Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Vancouver Folk Music Festival
Vancouver Folk Music Festival
Genre	folk, world, singer-songwriter, bluegrass, hip hop
Dates	third weekend of July
Location(s)	Jericho Beach, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Years active	1978–present
Website	thefestival.bc.ca

The Vancouver Folk Music Festival (VFMF), founded in 1978, is an outdoor multistage music festival, located at Jericho Beach Park on the west side of Vancouver, British Columbia. It takes place annually on the third weekend of July, drawing over 30,000 attendees each year.^[1]^[2]

The festival has attracted artists from across the world, including Adam Cohen, Ani Difranco, Utah Phillips, Pete Seeger, Tuvan throat singers, Sarah Harmer, Veda Hille, Feist, K'naan, and Ferron, among many others.

^ "Here's why you should check out Vancouver's most iconic music festival". Vancouver Is Awesome. April 5, 2024. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
^ Zeidler, Maryse (July 15, 2017). "'Still the same park, still the same feeling': 40 years of the Vancouver folk festival". CBC. Retrieved April 7, 2024.

[1] "Here's why you should check out Vancouver's most iconic music festival". Vancouver Is Awesome. April 5, 2024. Retrieved April 7, 2024.

[2] Zeidler, Maryse (July 15, 2017). "'Still the same park, still the same feeling': 40 years of the Vancouver folk festival". CBC. Retrieved April 7, 2024.

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