The Vancouver Folk Music Festival (VFMF), founded in 1978, is an outdoor multistage music festival, located at Jericho Beach Park on the west side of Vancouver, British Columbia. It takes place annually, on the third weekend of July. The festival has attracted artists from across the world, including Adam Cohen, Ani Difranco, Utah Phillips, Ricky Pinball, Tuvan Throat singers, Sarah Harmer, Veda Hille, Feist, K'naan, and Ferron, among many others. 2016 Lineup The 39th annual festival was held July 15–17, 2016. Jojo Abot Ajinai Elida Almeida The Americans Faris Amine Geoff Berner The Bills Birds of Chicago Hayes Carll Martin and Eliza Carthy Bruce Cockburn The Crooked Brothers Élage Diouf Mike Edel Emilie and Ogden Lee Fields and the Expressions Dominique Fricot Martin Harley The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer Les Hay Babies Jolie Holland and Samantha Parton I Draw Slow Hubby Jenkins Kaumakaiwa Kanaka‘ole with Shawn Pimental Shane Koyczan and The Short Story Long Lakou Mizik Land of Talk Lisa LeBlanc Leftover Salmon Terra Lightfoot Little Scream Lord Huron Betsayda Machado y La Parranda el Clavo Mandolin Orange Mexican Institute of Sound Moulettes Nahko and Medicine for People Flávia Nascimento The New Pornographers Les Noces Gitanes Cian Nugent Lisa O'Neill Oh Pep! Oysterband Chris Pureka The Ragpicker String Band Karim Saada San Fermin Sarah Jane Scouten Ten Strings and a Goat Skin Trad.Attack! Twin Bandit Henry Wagons The Wainwright Sisters M Ward Lucy Ward The Weather Station Yemen Blues with Ravid Kahalani The Young’uns 2015 Lineup The 38th annual festival was held July 17–19, 2015. 100 Mile House Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson Annie Lou Matthew Barber and Jill Barber Beans on Toast Lurrie Bell Blind Pilot Breabach Basia Bulat Bustamento Sousou and Maher Cissoko Adam Cohen Diyet Cécile Doo-Kingué The Down Hill Strugglers Frazey Ford Fortunate Ones La Gallera Social Club Mary Gauthier Jenn Grant Ash Grunwald I'm With Her The Jerry Cans Angélique Kidjo Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba Pokey LaFarge Sam Lee (folk musician) and Friends The Lowest Pair Lucius Bongeziwe Mabandla Mama Kin Matuto Rory McLeod Melbourne Ska Orchestra Old Man Luedecke The Once Lindi Ortega Parsonsfield Perch Creek Grace Petrie Phosphorescent Les Poules à Colin Rising Appalachia The Sadies Said the Whale Scarlett Jane Shtreiml & Ismail Fencioglu Son Little Söndörgö The Strumbellas Tanga Richard Thompson Trampled By Turtles Ivan Tucakov and Tambura Rasa The Wilderness of Manitoba Marlon Williams Hawksley Workman Jasper Sloan