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Edmonton Journal
05-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Edmonton Journal
Five side-stage must-see acts at Edmonton Folk Music Festival 2025
Article content Headlining Saturday, The Roots are certainly 'the' checklist name at Edmonton Folk Music Festival 2025 — and having seen the hip-hop-R&B rolling juggernaut light up bouncy Calgary last year, I'd say don't miss this if you managed to get now sold-out tickets. Article content For the perhaps less creaky among us, Thursday night's chipper, fist-pumping rock band Rainbow Kitten Surprise and the widespread sonic wings of Mt. Joy closing Sunday are the two major draws for a slightly younger audience. Article content Article content And the quick-turnaround and higher-slotted return of Danielle Ponder Saturday night has basically zero chance of not being awesome. I think we'd all be happy to hear that gods-shaking cover of Radiohead's Creep again, if Ponder's willing. Article content For your pleasure and spark conversation, here are five acts — by no means the only five, depending on what you crave — you might want to show up early for … with showtimes, of course! Article content Cedric Burnside — 3:05 p.m. Sat. + 4:30 p.m. Sun. Stage 6 sessions, 5:35 Sat. Stage 1 concert Article content One of the all-time North Country Fair great jams, this rising blues legend started out as his experimental bluesman granddad R.L. Burnside's drummer at age 13. So, you know, music in the blood here. Nominated for the same traditional blues album award Taj Mahal won at this year's Grammys, Hill Country Love is such a crisp and delightful recording you'll feel like you're hearing blues for the first time. Can't wait to see him again in person, especially alongside main-stager Taj Mahal at the Saturday afternoon session with Monophonics and Blue Moon Marquee. Article content Article content
Edmonton Journal
18-06-2025
- Edmonton Journal
North Country Fair No. 47 full of cosmic wildlife onstage and off
Article content Three dawn coffees and a ten-minute, chittering conversation with a red-winged blackbird later, the dirt-majestic North Country Fair is coming together once again. Running Thursday to Sunday up near Driftpile — three hours and change northwest of Edmonton via highways 33 or 44 — the annual open-sky wumpus is the most free-range of affairs, aimed directly at Friday's Summer Solstice at 8:41 p.m.
Edmonton Journal
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Edmonton Journal
The Works Art & Design Festival celebrating its 40 years in Edmonton
Article content The theme — Ground Works — is intentionally environmentally focused, its art full of impressions of flora and fauna. I ran into two-spirit Beave Cree-Métis artist Clinton Minault wearing a 'found' Louis Riel shirt out at North Country Fair earlier this week, where he's making a fox sculpture. For The Works on Churchill Square, he'll be live-building Belly of the Beast — a new bison sculpture to accompany his 2024 piece Beastly Two Eyed Festival Seer.
