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Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Posted on 08. Jul, 2008 by BCXS in BC, Events, Vancouver

The 31st Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival runs July 18th to 20th at Jericho Beach Park in Vancouver, BC.

Featuring such amazing acts as Michael Franti and Spearhead, lyrical pop songstress Aimee Mann, multi-ethnic Ozomatli, the inspiring Master Musicians of Jajouka and Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet featuring Béla Fleck, check out the Festival Weekend performance schedule and start planning your Weekend in Jericho Beach Park!

Check out the three exciting shows planned for the Evening Concert Stage, the great entertainment and workshops throughout the Weekend on seven outdoor stages, and the special entertainment for the Little Folks and their families.

From The Canadian Encyclopedia:

Vancouver Folk Music Festival. It was founded in 1978 by Mitch Podolak and Colin Gorrie of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Ernie Fladell and Fran Fitzgibbon of Vancouver’s social planning department through its Heritage Festival Society, and Gary Cristall, who co-ordinated the first festival, 11 to 13 Aug 1978, in Stanley Park. In its second year, the festival was relocated to Jericho Beach Park, and rescheduled to the third weekend of July. Sponsored by the city in 1978 and 1979, the festival came under the control of the newly-established, non-profit Vancouver Folk Music Festival Society late in 1979, with Cristall continuing as co-ordinator and artistic director. By the early 1980s, the festival presented 60 to 70 acts each year in a multi-stage format of daytime workshops and evening concerts. It has avoided the promotion of star performers but attendance has averaged about 30,000 annually, making this one of Canada’s most successful folk festivals.

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