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. . . . . . This is a summer website for The Jericho Folk Club

Upstairs in Vancouver's Ocean Access Community Centre - between Jericho Beach and Spanish banks at the north end of Discovery Street.
This is where folksingers go to hear good music up close.
         Michael Pratt & Lynn McGowan are dynamic leaders and a joy to have here in the Vancouver Folk and Roots scene.
They are the founders of the Jericho Folk Club, now in its 16 th year.
You will find a well attended showcase for accomplished local and international musicians. logo

Lynn & Michael

Pretty Lynn


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Celtic Traditions

    Our Shop The Shop

3721 West 10th Ave

Vancouver 604-222-2299

All the best see you there.

Michael and Lynn

August 28th Tuesday    The Irish Wakers


"Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music." --George Bernard Shaw

The Wakers play traditional Irish music with passion and heartfelt wonder.
Their performance of lively jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, & waltzes combined with
songs and shanties is guaranteed to get your toes tapping!
Instruments include fiddle, bodhran, guitar, Irish flutes and whistles.
The 'Wakers' play at festivals and pubs in the Lower Mainland and
were a featured band at Irish House 2010 during the Olympics.

         

   

Their Sample Music page FREE

 
 
7.30 pm *+*+*+*+*

 

Jericho Sailing Centre

1300 Discovery St.  Vancouver B.C.

Phone: 604-222-4113

7:30pm Jam Session    8:00pm Open Stage    9:20pm Feature Performer

$10.00 Admission

 

June 2012

July 5th Modern Grass

 

   July 5th Modern Grass

                   The Modern Grass of Nova Scotia is a collective of

   musicians who all have some obsession with days gone by, contrasted

   with a vision for the future that be - bops, doo- wops, and yee haws

   it's way through roots music freely. Maintaining a coherent philosophy

   that is evident in Terrell's songwriting, playing and almost satirical

   veil of genre tripping, honky tonking.

 

   July 10th Special Concert Night

   Admission $15.00

   8:00 pm Littlehouse is an acoustic duo based in Nova Scotia,

   specializing in original instrumental compositions with a Celtic

   flavour. Charlie Wilson plays Irish flute and whistles, and Jude Pelley

   plays guitars, mandolin, and Appalachian dulcimer. Their music is

   atmospheric; rich and complex, drawing on both traditional and

   contemporary influences.

 

   9:15pm Maz.Who ever said that folk music could not be reinvented? With

   their début album, Telescope, MAZ has brilliantly succeeded in building

   a bridge between electric jazz and French Canadian folk music. And in

   their live performance, the band pulls off a daring and efficient

   balance between fervour and trance, acoustic and electric sounds,

   self-affirmation and openness.

 

   July 17th Just Duets

                 Perform a wonderful selection of contemporary folk and

   classic country music. Andrea Smith and Dave Lidstone present their

   music with sibling-like harmonies supported by beautiful guitar work.

 

   July 24th Willie Blizzard

 

   Vancouver-based indie alt/folk trio Willy Blizzard are delighted to

   bring their indie-roots sound to Jericho Folk. The acoustic trio

   performs alt / folk / county originals featuring superb vocal harmonies

   against guitar, banjo and stand-up bass. Their song writing has been

   called "truly gorgeous Canadiana" by Penguin Eggs magazine.

 

   July 31st Fraser Union

                        Fraser Union can surprise you with their range of

   music from blues to songs of West Coast life.  Whether accompanied or a

   cappella (great harmonies, either way), from traditional folk to

   standards by Mose Allison or Bob Dylan, Fraser Union's repertoire is

   delivered through a lively performance that makes a great evening.


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Other Notable Vancouver Folksingers

  • Vancouver Folk Festival 2007Phil J. Thomas (1921-2007) ventured up the dusty roads recording more than 100 singers
    and collecting hundreds of songs that make sense of our working lives and this place called British Columbia.

  • Fraser Union  
  • Fraser Union is Dan Kenning, Henk Piket, Roger Holdstock and Barry Truter. They've enjoyed performing together for over twenty years,
    singing songs that tell stories of lives past and present from BC, Canada,
    and other traditions. Their four strong voices present some songs a cappella and others accompanied by a variety of instruments
    including guitars, mandolins, dobro, and banjo. A Fraser Union set combines the pleasures of meaningful music
    delivered with humour and energy. For the Festival, they are joined by Barry's son,
    percussionist Duncan Truter, who also guests on their latest CD, This Old World.

  • Folk Festival list
  • . of 50 - 60 Performers by year

    Tarkin takes North American folk traditions from across the spectrum and blends them together to create a sound that's folk music with a West Coast flair
    With six voices and over a dozen different instruments at hand, Tarkin goes from old-time to country swing
    to ceilidh band as the instruments get passed around the circle.
    They've been described as "a bunch of multi-instrumentalist gypsies, roving over the mountains of the West Coast.".

  • Raghu Lokanathan a wonderful songwriter who was born in India and grew up in Montreal,
    where he learned to play guitar and accordion.
    Ex Girlfriend in Northern BC and a librarian in Victoria. Flowing tales of actual Canadian lives from ground level with a birds eye view of life.
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    The      2010 Princeton Traditional Music Festival                 2010 is the 150th Anniversary of the Town.
    We hope to have something special for you all to mark the occasion.
                            The dates for the festival are Friday 20 August to Sunday 22 August 2010.

             I'm pleased to say that we have an almost complete line-up for this summer's 3rd Annual Princeton Traditional Music Festival.
    The following performers are confirmed and a few others not yet confirmed will join them:

             Danielle Arcand, Eric & Betty Armstrong, Alex Atamanenko, Sue Averill, Mike Ballantyne, Banquo Folk Ensemble,
    Jon Bartlett & Rika Ruebsaat, Blackthorn, Flip & Zeke, Glen Esdale,
    Fraser Union, John Gothard, Great Big Sing!, Rosaleen Gregory, Tom Hawken, Stewart Hendrickson,
                     The Irish Wakers,     King's Shilling, Barry Luft, The Malarkeys, Mike & Nakos Marker, Lyn Melnechenko,
    Morgan and Graves, Orkestar Slivovica, Kate Gibson Oswald, David Parkin, Ed Peekeekoot, Psycho Acoustic Ceili Band, Steve Quattrocchi & Simon Trevelyan,
    Quicksbottom Border Morris, The Rabbleberries, Tom Rawson, Doug Reid, Chris Roe, Larry Saidman & Elaine Rutherford,
    Skweez, Slack Key Slim, Soft Focus, Steel Phoenix Rapper And Sword, Paddy Tutty, the Van Lidth De Jeude Family.

    also see the * Steveston Folk Guild page ...AND.. Rogue Folk at St.James Hall.

    Our Big Gulf Islands Musicians List and locations . In the right hand column..