Winnipeg Folk Fest 2025

Since the Folk Fest started cracking down on professional looking cameras in, this post will be limited to iPhone snapshots only. I also took a few on film, but those are still waiting on development and not included here.

There was a lot of smoke in the air this year (from the wildfires, not the people), which was not ideal, but otherwise, the weather worked out well. It only stormed at night and only got exceedingly hot during our partial days on Thursday and Sunday.

It felt unusual -- although not a bad thing, necessarily -- that it was just the four of us there this year. R's family of origin usually joins in one form or another, but they had some other things going on.

 

It was the festival's 50th anniversary!

Gillian Welch was my highlight of the year:

Hippies:

Stilt-walker and my tarp shuffle ticket:

Sooooo many people in attendance this year...

The Gustavo show in the kids' tent (left) and a sleepy show at Shady Grove (right):

We made a point of getting a good spot for this show because Ani DiFranco was on the roster, but her plane was delayed and she missed it entirely. We likely would have been able to get her autograph too :-(.

Our camping spot had a lot of shade for a change. Cheeseballs have become a tradition!

Photo by R (thanks for getting me in the frame):