Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival
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Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival | |
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Genre | Music festival |
Dates | July 26 - 28, 2024 |
Frequency | Annual |
Location(s) | Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada |
Years active | 32 |
Founded | 1991 |
Attendance | 31,944 (2022)[1] |
Patron(s) | 30,000 + |
Organised by | Salmon Arm Folk Music Society |
Website | https://rootsandblues.ca/ |
The Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival is a 3 day summer music festival. It has four - six stages and features an international roster of artists as well as a strong contingent of Canadian talent. The event takes place at the Salmon Arm Fair Grounds, an 18-acre site at the base of Mount Ida in Salmon Arm, a town located on the shores of the Shuswap Lake in British Columbia.
The festival features
The Festival's founding organization is the Salmon Arm Folk Music Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting live music and the surrounding industry in The Shuswap.
History
[2] Roots and Blues began in 1992 as a small indoor festival, a result of the Shuswap Coffee House[3] movement of the 1970s and 1980s, which by 1991 had coalesced into the not-for-profit Salmon Arm Folk Music Society, the festival's founding body. In 1992, the first Festival was held in a tiny country hall with only a small crowd of several hundred people attending.[4] audiences steadily growing in subsequent years, in 2001 Roots and Blues moved to its current location and became an outdoor festival.[5] From its grassroots beginnings it has grown into the largest and most musically diverse Festival in the British Columbian Interior.[6] It has won many awards including[7] Okanagan, readers' Choice award for 'The most rockin' festival'.
Past performers
Past festival performers include:
References
- ^ a b Kohaly, Glenn (2010). Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival. SunCruiser Magazine: SunCruiser Publishing Inc. pp. 25–28. Archived from the original on 2012-09-17. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
- ^ "Photos - K'Naan at Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival 2010 | The Snipe News". Guttersnipenews.com. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
- ^ Cooperman, Jim. "In the Beginning was the Shuswap Coffee House". The Lakeshore News. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
- ^ Crocker, Scott. "Come Out and Support Your Festival". The Lakeshore News. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ McKerral, Teresa. "The Year We Went Big". The Lakeshore News. Retrieved 13 July 2012.
- ^ Carter, Laurie (2012). "Community Round Up". Okanagan Life Valley Guide.
- ^ "16th Annual Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival". KELOWNA.CityGuide.ca. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
- ^ "Protected Blog › Log in". Lifeundefinedphoto.wordpress.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-14.
- ^ "2013 Performers : Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival / Music / Canadian / International / World / Family Event". Rootsandblues.ca. 2013-10-17. Retrieved 2014-03-14.