The Queensland Folk Federation (now Woodfordia Inc.) is a non-profit organisation founded to establish a Queensland folk music festival. The first festival was held in Maleny in 1987. In 1994 the festival was moved to Woodford. The festival takes place over six days and nights from 27 December to 1 January each year. Other activities are the The Planting, Festival of Small Halls and Woodfordia’s Artisan Camp. Woodfordia’s mission statement is to stimulate, facilitate and foster the preservation and promotion of folk culture for the common good.

In the early 1950's Stanley Arthur joined the cast of the first Queensland production of Dick Diamond's play Reedy River. From this play sprang one of the first bush bands in Queensland, The Moreton Bay Bushwhackers Band. This band performed at many venues around Brisbane, from the Boilermakers Picnic at Sandgate to the re-enactment of the landing of Governor Bowen at the Botanic Gardens at the State centenary celebrations in 1959.
Musicians from this band and others gradually formed The Queensland Bush Music Club and then later The Queensland Folklore Society. During this time Stan Arthur teamed up with Bob Mitchell to travel to small communities throughout Queensland to collect the songs that were being passed down from parents to children in the oral tradition.