Free! Folk! Fun!

These are three of our favourite words and this year, the site is completely flipped and we’ll have half of the festival grounds open to the public for free.

With extra programming we’ve also added another day of the festival for a grand total of five days. With so much to do at the festival we’re offering a few picks of free things you can do at our festival whether you bought a ticket or not.

·         Workshops

The Legacy Stage is located at the tip of the park and has the best view of the water. Here, you can try out a slew of offbeat and hands-on workshops from yodeling to learning how to play the ukulele.

Meanwhile, catch intimate song circles and conversations with some of our headliners and local artists at the Slackwater Stage all thanks to the Ottawa Folklore Centre.

·         Dance Tent

We have a springboard-loaded dancefloor for a reason. The dance tent has always been a hit at the festival, and this year is no exception with the PSAC-AFPC stage right beside it.

·         Free concerts

Saturday at PSAC-AFPC stage is looking especially bouncy thanks to the Kitchen Party, a superband of stompin’ bluegrass artists, and the Paul Midon, Mexico’s one-man human orchestra.

Sunday is truly a mix bag of free concert with Full-tipped Sleeve’s indie folk, beatboxing courtesy of Julia Dales and a bunch of our artists covering each others songs.

There’s a lot more going on including mural painting, the community tent and a musical petting zoo to name a few so take advantage of the free folk fun!

- Juanita