FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2010 Winnipeg Folk Festival Early-bird Tickets On Sale February 13
Festival Introduces Bundled Tickets and Attendance Cap
Winnipeg, Manitoba. February 11, 2010 – It’s a big year for the Winnipeg Folk Festival who will celebrate its 37th anniversary with a number of exciting changes. In 2010 the festival will present a five-day format, opening with a “marquee” act on Wednesday, July 7 and running through Sunday, July 11.
This year, the festival will be introducing an attendance cap for the first time in its 37-year history. “As the festival’s attendance has grown, it has been challenging to know how many people can be accommodated on the site in its current configuration” said Tamara Kater, Winnipeg Folk Festival Executive Director, “While a number of programming and site enhancements are underway to accommodate the increasing attendance, our goal is to preserve the audience experience, so the potential of a sell-out does exist”. The festival will cap its daily attendance at 14,000.
The sale of festival camping will also see some changes this year with camping now bundled together with festival passes into one single ticket. “With an increase in demand for camping in recent years, the ticket restructuring is intended to make the availability of camping more accessible and fair” stated Kater.
Early-bird tickets will go on sale February 13, with the full festival pass encompassing five days. The options for purchase will be:
Tickets are available at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, 211 Bannatyne Avenue from 11am – 6pm Saturday, or through Ticketmaster starting at 10 am on Saturday, February 13. Visit ticketmaster.ca or call (204) 780-3333 or 1-888-655-5354.
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About the Winnipeg Folk Festival
The Winnipeg Folk Festival, celebrating 37 years in 2010, is one of North America’s premier outdoor music festivals. It takes place each summer over the second weekend in July in Birds Hill Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada, with the 2010 festival from July 7 to 11. The Winnipeg Folk Festival is also a year-round arts organization in Winnipeg with Education and Outreach Programs designed to benefit the community through presenting live music, music training, arts events, and operating a folk music store and performance space in Winnipeg’s Old Market Square. The Winnipeg Folk Festival is a not-for-profit charitable organization.
For more information please contact:
Margaret Koshinsky
Manager, Marketing & Communications
204-231-0096 ex. 227
margaret@winnipegfolkfestival.ca
Festival tickets are sold at Early Bird, Advance, and Gate prices. In 2010, the full festival pass will encompass five days. For those who wish to camp, (in either Festival or Quiet campgrounds) camping fees will be bundled with the festival pass into one single ticket.
The 2010 festival prices include GST and a Ticketmaster service charge that is applied to each ticket. Please note that other surcharges may apply when you purchase your tickets (for example, a mailing fee). Prices are in Canadian dollars. Children are 5-14, youth 15-17, and seniors 65+. Regardless of any errors which may occur on this website, the price quoted to you at time of purchase is the price of the ticket.
Expanded Program Planned for 2010
Winnipeg, Manitoba (December 1, 2009) – After a successful 2009 that saw the Winnipeg Folk Festival reach its highest attendance ever, the festival is pleased to announce an expanded five-day format for 2010, taking place at Birds Hill Park from July 7 to 11.
The 2009 program featured Elvis Costello on Wednesday night, thanks to the support of Industry Canada’s Marquee Tourism Events Program, an initiative under Canada’s Economic Action Plan. The response from the community was so overwhelmingly positive that plans are now in motion to kick off the 2010 festival on Wednesday night with another ‘marquee’ act.
Early-bird tickets will go on sale February 14, with the full festival pass encompassing five days. For those who wish to purchase camping passes, these will now be bundled together with festival passes into one single ticket. Pricing will be finalized in early 2010, and the options for purchase will be:
“The festival is thrilled to be able to maintain the addition of a fifth evening of music in 2010,” says Tamara Kater, Executive Director of the Winnipeg Folk Festival. “With the expanded program in the works, and an increase in demand for camping tickets in recent years, our ticket restructuring was motivated by the desire to make the distribution of camping tickets more fair and more accessible.”
While camping passes will only be sold to the public when bundled with five-day festival passes, volunteers will be able to purchase their camping passes separately through the Winnipeg Folk Festival though details have yet to be announced.
The Winnipeg Folk Festival is seeking a Manager of Marketing and Communications responsible for developing and implementing the marketing and communications strategy for the entirety of the organization’s activities.
Reporting to the Executive Director, and working closely with the Artistic Director and other senior staff, the Manager of Marketing and Communications will develop goals, strategies, and implementation plans to execute a comprehensive and cohesive marketing campaign for all of the organization’s events.
Committed to creating “experiences of discovery and learning through the celebration of people and music,” the Festival’s long-term organizational goals are to enhance and develop the current summer festival site, undertake a campaign for both capital and endowment funds, and to help Winnipeg become Folk Capital of Canada.
Minimum Qualifications:
Assets:
Required skills:
Salary is commensurate with experience. Please send resume, cover letter, and a list of references by December 23, 2009.
resume@winnipegfolkfestival.ca
Download the full job posting
Manager-of-Marketing-and-Communications-Nov-2009.pdf
The Winnipeg Folk Festival focus groups are now full. Thank you to all who volunteered to participate. We are looking forward to hearing your thoughts, ideas and opinions.
We are going to be holding some focus group discussions in mid-December in order to better understand people’s perceptions of the Winnipeg Folk Festival and its associated events. A focus group is a type of research that involves a discussion with about 8 to 10 other people.
