45th Anniversary Round-up Dinner and Dance
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Join Coyote Creek Band as The Lethbridge Folk Club presents a fitting Round-up to close off our 45th Season.
Come to our grand celebration. Let’s mark this milestone together as a community united by the love for folk music for 45 years.
Bringing live music to Lethbridge for 45 Years
In the summer of 1979, various people involved in the local music scene met around a table in Diamond City
to formally start the Lethbridge Folk Club. Jim Mountain, Doug Snelling, Maureen Chambers, Barry Hegland, Ross Beamer, Ian Burnett and others came together to start a club dedicated to their love of music, particularly acoustic music.
Little did they know that 45 years later, the legacy they began would be alive and well.
In addition to special guests and activities befitting this event, the Coyote Creek Band will play for our dance.
Coyote Creek Band has played in Southern Alberta for the last 24 years. Playing from the Lacomb/RedDeer area to the Pincher Creek area. Hosting the Jam in Longview for 14 hrs and still managing to play festivals and many private events. They are a unique Country Dance band that hopes everyone enjoys listening as much as we love performing for them. Toe-tapping music that is hard to resist on the dance floor. A five-piece Band that enjoys what they do.
Organizer
The Lethbridge Folk Club was incorporated as a non-profit society in 1979 by many diverse people to provide a venue and forum for local, national and international folk music. The late, great Stan Rogers regarded the Lethbridge folk Club as one of the top five clubs in North America. Almost all major Canadian folk music acts, including Valdy, Spirit of the West, the Rankin Family, and Connie Kaldor have performed at the club. More recent acts include Peter and the Wolves, Lennie Gallant, Oscar Lopez, and Sid Marty with Wailback. OUR MISSION The Folk Club has operated in many different venues over the years, such as the German-Canadian Club, the Moose Hall and the Wolf’s Den & The Cave at Lethbridge College and currently at the Army Navy Air Force Veterans Club downtown. The Folk Club fulfills its mission by hosting concerts and open stages regularly. Folk, roots, blues, bluegrass and Canadiana are a few of the genres we explore, finding notable musicians for you to experience. OUR VISIONThe Lethbridge Folk Club intends to renew it’s energy and commitment to Folk Music in Lethbridge by continuing to provide a venue for new and emerging local and regional artists, supporting entertainment, educational and community initiatives that enhance the live music experience for all, protect our sustainability by becoming a registered Canadian charity and commits’ to reestablishing the Lethbridge Folk Festival as an annual Lethbridge event by 2029. The Lethbridge Folk Club, founded in 1979, is a non-profit organization run entirely by volunteers.