Rhythm, roots, and rebellion at the 2010 Vancouver Folk Music Festival: The 2010 Vancouver Folk Music Festival is a showcase for artists who use songs as tools for social change
Country songwriter Harlan Howard once defined his chosen genre as “three chords and the truth”, but that was before Nashville became just one more branch plant for the global entertainment industry. It’s still a great slogan, though, especially when applied to a lot of the acts booked for the 2010 edition of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival.
It’s striking how many festival artists use music as a tool for social change, and how diverse they sound: head to Jericho Beach Park between Friday and Sunday (July 16 to 18), and you’ll hear everything from the guitar-driven voodoo funk of Haiti’s Boukman Eksperyans to the one-world optimism of the Playing for Change collective to the folk-pop broadsheet ballads of the lower-case lesbians in emma’s revolution. Other progressive types who’ll be seen on-stage include folk-rocking environmentalist Sarah Harmer, bluegrass-driven biofuel advocates Fish & Bird, and guitar-strumming peace activist Brett Dennen.
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