‘Music makes everything better’: Annual winter folk music festival kicks off Monday

With artists like Flint and Feather, Noeline Hofman and many, many more, the festival is chock full of folk stars.

Festival organizer Rob Pape said this year is special, in part, because it has expanded to include Sunday for the first time.

“Finally, we figured out a way to be able to make this all fit,” Pape told CHAT News from inside Medalta on Friday.

Rob Pape, organizer of the Tongue on the Post folk festival, says the festival aims to bring the community together. (Bob Schnieder/CHAT News)

The Sunday show will feature Calgary’s Backyard Betties, Lethbridge’s John Wort Hannam and folk metal sensation Dream Heavy.

It’s not only the musical talent that makes the festival come together but it’s also the unique setting of the Medalta.

One performance will even take place inside a preserved historal kiln where bricks were once made.

But it’s how the festival brings people together that makes it all worth it, Pape explained.

“We look forward to this year after year,” Pape said.

He said it’s a time to “shake off some of those winter blues and connect with community and connect with musicians.”

“Music makes everything better.”

by Eli J. Ridder | @EliRidder