As the artist lineup was announced for the 2026 Edmonton Folk Music Festival, its producer says the event’s strong fan base helps the festival remain financially secure.<\/p>\n
\u201cFunding is great, not everybody can say that,\u201d festival producer Terry Wickham said on Thursday during a news conference at the Cloverdale Community League, located on the site where the August festival will take place.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur patrons are the most loyal,” Wickham said. “When I watch the ticket sales come in … the first 15 or 20 minutes tells me what I need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n
The folk festival has sold out of almost all ticket types in recent years. However, other music festivals have not fared so well.<\/p>\n
In February, organizers of the Edmonton Blues Festival announced it would be permanently cancelled after 25 years because of escalating costs, weather uncertainties and declining attendance.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s headliners include Nathaniel Rateliff, Thee Sacred Souls, Cat Power, Arrested Development and Of Monsters and Men.<\/p>\n
Several artists are making repeat visits to the festival, including Jeremie Albino, Courtney Marie Andrews, Ocie Elliott, The Milk Carton Kids and more.<\/p>\n
Mitch Gorman, a singer-songwriter from Grand Prairie, Alta., attended the 2025 festival as a spectator. This year, he’s coming back as a performer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s pretty exciting. Like last year, going to see artists that I’ve really looked up to my whole life,\u201d Gorman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lineup is always amazing, being able to share this space with those people, it’s very surreal, and I really couldn’t ask for more.<\/p>\n
The Edmonton Folk Music Festival runs from Aug. 6 through 9 at Gallagher Hill. Tickets go on sale on June 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the artist lineup was announced for the 2026 Edmonton Folk Music Festival, its producer says the event’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[27676,27672,52,27671,27674,27675,27673,27670],"class_list":["post-65264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-artist-lineup","tag-courtney-marie-andrews","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-blues-festival","tag-edmonton-folk-music-festival","tag-folk-festival","tag-nathaniel-rateliff","tag-terry-wickham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}