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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 April 2019 Newsletter
(PDF)

Something new: Departed Friends and Musicians
 

Apr 14: ROOTS & GROOVES: Rick Scott & Nico Rhodes
 Apr 21: Claude Bourbon
 Apr 28: Folk 'n' Fiddle Festival Fundraising Concert (NO OPEN STAGE tonight)
May 05: Carter Felker & Amy Nelson
May 12: Jeff Warner

Apr. 21: Claude Bourbon

Claude Bourbon weaved his songs through the audience as if on a journey through life taking in different flavours of Europe and beyond. His Spanish medieval blues evolved into Gypsy, Eastern European, with a splash of Paco de Lucia, Delta Blues and more, holding audience attention under a musical spell.

It is very hard to describe the almost endless amalgam of different influences in Claude’s playing, all melting into each other, as he moves from classical openings, across a whole continent of cultural roots, from the Balearics to the Balkans, and then across to the Mississippi Delta, and shoehorned into all that is music that would not have been out of place in the courts of Emperors and Kings.

Apr. 28: Folk ’n’ Fiddle Festival Fundraising Concert (NO OPEN STAGE tonight)

Join us tonight as we help kick off a brand new folk festival coming to town this spring! The first annual Folk ’n’ Fiddle Festival is taking place May 31st and June 1st at the Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney BC and promises to be a fun time for the whole family! Organized by The Saanich Peninsula Folk and Fiddle Festival Society, this exciting community-oriented event will feature multiple performance stages, workshops for players of all abilities and ages, talks, a kids room, local artisan vendors, food trucks, and a whole lot more!

As a proud sponsor of the festival, The Victoria Folk Music Society is delighted to be hosting tonight’s concert as a fundraiser for the event and a sneak peak of great things to come! You won’t want to miss this wonderful night celebrating local talent and supporting an exciting new folk event in our community! — Please note, with so much talent lined up, there is NO OPEN STAGE at The Folk tonight.

For more information on the festival, check their website at folknfiddle.ca!

Upcoming Features:

Sundays in May 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
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13     5  6  7  8  9 10 11     2  3  4  5  6  7  8
14 15 16 17 18 19 20    12 13 14 15 16 17 18     9 10 11 12 13 14 15
21 22 23 24 25 26 27    19 20 21 22 23 24 25    16 17 18 19 20 21 22
28 29 30                26 27 28 29 30 31       23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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        July                   August                September
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    1  2  3  4  5  6                 1  2  3     1  2  3  4  5  6  7
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13     4  5  6  7  8  9 10     8  9 10 11 12 13 14
14 15 16 17 18 19 20    11 12 13 14 15 16 17    15 16 17 18 19 20 21
21 22 23 24 25 26 27    18 19 20 21 22 23 24    22 23 24 25 26 27 28
28 29 30 31             25 26 27 28 29 30 31    29 30

      October                 November                December
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       1  2  3  4  5                    1  2     1  2  3  4  5  6  7
 6  7  8  9 10 11 12     3  4  5  6  7 08 09     8  9 10 11 12 13 14
13 14 15 16 17 18 19    10 11 12 13 14 15 16    15 16 17 18 19 20 21
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 ...

      January                 February                 March          
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                       1     1  2  3  4  5  6  7  
 5  6  7  8  9 10 11     2  3  4  5  6  7  8     8  9 10 11 12 13 14  
12 13 14 15 16 17 18     9 10 11 12 13 14 15    15 16 17 18 19 20 21  
19 20 21 22 23 24 25    16 17 18 19 20 21 22    22 23 24 25 26 27 28  
26 27 28 29 30 31       23 24 25 26 27 28 29    29 30 31              

       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                    1  2        1  2  3  4  5  6  
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12 13 14 15 16 17 18    10 11 12 13 14 15 16    14 15 16 17 18 19 20  
19 20 21 22 23 24 25    17 18 19 20 21 22 23    21 22 23 24 25 26 27  
26 27 28 29 30          24 25 26 27 28 29 30    28 29 30              
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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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