Alabama Shakes, M. Ward bring the thunder
Lightning storm during finale capped a thrilling beginning to Folk Fest Nathan Ross By the time the first day of the Calgary Folk Music Festival was wrapping up, the cheering of the crowd was...
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Folk Fest offers up a beautiful time
A very serious look back at Serena Ryder Daniel Bergman Contributor At the Calgary Folk Music Festival, time is not sequential. When I look back over the years at my encounters...
After The Sun unite to rise
MRU musicians demonstrate their chops at Kensington coffee house Nathan Ross The Reflector Summer 2011 has been a delight for music lovers of all types in Calgary. As per usual, there seemed to...
Calgary Folk Fest delivers on all fronts
By Sean-Paul Boynton When the sun finally decided to keep on shining throughout the weekend after a gloomily rained-out Friday, the 2011 Calgary Folk Music Festival truly came alive. In this reviewer’s opinion, the...
Fall arts picks
by Claire Miglionico & Zoey Duncan Haultain and First Street Festival www.victoriapark.org September 12, 2010 Victoria Park is bucking the crummy rep it has been saddled with and as one of the last...
Outside the gates of Folk Fest
by Katie Turner While the music may be happening behind the fences of Calgary’s Folk Music Festival, there’s a different kind of party outside the gates. Friday afternoon saw hundreds of festival-goers waiting in...
Folk Fest: Chris Gheran is more than a military junkie, but he’s that too
There’s a hip-hop/folk mixtape in my collection that samples a blustery, deep-voiced and unnamed man who proclaims: “Folk music is high-class music but there’s a lot of low-class people singing it. Matter of fact,...
Folk Fest: Great eats on the Island. But you might miss out.
Oh my God. Yum. Calgary is a city full of charitable souls and varied volunteer opportunities. In university, you’ve likely been told how good volunteering will look on your resume and maybe you’ve tracked...
Folk Fest announces ‘edgy’ line up
For months the Calgary Folk Fest had been slowly revealing the 2010 line up of artists in anticipation of the full lineup being announced. The agonizing tease is finally over – folkies can flock...
Folk Fest: Kid Koala keeps his paws busy
Building a robot, writing a graphic novel, manning the turntables and pushing a baby in a stroller. It may not be the life that most DJs lead, but it’s the one that the DJ...
