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.

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Queen Victoria playing a banjo. VFMS: The Victoria Folk Music Society; 
49 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.vfms at shaw.ca at shaw.ca

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

Check out our Archive of previous VFMS features
starting with 2025
(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 victoriafolkmusic.ca/mailman/ listinfo/islandfolk _victoriafolkmusic.ca

View in your browser or download the VFMS February 2025 Newsletter
(PDF)

Departed Friends and Musicians

Live-Music Event Venues Facebook Events shared on the VFMS Facebook webpage in the past six years (250+ venues)

NEW WEBPAGE!
Live-Music Events
on Vancouver Island
for February 2025

 

And see our up-to-date webpage listing for
Live-Music Events on Vancouver Island for the Month of February 2025!
 

Our roster of Feature Acts:
Feb 09 Tania Opland & Mike Freeman
Feb 16 Scott Cook & Pamela Mae
Feb 23 Willy Blizzard
Mar 02 TBA
 ···

Feb 09 Tania Opland & Mike Freeman

Hammered dulcimer, guitar, violin, cittern, Native-American flute, and percussion along with songs in many languages and rhythmic roots from Siberia to Morocco, this Anglo-Alaskan duo has been bring­ing their exuberant music and wild tales to audiences around the world since 1995. Mike Freeman’s roots are in Eastern Europe, with grandparents from Russia, Rumania and Hungary. His main instrument is the Gambian djembe, from which he draws an amazing variety of sounds, but he also plays every­thing from dholak and darabouka to bones, bodhran, and congas, and composes tunes on guitar and mandolin, as well.

Originally from Alaska, Tania Opland has travelled extensively in the U.S., Canada, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Britain. From early classical training on piano, cello and violin, Tania moved on to explore many different fiddle styles, a wide range of wind instruments, even experimenting with such exotic instruments as chang, gidjak, doira, and the hurdy-gurdy, creating a style rich in techniques and traditions!

Feb 16 Scott Cook & Pamela Mae

In 2007, Albertan songwriter Scott Cook quit his job teaching kindergarten in Taiwan and moved into a minivan. He’s made his living as a troubadour ever since, touring almost constantly across Canada, the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, averaging 150 shows and a dozen summer festivals a year, while releasing seven albums of plainspoken, keenly observant verse along the way. His 2020 collection ‘Tangle of Souls’ came packaged in a cloth-bound, 240-page hardcover book of road stories and ruminations, and earned Scott his third Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for English Songwriter of the Year.

Since 2022 Scott has been touring steadily around North America and Australia with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass, banjo and vocals, while broadcasting solar-powered livestreams from the back of their camper-van. This year they’re releasing a new album entitled ‘Troubadourly Yours’ along with another hardcover book of liner notes. Fresh from the open road, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you!

Feb 23 Willy Blizzard

Get ready to enjoy some acoustic folk-roots and raise a little dust – John Hough & Andrea Law AKA Willy Blizzard return to ‘The Folk’ after way too long a hiatus! This bi-coastal pair (Vancouver and Pender Island) write and perform their own original material along with some well-chosen covers. Touring Western Canada for many years as the Willy Blizzard Band with their long-time bandmate Fran Madigan (R.I.P.), John and Andrea’s performance credits include the Rogue Folk Club, the Vancouver-, Mission-, Filberg-, and Harrison Folk Festivals…and going way, way back, John’s Celtic band ‘Under The Moss’ was the house band at Expo 86! With John on guitar and vocals (“the richest baritone west of the Rockies!”) and Andrea singing harmony and playing a variety of instruments especially her beloved upright bass, Willy Blizzard is thrilled to be sharing their stories, songs, and humour at the VFMS once again!

Mar 02 TBA

. . .
 

Mar 09 John McLachlan

. . .
 

VFMS Features:

Sundays in January, February and March 2025 —

Previous Folk Club Features

Listed by date, one year of VFMS Feature Acts per webpage:
 2025,  2024,  2023,  2020,  …   199819971996,  … 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…


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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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