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; 45 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 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 2020
(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 ml.islandnet.com/mailman/list info/islandfolk/

View in your browser or download the VFMS March 2020 Newsletter
(PDF)

Departed Friends and Musicians

Live-Music Event Venues Facebook Events shared on the VFMS Facebook webpage in the last year (250+ venues)
 

May 03: The Slieves cancelled
 May 10: Sahara Jane & Ken Shorely cancelled
May 17: Blackthorn cancelled
May 24: Heidi Muller & Bob Webb cancelled

The Folk’n COVID-19

It is with true regret that the Victoria Folk Music Society finds it necessary to suspend our Sunday night gatherings at Norway House for at least until June 2020.

Given the increasing concerns and restrictions associated with COVID-19, both Ian Tamblyn and Steve Palmer have had to cancel their upcoming appearances at the club. Then the three features booked to follow in April, all American-based and with folk music somehow not considered an essential service, won’t be crossing the border, so those dates are cancelled, too. And last but not least (and for a royal flush?) the Victoria-based Clover Point Drifters are also sitting this one out!

All joking aside and if you are able, please consider visiting these musicians’ websites and purchasing any of their albums. It would be a wonderful way to let them to know how much we were looking forward to hosting them as well as a way to hear their music from a ‘social distance’ while providing much needed financial support.

· SeaStar (www.jetbutterfly.com/band/music.html)
· The Nell Robinson and Jim Nunally Band (www.nellandjim.com/media-page)
· The Clover Point Drifters (cloverpointdrifters.com/music.htm)
· The Slieves (facebook.com/theslieves)
· Sahara Jane & Ken Shorely (kenshorley.com)
· Blackthorn (blackthornband.com)
· Heidi Muller & Bob Webb (heidimuller.com)
· Scott Cook & The Second Chances (scottcook.net)

Please do take care of yourselves and each other…and keep singing!

WWUD — What would Utah do?

· a YouTube tribute to folksinger-songwriter Utah Phillips and the Grammy-nominated
  album, “Singing Through the Hard Times”

Upcoming Features:

Sundays in April & May 2020 —

Previous Folk Club Features

Listed by date, one year of VFMS Feature Acts per webage:
 2020,  2019,  2018,  …   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 ...

      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
 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  
 5  6  7  8  9 10 11     3  4  5  6  7  8  9     7  8  9 10 11 12 13  
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              
                        31                                            

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

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

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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