Shut your folking face uncle folker
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After a few days of less than perfect weather, the weekend saw the sun come out in force again. In fact, just in time for the 29th Annual Vancouver International Folk Festival. Now Gav had already got his full weekend pass ages ago but myself and a few others managed to join him on Saturday.
It wasn't what you would consider a sterotypical folk festival, it was more like a world music festival. Bands of all genres and musical styles took to the various stages to strutt their funky stuff. From scratch DJ's to Reggae, no musical corner was left untouched.
It was full of hippies though, trying to save the world and bring out your positive energy. It also involved a lot of old people dancing, which was wrong in so many ways. Apart from Mr Festival of course.
The event took place in Jericho Park. Using our Bunac cards we all manged to get in as students. This did require some explaining though
Tent No 7 saw us watching "The No Luck Club". Some scratch DJ's. They liked people asking questions. The hard core folk community objected to their performance last year. Hippies hey?
Not a great picture but "The No Luck Club" brought with them some break dancers. That guy in the blue t-shirt in the distance was one of these. Trust me
In the mind of Ian Pope. What is he thinking you ask. Not even Ian knows
With the festival being next to the beach it means we could take a little break from the folk heavy action
The new tourist Canada publicity shot
The main stage getting ready for the evening's entertainment
Mr Festival, dancing like the child of the forest he is
Unlike Chris and Ian
Enjoying the view from the side of the stage where we couldn't actually see anything
Chris looking for a way to escape from...
The old people dancing. Look at them strut their funky stuff
The crowd gathers to listen to some bands nobody has ever heard of. I doubt even the bandmembers themselves knew who they were
The final band of the night. Can't remember their name, at least they played something uptempo
After the festival we went to The Naam. Vancouver's best 24 hour vegitarian restaurant. It's the only time I've qued to get into a restaurant for 40 minutes... before finally being seated at 12.25 am. And then waiting another 20 mins to be served a glass of WARM milk. This picture is of my festival wristband
The ghost of Gavmas past. Look kids, this is what happens if you smoke too much
After a few days of less than perfect weather, the weekend saw the sun come out in force again. In fact, just in time for the 29th Annual Vancouver International Folk Festival. Now Gav had already got his full weekend pass ages ago but myself and a few others managed to join him on Saturday.
It wasn't what you would consider a sterotypical folk festival, it was more like a world music festival. Bands of all genres and musical styles took to the various stages to strutt their funky stuff. From scratch DJ's to Reggae, no musical corner was left untouched.
It was full of hippies though, trying to save the world and bring out your positive energy. It also involved a lot of old people dancing, which was wrong in so many ways. Apart from Mr Festival of course.
The event took place in Jericho Park. Using our Bunac cards we all manged to get in as students. This did require some explaining though
Tent No 7 saw us watching "The No Luck Club". Some scratch DJ's. They liked people asking questions. The hard core folk community objected to their performance last year. Hippies hey?
Not a great picture but "The No Luck Club" brought with them some break dancers. That guy in the blue t-shirt in the distance was one of these. Trust me
In the mind of Ian Pope. What is he thinking you ask. Not even Ian knows
With the festival being next to the beach it means we could take a little break from the folk heavy action
The new tourist Canada publicity shot
The main stage getting ready for the evening's entertainment
Mr Festival, dancing like the child of the forest he is
Unlike Chris and Ian
Enjoying the view from the side of the stage where we couldn't actually see anything
Chris looking for a way to escape from...
The old people dancing. Look at them strut their funky stuff
The crowd gathers to listen to some bands nobody has ever heard of. I doubt even the bandmembers themselves knew who they were
The final band of the night. Can't remember their name, at least they played something uptempo
After the festival we went to The Naam. Vancouver's best 24 hour vegitarian restaurant. It's the only time I've qued to get into a restaurant for 40 minutes... before finally being seated at 12.25 am. And then waiting another 20 mins to be served a glass of WARM milk. This picture is of my festival wristband
The ghost of Gavmas past. Look kids, this is what happens if you smoke too much
posted by Paul Banks at 12:11 PM
3 Comments:
you're the one that folked my uncle, uncle folker...
something called the molson open this saturday apparently. Its a volleyball tournament with a beer tent on kits beach, anyone fancy it? (i beleive they serve sprite on tap)
Sprite on tap. Try and keep me away.
You're an uncle folker yes it's true
Nobody folks uncles quite like you
I love your website. It has a lot of great pictures and is very informative.
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