Upcoming Folk Club Features

Feb. 07: Bryan Bowers
Feb. 14: Gary Fjellgaard with Saskia and Darrel Delaronde
Feb. 21: Steve Slade
Feb. 28: The RabbleBerries

February 14: Gary Fjellgaard with Saskia and Darrel Delaronde

For more than forty years, Gary Fjellgaard has been making a living on the road with a guitar and a song. He delights his audiences throughout North America and Europe with his masterful acoustic guitar, gentle vocals, riveting yodeling, and tales of his life in the woods.

Raised on the prairies, this Juno Award-winner and Canadian Country Music Hall of Famer is a champion of vanishing values and the frontier spirit. Cattle drives, wagon treks, windswept plains, rushing rivers, and working folks with ties to the land have all been a source of inspiration for his songs. Gary and his wife Lynne now make their home on Gabriola Island.

Gary is joined on our stage by the prairie-folk duo Saskia and Darrel Delaronde, who have toured with him for several years. 3 lead vocalists, 3-part harmonies, and 3 talented songwriters are certain to make for a memorable evening.

February 21: Steve Slade

One of the Yukon’s leading songsmiths, Steve Slade has performed at concerts, coffeehouses, and festivals throughout Canada and the USA. He has played for princes and premiers, at nightclubs and daycare centers. His honest, intelligent, and affecting songs captivate audiences with their haunting melodies and stunning turns of phrase.

“Gifted with a rich full voice, he is equally at home singing traditional folk and blues or belting out a host of jazz standards, which he embellishes with some pretty impressive blues-harp playing. But, in my opinion, the brightest moments in his performance come when he displays his considerable talent as a songwriter. One minute he can have the audience laughing and the next moved to tears as he sings of people he has met and stories that touch us all.” — Ray Tucker, President, Whitehorse Folk Society

February 28: The RabbleBerries

The RabbleBerries are a quartet of musicians — Sharon Hazelwood, Karen Gillmore, Alan O’Dean, and Ken Orchard — whose wide-ranging repertoire includes music for political gatherings and social causes, songs of the sea, songs of workers of all kinds, and generally whatever tickles their musical fancy.

The group’s sound is full of tasty vocal harmonies and guitar licks, spiced with autoharp, flute, keyboard, banjo, mandola, thumb piano, harmonica, percussion, and washtub bass.

The RabbleBerries’ first CD, “Jam,” came out in late December, 2009, and this evening’s performance is their Victoria album-release party.

“From the joy of trains and homegrown tomatoes, to the injustices of economic globalization, poverty, and homelessness, the RabbleBerries both entertain and enlighten.” — Victoria Street Newz

Upcoming Features:

Previous Folk Club Features

Listed by date, one year of VFMS Feature Acts per webage:
 2010, 2009,  2008,  …   1998,  1997,  1996,  … back to  1980!
(We resolved to have a weekly Coffee House beginning January 1986;
 the previous schedule was twice a month, second- and fourth- Sundays).

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