Season Passes and Individual Show Tickets:
Passes for our stellar 45th season are now available! These passes are a great deal for music-lovers and bargain-lovers alike. Prorated for the number of shows remaining in the season, these passes work out to a significant discount, per show, compared to individual tickets.
Only a few of these coveted passes remain for this season!
Of course, not everyone's schedule accommodates alternating Friday nights until April. For those of you who prefer to pick and choose, advance tickets for individual shows are now on sale for $27.50 apiece, and are also available for $30 at the door on show nights.
Don't miss out on this season's incredible lineup! Order your Season Passes and individual tickets at our website, or call 1-888-655-9090.
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Our Next Shows:
Coming on
October 14th:
Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir:
A perennial favourite with Canadian folk club and folk festival audiences, the Grammy
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-nominated
Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir
(CHC) return for their fourth CFC appearance. Performing since 1992, the CHC is a percussion-driven vocal ensemble that preserves and shares the rich musical tradition of African-American music. They pursue this mission by bringing academic research and historical recordings to life in dynamic, rhythmic, energetic shows. Be prepared to be transported by a breathtaking experience of authentic African-American roots music.
First up - The Bombadils:
Canadian maritimer Luke Fraser and prairie-girl Sarah Frank share a love of folk songs and fiddle tunes. Drawing from the Canadian, American, and Celtic traditions, the two pour the spirit of storytelling and kitchen parties into their own writing. Luke brings guitar, mandolin and home-grown
east coast vocals in harmony with Sarah's singing, lyrical fiddle playing, and claw-hammer banjo.
They've performed official showcases at several folk music conferences and were artists in residence at The Banff Centre in 2014.
And on October 28th:
Gordie MacKeeman and his Rhythm Boys:
From that endless source of great music known as Prince Edward Island comes Gordie MacKeeman (fiddle/cello/guitar/feet percussion) and his Rhythm Boys: Peter Cann (guitar/banjo), Thomas Webb (guitar/bass/banjo/steel guitar) and Jason Burbine (guitar/bass/percussion). Hot on the heels of their new album, Laugh, Dance and Sing, the boys crank it way up to serve you electrifying, bluegrass and vibrant, old-timey roots music; so get set for a heapin' helpin' of toe-tappin', foot-stompin', jaw-droppin' bliss guaranteed to bring you to your feet.
Rebecca Lappa 
One of the brightest, fastest rising stars on the scene and recipient of the 2015 CFMA Young Performer of the Year Award, Rebecca's songs effortlessly merge history, mythology, poetry, genres, and her pure, classically-trained mezzo-soprano. With her
latest album, Reckless Heart, Edmonton native Lappa bravely dives into the complicated sea of emotions that define modern romance, and emerges with a collection of songs sure to add her name to the roll call of Canada's brightest new folk-rock voices.
Please note that our November 11th show, featuring The Once, is currently SOLD OUT!
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The Once: Vocal Harmony Workshop: Nov 12!
A unique opportunity for Calgary Folk Club patrons!
Whether you sing in the shower, belong to a choir, or are honing your skills as a singer-songwriter, don't miss this rare opportunity to learn the secrets of divine harmony from The Once, an award-winning trio whose success has been built on a foundation of exquisite vocals. Praise for The Once is pouring in from all quarters, including from Amelia Curran, who said that The Once have
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Perfect vocal harmonies thick enough to stand on. Think of the heavenly mix of Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris and Gillian Welch, back them up with The Chieftans, and let Daniel Lanois swim around in it, and you're still only halfway there.
" Equally enchanting whether singing acapella or with instrumentation, no one knows harmony quite like The Once.
This hands-on, small-group experience will be limited to 30 participants, and these spots are likely to fill up quickly - be sure to get your tickets soon!
Where: Dalhousie Community Centre
When: 9:30AM - 2:30PM,
Saturday November 12, 2016
How Much: $100 plus ticket service fees (Lunch Provided)
CLICK HERE to order tickets to this singular event!
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Backstage with Benjamin Dakota Rogers
Benjamin was kind enough to take some time out of his busy fall schedule to discuss his influences, his relationship to professional accolades, and his experiences playing the Calgary Folk Club stage for the first time.
Calgary Folk Club: What sticks in your mind most about your experience at the club?
Benjamin Dakota Rogers:
Mainly, it was an extremely responsive audience - it was super-cool. They were there to hear music, and you don't always get that. It was super-inviting, the stage was great, it was the ideal performance to do.
CFC: Is that different from other venues you've played?
