It’s a great line-up this year! If you think you might go, stop thinking and buy a ticket!

PS. Also, last day for filing your taxes. Less fun but necessary. ;)

Last Saturday of the month @ 1:30 PM - Millennium Library

Free Admission

The festival’s famous daytime workshop format, indoors and year-round! Not your typical concert – a great way to see musicians up close and personal. 90-minute sessions.

January 28 - In Someone Else’s Shoes with Scott Nolan, TJ Blair, and Amber Nielsen
February 25 - Folk Songs and Voices with Demetra Penner, vanessa Kuzina, and Andrina Turenne
March 31 - Grit and Wisdom with Grant Davidson, Sol James, and Righteous Ike
April 28 - Lyric in Song with Leonard Podolak, JD Edwards, and Nathan Rogers 

Saturday, January 28, 2012 from 8 PM - 2 AM
Silver Heights Community Club

Folk Fest wouldn’t be Folk Fest without them, so pony up, ladies and gents!

Tickets: $10 (available through Beiko 204-979-0977 after 4pm Mon-Fri or anytime weekends)

Ladies and Gentlemen, allow us to present to you the 2012 edition of the Castle Boys’ Halfway-to-Folkfest Fundraiser Social!

Featuring a wide variety of Winnipeg’s incredible grassroots musical talent and getting spirits and imaginations revved up for next Folkfest, the goal of this event is to bring to the people of the campground yet another surreal installation exploding with community, creativity, zaniness, hilarity, and entertainment for the campground masses!

All proceeds go 100% toward the purchase of construction materials, costumery, materials transportation, and future fundraising events; this means YOU THE PEOPLE are the very essence of the project itself!

So slap on your colors and your costumes, grab the people that make you happiest, come celebrate good times, and be a part of our ongoing experiment in community-by-expression! 

2 Rooms, 4 Bands, 4 DJs, Tweener acts, and 100 Drummers in a Folked-up party certain to rekindle your festival fire and melt winter’s icy grip around your heart and soul!!

—> Party is from 8:00pm to 2:00am
—> Social drinks @ Social prices!
—> Constant flow of popcorn-machine popcorn!
—> Tasty social food served up later in the evening!
—> A slideshow of our past campground projects!

*~ TICKETS ~*

Available for $10 each, and are on sale now from :

—-> Castle Boy Beiko, by calling 204-979-0977 after 4pm Monday to Friday, or anytime on the weekends. Text or Facebook message any time and he’ll get you set up!

* * * Tickets will NOT be available at the door due to social regulations, and the fundraiser is a mere 4 weeks away, so don’t wait too long as this party has sold out 4 years running! * * *

! ! ! 18+ ID Mandatory to purchase drink tickets ! ! !

Don’t forget your drum! Safe drum lock-up will be provided free upon entry!

Dan Mangan: CD Release for Oh Fortune

Tuesday, November 2, 2011 @ 8 PM (doors open 7:15) - Garrick Centre

Tickets: $26 (advance) or $35 (door)

Tickets available through Prime Box Office or Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store

Pre-sale: OKA and Delhi 2 Dublin

Delhi 2 Dublin sold out SO fast last time; you better get on this if you’re a fan!

Pre-sale is today until 10 PM via Ticketmaster! Password is folkfest. 

Saturday, October 22, 2011 @ 8 PM (doors 7:15 PM) - Garrick Centre

Tickets: $32.50 (advance) or $40 (door) 

Winnipeg Folk Festival - July 6-10, 2011

Early bird tickets go on sale on Valentine’s Day! On Monday, February 14, get your tickets online at Ticketmaster @ 10 AM or at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store from 11 AM - 6 PM. Remember that the Folk Fest Store can’t reprint tickets, though they do get the admin fee if you buy through them. So, decide wisely whether you can keep track of those tickets!

Last summer may have been the best summer of my life, and Folk Fest 2010 played a large role. So much good music and friendship. I’m so excited to go again this year! Everyone should go!

July 7-11, 2010

Bird’s Hill Park

Day Pass: $6-75

Five-Day Pass: $220 (+ $40 for quiet camping)

It’s time for Folk Fest! I made the trip out on bike this morning and I’ll be offline for the next five days!