Still some spots left.

We still have some spaces available at WFC. Streams that we are still accepting folks for:
Anne Lederman: fiddle: just a couple of spaces left.
Eve Goldberg: beginner/int guitar
Georgette Fry: community choir
David Archibald: songwriting
David Woodhead: playing well together: a few spaces left.

You can register at here, or contact me directly: singingdog1@gmail.com

Check out Sue Shikaze on "Paddling beyond the mainstream" this evening: 7-9 PM. She will be featuring music from Winter Folk Camp artists, including: Georgette Fry, Anne Lederman, David Archibald, David Woodhead, Eve Goldberg, and Suzie Vinnick, and Rosemary Phelan.

Radio interview with Anne Lederman

The best community radio station in the world, Canoe FM, is doing an amazing job of helping to promote Winter Folk Camp. Mike Jaycock, the morning host, has been doing interviews with our artists-in-residence over the past month. Tomorrow morning at 8:10 AM, his guest is WFC fiddle instructor Anne Lederman. Tune in for some great chat and some great tunes.

WFC Ceilidhs announced

We went to a new format last year: more of a kitchen party idea than a straight concert. If you are familiar with the workshop format that is so common at festivals, then it will be familiar to you: 3 artists share the stage and a certain amount of time (with very little rehearsal time). The mix of collaboration/individual performance is up to them. If you missed the ceilidhs last year, you missed a couple of memorable evenings.

Imagine a "rapping folk singer" (Rodrigo's description of Ian Tamblyn), a latin guitar virtuoso/percussionist (Rodrigo Chavez), and a canadian fiddle/stepdance champion (Cindy Thompson Butineau) sharing the stage for the first time: sparks flew!!! The next evening was a little more musically homogenous, but no less magical: Paul Mills, Eve Goldberg and Linda Morrison cooked up a brew of songwriting goodness that was much greater than the sum of it's formidable parts.

This year we have put the following "ingredients" together. Stir and stew for a couple of days and the results are bound to be tasty.

Saturday Night: David Archibald, Suzie Vinnick, Anne Lederman

Sunday Night: Eve Goldberg, Georgette Fry, and David Woodhead

Congrats to Suzie Vinnick and the Marigolds

Suzie, as part of the folk super-group The Marigolds, has put another notch in her music-awards belt with a Juno nomination for Group Roots and Traditional album of the year. 


"Their original compositions combine the timeless and classic genres of traditional country and bluegrass, Appalachian ballads, country and electric blues with rockin’ grooves and soulful, angelic harmonies. Onstage and in the studio, they deliver their music with skill and grace."


Not only will Suzie be teaching int/adv guitar at WFC, but will share the stage with David Archibald and Anne Lederman for our Saturday night ceilidh.

Big Rock sponsors WFC for the 3rd year in a row

Big Rock Brewery has stepped up again this year to be our beer sponsor for Winter Folk Camp. Big Rock has a long tradition of supporting music events acrosss Canada. We are happy to have them on board again this year.

Brush up on your Canadian folk music trivia to get a shot at some of the great swag that Big Rock donates. Of course you have to come to WFC to have the chance: and it's not too late.