The Victoria Folk Music Society acknowledges with respect and gratitude the Coast Salish People upon whose traditional territories we live, work, and play. We honour and give special thanks to the Lekwungen and Saanich peoples, also called the Songhees, Esquimalt, Tsartlip, Pauquachin, Tsawout and Tseycum First Nations.

Our Logo: Queen Victoria playing a banjo. VFMS: The Victoria Folk Music Society; 50 Years and Counting...

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The Victoria Folk Music Society (VFMS)
Every Sunday
at 7:30 PM
at “Norway House”,
1110 Hillside Ave.
Victoria, BC
(between Quadra St.
and Cook St.
on the #4 bus route)

Admission: $8.00;
16 yrs. & under, Free;
VFMS members, volunteers, and performers: No Charge

Pre-Folk Jam: 6:45 PM

First Half: 7:30 PM
Open Stage:
sign up with Host and perform a ten-minute-set;

Performer Guidelines (PDF):
How to please a folk audience!

Half-time Break:
Tea, coffee and assorted goodies available

Second Half: 9:00 PM
The Feature

Format may occasionally vary

Memberships and
Monthly Newsletter (N/L):
$85.00 Individual;
$140.00 Family;
$20.00 N/L only

FOR Information or Emergency Contact
email info@victoriafolkmusic.ca
or  

Mail to:
Victoria Folk Music Society,
c/o 3483 Lovat Avenue,
Victoria, BC, V8X 1T8

For booking info, email featurebooking.vfms at shaw.ca at shaw.ca

Email comments, updates, or queries about the VFMS website to webmaster at victoriafolkmusic.ca

Check out our Archive of previous VFMS features
starting with 2026
(going back to 1976!)

We have a special page
of links to performers’ websites: see Performer Links, mostly,
(a list of many folks who have featured on our stage!)

A Vancouver Island-focused IslandFolk eMail ListServ: Email about music & music events. To subscribe: go to victoriafolkmusic.ca /mailman/listinfo/ islandfolk_victoriafolkmusic.ca

View in your browser or download the VFMS February 2026 Newsletter
(PDF)

Departed Friends and Musicians

Live-Music Event VENUES Facebook Events shared on the VFMS Facebook webpage in the past seven years (well over 250+ venues)

NEW WEBPAGE!
Live-Music Events
on Vancouver Island
for February 2026

NEW WEBPAGE!
Music Genres and Terms
with hyperlinks

A sample of what’s out there!
Open Jams & Open Mics
on Vancouver Island
for June 2025

USEFUL!
Do-It-Yourself House Concerts
simple, step-by-step advice
 

And see our up-to-date webpage listing for
Live-Music Events on Vancouver Island for the Month of February 2026!  

Our roster of Feature Acts:
Feb 08 Hank Cramer
 Feb 15 Slim Sandy & the Hillbilly Boppers
 Feb 22 Élise Leblanc with Tyler Lieb
 Mar 01 Sharon Bailey
Mar 08 Kevin Barr
 ···

Feb 15 Slim Sandy & the Hillbilly Boppers

Slim Sandy and Willa Mae have been singing roots music together in the Hillbilly Boppers since 2010, playing a mix of Old-Time songs, Blues, Gospel and Western Swing from the 1920s to the 50s. Slim sings and plays guitar and harmonica, while Willa sings and plays percussion and the “kazoo-o-phone”. Joined tonight by Johnny Acker on bass, they are promoting their latest album ‘Handsome Molly’.

Slim Sandy & the Hillbilly Boppers performed at numerous festivals: Rifflandia in Victoria in 2015 and 2018; the Montreal Folk Festival in 2017, and Rock Around Turnhout in Belgium; Red Hot and Blue in Ontario in 2018; and Good Rockin Tonight in France in 2016 and again in 2023; in Spain in 2018 at the Screamin and Rockin Hillbilly festivals; and at the Western Swingout in California in 2022; and in 2024 in Spain at the Rockin Race Jamboree; in 2025 in Japan on a tour, and in Italy at the Summer Jamboree Swing Music Festival!

Feb 22 Élise Leblanc with Tyler Lieb

Élise LeBlanc (they/them) is a Victoria-based singer-songwriter rooted in Classic Country, Appalachia, and Western Swing. Their songs explore queer desire, betrayal, hope, and nature lore. Expect gentle twang and a rich expressive vibrato that nods to Patsy Cline but is unmistakably their own. For this special, intimate performance – Élise on acoustic guitar will be joined by local bandmate Tyler Lieb on pedal-steel guitar. Élise’s most recent album, ‘The Fiddle & The Fire’ produced by Leeroy Stagger, was named as a Top 10 Best Country Record on Bandcamp and has been featured on Country Queer and CBC Radio. They’ve toured across North America from Vancouver Island to Nashville, appeared at major BC festivals, and completed their first UK tour in 2025.

VFMS Features:

Sundays in January, February & March 2026 —

Previous Folk Club Features

Listed by date, one year of VFMS Feature Acts per webpage:
 2026,  2025,  2024,  2023,  2020,  …   1998,  1997,  1996,  … back to  1976!
(We resolved to have a weekly Coffee House beginning January 1986;
 the previous schedule was twice a month: second- and fourth- Sundays).


The Calendar…


                            ... 2025 ...

       October                November                December 
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          1  2  3  4                       1        1  2  3  4  5  6
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                            ... 2026 ...

      January               ▶︎ February                  March
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Guitar Fingerboard, Standard Tuning: notes of the D major scale:

D major scale—2 sharps—F# and C#.

six strings, 22 frets. Note: image is 300 pixels per inch, so you can zoom in on it …

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