The VFSS is getting a brand new website! The new site will be an interactive home for previously unavailable archival material, recordings, and updates on all things VFSS, and stands ready to bring our online presence into the 21st century. To help pay for this immense undertaking, the VFSS is hosting a benefit concert, featuring a genre and generation-spanning lineup of performers.
On Friday, May 9th, come support the continuation of Canada’s longest running folk club: the Vancouver Folk Song Society! Expect haunting harmonies, toe-tappin’ tunes, and everything in between.
Where: Notional Space – 1523 E Pender St., Vancouver, BC
When: Friday, May 9th, Doors at 7:30 pm for 8 pm concert
Donations at the door. Limited seating, come early!
Refreshments, raffle basket and silent auction
Livestream available via Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent out the day before, May 8th, to our regular Zoom Info email list. If you’re interested but don’t normally receive our Zoom Info emails, please send a request to VFSS@shaw.ca.
Performers:
The Amorphous Folk Collective — A burgeoning instigatory force in the Pacific Northwest’s traditional singing scene, The Amorphous Folk Collective bring a vast breadth of experience — from pub singing and old-time, to jazz and theatre to traditional singing — and their rare group performances reflect this. Expect diverse arrangements of voices and harmonies, and thematic explorations of love, loss, and resistance.
Blackthorn Blossoms features Michael Viens on guitar and vocals and Rosie Carver on fiddle. You may recognize them as half of Blackthorn, Vancouver’s longest running Celtic band. These two accomplished players have been making musical magic together for over 25 years and are regular fixtures on the local Celtic music scene.
Steel Cut Notes is a new folk group carving out their sound through heartfelt harmonies, timeless tunes, and drunken ballads. Drawn to the raw storytelling of folk music and the rousing spirit of sea shanties, they’re finding their voice one song at a time.
Lucien & Isa — Mixing sweet and soulful melodies with folk classics, the youthful duo with the rock n’ roll hair features Isa Hastings on guitar and Lucien Lawley on the guitar and harmonica.
Cara Luft is simply one of the finest songwriters and folk musicians in Canada. She was a founding member of the Wailin’ Jenny’s, won multiple Canadian Folk Music Awards with her project The Small Glories, and has been lighting up stages across the world for the past year as a solo artist.