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Judy Collins in Concert: Saturday, March 30, 2019 7:30 pm
at The McPherson Playhouse (3 Centennial Square, Victoria, BC)
In collaboration with VFMS member Mike Meyer, we are pleased to present Judy Collins in Concert
Tickets are $47.50 although there are a few front and center rows for which tickets are $75.00
Tickets are available from the McPherson Box Office, by phone at 250-386-6121
(toll free 1-888-717-6121), or online at www.rmts.bc.ca
A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the Victoria Folk Music Society.

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 2018
(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/
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View in your browser or download the VFMS March 2019 Newsletter
(PDF)

Something new: Departed Friends and Musicians
 

Mar 17: Bowker Creek
 Mar 24: Diemm with Oliver Swain
 Mar 31: Ross Douglas
Apr 07: Citizen Jane
Apr 14: ROOTS & GROOVES: Rick Scott & Nico Rhodes

Mar. 24: Diemm with Oliver Swain

Diemm is a new singer-songwriter-harper-poet with crystalline vocals, and lyrics like arrows. Diemm’s debut album ‘Ten Thousand Miracles’; came out in September 2018, and features critically-acclaimed Canadian artist Oliver Swain on acoustic bass.

Diemm and harp will be joined by Oliver Swain on acoustic bass for an evening of original Chamber Folk music.They also have a few pieces of bass-backed spoken word poetry up their sleeves, poetry that tugs at the layers between conscious and subconscious mind.

To entertain is one thing. To enrich is another. Diemm plays for that one note, that one resonant chord that opens a cascade of ‘yes’ inside you.

Mar. 31: Ross Douglas

Ross Douglas is an award-winning songwriter and wonderfully entertaining performer. Initially drawn to theatre, he saw much of the world as pianist/narrator in the second-ever cast of the seminal ‘Billy Bishop Goes to War’. All the while and onwards he was writing—spending 8 years as musician, writer, and musical director of the Shakespeare-inspired Willie and the Wassailers and 9 years as writer, musical director, and performer at Theatre Royal in Barkerville, BC.

This spawned a songwriting output of eclectic appeal—four albums of original songs full of wit, observation, and storytelling—which as a solo performer, Ross delivers with great gusto!

Upcoming Features:

Sundays in April 2019 —

Previous Folk Club Features

Listed by date, one year of VFMS Feature Acts per webage:
 2018,  2017,  2016,  …   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…


                            ... 2018 ...

      October                 November                December
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    1  2  3  4  5  6                 1  2  3                       1
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                            ... 2019 ...

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      October                 November                December
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                    1  2     1  2  3  4  5  6  7
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                            ... 2020 ...

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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