ANNOUNCING THE 25th ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM OF THE
MISSION FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL
July 19 to 22, 2012
SIX CONTINENTS ♦ SEVEN SEAS ♦ ONE MAGICAL WEEKEND!
Early Bird Tickets on sale Now
Tickets available HERE!
From South America to Australia, Scandinavia to Polynesia, North America to India and beyond – six continents and the seven seas – music is pouring in from all over the world for the 25th annual Mission Folk Music Festival! Join us to celebrate 25 years of bringing the world’s great music to Mission!
Featuring
WORLD ENCOUNTERS
Renato Borghetti & Artur Bonilla (Brasil)
Los Pinguos (Argentina)
H’sao (Chad/Canada)
Talavya (India)
Rasmus Lyberth (Greenland)
Pacific Curls (Polynesia/New Zealand/Scotland)
Minor Empire (Turkey, Asia Minor/Canada)
Jacky Essombe (Cameroon/Canada)
WRITERS OF SONG
Shane Howard (Australia)
Eliza Gilkyson (United States)
David Francey (Canada)
Buffy Sainte-Marie (Canada)
Colum Sands (Ireland)
CELTIC TRADITIONS
Martin Hayes (fiddle) with John Doyle (guitar) & Kevin Crawford (flute) as the Tee Totalers (Ireland)
Shooglenifty (Scotland)
Mairi Campbell (Scotland)
Colum Sands (Ireland)
ACROSS THE KATEGATT
(A Scandinavian Experience)
Habadekuk (Denmark)
Epic Swedish All Stars (Sweden)
Himmerland (Denmark)
Lyy (Sweden)
ABORIGINAL VOICES
Buffy Sainte-Marie (Canada)
Rasmus Lyberth (The Voice of Greenland)
STRINGS, DANCE AND MORE
Matt Gordon and guests (US/ Canada & the UK)
Andy Leftwich Trio (US)
April Verch & Band (Canada)
The Fretless (Canada)
Van Django (Canada)
And more to come!
* Some artists appear in more than one program component.
More to be announced, including the Music BC sponsored stage featuring BC artists!
| Join us for the Festival’s 25th Anniversary Gala Concert at the Clarke Foundation Theatre Thursday, July 19 at 7:30 pm |
| Celebrate with us in indoor air-conditioned comfort featuring a select roster of festival artists; a concert preview of the extraordinary music to come and boisterous revelry of the festival’s big birthday. Tickets by birthday present – a one dollar gift for each year of the festival, that is, $25. Get your seat at our birthday HERE |
New this year to mark the 25th anniversary
– our gift to the community
The Festival Music Camp
July 16 to 20
The Mission Folk Music Festival and the Sabir Sisters Music School are excited to announce their collaboration in offering a world class summer music camp as part of the 25th Annual Mission Folk Music Festival. The camp will take place from Monday, July 16 to Friday, July 20 and will overlap with the Festival which runs July 19 to 22.
Challenge your artistic imagination and hone your skills in songwriting with Juno award winning singer-songwriter David Francey, put some panache into your mandolin and fiddle playing with Tennessee string whiz Andy Leftwich; stretch your boundaries and learn Scandinavian fiddle styles with Denmark’s celebrated Kristian Bugge; get the Cape Breton Ceili touch with Mairi Rankin or simply get your feet tapping with Matt Gordon, the festival’s three year resident artist in dance. Flatfoot, clogging, hambone, Matt teaches it all.
This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to participate in world class instruction with festival artists-in-residence and award winning instructors. Finish it all off with a weekend of great music at one of Western Canada’s finest music festivals. Make it your summer of music.
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For a look back at previous year’s festival in pictures, check out these galleries by Festival photographers Lisa Luky and Ben Shaevitz. Rogue Folkie Steve Edge has posted his photos here.
Mission photos on site by Ben Shaevitz and Lisa Luky, copyright the photographers
