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Ya'Gotta: Western Canada - Folk Music Festivals

BY: Bob Kenyon

The Contenders at Canmore Folk Festival 2006
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. Since the 1980's western Canada has become a hot-bed of roots based music and hosts a fabulous selection of roots and folk music festivals. Many of these 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 this 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.

Festival Location
East Coulee Spring Festival Near: Drumheller, AB
Parkview Community - Springboard Hoedown Athabasca, AB
Heart of The City Festival Edmonton, AB
Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival Haines Junction -160 kilometers (100 miles) west of Whitehorse, YK
Sooke River Bluegrass Music Festival Sooke, BC
Water Valley Celtic Festival Water Valley, AB - 60 km) NW of Calgary
The North Country Fair Driftpile, AB - West of Lesser Slave Lake
Wild Mountain Music Fest 8 Kms. North of Hinton, AB
Smithers Midsummer Festival Smithers, BC
Winnipeg Folk Festival Winnipeg, MB
Pembina River Nights Evansburg, AB - West of Edmonton, AB
Atlin Arts & Music Festival Atlin, YK - South of Whitehorse, YK
Wild Oats and Notes Music Festival Tofield, AB (SE of Edmonton, AB
Festival on The Rocks Yellowknife, NT
Flower Fest Camp He-Ho-Haw west of Edmonton, AB
All Folked Up in Montmartre Montmartre, SK (50 mins. SE of Regina)
Vancouver Folk Festival Vancouver, BC
Ness Creek Music Festival Ness Creek, SK - North of Prince Albert, SK
The South Country Fair West of Ft. McLeod, AB - East of The Crowsnest Pass
Calgary Folk Music Festival Calgary, AB
Gateway Festival Bengough, SK South of Regina, SK
Islands Folk Festival Cowachan, BC
Interstellar Rodeo Edmonton, AB
Sasquatch Gathering Rangeton Park, AB. - West of Edmonton, AB
Dawson City Music Festival Dawson City, YK
Discovery Coast Music Festival Bella Coola, BC - Cariboo Chilcotin Coast Area
Mission Folk Music Festival Mission, BC (East of Vancouver, BC)
Kispiox Valley Music Festival Kispiox, BC
ArtsWells Festival Wells, BC
Blueberry Bluegrass & Country Festival Stony Plain, AB (1/2 Hr. West of Edmonton)
Canmore Folk Festival Canmore, AB - East of Banff, AB
Coombs Bluegrass Festival Coombs, BC - East of Port Alberni
Filberg Festivall Comox, BC
John Arcand Fiddle Fest Saskatoon, SK
Edmonton Folk Music Festival Edmonton, AB
Mountainview Music Festival Carstairs, AB (North of Calgary on the QEII Highway.)
Regina Folk Music Festival Regina, SK
The Edge of the World Music Festival Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), BC
Come by the Hills Music Festival Mistahiya (southeast of Edmonton
Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old Tyme Music Festival Ness Creek, SK (west of Prince Albert National Park)
Central Music Festival Red Deer, AB (On the QEII Highway about half-way between Edmonton & Calgary.)
Harvest Sun Music Fest Kelwood, MB (West of Winnipeg and in the foothills of Riding Mountain National Park)
Princeton Traditional Music Festival Princeton, BC
Robson Valley Music Festival Dunster, BC
Music On the Mountain Festival Fort St. James, BC
Chilliwack Bluegrass Festival Chiliwack, BC - East of Vancouver
Sweetwater 905 Arts Festival Rolla, BC (north of Dawson Creek) -
Harvest Moon at the Hayloft Southeast of Edmonton (Range Road 224- 2k south of Township Road 522)
HomeFest Raising awareness of Edmonton's housing crisis Edmonton
Tongue on the Post Folk Fest Medicine Hat, AB
Coldsnap Prince George, BC
Frostbite Music Festival Whitehorse, YK
Winter Roots and Blues Roundup Edmonton, AB

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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