Rex Weyler, one of the principle organizers, emailed Cortes Currents a list of the15 acts performing at this year’s Lovefest. A number of local favourites are in the line-up.
The festival will be opened by the Klahoose First Nation and Brenda Hanson is among the performers.
Singer/songwriters Jemma Hicken, Jessie Roy and Sachika will be onstage. So will Scotty & Shelly, and the innovative professional multi-instrumentalist Michael Keith.
Emerging poet/songwriter Josephine Simpson grew up on Cortes Island.
As did Jack Weyler, from the Victoria band ‘And So Say All of Us.’
Heather Wolf frequently visits Cortes and the popular folk-roots quartet Willow come from Quadra Island.
There’s also an impressive line-up of acts from off island:
- Adonis Puentes was one of the nominees for ‘World Music Album Of The Year’ at the 2014 Juno Awards
- Pierre Schryer and Adam Dobres whose fiddle & guitar were such a hit at last year’s Love Fest
- Wylie Ferguson from Nanaimo, who just had a composition accepted by the Vancouver Symphony
- Marianne Grittani, whose musical roots go back to emerging folk music of the late 60s and the 70s.
- BC musician and story-teller Hazel Lennox
- the Unfaithful Servants’ from Victoria
The Festival runs from 11 AM to 9 or 9:30 PM at Linnaea Farm on Saturday August 12.
An adult ticket is $40 at one of the Cortes Island stores: – the Natural Food co-op, Cortes Market, Squirrel Cove General Store, Gorge Marina store, or Mansons Friday Market. It’s $45 at the gate.
Youth under 18 get in for $30 and the family rate is $80.
Originally published on July 14, 2023
Top image credit: Pierre Schryer and Adam Dobres – courtesy Lovefest
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