In The Future...The Winnipeg Folk Festival Lineup + Great Lake Swimmers @ The WECC!

>> Saturday 13 March 2010

The 2010 Winnipeg Folk Festival Lineup was announced today! Hooray! I'm currently in Edmonton and am about to head out for the day, so I'll keep this brief.

Featured acts are:

Aaron Burnett
Alvin Youngblood Hart
Andrew Bird
Arrested Development
Aterciopelados
The Avett Brothers
Bette et Wallet
Bo Ramsay
Breabach
The Cat Empire
Christa Couture
The Dardanelles
Debashish Bhattacharya
Del Barber
Del Rey
Devon Sproule
DJ Dolores
The Duhks
The Dodos
Emmylou Harris
Etran Finatawa
Geoff Muldaur
The Good Lovelies
Greg Brown
Greg MacPherson
Gregory Alan Isakov
Hoots And Hellmouth
Hot Tuna
John Hiatt & The Combo
John K Samson
Jon & Roy
Justin Roberts and the Not Ready for Naptime Players
Konono No. 1
Ladies of the Canyon
Leeroy Stagger & The Wildflowers
The Levon Helm Band
Lulu and the TomCat
Luluc
Mauvais Sort
Mishka
The Moondoggies
Oka
Oscar Brand
The Peatbog Faeries
Pieta Brown
The Pines
Pura Fe
Rock Plaza Central
Romi Mayes
The Rural Alberta Advantage
Sam Baker
Sarah Harmer
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion
The Soujourners
Sonny Landreth
Steve Dawson's Mississippi Sheiks Tribute
The Swell Season
Tao Seeger
Ukrainia
The United Steel Workers of Montreal
The Wailin Jenny's
Wide Open Puppetry
The Wilders
William Elliott Whitmore
Works Progress Administration

Pretty keyed up for Andrew Bird. Sarah Harmer too. Who are you excited to see?

Oh, and in Folk Fest Alumni news, Great Lake Swimmers are at the West End Cultural Centre on June 29th.

Gotta run. Vampire Weekend tomorrow!

6 comments:

Rieds 13 March 2010 at 13:25  

Who am I excited to see? Mr. Wendal!

Anonymous,  13 March 2010 at 18:58  

Arrested Development?! As in Everyday People?....

willlllllll,  13 March 2010 at 22:26  

dodos/avetts/bird.

Anonymous,  14 March 2010 at 21:31  

as if. fuck my life, i'm missing it all!!

Blue 16 March 2010 at 13:04  

First time to folk fest! Super stoked for Emmylou and Konono no. 1, plus Sarah Harmer, Andrew Bird and Hot Tuna.

Rieds 20 March 2010 at 19:34  

This'll be my first folk fest too. A 5 day pass (which includes camping) for $216 (including fees) seems oddly cheap.

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