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Ya'Gotta: Western Canada - Folk Music Festivals

BY: Bob Kenyon

The Contenders (Valdy & Gary Fjellgaard) Perform at Canmore Folk Festival - 2006
Photo Credit: Bob Kenyon© 2007

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Ya'Gotta: Western Canadian Folk Festivals

If you are planning to travel to western Canada, there is one tradition that music fans need to take in. During the last quarter century western Canada has become a hot-bed of roots based music and hosts a fabulous selection of folk music festivals. Many of these folk music festivals in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the northern territories in western Canada (Yukon and the Northwest Territories), feature top industry performers, from around the world, as well as the amazing talent developed in our own country! To provide regional visitors with regional sounds and songwriting flair, many of these festivals also feature local favourites.

For those folk festival fans that can't get enough during the summer; we've also included a few winter/spring folk festivals in western Canada.

So if need a break from your trekking, peddling, canoeing or whichever way you're travelling...Here is our selection of must see festivals, where you can enjoy the best of two worlds; folk music and the outdoors of western Canada. We've also added links to the festival's websites. Be sure to confirm dates, schedules, etc. For many of these festivals tickets should be purchased in advance, as with accomodations!

Make 2010 your summer to take in one of these incredible western Canadian folk music festival and let Ya'Gotta Travel help with your arrangements for flights, hotels and car rentals.

Also, so you can find great trekking before or after the festival(s), we've included to our related Ya'Gotta destination feature articles about the locations.

Ya'Gotta tries to keep annual dates updated, if you operate a festival and have update info, please contact us

If you want to find our more about the roots music scene in western Canada, go to our roots music page.

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