The annual Woodford Folk Festival attracted people from all walks of life to the Sunshine Coast hinterland for the week long music and arts event.

Australia’s biggest outdoor festival had over 2500 volunteers put in over 132,000 hours to ensure the festival ran smoothly over summer’s hottest days.

Project manager Stephen Welsh, 51, and his son, student Callum Scott-Welsh, 17, decided to volunteer together at this year’s festival to celebrate Callum’s high school graduation.

“It was just basically an idea to finish school and come and do something fun. I know friends who have done it and I thought it’d be a good idea,” Mr Welsh said.

The Sunshine Coast locals have visited the festival in the past as patrons, but prefer the volunteer experience.

“It’s very rewarding. You meet a lot of new friends and I want to get involved with it further, it’s good fun. Definitely want to do it again,” Mr Welsh said.

Veteran volunteers, illustrator Joanne Brooker, 56, and engineer Kris Mitchell, 49, first met at the festival 17 years ago and this year celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary.

After having missed the festival for the past four years due to working overseas, the Brisbane couple found this time round the Woodford atmosphere had matured, with improved infrastructure and better organisation.

“It’s almost like Woodford has grown up with the people who have been here all this time, so it’s much easier than it was back then,” Ms Brooker said.

Having gotten married at the festival, it was only right to take their anniversary photo there at the John Lennon and Yoko Ono ‘bed-in’ interactive art installation.

“I’ve always been a massive fan of [Lennon's] music and I thought that’s a perfect anniversary picture for us here at Woodford, so we got ourselves photographed in the bed, dressed in all white,” Ms Brooker said.

“It was so fitting for us.”

University student Emma Graham drove all the way from Melbourne to volunteer at the festival, even spending Christmas at Woodford with friends in the camping queue.

The first-time volunteer said the sense of community at Woodford was unlike any other festival in Australia.

“People don’t really care about how other people are dressed or what they’re doing, everybody’s just there for themselves or with their family and friends, trying to take in as much as they can,” Ms Graham said.