Vancouver Island Music Fest - Courtenay BC

Arlo Guthrie
2009 Headliner

 
Vancouver Island Music Fest  2009 - July 10, 11, and 12

A three day event held annually in the Comox Valley, the Vancouver Island Music Fest is becoming one of the premier summer music festivals in British Columbia. 

With it's eclectic menu of musical styles including, but not limited to, Folk, Blues, Bluegrass, Celtic, World Beat and Roots influenced Rock, the Island Music Fest has something for just about everyone's taste. This fact is reflected in the composition of the crowd. A family friendly event, festival goers range from babes-in-arms to seniors with every age in between well represented.

Some of the performers at past Island Music Fests have included: Amos Garrett, Dan Hicks, Leo Kottke, Jesse Winchester, Ramblin Jack Elliot, Taj Mahal, Maria Muldaur, Bruce Cockburn, Robert Cray, Richie Havens, and many, many, many more…

For more information see www.islandmusicfest.com

Performers confirmed so far for 2009 include American folkster Arlo Guthrie, songbird Jennifer Warnes, Celtic rockers Enter the Haggis, bluegrass kings The Del McCoury Band, blues men Eric Bibb and Jim Byrnes, jazz masters Jon Hendricks and Jane Bunnett and acoustic superheroes Jerry Douglas, Edgar Meyer and Russ Barenberg. Also confirmed are Canadian legend Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies fame, multi-instrumentalist David Lindley, reggae diva Etana and song spinners James Keelaghan, Dick Gaughan and Martyn Joseph.

While some of the better renowned artists who appear at the festival are booked and announced well ahead of time, the full list of performers is generally not available until close to the date of the festival. Here is an example of a full lineup from 2006:

Steve Earle
Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul & Mary)

Karla Anderson
Spider John Koerner
Kim Barlow 
Sonny Landreth
Geoff Berner
Penny Lang with Dave Clarke
Bethany & Rufus
Jack Lawrence
VM Bhatt & Salil Bhatt & Ramkumar Mishra
Los Rastrillos
The Bluerunners 
Malihini Boys
John Boutte
Allison Moorer
Judy Brunet & Bruce Wing 
Mother Band
Todd Butler Band
Cam Neufeld Trio
The Campbell Brothers 
Po'Girl
Come On In My Kitchen 
The Mighty Popo with Urunana Rw‘ Abadatana
Dinah D
The Tim Posgate Horn Band featuring Howard Johnson
Kocassale Dioubate
Alexis Puentes
Jerry Douglas Band
Paul Reddick   
Spider Robinson
David Essig 
Rumba Calzada 
Bob Evans
Darrell Scott
Joel Fafard
Samantha Schultz
Clinton Fearon & The Boogie Brown Band
Eugene Smith
Joanna Finch
Mavis Staples
GaGi - Ganesh Anandan
& Gibran Cervantes Kinnie Starr
Gilles Garand & Peter Senn  Tasa
Grupo Fantasma Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez
H Sao
Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir
Tina Jones Band
Corbin Keep
Ari Up versus Dubblestandart
Pamela Keld
Adrienne Young & Little Sadie

Songs From Here with…
Sue Pyper
Bobby Herron
Gordon Carter
Kevin Mitchell

Folk Quiz with Michael Wrycraft & Richard Flohil

A Tribute to Johnny Cash with…
Al Pasanen
Keith Picot
Rene Hein
Damian Graham 
 
 

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