A cross-Canada tour of the 2019 summer festivals
For the second year in a row, Roots Music Canada was all over the summer festivals this summer, reporting from events as large and prestigious as Mariposa and the Edmonton Folk Festival and as far-flung as the Moose n’ Fiddle Festival in Nester Falls, ON. This year 23 writers cover 25 festivals, filing more than 70 stories in the process.
If you were too busy hitting the festivals yourself to read all this coverage at the time, you’re in luck! Because we’ve assembled it all for you here in this one handy place.
Thank you to all of our amazing writers for helping link the roots community from coast to coast with their reporting.
British Columbia:
- The Vancouver Island MusicFest, July 12-14 at the Comox Valley Fairground
- Deborah Holland braves the rain to recap the Burnaby Roots and Blues fest
- 7 Acts I Can’t Wait to Check Out at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival
- The Vancouver Folk Music Festival recapped and reviewed by Deborah Holland
- Sue Foley is playing the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Fest this weekend
- Sylvia Siemens checks out the lead-up events to the Salmon Roots and Blues Fest
- The Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival – Day 1 (Friday)
- Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Fest: How Tracy Lynn turned tragedy into musical triumph
- Salmon Arm Roots & Blues Fest – Day 3 (Sunday)
- Arts Wells – Aug. 2-5, 2019
- Arts Wells 2019 – off stage
Alberta:
- Three unique acts to catch at the Calgary Folk Music Festival
- https://www.rootsmusic.ca/2019/07/24/behind-the-sounds-at-the-calgary-folk-festival/
- Three highlights from Day One of the Calgary Folk Music Festival
- Friday night on the National Stage at the Calgary Folk Music Festival
- Dispatches from the Calgary Folk Music Festival – Day 3 (Saturday)
- Dispatches from the Calgary Folk Fest – Day 4 (Sunday)
- Flohil sets up the Edmonton Folk Music Festival … as only Flohil can
- Flohil recaps the Edmonton Folk Music Festval – Day 1 (Thursday)
- Flohil recaps the Edmonton Folk Music Festival – Day 2 (Friday)
- Flohil recaps Day 3 of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival
- Flohil recaps Day 4 of the Edmonton Folk Music Festival
- Tom Coxworth recaps the Canmore Folk Festival (Aug. 3-5)
Manitoba:
- The Winnipeg Folk Festival kicks off tonight. Here’s what to look forward to
- What to see Saturday at the Winnipeg Folk Festival
- Here’s what to check out Sunday at the Winnipeg Folk Fest
Ontario:
- Why Heather Kitching can’t wait to hit the Moose n Fiddle Festival
- Dispatches from the Moose n’ Fiddle Festival – Day 1 (Friday)
- Dispatches from the Moose n’ Fiddle Festival – Day 2 (Saturday)
- How growing up in Thunder Bay influenced one of the founders of So Long Seven
- Dispatches from the Live from the Rock Folk Festival – Day 1 (Friday)
- Dispatches from the Live from the Rock Folk Festival – Day 2 (Saturday)
- Dispatches from the Live from the Rock Folk Festival – Day 3 (Sunday)
- Ted Ferris sets up this weekend’s Troubadour Festival
- Ted Ferris reviews the Troubadour Festival
- Ottawa Bluesfest Celebrates 25 Years
- Ottawa Bluesfest Opening night.. Smoking!
- Ottawa Bluesfest – July 5: On a country stroll
- Ottawa Bluesfest – July 9: Bluesfest returns to its blues roots
- Ottawa Bluesfest wrap-up: K’naan waving the flag for Pussy Riot and America
- Ottawa’s CityFolk festival rambles in
- CityFolk pours on to the city streets
- Robert Plant provides the coda to Ottawa CityFolk
- Mariposa 2019: from Indigenous hip-hop, to indie rockers, to a pondercast
- Dispatches from the Mariposa Folk Festival: Day 1 (Friday)
- Dispatches from the Mariposa Folk Festival – Day 2 (Saturday)
- Dispatches from the Mariposa Folk Festival – Day 3 (Sunday)
- Corby sets up the Small World Music Festival in Toronto
- The Small World Music Festival : weekend 1 (Sept. 19-21 in Toronto)
- The Small World Music Festival: weekend 2 (Sept. 26-29)
- Kathleen Edwards is back … and playing Summerfolk
- Beverly Kreller runs down just some of this weekend’s Summerfolk must sees
- Dispatches from Summerfolk – Day 1 (Friday)
- Dispatches from Summerfolk – Day 2 (Saturday)
- Dispatches from Summerfolk – Day 3 (Sunday)
- ‘Happy Hillside!’: Ted Ferris previews one of his favourite festivals
- Dispatches from the Hillside Festival – Day One (Friday)
- Dispatches from the Hillside Festival – Day 2 (Saturday)
- Dispatches from the Hillside Festival – Day 3 (Sunday)
- Home County Music and Arts Festival – Day 1 (Friday)
Quebec:
- Elizabeth Szekeres sets up this weekend’s Sutton Traditional Fiddle Festival
- Festival Mémoire et Racines celebrates 25 years at this weekend’s festival
- Dispatches from Festival Mémoire et Racines – Day One (Friday)
- Festival Mémoire et Racines: Day 2 in words and photos
- Festival Mémoire et Racines: Day 3 in words and photos
- The Sunday daytime workshops at Mémoire et Racines – in words and photos
- SuperFolk happens tomorrow and Sunday in Morin Heights, QC
Atlantic Canada:
- Four hot acts to catch this weekend at the Rollo Bay Fiddle Festival in PEI
- Sarah MacDonald wraps up the Rollo Bay Fiddle Festival
- Four up-and-coming acts to check out at the Stan Rogers Folk Festival
- Dispatches from the Stan Rogers Folk Festival – Day One (Friday)
- Dispatches from the Stan Rogers Folk Festival – Day 2 (Saturday)
- Lindsay Ferguson is on her way to the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival
- NL Folk Fest artists talk to Lindsay Ferguson about the artists’ life
National:
