GORD GRDINA’S MARROW
Blending Rumi with a bit of jazz, classical Persian sounds and Iranian hits from the 1960s and ’70s
DOBET GNAHORE
African performer Dobet Gnahoré shook the Main Stage to open the 47th Vancouver Folk Music Festival
PIQSIQ
“Throat singing became a radical act of reclamation, music as cultural revitalization…”
IRIS DEMENT
“Her commitment to human equality is so out front its sincerity becomes a wonderment…”
GLOBAL WOMEN AT THE FESTIVAL
The Ivory Coast’s Dobet Gnahoré and New Zealand’s Mama Mihirangi & the Māreikura
FESTIVAL FAVOURITE: IRELAND’S SUSAN O’NEILL
Rising Irish performer wowed audiences at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival
A BRIEF FOLK FESTIVAL REVIEW
After near death, the Festival and its audience rise to the occasion
