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Saturday June 7, 2014
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We're back from Alaska! Thanks to Heather McCain for filling in on The Edge On Folk last Saturday!
1. Russell deCarle Trio, Monday June 9th, 8pm, Coast Capital Theatre (1532 Johnston St, White Rock)
A night of music and stories from the road hosted by Russell deCarle, the voice of Canada's own Prairie Oyster. Live from the set of Barefoot In The Park, Russell will perform songs from his latest CD - Under The Big Sky - and Prairie Oyster favourites and more. He will perform with his trio featuring Steve Briggs (guitar)and Denis Keldie (accordion) Tickets for the show are only available from the White Rock Players Box Office: www.whiterockplayers.ca
This show is the first in a series of co-presentations at the Coast Capital Playhouse. If you are a Rogue Folk Club member you will receive a special access code to watch the show (which will be recorded LIVE) on your computer at a later date (probably the day after the show.) We had hoped to broadcast it LIVE, but there are some problems with bandwidth, apparently, so it will only be available after the event. By way of compensation we are able to offer two-for-one tickets to Rogue Folk Club members! Just send an email - by Sunday at midnight – to roguefolk@telus.net and give us your name. We will look up your membership online and give your name to the theatre box office. If your membership has expired you will need to renew it at the show in order to receive the discount.
For more information about Russell deCarle visit www.russelldecarle.com It will be a fabulous show!!
The Mission Folk Music Festival takes place July 25 - 27 in Fraser River Heritage Park, Mission - 80km east of Vancouver on Hwy 7. This year's line-up includes Dervish, Guy Davis, Corey Harris, The Sweet Lowdown, Alpha Yaya Diallo and a whole lot more! The full programme is now on the festival website www.missionfolkmusicfestival.ca
Adult Rogue pass $78.75 (with camping $105)
Senior Rogue pass $57.75 (with camping $78.75)
Youth Rogue pass $52.50 (with camping $73.50)
We are encouraging you to purchase your tickets online via our website at the above links. If, however, you cannot do that then you can mail a cheque payable to Rogue Folk Club to our office at 1504 Duranleau Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 3S4
3. Vancouver Folk Festival Ticket deal extended to midnight Tuesday June 10th!
We have early bird tickets to this year's event on sale on our website for the exclusively low price of $130 per adult for the weekend (July 18-20) Rogue members can purchase as many tickets as they like for their friends / family. The Deadline is now midnight on Tuesday June 10th.
Both shows at St. James Hall this week are sold out but there may possibly be one or two tickets available on standby at the door if someone fails to show up. Any such tickets will be sold to the person(s) at the front of the standby line. You must be present and first in line to purchase any tickets that might become available. We won't know until 7:45pm on the night. No phone calls, please. Just be there and hope for the best. We wouldn't want anyone to travel far to try this ....
On this week's show I'll have some new music from Ricardo Lemvo, Amos Lee, Heartstring Quartet, Colleen Rennison, North Atlantic Trio, Pacific Curls, Oysterband, Keb' Mo', Toumani and Sidiki Diabate, Salsa Celtica and lots more. Plus Russell deCarle will phone in at around 11am and we'll spin a couple of tunes from his latest CD. I'll have a D Day song or two as well. Hope you can join me on CiTR fm 101.9 from 8am to noon, or on Telus TV channel 7023. The show is also streamed live on www.citr.ca