VFSS Website Launch
VFSS Website Launch -by members of the Website Committee The new VFSS website went live on September 3, 2025, accompanied by great fanfare and delicious carrot cake. The website begins to represent the richness of the VFSS community—who we have been, who we are, and who we are becoming. The members of the Website Committee–Jeremy…
50 Years Ago in the VFSS: Barry Hall
Barry Hall grew up in what was then called the [Vancouver] Folk Song Circle during the 1960s, first attending at an early age and wowing everyone with his prodigious talent on banjo. In 1964, he was asked to record an album for highly respected Folkways Records (now Smithsonian Folkways). As you can see from the…
30 Years Ago in the VFSS: Linda Chobotuck
Linda Chobotuck says she’s been lurking around the VFSS since it met in the Granville Island Community Centre. She was lured in by then-president Anna Holbech Bjarnason. [Ed.: Our records show that Bjarnason was president in 1980.] “I grew up in a folkie family with a mother who came from a parlour-singing tradition and was…
