The lineup for the 2023 Vancouver Folk New music Festival was unveiled Thursday, nearly 5 months immediately after the organizers guiding the party warned the city’s summertime staple could be indefinitely cancelled.

The 46th annual pageant will run from July 14 to 16 at Jericho Seaside Park and contain more than 40 musical acts—with artists symbolizing 8 provinces, six states and above 10 countries—according to a release by VFMF.

WHO’S Established TO Choose THE Stage

Functions with ties to British Columbia account for 14 of the functions, together with Ruby Singh and The Foreseeable future Ancestors, Little Habits, The Sojourners, San Pedro Cinco, Cláudio Rabeca Quartet with distinctive visitor Serena Eades, Samantha Parton, Melón Jiménez & Lara Wong Flamenco-Environment Trio, The Superior Bar Gang, Wealthy Hope, Krystle Dos Santos, Ferron, Steve Dawson and The Hooded Mergansers, Jim Byrnes and Jill Barber.

Other Canadians set to complete at the competition are Edmontons Celeigh Cardinal, Toronto’s Andrea Ramolo, Ottawa’s Twin Flames, Winnipeg’s William Prince as properly as Ruth Moody, Rum Ragged of St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador and Jocelyn Pettit and Ellen GIra—a U.S.-Canadian duo.

American expertise will also be well represented at the 2023 VFMF, with California’s Las Cafeteras and Joachim Cooder bundled in the lineup, as effectively as Louisianna’s Cedric Watson and Jourdan Thibodeaux New York’s Aoife O’Donovan Tennessee’s Tré Bur, Maya de Vitry and Amythyst Kiah Arizona’s Calexico Washington’s Correct Loves and Maine’s Joe Henry.

The pageant is also welcoming intercontinental artists this sort of as Blick Bassy from Cameroon and France, Derek Gripper of South Africa, Italy’s Kalàscima, Iran’s Kayhan Kalhor Trio, British guitarist Albert Lee, Ireland’s Susan O’Neill, Buryatia’s Namgar additionally Don McGlashan and Anita Clark of New Zealand.

‘NONE OF US Get IT FOR GRANTED’

Fiona Black, a board member and programming committee chair for the competition, suggests no a single associated in the festival, irrespective of whether they are organizers of attendees, requires this year’s function for granted.

“This competition is a touchstone in the life of so quite a few of its significantly-achieving local community: prolonged-time and new viewers members, out-of-town people who occur year following year, volunteers, donors, sponsors, artists and so several much more. I imagine this 12 months all people appreciates this iconic competition a minimal a lot more,” she mentioned in a statement.

On Jan. 17, the Vancouver Folks New music Pageant Society issued a statement asserting this year’s function would not be attainable to finance thanks to the soaring price of internet hosting are living occasions in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Afterwards that month, the society’s board postponed its annual standard assembly, which was when it was scheduling to dissolve alone, as several intrigued get-togethers experienced proposed to aid preserve the festival heading.

Then in February, the board determined to rescind its movement to dissolve the modern society following about 300 folks attended a digital town corridor on the festival’s foreseeable future.

On March 15, organizers declared new funders had arrive forward with “substantial offers” to be certain the competition happened this yr.

“Thanks to an outpouring of support, goodwill and devotion, the 2023 edition of the Vancouver Folk Music Pageant will have forward a excellent legacy of musical excellence and eclectic discovery,” the most the latest release reads. “We welcome anyone back to the park this summer season to be aspect of this joyful expertise.”

Each individual yr, the pageant is attended by a lot more than 30,000 persons and supported by way of the do the job of roughly 1,200 volunteers.

More information and facts about the lineup and ticket options are obtainable at www.thefestival.bc.ca.


WIth information from CTV Vancouver’s Ian Holliday