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Canmore Folk Festival - Central stage

Canmore Folk Festival

(1 review)

This festival is a jewel set in a circle of sharp stunning Rocky mountains, the Sisters look down…read morewith grace and majesty, and brilliant streams ease their way through the town, and families converge happily to soak in Folk music from around the world. In a summer of folk festivals this was a special one. It feels very much like a neighbourhood festival. It can't draw acts on the same scale that Edmonton or Winnipeg does, but I heard artists here that I was delighted to discover and fall in love with, and sitting in the shade at the main stage in a park in the middle of town the sound quality was quite wonderful. The food vendors here were a little rough, the taco stand seems to be serving cold beans from a can, salsa and guac from a costo-style tub. Same with the pasta truck: we watched them cut open plastic bags of grocery gnocchi and open jars of plain tomato pasta and microwave it. Kind of a bummer for like $15. Not a lot of homemade, not a lot of vegan options. Ah well. The family running the mediterranean place were amazing. I didn't get to check out the smaller stage at the pub tent because newly this year it was licensed 18 only instead of allowing families to come in together, so that did make it hard to stick with our friends as they checked out different shows. There were some incredible artisans in the handmade village, and the set up for exploring and shopping is incredibly dreamy. But there were also a number of tents taken up by things that were very clearly not artisan made, including a big corner booth full of wal-mart style dresses and shirts still with the tags on from all different kinds of made in china fast fashion manufacturers. Really kind of depressing to see that put up alongside carefully handcrafted hats and jewellery and other goods. Canmore itself is stunning, and walking the baby to sleep along the winding paths along the rivers, through the cabins tucked in the woods in the heart of town with glimpses of the mountains through the hushing trees was heaven. But the city is also a bit hard on the heart. What was once an unpretentious mountain haven became a just another playground for the wealthy. Homes here are in the millions, locals have struggled to stay: this is how any city loses its soul. Canmore though is making efforts to stay diverse and to support affordable living, and you have to applaud and hold out high hopes for their efforts. I think the Folk Festival is a key piece of that community and artistic soul. May it continue to flourish.

Banff Marathon - festivals - Updated May 2026

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