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Oct 5. Loudon Wainwright III Interview « | » Buffy Sainte Marie |. An Interview with Executive Director Steve Edge on the 30th Anniversary of the Rogue Folk Club May, 2017 - Part I. Local journalist Tony Montague sat down with Steve Edge for a lengthy interview encompassing the three decades of the Rogue Folk Club, and even further back than ...
Steve Edge. Born in England, Steve Edge arrived in Canada in 1981 and in 1987, founded, with other musicians, The Rogue Folk Club, after he had started a Folk Music radio show on the UBC campus network. Expo 86 had demonstrated to Steve, the wealth of Canadian Folk music across the country. These musicians deserved broader exposure after Expo ...
Steve Edge, a founder of Vancouver’s Rogue Folk Club, is the recipient of the Slaight Music Unsung Hero Award for the Canadian Folk Music Awards (CFMA). The award will be presented at the CFMA Gala on December 3 at the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. Steve Edge is one of the founding members of Vancouver’s […]
Rogue Folk Club founder Steve Edge has been named the Slaight Music Family's Unsung Hero, in association with the Canadian Folk Awards.
- Outdoor Concerts?
- Moving Online
- The Rogue Reloaded
- What Now?
“We started trying to figure out ways that we can make a small outdoor concert series happen somewhere, as a way of keeping the live music going,” Steve said. “Then every time we tried to do that, the Covid restrictions got more strict, and there were other regulations too, so we had to give up that idea.” We go on to talk about how there’s always ...
“We started to think, well, maybe we could do some online shows. Then Hubcast Media, the company that’s been recording our shows and broadcasting on and off for a while now, said, ‘We just got a grant from Creative BC for some new cameras, and we would like to be able to do a virtual series.’ We had to invest in some lights and that makes it much m...
For Steve it was a reaffirmation of the amazing chemistry that occurs when musicians really connect with an audience, something that is missing when doing a strictly virtual performance. “We were able again to feel the energy that the audience gives back to the performer and vice versa. As a performer, you need that audience response. That was the ...
“It’s a struggle because you can’t really plan anything,” he said. “You book something, and then you find that the restrictions are such that you can’t have an audience or it’s not safe to have an audience. Our first show event in 2022 with Jim Burns – nobody bought tickets because they were terrified. We have had to push that one back as well.” A ...
Feb 2, 2023 · Steve Edge of the Rogue Folk Club will receive a Spirit of Folk Award from Folk Alliance International. The full list of winners is below, and below that, you’ll find a video of Steve receiving his award. Skip forward to about 2:19:00 to see Steve’s speech. Here is the full list of winners: Song of the Year (sponsored by Sound Royalties)
Jan 10, 2023 · Folk Alliance International has just announced the nominees for its International Folk Music Awards and the recipients of its Spirit of Folk prize. There's a Canadian on the list: Rogue Folk Club artistic director Steve Edge. The Spirit of Folk award honours and celebrates people and organizations actively involved in the promotion and preservation of
