Free pre-Folk Fest show features classics from Canadian canon

Canada Far and Wide: Grands Esprit
July 13 | Jericho Beach Park
Tickets: Reserve at thefestival.bc.ca
A free show launches this year’s Vancouver Folk Music Festival. Entitled Canada Far and Wide: Grands Esprit, the presentation is actually a curated concert that is stopping at music festivals across the country, with different Canadian artists covering songs from the Canadian songbook at each stop. Cellist Cris Derksen and Quebec’s Mélisande (électrotrad), who are colla