A celebration of one of the finest Irish traits will also be used to raise money for a good cause.
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The Koroit Irish Festival will again be holding the Flaming Folk Parade as part of the town's annual tribute to Ireland this weekend.
The Flaming Folk Parade has become a popular part of the festival with redheads of all ages proudly lining up to show off their ginger locks.
This year the natural redheads will be joined by many more who will choose to become flaming folk for the famous festival.
The Leukemia Foundation has come on board as the official charity partner of the Koroit Irish Festival for 2019.
This partnership was built when the festival led a Koroit Light the Night event in 2018. Staff from the Leukemia Foundation will be in Koroit for the festival, to be held on April 26-28.
While in Koroit, Leukemia Foundation staff will be armed with cans of red and orange hairspray, making as many flaming folk as they can.
This will include a visit to St Patrick's Primary School in Koroit on the Friday of the festival to turn the students and teachers red for the weekend ahead.
They will then have a hair spraying station set up in the festival arena in the town's main street on the Saturday. For a gold coin donation, festival patrons can become redheads for the weekend.
Koroit Irish Festival committee member Adele MacDonald said the involvement of the Leukemia Foundation added another dimension to the festival.
"The Koroit Irish Festival is all about having fun and the Flaming Folk Parade is a good example of that," Mrs MacDonald said.
"So to be able to create even more red-heads than usual will be great fun and add to the atmosphere of the festival.
"And to along the way be able to raise money for such a wonderful organisation like the Leukemia Foundation is really special, we are just so excited about the whole thing."
The Flaming Folk Parade will be held on the Village Green on April 27 at 12.30pm.
ABC TV program Back Roads will be filming an episode about the festival and Koroit across the festival weekend with host Heather Ewart to judge the Flaming Folk Parade.
She will be joined in judging duties by Koroit police Sergeant Patrick Day, who is a redhead.