Vote for us in the WestJet Fun n'Festival Competition

We've been nominated to participate in WestJet's competition for Canada's best festival. 

We've got a pretty good one, eh?  

Vote and tell stories!!  Plus everyone who votes gets entered to win 1 of 6 trips to fantastic Canadian festivals.

We'd really love to hear some stories of your favourite Regina Folk Festival memories!  Share! Share!

Regina Folk Festival Performers grace the Polaris Prize Long List

The passionate Polaris peeps picked a pile of perfect performers!

Out of the 40 that made it on the Long List, two will grace the stage in Victoria Park this summer.  Even more on the list have done so before.  We have a few things in common I'd say - RFF & Polaris, like two peas in a pod. 

Ghostkeeper and Justin Rutledge are honoured for their recent releases, Ghostkeeper and  The Early Widows respectively. 

Past RFF performers that also made the list are: Owen Pallet, The Sadies, Tegan & Sara, Hawksley Workman, Broken Social Scene and Basia Bulat.

Check polarismusicprize.ca to see the other 32 bands.  You may want to hear 'em.  I'd bet on it.

RFF Stage at BAZAART this Saturday June 19, 2010

Regina Folk Festival will be enhancing the BAZAART experience with some sweet sounds.  

 

Find us in the Rest Area located on the green space west of the BAZAART vendor area.  

 

 

Lucky BAZAART goers!! 
You get to see 2010 RFF performers early this Saturday!

 

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Belle Plaine IN CONCERT

1:00pm - 2:15pm

WORKSHOP:  Tall Grass & Tall Tales: STORY SONGS
Belle Plaine, BD Willoughby, Lazy MKs

2:30 - 3:15pm

BD Willoughby & the Lazy MKs IN CONCERT

 

Do you need more lovely distractions from all the handmade wonders you'll find wandering the greens?  Go on a gallery tour!

 

Gallery tours of the current exhibition

James Henderson: Wicite Owapi Wicasa: The Man Who Paints Old Men
will take place at 12:30, 1:30, 2:30 and 3:30.

 

 

Find your tour guide at the Gallery entrance!
Enjoy the day!  It will be absolutely fabulous.

Ghostkeeper at three other festivals this year!

2010 Regina Folk Festival performers, Ghostkeeper are also performing at 2010's NXNE Music Festival along with the Calgary Folk Festival and the Winnipeg Folk Festival in support of their recently released self-titled album.

Calgary-based Ghostkeeper produces raw and electrifying music. A colourful patchwork of heartfelt, outsider blues and noisy pop, perhaps their music can be best understood through the distinctive Northern Alberta origins of Shane Ghostkeeper (vocals, guitar) and Sarah Houle (drums, vocals). Raised in High Level and the Paddle Prairie Metis Settlement, Shane & Sarah spent their adolescence isolated by geography, listening to folk and blues records passed down by family members, slowly developing an admiration for individuals that had the ability to convey rich stories through song. Both identified with traditional folk heroes like Hank Williams or Robert Johnson; likewise, the duo shared a history populated by larger-than-life characters as colourful as those in the songs they grew up with. While traditional influences remain at the very core of Shane's songwriting, a healthy irreverence towards standard song structure and an idiosyncratic storytelling voice results in something undeniably Ghostkeeper.

 www.myspace.com/childrenofthegreathnorthernmuskeg

Keep an eye on these lovely ones!

Sarah Slean Concert on CBC SoundXchange this Saturday

For our 40^th Anniversary in 2009, we put a Gala on in appreciation of the hundreds of fantastic volunteers who have helped every single year to create the remarkable success that is the RFF.  We brought the beautiful and talented Sarah Slean in to give a private concert for these wonderful folks. 

This Saturday, May 22 from 5pm to 6pm, CBC’s SoundXchange will be airing that concert.  Tune in at 102.5fm or 540am or online.

RFF 2010 Performer Sarah Harmer has new work too!

Check out this CBCRadio 3 podcast to hear her new single!

RFF 2010 Performer Justin Rutledge in Exclaim! this week

Justin Rutledge is releasing his new album The Early Widows on Tuesday.  Exclaim! has got an article highlighting all the collaborative writing this album exudes, including his lyrical partnership with Canadian literary master, Michael Ondaatje.  Check it out here.