Already promising to give that Hozier fest year a run for best lineup just knowing Kíla was coming, the performer list was not even close to done with me. Reading on, I saw Allison Russell and Madi Diaz in the schedule.


Already promising to give that Hozier fest year a run for best lineup just knowing Kíla was coming, the performer list was not even close to done with me. Reading on, I saw Allison Russell and Madi Diaz in the schedule.

One of the best things about Edmonton’s Folk Fest (besides spending a weekend hanging out appreciating live music, either alone or with your friends, and tens of thousands other people) is the ability to surround yourself to new music and musicians you might otherwise not get a chance to know.

Ah, Edmonton Folk Fest, I love you! After two years of COVID absences, what a return to the Hill! It […]

Music soothes. Music heals. It educates, elucidates, captivates. It inspires. It can change the world. Losing live music hurt. So when my friend sent that invitation (To her neighbourhood Edmonton Folk Fest concert), I could feel my whole face instantly light up. I felt a huge weight, a COVID virus-shaped weight, an isolated, mask-wearing, physically-distanced, grocery shopping is the only outing-shaped weight, lifted off of my shoulders.

Oh how I love the Edmonton Folk Fest! It is so well organized, so well attended – great artists. […]

I mentioned this last year, but, if there is one thing I look forward to in Edmonton, it is the […]

Edmonton may not be the most glamorous city in the world. It’s not Paris. It’s not Dublin. Or New York. It’s freaking cold and dreary in the winter. But damn, this city knows how to party in the summertime. The prime example: the annual Edmonton Folk Fest, a four day celebration of some of the world’s finest folk musicians.