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; 44 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: $7.00;
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):
$75.00 Individual;
$120.00 Family;
$17.00 N/L only

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

Mail to: VFMS c/o
Old Town Strings,
1034 Hillside Ave.
Victoria, BC V8T 2A5

For booking info, email featurebooking at victoriafolkmusic.ca

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

Many more local folk listings on the Folk Events page…

Check out our Archive of previous VFMS features
starting with 2019
(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!)

IslandFolk eMail ListServ: To subscribe go to ml.islandnet.com/
mailman/list info/
islandfolk/

View in your browser or download the VFMS July 2019 Newsletter
(PDF)

Something new: Departed Friends and Musicians
 

Jul 14: Brittany Jean
 Jul 21: Kevin Mitchell with Ruth Rae
 Jul 28: Paddy Hernon & Rick Van Krugel
Aug 04: CLOSED for BC Day Long Weekend
Aug 11: Tracy Lynn & Annie Savage

July 21:Kevin Mitchell with Ruth Rae

Prairie born and raised, Kevin Mitchell has been on the west coast for 25 years. In the vein of Alt-Country Roots, Folk, and Blues, his songs are honest and engaging, and performed with a unique style that plays like the band. His songs tell stories about people, places, and things extracted from his native prairie roots, to his life now living on BC’s Denman Island.

Ruth Rae loves playing and teaching music. For her, playing the upright bass is a form of coming home. She has had a long and wide range of musical adventures from a very young age, starting with Royal Conservatory piano and then adding in wind instruments. She adores the foundation of sound and rhythm the low resonant tones that upright bass provides, and its particular voice that both leads and follows.

July 28: Paddy Hernon & Rick van Krugel

Paddy Hernon & Rick Van Krugel began playing together nearly half a century ago when they first met in 1970. Paddy is a walking, talking, singing, encyclopedia of sea songs & shanties, ballads, bawdy songs, drinking songs, yarns, jokes, and tall tales from Ireland, Scotland, England, and international waters. Rick calls himself an “advanced primitive” mandolin player, self-taught through accompanying singers by ear since 1964 with musical specialties of rural blues, southern old-time music, jug-band, and general good old American hokum (look that one up!)

Theirs is authentic and infectious music acquired from over a century of combined encounters, meetings, conversations, mishaps, jams, parties, and general frivolity…the human story. If you don’t know either or both of this pair, get ready for a very pleasant surprise!

Upcoming Features:

Sundays in August 2019 —

Previous Folk Club Features

Listed by date, one year of VFMS Feature Acts per webage:
 2019, 2018,  2017,  …   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…


                            ... 2019 ...

       April                    May                     June
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa    Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa    Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
    1  2  3  4  5  6              1  2  3  4                       1
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    1  2  3  4  5  6                 1  2  3     1  2  3  4  5  6  7
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      October                 November                December
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       1  2  3  4  5                    1  2     1  2  3  4  5  6  7
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20 21 22 23 24 25 26    17 18 19 20 21 22 23    22 23 24 25 26 27 28
27 28 29 30 31          24 25 26 27 28 29 30    29 30 31

                            ... 2020 ...

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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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