AUTHOR Roberta Bagshaw
signs copies of No Better
Land, the 1866 diaries of the
Anglican Colonial Bishop
George Hills, at Sylvan in
Edgemont Village.

A Folk Fest feast

BY MICHAEL BECKER
News Editor

IF music is the food of life,
- Jericho Beach Park is the place
.-to be this coming weekend to
feed the spirit.
And cooking up the batch that is the [9th
- Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival is a
. new artistic director.
’.., Dugg Simpson took on the job after Sal
> Ferreras, who programmed the show last
year following the departure of Gary
Cristal, left the Vancouver Folk ifusic
Festival to work on a music festival project
with Concord Pacific.
"It failed to materialize, but the Jericho
Park shindig survives.
_ Simpson is a folk music veteran. He has

been with the festival in various roles “just
about for ever.” A friend of his (Wendy
Solloway) was the volunteer coordinator at
the time of the second year of the festival.

Two weeks after he stepped off the plane
frum Windsor, Ontario he joined up.

* Solloway and Simpson had worked
together on a weekend folk club in Windsor
in the 1970s. “it was a bunch of people who
would get together and assemble a coffee
house.

“We'd bring in the boxes with the table
cloths, the wine bottles with the candles.
There was a lot of interesting stuff going on
in those days. David Essig was just coming
up then. Willie P. Bennett, Nancy White. It
was a good little scene.”

Fast forward to 1996 and another really
gocd scene. This year’s “gentle” headliners,

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