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Winnipeg Folk Festival 1977 - 1979

I volunteered as a photographer at the Winnipeg Folk Festival 1977 through 1979. If you haven’t been … you should go …

“They said, ‘You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are.’

The man replied, ‘Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar.'”

– The Man With The Blue Guitar – Wallace Stevens

Most of the descriptions are from memory and may contain errors. If you wish to correct an error or identify any performers, please send an email or leave a note in the comments section.

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Buffy Ste Marie performing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Workshop stage; Len Udow (left) at Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Workshop stage; Len Udow (left) and Gamble Rogers and Walt Lysack (right), Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Workshop stage; Gamble Rogers (right), Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Roosevelt Sykes performing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Crowd at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Performer at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Tim, Megan and Geoff Erickson, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Shari Ulrich and Danny Greenspoon at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Crowd at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

The Red Clay Ramblers; l. to r. Bill Hicks, Mike Craver, Jim Watson, Tommy Thompson and Jack Herrick at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Jack Herrick of the Red Clay Ramblers at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Brent Parkin and Gord Kidder of Houndog, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Harri Vallittu, Houndog, at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Barry Dunford of Houndog at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Allie Young with Les Balfa Frères, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Dewey Balfa and Dick Richard of Les Balfa Frères performing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Crowd at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

John Hammond, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

John Hammond, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Gerry and Ziz, Gerry Paquin and Gerard Jean, at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Performers at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1977

Mitch Podolak, director, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Ken Bloom performing on workshop stage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Floyd Westerman performing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Crowd sheltering from rain at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Jim Watson of the Red Clay Ramblers backstage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Dixie Flyers guitarist at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Dave Landy, photographer, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Crowd at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Mandolin player at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Garnet Rogers, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Winnie Winston, steel guitar player, workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Crowd sheltering from rain at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Utah Phillips on a workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Performers moving between workshop stages at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

L. to r. Winnie Winston, Ken Bloom, unidentified and Nancy and Norman Blake on workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Norman and Nancy Blake at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Winnie Winston, steel guitar player, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Tom Paxton (left) and Utah Phillips on workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Performers at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Duck Donald and Cathy Fink at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Ken Bloom at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Dave van Ronk at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

David Amram performing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park, Mb

1978

Barde performing at Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Larry Fisher demonstrating a mouth bow (?) in the Handmade Village, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

The Apple Chill cloggers performing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Jam session backstage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb. The young man on the right is Daniel Koulack

1978

Jam session backstage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Busker at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Bruce Cockburn and Tom Jackson (right) backstage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Dancing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Dancing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Walt Lysack and Claudia Schmidt, dulcimer duet, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Stan Rogers (2nd from left) at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Jean Christie, photographer, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Big Dave McLean at Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Crowd at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Crowd at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Dave Van Ronk and Rosalie Sorrels, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Duck Donald and Cathy Fink backstage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Crowd at Main stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Peter Paul Van Camp backstage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Jam session at Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb. Jim Watson (Red Clay Ramblers ) and Daniel Koulack on right.

1978

Brent Parkin and Gord Kidder of Houndog back stage at Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Blimp backstage at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Stan Rogers (center) backstage with Tom Jackson (background right) at Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Warming drums for performance backstage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1978

Chilean group performing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Chilean group performing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Al Simmons, The Human Juke Box, moving between stages at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Playground area at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Playground area at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Crowd dancing at at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Al Simmons, The Human Juke Box, performing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Crowd at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Sneezy Waters performing on workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Performer at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Crowd at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Dance grroup performing at Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Ensemble folklorique de la Rivière-Rouge on workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Ensemble folklorique de la Rivière-Rouge on workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Al Simmons, the Human Jukebox, at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Al Simmons, the Human Jukebox, singing the eye chart at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Valdy performing on the Main stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Jim Post at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Chilean performer at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Chilean performer at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Poet/spoken word performer at workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Elizabeth Cotton on workshop stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Sukay performing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Performers on the Main stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Performer on Main stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Crowd at the Main stage, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Jean Christie and Dave Landy, photographers, at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Klezmorim performing at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Accordionist, Village Green Morris Men, at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Village Green Morris Men at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Village Green Morris Men at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Village Green Morris Men at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

Village Green Morris Men at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

David Williams, Village Green Morris Men, at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Bird’s Hill park Mb

1979

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