Author: Executive Director

Vazzy

NB / ON Performance Family Stage – Sat 12:00 pm             Performance Focus Stage – Sat 3:00 pm Performance Family Stage – Sun 11:00 am Performance

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Jacky Essombe

Cameroon / BC Workshop Family Stage – Sat 2:30 pm Dance Instruction – Roots n Rhythms Dance Stage – Sat 4:15pm Dance Instructions – Roots

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Watasun

BC Performance Focus Stage – Sat 1:45 pm Performance Barn Stage – Sun 6:00 pm                  Workshop Shade Stage – Sun 4:15 pm     Watasun: the name

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A Tribe Called Red

ON   Workshop Barn Stage – Sat 1:15 pm  Performance Barn Stage – Sat 10:30 pm Bursting forth from Canada’s capital, native Producer/DJ crew A Tribe Called

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Tommy Castro & the Painkillers

USA Workshop Blues Stage – Sat 2:45 pm Performance Main Stage – Sat 7:15 pm Performance Barn Stage – Sun 2:30 pm Award-winning guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and Alligator

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Selah Sue

Belgium Workshop Shade Stage – Sat 3:00 pm Performance Main Stage – Sat 10:15 pm                Performance Barn Stage – Sun 3:45 pm  Selah Sue was

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Santa Lucia LFR

BC / Nicaragua Workshop Barn Stage – Sun 11:00 am Performance Barn Stage – Sun 7:30 pm                    Volunteer Party                Like a multi-ethnic gathering of friends, this seven

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Rita Chiarelli

ON Performance Main Stage – Fri 7:30 pm                Workshop Blues Stage -Sat 12:15 pm Performance Blues Stage -Sat 4:00 pm Rita Chiarelli, Canada’s most highly

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Richard Perso

Australia Performance Barn Stage – Sat 12:15 pm Workshop Focus Stage – Sat 4:15 pm Performance Focus Stage – Sun 3:00 pm Australian singer/songwriter Richard

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Mighty Mo Rodgers

USA Performance Blues Stage – Sat 1:30 pm Performance Outreach – Sunday 10:30 am First United Service  Workshop Blues Stage – Sun 2:45 pm Mighty Mo Rodgers

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Horse Feathers

USA Performance Barn Stage – Sat 2:30 pm    Performance Focus Stage – Sun 1:45 pm                Workshop Shade Stage – Sun 4:15 pm New Year’s Eve

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Harry Manx

BC Performance Barn Stage – Fri 9:00 pm       Performance Shade Stage – Sat 1: 45 pm     Workshop Focus Stage – Sat 4:15 pm Harry Manx

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Fatoumata Diawara

Mali / France Performance Main Stage – Fri 6:15 pm                Workshop Blues Stage -Sat 12:15 pm Workshop Shade Stage – Sat 3:00 pm Introducing a fresh

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Devon Coyote

B.C. Devon Coyote is a multi-instrumentalist gunslinger with an infectious sound. He’s a passionate player and the fun he is having spreads like wildfire into

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Daniel Lanois

Canada Performance Main Stage – Sun 8:45 pm  A true maverick, Juno winner and 2013 Roots & Blues headliner Daniel Lanois began his extraordinarily successful

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The Crooked Brothers

MB Workshop Shade Stage – Sat 4:15 pm Performance Barn Stage – Sat 6:00 pm    Workshop Shade Stage – Sun 11:00 am   Who says you

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The Belle Game

BC Workshop Barn Stage – Sat 11:00 am       Performance Barn Stage – Sun 12:15 pm                Workshop Shade Stage – Sun 4:15 pm     Led by

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The Balconies

ON Workshop Barn Stage – Sat 11:00 am       Performance Shade Stage – Sun 12:15 pm Performance Barn Stage – Sun 9:00 pm  The Balconies stand

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Kelley Hunt

USA Workshop Blues Stage – Sun 12:15 pm Performance Blues Stage – Sun 4:00 pm In some ways Roots R&B/Americana singer/songwriter/piano player/guitarist KELLEY HUNT is a rarity

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Jason Collett

ON Workshop Barn Stage – Sat 11:00 am Performance Barn Stage – Sat 3:45 pm                    Workshop Focus Stage – Sun 12:30 pm Jason Collett is

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Ky-Mani Marley

Jamaica Performance Main Stage – Fri 8:45 pm Synonymous with Jamaican royalty, the Marley name is recognized around the world, the legacy of a pioneer

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BerlinskiBeat

Germany Workshop Barn Stage – Sat 1:15 pm      Performance Barn Stage – Sat 9:00 pm BerlinskiBeat – the flip side of 2013 Roots & Blues performers

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Corvus Corax

Germany Performance Main Stage – Fri 10:15 pm The story of Neo-Medieval supergroup Corvus Corax and its quest after the lost musical tradition of the

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Mississippi Heat

USA Performance Barn Stage – Fri 7:30 pm       Performance  Blues Stage – Sat 11:00 am Workshop Blues Stage – Sat 2:45 pm Mississippi Heat – veterans

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Ben Waters

UK Performance Barn Stage – Fri 10:30 pm    Workshop Focus Stage – Sat 12:30 pm Workshop Blues Stage – Sun 12:15 pm Following a year in

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Bruce Cockburn

 Performance Main Stage  – Sat 8:45 pm As always, there’s a spiritual side to music icon Bruce Cockburn’s latest album Small Source of Comfort, perhaps

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City and Colour

ON Performance Main Stage – Sun 10:15 pm “I just wanted to make an honest record.” So says Dallas Green, otherwise known as City and

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Skratch Bastid

Canada Performance Barn Stage – Sun 10:30 pm   Having rocked the bar many times, Juno nominee Skratch Bastid is now ready to raise it. In

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Felix Zenger

Finland Workshop Barn Stage – Sat 1:15 pm      Workshop Barn Stage – Sun 1:30 pm     Workshop Focus Stage – Sun 4:15 pm Finnish beatbox artist Felix Zenger

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Butterscotch

USA Workshop Shade Stage – Sat 3:00 pm Workshop Barn Stage – Sun 1:30 pm        Performance Focus Stage – Sun 11:00 am Butterscotch is a

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Malcolm Holcombe

USA Performance Shade Stage – Sat 11:00 am Workshop Focus Stage – Sun 12:30 pm    Performance Shade Stage – Sun 3:00 pm               Born and raised

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Shakura S’Aida

ON Workshop Blues Stage – Sat 12:15 pm Performance Main Stage – Sat 6:00 pm              Performance Blues Stage – Sun 1:30 pm  Born in Brooklyn. Raised

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Steve Strongman

ON Workshop Shade Stage – Sat 4:15 pm Performance Blues Stage – Sun 11:00 am                Workshop Blues Stage – Sun 2:45 pm There are reasons why

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