The Scene
'The Vancouver Folk Music Festival is a Canadian cultural institution. It is a unique community-based celebration internationally renowned for presenting the finest traditional and contemporary folk and roots music from around the world...Two and even three generations of families join friends and fellow community members to experience the music and culture of more than 40 international, national, and local acts.'
2011 Artist Lineup
- C.R. AVERY
- BEATS ANTIQUE
- DUSTIN BENTALL OUTFIT FEATURING KENDEL CARSON
- DAN BERN
- ELLIOTT BROOD
- JIM BRYSON AND THE WEAKERTHANS BAND
- BUCK 65
- THE BURNING HELL
- KATHRYN CALDER
- ROSANNE CASH
- JAMES COTTON SUPERHARP
- SAMANTHA CRAIN
- THE DARDANELLES
- ALPHA YAYA DIALLO
- DIGGING ROOTS
- THE DUHKS
- JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
- FOOTWORKS PERCUSSIVE DANCE ENSEMBLE
- THE FUGITIVES
- DICK GAUGHAN, DAVE SWARBRICK & JASON WILSON
- MARY GAUTHIER
- GRAVEYARD TRAIN
- THE HAWAIIAN LEGENDS
- DAN HICKS AND THE HOT LICKS
- IMAGINARY CITIES
- EMMANUEL JAL
- THE JAYHAWKS
- DIANA JONES
- CASSIUS KHAN
- LA-33
- POKEY LAFARGE & THE SOUTH CITY THREE
- DANIEL LAPP
- MÉLISSA LAVEAUX
- RICARDO LEMVO & MAKINA LOCA
- WENDY MCNEILL
- DANNY MICHEL
- NEW COUNTRY REHAB
- NOMADIC CARAVAN
- MORGAN O’KANE
- JOEL PLASKETT
- RÉVEILLONS
- JOSH RITTER & THE ROYAL CITY BAND
- TIM ROBBINS & THE ROGUES GALLERY BAND
- LEON ROSSELSON
- ORDO SAKHNA
- SOLAS
- SPIRO
- HANS THEESSINK AND TERRY EVANS
- TI-COCA & WANGA-NÈGÈS
- TINARIWEN
- FOY VANCE
- DAVID WAX MUSEUM
- GILLIAN WELCH
- EMILY WELLS
- JENNY WHITELEY
- CRIS WILLIAMSON
- DAVID WOODHEAD’S CONFABULATION