L.A. Beat

Time: 11a.m.- 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.

Saturday South Stage (MC - Steven Foord/Mayor Mark Sadlier Brown)
noon: Nia

1:10 Workshop - Sunparlour Players, Sweet Alibi, High Society
Nathan

2:20: Nathan  http://www.nathanmusic.ca/

3:30: Susan McMaster  http://web.ncf.ca/smcmaster/

3:45:  Minor Empire  http://www.minorempire.net/

4:45: Volunteer Photo
5:00: Sarah McDougall  http://sarahmacdougall.com/

6:10: Magpie Ulysses  http://magpieulysses.ca/

6:30 Mayoral Address with the honourableMark Sadlier Brown, Linda McRae and Luke Thompson

7:40: Ben Caplan  http://bencaplan.ca/

8:40: Magpie Ulysses  http://magpieulysses.ca/

8:55: JP Hoe  http://www.jphoe.com/

10:00: Songwriter winner Matthew Robinson  http://matthewrobinson.bandcamp.com/

10:10: Quique Escamilla   http://quiqueescamilla.com/

11:20: Captain Tractor  https://myspace.com/captaintractor

12:30: Shout Out Out Out Out  http://www.shoutoutoutoutout.com/


 East Stage

Saturday East Stage MC - Gillian Moranz

12 p.m.: Jesse & The Dandelions  http://www.jesseandthedandelions.com/
1:05: Luke Thomson & The Howl         http://lukethomson.bandcamp.com/
2:10:Sarah Burton  http://sarahburton.ca/
3:15: Corin Raymond  http://www.corinraymond.com/
4:20: The Broken Mirrors  https://www.facebook.com/TheBrokenMirrors
5:25: High Society

 Lotus Land Stage Saturday
6:00 pm Prairie Tales 14 http://prairietales14.blogspot.ca/
7:00: Erin Dingle  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZUvDSnK8Oo
8:00: Paul Finkleman  http://www.paulomusic.com/
9:00: Steven Ross Smith  http://www.fluttertongue.ca/
10:00 Prairie Tales 14 http://prairietales14.blogspot.ca/

Sarah Jane Scouten  http://sarahjanescouten.com/

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

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


 

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

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





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

C.R. Avery  http://www.cravery.com/





Miss Quincy  http://www.missquincy.net

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


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




Sunparlour Players  http://sunparlourplayers.com/

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





Shayne Avec i Grec    https://myspace.com/shayneavecigrec
& Johnny McRae http://johnnymacrae.com/



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

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



 
George Fowler
 
Maureen and Friends