Edmonton Folk Music Festival

• Edmonton’s summer of rain has Folk Fest trucking in sand, Fringe hiring meteorologist

  Edmonton's signature outdoor music festival is trucking in tonnes of sand and pumping out water to avoid becoming the latest casualty of the city’s wettest summer on record.

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  Aug 4
  
• 2026 Edmonton Folk Fest headliners include Nathaniel Rateliff, Cat Power, Of Monsters and Men

  The 2026 Edmonton Folk Music Festival headliners include Nathaniel Rateliff, Corb Lund, Thee Sacred Souls, Cat Power, Arrested Development and Of Monsters and Men.

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  May 28
  
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• Edmonton’s folk festival ‘thrilled to announce’ Robert Plant and Alison Krauss concert this summer

  Robert Plant and Alison Krauss will headline the Edmonton Folk Music Festival on Aug. 11.

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  Feb 13, 2024
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• Edmonton Folk Fest announces 2023 lineup

  The headliners of the festival will be Feist on Thursday, Fleet Foxes on Friday, Old Crow Medicine Show on Saturday and Ben Harper closing the festival on Sunday.

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  May 24, 2023
• Edmonton festivals ‘feeling the crunch’ of rising costs, work to break even in 2022

  The festival city is feeling the impacts of inflation, as many Edmonton event-organizers work to balance entertainment with affordability.

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  Jul 18, 2022
• Edmonton Folk Music Festival releases full 2022 lineup

  After two summers without one of the city's most popular events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Edmonton Folk Music Festival is returning to Gallagher Park this August.

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  May 25, 2022
• Dust off the tarps — Edmonton Folk Fest is returning this summer

  Get your tarps and folding chairs ready: after being cancelled two years in a row, the Edmonton Folk Music Festival will return to Gallagher Park from Aug. 4 to 7.

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  Feb 15, 2022
• Edmonton Folk Music Festival is taking it to the streets for neighbourhood concerts

  The Edmonton Folk Music Festival is changing things up this summer by offering street concerts in local neighbourhoods.

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  Jun 8, 2021
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• Edmonton Folk Fest will not take place this summer

  "As profoundly disappointing as this news is, we believe this is the only safe way forward," festival producer Terry Wickham said.

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  Apr 12, 2021
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• Coronavirus: Edmonton Folk Music Festival ‘deeply sad’ to cancel 41st event

  The Edmonton Folk Music Festival Society has announced its 2020 music festival -- planned for Aug. 6-9 -- will not take place.

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  Apr 21, 2020