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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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We're Number One!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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