips. After the festival however, he began to explore the region more broadly.
“Majors Creek became sort of a gateway to our interest in the region,” Mr Dullow.
“We didn’t really appreciate what we were driving through till we went to Majors Creek and just savoured the landscape really.”
After years attending, he became tired of answering the same Canberran questions – “Where’s Majors Creek? What are you talking about? Where’s the Folk Festival” – again and again and again.
So, he decided to make a video.
The result is a droll twenty minute showcase of Majors Creek, the festival and the broader region.
Delivered in a deadpan tone, with intensely home-video-esque production vibes, the video pokes good humoured fun at everything from Australian values, to country towns, to camping.
It’s all in good humour though, Mr Dullow loves the festival and the region.
The sense of community, the relaxed paces, the tolerance, the positivity, and of course the music, have drawn him and his wife back year after year.
Mr Dullow began making videos as a means of communicating with his Sydney-based mother, as neither of the two are brilliant on the phone.
Now, Youtube has become a sort of diary of his doings, on his two channels.
MARK-ing TIME is his generalist channel, while on The Anarchist Angler, Mr Dullow documents his love of fishing, and the outdoors.