Anthony Stonechild
Festival recap: Vancouver Folk Music Festival day 3: Sunday
There is something awfully special and sweet about Amistat, but I’ll have to get to them later, because I discovered them late in the...
Festival recap: Vancouver Folk Music Festival day 2: Saturday
I am trying to take my own advice. I’m sitting down and listening to entire sets. I’m failing. My ADHD is fighting my higher...
Festival recap: The Vancouver Folk Music Festival Day 1: ...
Part 1: the anticipation
There was a huge thunderstorm last night. It broke up the heat from the last week or so. This morning i...
Vancouver Folk Music Festival Mornings: Singing Our Way Through Uncertainty
Cloudy and relatively cool at 17 degrees.
It’s kind of hard to know how to dress for festival life. It’s cool now, but likely to...
Vancouver Folk Music Festival: Honestly, I couldn’t even keep notes
After the Diggin’ Our Roots workshop, I followed the Zawose Queens over to the south stage, where they jammed with Cris Derksen, Blue Moon...
Vancouver Folk Music Festival: When Queen Elisapie tells all the men...
The Diggin’ Our Roots workshop was as inspiring as I could have hoped for. It opened almost like a stealth mission. I managed to...
From Montreal Brass to Japanese Punk: Friday Dispatch from VFMF
I wonder sometimes how much thought goes into things like “managing first impressions” when planning an event like the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, because...
What Anthony Stonechild is looking forward to at the Vancouver Folk...
The thing about living in Lotus Land here on the West Coast is that time dilates. A moment ago you had a couple of...
Closing notes from the Vancouver Folk Music Festival
Jeremy Dutcher’s penultimate song was a cheeky masterclass in stage presence. He had just finished singing the first English song in his set, and...
Dispatches from the Vancouver Folk Music Festival – Day 3 (Sunday)
The look is a little different today. I was definitely feeling the heat in the middle of the afternoon yesterday, so today it’s shorts,...








