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The final day of Folk on the Rock is by no means going to be a dull one. Just like Saturday it is filled with lots of great performances.

Left Stage

1:00 Kaley Kinjo

2:00 Endless Summer Strings

Featuring Six String Nation Guitar with

Old Man Luedecke on banjo, Tamara Nile

(T. Nile) on banjo, Dana Sipos on mandolin,

Pat Braden on Chapman Stick, Doug Liddle

(Swank) on slide guitar and Drew Gonsalves

on cuatro (Kobo Town)

3:00 Royal Wood

Right Stage

12:45 Gospel Hour with Rick Poltaruk and Friends

2:00 Wayward Sons

Dennis Allen and Jesse James

3:00 Nia Technique – Movement Workshop

Cultural Stage

1:15 Ravens and Corbeaux

Behchokò Drummers and Kobo Town

2:00 Kaiva

3:00 Dené Hand Games

Family Stage

1:00 Storytelling with Jim Green

2:00 Musical Imagination – make and play your own musical instruments!

3:00 Storytelling with Charly Chiarelli

Beer Garden

1:00 Dragon Fli Empire

2:00 Wake Up Hazel

3:00 Giant Con

4:00 T. Nile

5:00 Digawolf

6:00 Swank

7:00 Kodiak

Canadian North Mainstage

Emcee: Rich Terfry

4:00 Old Man Luedecke

5:00 Pat Braden

6:00 Forest City Lovers

7:00 Red Power Squad

8:00 Godson

9:00 Sam Roberts Band

10:45 Kobo Town

11:30 Festival Finale with Behchokò Youth Drummers

Are you going to be taking pictures while you’re there? Do you use Flickr? If so, tag your photos with FOTR2009 so everyone can see your great photos. Have Fun.

Here is the schedule for Folk on the Rocks July 18, 2009:

Left Stage

1:00 Poetic Champions Compose:

A musical discussion with Royal Wood,

Dana Sipos, Kat Burns (Forest City Lovers),

Laurie Sarkadi (Wake Up Hazel), Steve

Whittaker (Giant Con), Pat Braden and

Jesse James (Digawolf)

2:15 Art Johns

3:15 Forest City Lovers

Right Stage

1:15 Jim Green

2:15 Dragon Fli Empire

3:15 Swank

Cultural Stage

1:00 Behchokò Youth Drummers

1:45 Kaiva

2:15 Red Power Squad

3:15 Digawolf

Family Stage

1:00 Brian Heppelle – Learn to Tie a Fly!

Brought to you by the Fly Kid Foundation

2:00 Fish Tales

3:00 Charly Chiarelli – Once Upon a Pizzeria!

Beer Garden

1:00 Rocks the Folks Winner

1:45 Dennis Allen

2:45 Kaley Kinjo

3:45 Old Man Luedecke

5:00 Giant Con

6:00 Wake Up Hazel

7:00 Kobo Town

Canadian North Mainstage

Emcee: Rich Terfry

4:00 Festival Opening with Behchokò

Youth Drummers

4:15 Art Johns

5:00 Dana Sipos

5:45 T. Nile

6:45 Royal Wood

7:45 Collaboration Project: ExChanging Beats

Featuring Red Power Squad, Dragon

Fli Empire, Kaiva, Godson, Behchokò

Youth Drummers

8:30 Swank

9:30 Kodiak

10:30 Digawolf

11:15 Sam Roberts Band

There is a lot going on and I hope to get out to most of the stages, minus the beer garden stage unfortunately. If you are going to be there during any part of the festival let me know, I would love to meet up with some of you.

In a week and a half’s time Yellowknife will become an even larger tourist destination than normal. I’m talking about the Folk on the Rocks event of course. A weekend jam packed full of music from right here in the north to all over the world. This years festival will be taking place between July 17 and 19.

If you don’t yet have tickets I suggest you get one and check it out. Although I have lived here for 15 years I have yet to go to one myself but this year I plan to. You can buy your tickets online here.

If you are not sure what Folk on the Rocks is, here is a quick description from their website:

The two-day weekend event (plus the Friday opening gala Warm the Rocks) has grown into one of Canada’s top summertime music and cultural festivals, drawing musicians from the NWT and Nunavut and across the globe for the North’s biggest party under the midnight sun.

More than 24 hours of programming on five stages, including a children’s area, cultural area, and beer garden promises fun and enjoyment for all ages. Along with the music, crowds can savour international and traditional cuisine at the food fair, and buy Northern creative works in the Art on the Rocks area.

This years line up is more promising than ever. Talent that will blow you mind.

Here is the 2009 line up:

• RICH TERFRY
• SAM ROBERTS BAND
• ROYAL WOOD
• KOBO TOWN
• SWANK
• BEHCHOKO YOUTH DRUMMERS
• DANA SIPOS
• DENNIS ALLEN
• DIGAWOLF
• DRAGON FLI EMPIRE
• FOREST CITY LOVERS
• GIANT CON
• GODSON (wouldn’t be a folk festival without a local rap star)
• KAIVA
• OLD MAN LUEDECKE
• PAT BRADEN
• RED POWER SQUAD
• T. NILE you can also check her out on twitter @tnile
• WAKE UP HAZEL
• KALEY KINJO
• ART JOHNS
• SIX STRING NATION GUITAR
• CHARLY CHIARELLI
• JIM GREEN
• KODIAK

As you can see it is quite the line up. You can also find more information about the 2009 line up here.

UPDATE: Folk on the Rocks 2009 Schedule:

• Folk on the Rocks 2009 Schedule: July 17
• Folk on the Rocks 2009 Schedule: July 18
• Folk on the Rocks 2009 Schedule: July 19

Stay tuned for two more post relating to Folk on the Rocks before the event. 2009 Schedule and What you need to know before you go.