The focus groups will include:
Focus groups will likely take place between December 14, 2009 and December 20, 2009.
Participants will be offered an honorarium in appreciation of their time and input.
Participants can call one of the numbers below for more info:
New Releases at the store, at the beginning of November, 2009.
Other News:
Singer–songwriter Amelia Curran will play a special set for her fans on Saturday, November 14, at 2:00 p.m.
If sad songs say so much, then Amelia Curran could filibuster forever. A self-described “thinker and drinker,” Curran writes music that belongs most to rainy days and empty streets at 3:00 a.m. The Newfoundland and Nova Scotia musician performed at the 2009 Winnipeg Folk Festival
Top sellers of the month.
This contest is now closed. Congratulations to the winners! Winners will be contacted before 5 p.m. on Friday, October 30 by a Winnipeg Folk Festival staff member.
Win a pair of tickets to see Juan de Marcos and the Afro-Cuban All Stars on Sunday, November 1!
To enter, send one email to contest@winnipegfolkfestival.ca, with the subject line “Concert Series ticket contest”. Include your name, daytime phone number, and the name of another performer in this year’s Winnipeg Folk Festival Fall/Winter Concert Series. Deadline for entry is 3:00 p.m. on Friday, October 30, 2009.
Three pairs of tickets will be given away. Winners will be contacted by telephone on Friday, October 30 before 5:00 p.m. Winners must be able to pick up their tickets in person on Saturday, October 31, between 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, 211 Bannatyne Avenue at Albert Street.
Directed by Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, the Afro-Cuban All Stars have been essential to the growing worldwide popularity of Afro-Cuban music. This multi-generational big band incorporates the full spectrum of Latin dance music. Their 1997 album, A Toda Cuba Le Gusta, was the first to be recorded during the legendary Buena Vista Social Club sessions. Their concert Sunday, November 1, 8:00 p.m., at the Pantages Playhouse Theatre, will be the first time playing Winnipeg since 2004.
Tickets are $39.50 plus fees, at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, or get Afro-Cuban All Stars tickets at Ticketmaster.
Part of the Winnipeg Folk Festival’s Fall/Winter Concert Series.
Kerri Woelke, Friday, November 6, 2009, Live @ the Folk Exchange.
Concert starts at 8:00 p.m., doors open at 7:00. Tickets $10 in advance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, $12 at the door.
Kerri Woelke plays gospel and country music – songs about the struggles and fears that surround a marriage, pressing into brokenness, hurt, worry and love. This story has yet to have an ending.
At the Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Avenue (behind the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store).
Del Barber, Friday, October 23, 2009, Live @ the Folk Exchange.
Concert starts at 8:00 p.m., doors open at 7:00. Tickets $8 in advance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, $10 at the door.
Del Barber is a rambling gambling singer songwriter born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has spent the last few years living, playing music, and telling stories in bars, cafes, houses and churches across the United States and Canada. His songs come off feeling patient, honest and friendly, despite Del’s glaring, albeit subtle lyrical commitment to culture critique. Del has been named one of five local artists to watch in 2009 by the University of Winnipeg’s student weekly, The Uniter.
At the Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Avenue (behind the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store).
Adrien Sala, Friday, October 16, 2009, Live @ the Folk Exchange.
Concert starts at 8:00 p.m., doors open at 7:00. Tickets $10 in advance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, $12 at the door.
Rooted in the music of weird old America, Adrien Sala draws on the reveries and traditions of songwriters past, giving new life to ancient tales of heartbreak and redemption with a uniquely Canadian voice. Sala sings songs of transformation, told by revenants of the past, whispering about lost loves in daily thought and nightly dream.
At the Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Avenue (behind the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store).
Robert Allan Wrigley, Friday, October 2, 2009, Live @ the Folk Exchange.
Concert starts at 8:00 p.m., doors open at 7:00. Tickets $10 in advance at the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store, $12 at the door.
Robert Allan Wrigley is a songwriter and instrumentalist who combines original and traditional roots and country music. A seasoned musician, Wrigley has recorded with Stonypoint and regularly performs solo.
Robert Allan Wrigley on MySpace
At the Folk Exchange, 211 Bannatyne Avenue (behind the Winnipeg Folk Festival Music Store).
What do good music and good books have in common? Plenty, not the least of which is the good folks who love them! In this new initiative, the Winnipeg Folk Festival will bring a bit of the festival to the Millennium Library, year-round. Whether you’re a seasoned attendee or a folkie-in-training, there’ll be something for you.
All programs are free and open to the public. No registration is required. For more information call the Winnipeg Folk Festival 231-0096, Millennium Library Reader Services 986-6779, or email info@winnipegfolkfestival.ca.
Children love folk music too! There’s no time like the present to get our wee folk in
the festival spirit! Local family performers will have little ones singing,
dancing, and learning, all while having fun.
Saturday afternoons at 1:30–2:30 p.m., at the Millennium Library Children’s Services. Admission is free.
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.
Saturday afternoons at 1:30 p.m, at the Millennium Library Carol Shields Auditorium. Admission is free.
Adrien Sala and Jaxon Haldane at the Millennium Library. Photo courtesy Winnipeg Public Library.
