Tuesday 18 July 2017

The 40th annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival: Three Days in Another World!

Music of the people, for the people!

Because "we can fight the tendency to choose music on the basis of what sells good as opposed to what sounds good".

3 days, 4 nights, 7 stages, over 60 acts, 1500 volunteers, 38,000 people!

http://thefestival.bc.ca/

Lining up to get in on the first day of the festival

Studying the festival programme

Decisions, decisions!


Looking for tarp space at the Main Stage


Stage 6 is the world music stage - and often the dancing stage!

Stage 5 tucked off in a corner surrounded by trees and a lake

Buddha boards: write/draw with water and it disappears within seconds

Folk Bazaar just outside the Festival grounds

Message board

ATM (bancomat) in a VW van

Indigenous Voices at Stage 3

Stage 3 has plenty of shade and is close to the food area

Stage 3 seen from the side

Madskillz area (juggling, hula hoops, etc.)

Former child soldier from South Sudan Emmanuel Jal gets the audience up and dancing on stage 

Chouk Bwa Libète from Haiti

La Santa Cecilia from Los Angeles

Bands from Mexico and Los Angeles

The Main Stage just before sundown

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