Winnipeg Folk Fest, July 8 2011

The Winnipeg Folk Festival wooden sign

 

Cyrus Smith and Andrew Courtnage walked from Winnipeg to the Folk Fest at Birds Hill Park. Walked! It took 7 hours; 10pm to 5 am. Lindsay Wiebe of the Free Press is interviewing them.

 

Huge crowds at the Folk Fest

 

Parents and Kids love the Winnipeg Folk Fest

Sun Stroke?

 

The photo crew. Steve Ackerman on the left

 

Many many people come to the Folk Fest

 

 

Collecting valuable water at the taps

 

one of those iconic poles with arrows pointing to places all over it

 

 

 

 

Ecstatic dancing at the Winnipeg Folk Fest

 

Omar Souleyman July 2011

Wicked hat

 

The Secondhand Pants rock the Winnipeg Folk Fest.

Another passed out soldier

Some Folk Fest Fashions

Some very attentive juggling

Arne MacPherson

Joy on his hat

The shorts almost make you miss the fact that there is a pinwheel in his beard.

 

Hooray! for some reason...

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Dinner by Danny's Whole Hog

My old theatre buddy, Charlene Rowland

Dragonfly in the grass

 

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The Funky Meters play under an awesome light show.