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 May 29, 2015Jun 23, 2015 

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Friday June 26th and Saturday June 27th 8pm


Tom Russell
St. James Hall (3214 West 10th Avenue)
Tickets $32 ($28 members) on sale at Highlife Records, Prussin Music, Red Cat Records, Rufus' Guitar Shop, and at the door up to showtime. Tickets for the Friday show are also available online here. For the Saturday show click here.
 
American songwriter Tom Russell returns with a monumental new CD, The Rose Of Roscrae. It's chock full of songs and stories of loves lost, dreams dashed, buffalo hunts, Indian wars, crooked judges, and heroes and villains of the Old West. The double CD, which runs over 2h 40m, has a companion book - a libretto with lyrics, stories and bios of the guest performers. Even by Tom Russell's standards, this is a remarkable opus! We can't wait to hear some of these new songs and stories, performed Live, accompanied by the brilliant Portland guitarist Thad Beckman. 

How will he encompass songs from his enormous back-catalogue and still manage to incorporate some of this amazing new material? Come and find out for yourselves! We guarantee these will be two incredible nights at The Rogue! Tickets are selling fast, so book yours now to avoid disappointment. For more info, check out www.tomrussell.com
 

A.G.M. Notice 2015

Rogue Folk is a registered non-profit society and a democratic organization. We are required by law to hold an Annual General Meeting, to which ALL members are invited. We hope you will attend. The more members that attend, the better our chances of securing government grants. We need to elect / re-elect 5 Board members. If you are interested in joining the Board please contact board@roguefolk.bc.ca as soon as possible 

This year the meeting will take place on Saturday June 27th at 6pm at St. James Hall (3214 West 10th Avenue) - right before the doors open for the second Tom Russell concert in the hall. Members attending the A.G.M. will get first dibs on seats to this show!

Vancouver Folk Festival Tickets 2015

Every year we offer our members the chance to buy Early Bird tickets to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. These tickets are at a discounted price and they have to be paid for around a month before the festival. This year the Vancouver Folk Music Festival runs July 17-19 at Jericho Beach Park.

Early Bird Weekend Tickets are usually $145 (plus a $4 service fee) through the VFMF website. We are offering them for $135 (including service fee), on sale until the deadline of midnight Sunday June 14th 2015.

This year we are only selling them online through our website. Only current Rogue Folk members can purchase tickets so make sure your membership is up to date before trying to purchase your tickets online. The website will only allow you to buy them if your membership is current. You can buy as many tickets as you like for your friends and family.

Click on this link to go to the page where you can buy them: BUY VANCOUVER FOLK FEST TICKETS HERE!

Disregard any coments about discounts for seniors, students, etc... these do not apply. The price is $135 for everyone. If you are a senior (over 65), student or child, it is cheaper to purchase directly from the VFMF website.

Please note that the receipt you get for the ticket is NOT the ticket itself and cannot be used to get into the festival. Shortly after the deadline, we will email you your actual ticket in the form of a scanable barcode. You must use this and not the Rogue receipt othewise they will not let you in!

Mission Folk Music Festival Tickets 2015

This year the Mission Folk Music Festival runs July 24-26 at Fraser River Heritage Park in Mission B.C. (80km east of Vancouver, just off Hwy 7).

It's a very special festival for us. Rogue is amongst its founding members (the first one ran in 1988) and we've been a part of it ever since. This year's line up includes Sylvia Tyson, Volosi (Poland), King Sunny Ade & His African Beats (20-piece band from Nigeria), Black Umfolosi (Zimbabwe), Ialma (Galicia), Ross Ainslie & Jarlath Henderson (Ireland / Scotland), Pierre Schryer (Ontario) & Martin Nolan (Ireland), Ruthie Dornfeld (USA) with Kristen Bugge (Denmark) and Jamie Foxx (Metis), and lots more! More information on the festival can be found here

There is onsite camping ($30 per adult for the whole weekend) with hot showers and flush toilets - and a campers' breakfast every day! No camping fee for kids 12 and under. 

This year's Rogue prices are unchanged from last year:
Adult ........................$78.75
Senior (over 60) ......$57.75
Youth .......................$52.50

Only current Rogue Folk members can purchase tickets so make sure your membership is up to date before trying to purchase your tickets online. The website will only allow you to buy them if your membership is current. You can buy as many tickets as you like for your friends and family.

Click on this link to go to the page where you can buy Mission Tickets without Camping: BUY MISSION FOLK FEST (No Camping) TICKETS HERE!

Click on this link to go to the page where you can buy Mission Tickets with Camping: BUY MISSION FOLK FEST (with Camping) TICKETS HERE!

You will be able to pick up your Mission Folk Music Festival tickets at the Will Call festival gate from 5pm on Friday July 24th.

In case you have trouble booking your tickets online call 604-732-1305 or email the office: roguefolk@telus.net

Radio Waves

Margaret and I are off to Ireland for a couple of weeks, so Heather McCain will be hosting The Edge On Folk on CiTR fm 101.9 and www.citr.ca on Saturday June 6th and Saturday June 13th (8am to noon.) Please tune in and support her on the air! I'll be back on June 20th with some new music from the Doolin Folk Festival (June 12-14) and some Canadian festival previews as well as an extended look at Tom Russell's remarkable new opus, The Rose Of Roscrae. 

Meanwhile, why not tune in to Radio Rogue? Last week I staged the 30th Anniversary of The Edge On Folk. It was not easy to choose the songs, let me tell you! On my first "pass' through my favourites in my iTunes Music Library I came up with 769 songs! A serious cull whittled it down to a mere 189 songs! This was making me feel both anxious and more than a little guilty about who to leave out, so I made a random selection (thank you, Apple!) of 50 songs and arranged them into my usual format (an African / international Hour; a Roots / R&B / Cajun / Blues hour; an Old-Time / Singer-Songwriter Hour; and a mostly Celtic and Trad. Hour) but I also had two bands playing LIVE (Bon Debarras and Ten Strings & A Goatskin) so I only managed 43 songs from the final list! So much music, so little time!! I've now put most of the original 769 songs into the Radio Rogue playlist - added to a good crop of Tom Russell, Oysterband, Maggie Bell & Dave Kelly songs, and a few festival highlights, too. Radio Rogue can be accessed from our website, any time, night or day. Enjoy the full spectrum of folk music the way I like it (I hope you like it, too!)

On Saturday June 27th, CiTR will move from its home in the old Student Union Building and into the brand new SUB! The Edge On Folk will be the final show in the old home! We are all very excited about the new space, which will include a movable wall opening onto a small auditorium for an even better LIVE radio concert experience! We'll also have some incredible new state of the art equipment - thanks to all your wonderful donations and support!
 May 29, 2015Jun 23, 2015 

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