Winnipeg Folk Festival Tickets

enjoyed the celtic & blues. great food... Unfortunately... I didn't see the regular ICE CREAM stand unti late in the Festival. The other ICE Cream Novelties... were a bit scarey... the sign saying to wait 5 minutes due to the Dry Ice.. Hmmmm The only MC I enjoyed was the Woman. (can't remember name) The 2 guys - (supposedly did Improv ) I didn't care for. They were not funny.. and seemed to just repeat themselves. TOO much yelling... and if we were asked once we were asked a 1000 times.. "SO ya having a good time?" or something like that. The other Male MC, was very anoying. He also was not funny & his yelling & voice... were difficult to listen to. How about using that time.. for worthwhile information. Like more information about the BAND we are about to hear, info reminders about the festival itself, information on the numbers of people each day.. or something interesting. Humor is good, too. If it is funny. .....

Bus service was incredible...easy to find and get around.

As a first time goer I really enjoyed the expierence and entertainment :) will definitely return next year!!

As always fun for the whole family. Arrive early to enjoy the day shows.

Winnipeg Folk Festival is phenomenal at music, bringing good people together and caring for our surroundings. Although I didn't see all of the acts I wanted to, I would say my favorites were this Italian band named Marco Calliari and Toots and the Maytals. Marco Calliari had an upbeat sound and the genre is described as Balkan, I highly recommend them. Toots is obviously reggae, they were dancing, having a good time and at the end they did some crazy awesome free styling. As far as bringing people together goes the Festival camp grounds is an environment where you can literally walk up to anyone and have a great conversation. Everyone is there to have a good time and you are pretty much guaranteed to find someone with whom you are going to want to keep on seeing every year afterwards. The things that really make me want to come back every year are the fact that they take your garbage, sort your recycling AND allow you to compost. You can't even find that in most people's homes let alone large events. One of my biggest deals is that I know what is happening in our world when it comes to waste and I can't ignore it or just not care. The WFF people seem to care as well and they seem to be doing something about it. I salute them for it. This is an overall great festival that will make you feel all around good. I will highly recommend this to anyone who would care to hear about it.

Fun to see the people and groups I grew up on! Even more fun to see the up and comers!! If people watching is another favorite, this festival is a great place to be!!

This was my 10th year and every year gets better. The numerous Genre's makes it so interesting and you never know who you'll be discovering next. I know what I'm doing next July and the July after that and so on, until I can't go anymore.

This is a very well run festival! Great music, good food. I do have some complaints too. The bleed over from one stage to the next was horrible at times, especially when I was listening to a quieter performer competing with something louder. Also on several occasions, I was unfortunate enough to be seated by audience members who talked or even yelled throughout the performance. And I thought there might be a way to organize the audience part of the main stage area using numbers or colors so it is easier to find friends and our own tarp again. Thanks

This festival has lost ground in quality. Until this year the sound has been amazing - and good sound outdoors takes some expertise. It has gone from being family friendly to parents needing to be aware of places they should not take their children at night. This year every stage was plagued with sound problems - mics turned off, feedback. Even main stage performers were obviously frustrated with their monitors as they pointed to their mics and pointed upward which seemed to indicate the monitors were off or too low volume. The Festival is not enforcing rules about dancers coming into the seating area in front of the stage. We get up early to get tarp tickets so we are close to the stage. Every night except the last we were forced out by people who flooded in from the dance area. People were stepping on our backpacks, tripping over our chairs and being quite rude. The festival is family friendly during the day, but It would be advisable for families with young children to stay out of the area in front of the main stage and take seating much farther back. It is not safe there and when the dancers flood in they are not watching for young ones. This year we moved back once things got scarey up front, and seating behind the sound booth seemed a much safer place to be. It is hard to imagine that those who began this festival would have envisioned a time or place at the festival where segments of the crowd behaved with mob mentality and young children and older folks would not be safe. Based on the number of drunk people at night alcohol has become a problem. In our early years we never -ever- saw drunks. We appreciated the fact that up until 2 years ago backpacks were checked for glass and alcohol. Now they pat the outside, as though that is some kind of security measure. When I asked why they were no longer checking backpacks I was told that beginning last year a new policy was implemented that the festival would be a welcoming entity rather than policing. They are leaving legal matters up to legal civil authorities. The result is that there are drunks ruining what used to be a family event. The festival changed when they started serving alcohol. At the beginning they at least pretended to control the amount a person could buy. Now you can buy as long as you have money. The beer gardens grew from one to two - the second one being so close to a stage that the noise from the beer garden overpowers the music if you sit on the right side of the stage. More bathrooms were added this year - to the stage that serves alcohol. Future plans show that the first beer garden will be moved closer to the main stage - into a space that presently has food vendors. I am sure the beer gardens provide substantial funds to the festival - but alcohol has changed the character of the festival forever. The Winnipeg Folk Festivals has a reputation for being one of the best volunteer supported festivals there are. The job the volunteers do is truly amazing. With a few exceptions here and there, the music quality is high. If they can get a handle on the alcohol problem and enforce their own rules on crowd control this event has the potential to return to the top-notch event it once was.

Seeing Dawes and Trampled By Turtles on a small stage was awesome!

The music was amazing. K.D. Lang rocked it and I was left with wanting to hear more from Matt Andersen. I laughed and cried while listening to Shane Koyczan and the Short Story Long. I was disappointed in The Be Good Taynas and the food venders. I really did not like the new traffic flow, people please open up the space and fallow the natural foot paths of your ticket holders. Oh ya, Trampled by Turtles and the Sunday "So Long Bannatyne, Hello Birds Hill Park" was a weekend highlight. The extra day sucked in that I had to take an extra day off from work, we traveled and the ticket price is getting out of my price range. The music was a treat and the new showers at Birds Hill were refreshing.

A great night. There were no vendors open. Very little merching to be had, so I was sad. Tegan and Sarah were an 8 /10 ( did not do an encore!). So minor crowd antics up front such as surfing and debris tossing. Didn't go too far though. A very good time was had!

Hayes Carll was amazing! I hadn't hear of him before but my boyfriend suggested we go and see him. Wow, I loved the show. I'm going to have to go out and buy all of his CDs now. I can't wait until he comes back to Winnipeg.

I am truly satisfied by the Winnipeg Folk Fest, it is something that can not be re-created anywhere else. This was my second year attending, and the a matter of whether I will attend next year wasn't even a question. I was introduced to the Fest by a a friend and their family who have been going for the last 15 years, and at first I did understand why it was such a tradition. After going I now understand. It's an incredible experience that's hard to describe, the music is amazing, and the staff always manage to surprise me.