They also cited "an outpouring of volunteer support" and assistance from other festivals with booking performers. Organizers said new funders had come forward with "substantial offers" to ensure the event happens this year.
Tuesday's announcement removed that doubt. Vancouver Folk Music Festival organizers were encouraged by the announcement, but still uncertain about whether the event would be able to return this year. Later that month, the provincial government announced $30 million in funding to support fairs and festivals scheduled to happen in B.C.
Roughly 300 people attended a virtual town hall on the festival's future in early February, after which the board decided to rescind its motion to dissolve the society. The society's board postponed its annual general meeting – at which it was scheduled to vote to dissolve itself – amid several proposals from interested parties who hoped to keep the festival going. music festivals soon announced similar cancellations.īefore January was over, however, hope for saving the folk festival had emerged. The folk festival wasn't the only major outdoor concert facing a cost crunch, and other B.C. 17, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival Society issued a statement saying it had been impossible to finance this year's event due to the soaring cost of hosting live events in the post-COVID era. The festival's return is the culmination of efforts to save it that began almost as soon as the cancellation was announced. "We are working with contractors, artistic advisors, and vendors to make that happen," the announcement reads. Organizers announced on their website Tuesday that the 2023 Vancouver Folk Music Festival will be held from July 14 to 16 at Jericho Beach Park and will use the 2022 event as a template for this year's. Not quite two months after organizers announced it would be cancelled, possibly forever, the Vancouver Folk Music Festival is back on for 2023.
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