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Welcome to the online home of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. This site is undergoing extensive renovations at the moment, so please forgive the dust and stray pliers lying around (now, if I only had a hammer), not to mention information that may be unavailable at the moment. Please check back for updates!

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2010 Folk Festival Passes on Sale!

Holiday Passes are no longer on sale. The sales deadline ended at 23:59hr (midnight) January 29th, 2010. A LIMITED TIME sales special for Festival Weekend Passes – at holiday prices. Lots of fans saved money, but if you missed out… there’s still the Early Bird Passes!
Ticket Info for 2010 Folk

Direct link to Ticket Purchase Page

Season's Greetings

The Vancouver Folk Music Festival wishes all volunteers, sponsors and supporters a Happy New Year.  We will be periodically checking emails over the holidays and will re-open on Monday, January 4.

*2010 Festival tickets are available on-line Purchase before January 29 and SAVE.

2010 Vendor and Volunteer applications will be updated by mid January.

On-line Holiday Auction Update

Thanks to everyone who participated in our On-line Holiday Auction!
AUCTION is now CLOSED as of SAT. DEC. 19th, at 5 PM (PST).

  • Tickets to the Vancouver, Winnipeg and Edmonton Folk Festivals
  • An Okanagan Get-Away to Tin Horn Creek Winery
  • 2 Tickets to the Playhouse Theatre production, Beyond Eden.
  • Tickets to TAO, a Taiko drum and dance spectacular direct from Japan, at the Orpheum Theatre on January 28.
  • DOXA, Documentary Film Package that runs May 7-16 in Vancouver.
  • 2 Tickets to a Vancouver Symphony Orchestra concert.
  • 2 Tickets to the Arts Club Theatre production of Paradise Garden.
  • A Tourist in Your Own Town Package that includes accommodation, sightseeing with the Vancouver Trolley Company and 2 tickets to a baseball game at Nat Bailey Stadium.

Click  HERE to view the auction.

We're Number One!

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The Vancouver Folk Music Festival takes the top spot in the Georgia Straight reader’s poll for “Best Local Music Festival” – and ties at third with the amazing PuSH International Performing Arts Festival for “Best Local Performing Arts Festival”. We’re thrilled, and totally gratified by this recognition.  In a city with so many great festivals and music events, this is a real honour.It’s icing on the cake of a great year for the festival – so yay!

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Culture Stimulates!

The struggle continues! Keeping up the pressure to fight provincial cuts to the arts.

Ironic isn’t it? Vancouver’s 2009 “Best Local Music Festival” along with over 6000 other arts & culture, heritage, parents, teachers, hot lunch programs, libraries, amateur sports, AIDS relief centres, health centres, emergency preparedness, music and summer camps for blind kids across the province continue to try to come to grips with the current and prospective results of the BC government’s unprecedented level of cuts to funding.
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