BDR: Yes and no. I feel like it's hit and miss with different performance places, and it can even be the night, but in general it was a fantastic listening audience - they were there for music, they bought merch, they wanted to talk afterward. We had one guy take us mountain climbing the next day, because he liked my song about the mountain! It was just a really warm audience to play to, and the whole community was really open.
CFC: Often when newer artists come to the club, they'll have some early and promising accolades, much like yourself. Have you found that to be a necessary part of moving forward in your career?
BDR: Having accolades to your name, I think really all it does is it validates that your recorded material, and that your songwriting is good enough to be hired. I feel like it's a big thing for venues. I don't think it matters so much, audience-based. Like, fans will care because they're happy for me, or they're excited because they love that song and it won an award, but I think that the only place it matters is validation when you're up-and-coming. Sometimes an artistic director that maybe hasn't heard your music before, validation that their peers have heard your music and didn't think it sucked. It's not like them just hearing it from a fan.
CFC: Could you tell us a bit about your influences?
BDR: It comes from a very heavy fiddle background, which is where I feel a lot of melody stuff and buildup stuff comes from. And I was really into Dylan, and Leonard Cohen, Mumford and Sons, Passenger, Gregory Alan Isakov, lots of instrumental stuff, lots of old folky stuff. And then I listen to rap, and lots of spoken word. I feel like, influence-wise, part of the reason that I play a lot of genres is that I listen to a lot of genres. Or maybe not a lot, but I'm very into the genres that I listen to. I feel like even bigger than music-wise is stories that you read and hear and interact with, interactions that you have with people, and relationships. Like, the goal is not to sound like anyone else. So as much as we all list our influences, I feel like it much more comes from our relationships and our friendships, and meeting people, and movement in your life.
CFC: You mentioned classic folk, and I noticed a lot of that same social consciousness in your writing. Is that an integral part of folk music, for you?
BDR: I feel like a lot of those songwriters wrote about the human condition - and a lot of those songs were protest songs. I feel like a lot of folk musicians are at least striving to write about the human condition, what's going on out in the world. ... I was talking to a songwriter a while ago, and he was talking about how, when he first started writing songs, they were all his personal experiences. ... And as he got older and started learning more about the world he lived in, his songs deviated away from all this self-reflection to looking out at the world, at what's out there, social issues and that, and that's where songs start to come from.
CFC: Any final thoughts about your experience at the Club?
BDR: Just a huge thank you to all the volunteers that were involved. We were very well fed, we had anything we needed, it was a very easy gig to play. I enjoyed it very much.
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Please join us at the Plaza Theatre on October 29 for this fundraiser that will bring lifesaving water to two Nepalese mountain villages. Many villages in Nepal are still suffering in the wake of the devastating earthquake of April 2015. In Dharka Village, 95% of homes were destroyed, and women and children still walk five kilometres every day to haul water.
The goal of this fundraiser is to purchase two water tanks and a connecting pipeline, which will help ensure the health and well being of more than 10,000 people between Dharka and its neighbouring village. In addition to the concert, there will also be a small silent auction. The Calgary Folk Club would like to thank you on behalf of the event organizers for your time, your attention, and your support of this worthy cause.
For more information, please visit the event website.
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Lunch at Allen's comes to the Jack Singer
See this stellar collection of Canadian musicians on October 20th!
Lunch at Allen's is a musical powerhouse composed of four remarkable Canadian talents: Murray McLauchlan, Cindy Church, Marc Jordan, and Ian Thomas. Between them, they have singer or songwriter credits accounting for more than twenty-five million album sales. These four have penned hits for Josh Groban, Chicago, Bonnie Raitt, America, Santana, Cher, and Rod Stewart, as well as Murray's "Farmer's Song," Marc's "Marina Del Rey" and Ian's "Painted Ladies," just to name a few. These three have come together, adding the incredible voice of Cindy Church (Quartette, Great Western Orchestra), to form Lunch at Allen's. Their stage show is intimate and humourous, featuring many songs familiar to anyone who has turned on a radio in the past two decades.
"You would be hard pressed to find another Canadian ensemble with more collective depth of influence over Canada's musical landscape than Lunch At Allen's."
~ The Beat Magazine
Reserved seating tickets for Lunch at Allen's are $45.00 (tax and facility fees included, service charges extra), and are available from the box office listed below.
Where: Calgary Arts Commons Jack Singer Concert Hall
When: October 20th, 7:30 PM
Tickets: Box Office 403-294-9494
For more info, pics & music clips, visit www.shantero.com or www.lunchatallens.ca.
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