Time: 4- 4 a.m.

Tickets $90 before July 12, $120 at the Gate

 South Country Fair is a rural, peace-oriented, camping, music and arts festival that manifests itself annually just outside Fort Macleod, Alberta.

We like to think of ourselves as exciting but civilized - a bunch of "jolly escaped asses" as D.H. Lawrence might have described us, who observe a solitary rule of conduct: ’Eschew Obfuscation’ (in Englische: Avoid Confusion; sub-text - be harmless).

We are not an anomaly, but a part of a much larger phenomenon of Folk and Roots music festivals Worldwide. Check out WRAD.CA for a glimpse of what’s happening in Western Canada and beyond.

But, back to our little corner... since the late 80’s SCF has brought together all of the elements of old-world festivals and the heady and exotic flavours inherent to international ports-of-call, combined with very high production standards for a festival of our size, juxtaposed against a big blue prairie sky on the edge of a natural riparian forest.

Our attendance average the last few years has been 2,500, and you can expect to see almost anything on stage, from dub and rant poets, art films, ’street’ performers, scathingly hot Cape Breton fiddling, hot-blooded bag pipes or Flamenco guitars, cool sarod or santur, djembe and/or dadouk, screaming electric guitars and mandolins - pretty much everything under the Sun has graced our stages in the last two decades.

Four performance areas. Three days. Too much to see. One Old Man River.

And of course there’s the Fair Mall, Kidz’ Kountry and an Awareness Tent, too. It all works together to provide a well-rounded, magnificent experience for everyone.

 South  Stage

 6:00 pm Maureen and Friends

7:00 Linda McRae http://www.lindamcrae.com/

8:10  Poet - Paul Finkleman http://www.paulomusic.com/

8:20 Petunia and the Vipers http://www.petuniaandthevipers.com/

9:30  Songwriter Winner - George Fowler

9:40 Reuben and the Dark  http://reubenandthedark.com/

10:50 Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer  http://www.harpoonistaxemurderer.com/

12:00  C.R. Avery http://www.cravery.com/


Lotus Land Stage

6:00 pm : Prairie Tales 14 http://prairietales14.blogspot.ca/

7:00:  Susan McMaster  http://web.ncf.ca/smcmaster/
8:00: Two Dope Boys in a Cadillac (Shayne Avec I Grec/Johnny McRae/Aaron Mercer)
Shayne Avec i Grec   https://myspace.com/shayneavecigrec
& Johnny McRae http://johnnymacrae.com/

9:00: Magpie Ulysses  http://magpieulysses.ca/

10:00: Prairie Tales 14 http://prairietales14.blogspot.ca/

Corin Raymond  http://www.corinraymond.com/

Luke Thomson & The Howl         http://lukethomson.bandcamp.com/

The Broken Mirrors  https://www.facebook.com/TheBrokenMirrors

Jesse & The Dandelions  http://www.jesseandthedandelions.com/

Sarah Jane Scouten  http://sarahjanescouten.com/

Sweet Alibi  http://www.sweetalibi.com/

Jaron Freeman Fox
& The Opposite of Everything http://theoppositeofeverything.com

Sara Burton  http://sarahburton.ca/

High Society  

Gordie MacKeeman   http://www.gordiemackeeman.com/
and His Rhythm Boys

Petunia & The Vipers  http://www.petuniaandthevipers.com/

Quique Escamilla   http://quiqueescamilla.com/

JP Hoe  http://www.jphoe.com/

Sarah McDougall  http://sarahmacdougall.com/

Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer  http://www.harpoonistaxemurderer.com/

C.R. Avery  http://www.cravery.com/

Minor Empire  http://www.minorempire.net/

Captain Tractor  https://myspace.com/captaintractor

Miss Quincy  http://www.missquincy.net

Linda McCrae  http://www.lindamcrae.com/

Ben Caplan  http://bencaplan.ca/

Reuben & The Dark  http://reubenandthedark.com/

Nathan  http://www.nathanmusic.ca/

Shout Out Out Out Out  http://www.shoutoutoutoutout.com/

Sunparlour Players  http://sunparlourplayers.com/

Sadlier Brown Band  https://myspace.com/sadlierbrownband



Steven Ross Smith  http://www.fluttertongue.ca/


Erin Dingle  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZUvDSnK8Oo

Paul Finkleman  http://www.paulomusic.com/

Joel Bryant & Pete Watson  http://www.reverbnation.com/joelbryantandpetewatson

Alex Webster & Cameron Prince  https://soundcloud.com/utwd-productions

Matthew Robinson http://matthewrobinson.bandcamp.com/
 
George Fowler
 
Maureen and Friends