news.library.ualberta.ca
  • BLOG HOME
  • About
    • Author Profiles
    • 5 Things to Know About The Library – Online Edition
    • Newsletter Signup
  • Collections
  • Community
  • Wellness
  • Français
news.library.ualberta.ca
Banner
  • BLOG HOME
  • About
    • Author Profiles
    • 5 Things to Know About The Library – Online Edition
    • Newsletter Signup
  • Collections
  • Community
  • Wellness
  • Français
BorrowingCollectionsDigital Collections

Folk Fest at Home

by Amy Southgate August 5, 2020
written by Amy Southgate August 5, 2020

Even though our favourite festivals have been canceled this year, Edmontonians are keeping the Festival City spirit alive with socially distant celebrations. This weekend would have been the summer mainstay, Edmonton Folk Music Festival (EFMF). The festival has gone online this year with The Hill at Home, but we also found some ways to get folky with library resources!

The University of Alberta Library has many digitized collections, including the Edmonton Folk Music Festival Programs Collection in Peel’s Prairie Provinces! The collection includes high resolution, colour scans of EFMF programs from the first festival in 1980 through 2015. Take a trip down memory lane, put together playlists of mainstages past, or compile statistics of how many times your favourite band has performed with this great collection!

Every seasoned folkie knows the Sunday night finale song is the Canadian classic Four Strong Winds. But, before you sing along, why not learn a bit more about it’s songwriter, Ian Tyson in the biography Four strong winds : Ian & Sylvia available through our Curbside Pickup service.

Canada has a long history of folk and singer songwriters who pour their heart out through their songs. Biographies can be a great way to learn more, and gain some context on your favourite song’s history.

Get inspired by the long career of musician and Indigenous rights activist, Buffy Sainte-Marie, with her authorized biography, available as an ebook. 

Fellow female songwriter and prairie girl Joni Mitchell tells it in her own words in Joni on Joni : interviews and encounters with Joni Mitchell, also available as an ebook.

While we are missing Gallagher Park (and all the other great music venues around our city), remind yourself of the energy and emotion of being part of a crowd with multi-time EFMF performers, Blue Rodeo: On the Road a short NFB film, available online.

digital collections
0 comment
0
FacebookTwitterEmail
Amy Southgate

Amy holds a BA in Religious Studies from the University of Calgary, and a Library Information Technology diploma from SAIT. She can be found slinging books, in handmade outfits, at the Rutherford Library.

previous post
ACCÈS À DISTANCE À LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE POUR LES CHERCHEURS
next post
Cariwest 2020- Home Edition

You may also like

PRIDE 2021: MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS

February 25, 2021

Technology, Algorithms and the Internet in relation to...

February 23, 2021

Hidden Gems: Ethnologue

February 18, 2021

Activism for a Black Future

February 16, 2021

Feel-good reads and Favourites

February 11, 2021

Curbside Pickup: Behind-the-scenes of Augustana & BSJ

February 10, 2021

New OA Database: Black Freedom Struggle in the...

February 9, 2021

Afrofuturism for Black History Month

February 2, 2021

Hidden Gems: The Teaching Professor

January 28, 2021

New Archives Website

January 26, 2021

Leave a Comment Cancel Reply

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

Instagram Corner

Categories

  • Collections (89)
    • Borrowing (13)
    • Collection Connection (2)
    • Digital Collections (38)
    • Special Collections (5)
  • Community (153)
    • Awards (11)
    • Events (9)
    • Exhibits (7)
    • News (5)
    • Staff (42)
  • Digital Scholarship Centre (7)
  • Français (72)
  • Wellness (22)
    • Dogs in the Library (5)

BLOG ARCHIVES

Popular Posts

  • 1

    Hidden Gems: Ethnologue

    February 18, 2021
  • 2

    Library Remotely: Starting Points for Ebooks and Teaching

    July 20, 2020
  • 3

    PRIDE 2021: MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS

    February 25, 2021

Ask Us!

https://youtu.be/WUzJdzuyx1s

Newsletter Signup

Privacy policy

@2020- University of Alberta Library
The University of Alberta is situated on traditional Treaty 6 territory and homeland of the Métis peoples. Amiskwaciwâskahikan / ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᕀᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ / Edmonton


Back To Top