This episode of Streets of Your Town comes to you (again!) from the streets of the Woodford Folk Festival, where the sublime singing of Punjabi Australian singer and dancer Parvyn Kaur Singh drew me into her orbit.

As it turns out Parvyn had just completed a cross country adventure from her South Australian home, bringing all her family up in her Subaru wagon so she could perform at the Festival. She brought her new solo expression to Woodford audiences for the first time, synthesising a lifetime of dance and song into into her debut record ‘Sa’.

Her eclectic influences range from electronica and jazz to her background in Sikh devotional music and her training in Indian classical music and dance. 

But while Parvyn was one of the farthest flung artists performing at this year’s festival, she’s actually also one of the longest participating - having come to the Woodford Folk Festival since she was a child. As Parvyn says - she’s been coming to Woodford before it was known as Woodford.

And as she tells us on Streets of Your Town, Parvyn feels grateful to be giving back to the Woodford Folk Festival post pandemic, just as her solo career is taking off, having been featured in Rolling Stone India.

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