The Vancouver Folk Music Festival revealed this week the music artists set to perform at its 41st Annual festival. The festival will take place July 13-15, 2018 at Jericho Beach Park, Vancouver, BC. The program includes traditional and contemporary folk, world and roots music artists.
Debbi Lynn Salmonsen, the new The Vancouver Folk Music Festival Artistic Director has invited artists from across North America and around the world to come perform. Salmonsen says: “This year, I‘m pleased that we have an equal number of women artists playing as men.
“Along with well-known Canadian and US artists like Neko Case, Rodney Crowell, Ry and Joachim Cooder, James McMurtry, Carole Pope, Ranky Tanky, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys, The Dead South, Darlingside and Three Women and the Truth, there are many incredible Vancouver and other Canadian artists we’re excited to have people hear: Art Bergmann, Mariel Buckley, Kacy & Clayton, Martin Kerr, Little Miss Higgins, Petunia & the Vipers, Skye Wallace and Donovan Woods among them.”
Highlights include Ukraine innovators, Dakhabrakha; son jarocho from Mexico’s Son de Madera; Argentine tango artist Melingo; marrabenta music from Mozambique’s Wazimbo and Banda Kakana; and Alex Cuba. A Familia Machado features guitarist Celso Machado in concert with his renowned brother, Filó and Filó’s grandson Felipe, here from Brazil; all-female mariachi ensemble Las Estrellas de Vancouver; Arabic/Persian music 10-piece ensemble, Gord Grdina’s Haram; Dálava’s Moravian (Czech) folksong; Rwandan expatriate, Ezra Kwizera and so much more.
The full program is available at www.thefestival.bc.ca.
Author: World Music Central News Room
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