Vancouver Folk Music Festival

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Genrefolk, world, singer-songwriter, bluegrass, hip hop
Datesthird weekend of July
LocationsJericho Beach, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Years active1978–present
Vancouver Folk Music Festival
Genrefolk, world, singer-songwriter, bluegrass, hip hop
Datesthird weekend of July
LocationsJericho Beach, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Years active1978–present
Websitethefestival.bc.ca

The Vancouver Folk Music Festival (VFMF), founded in 1978, is an outdoor multistage music festival, located at Jericho Beach Park on the west side of Vancouver, British Columbia. It takes place annually on the third weekend of July, drawing over 30,000 attendees each year.[1][2]

The festival has attracted artists from across the world, including Adam Cohen, Ani Difranco, Utah Phillips, Pete Seeger, Tuvan throat singers, Sarah Harmer, Veda Hille, Feist, K'naan, and Ferron, among many others.

The Vancouver Folk Music Festival was founded in 1978 by Mitch Podolak and Colin Gorrie, who also helped establish the Winnipeg Folk Festival; Ernie Fladell and Frances “Frannie” Fitzgibbon, employees at the City of Vancouver's social planning department; and Gary Cristall, who coordinated the event.[3] The inaugural festival took place from August 11 through 13, 1978 in Stanley Park, and an estimated 10,000 people were in attendance.[4] Performers included Mary McCaslin and Jim Ringer, Odetta, Stan Rogers. Leon Redbone, Leon Bibb, and John Hammond.[5]

In 1979, the event was changed to take place the third weekend of July at Jericho Beach. Late in the year, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival Society was established as a non-profit organization and given control of future versions of the festival.[3] In early years, the organization operated a dedicated record label called Festival Records.[6]

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