Live Folk, Roots & Celtic Music in Vancouver BC
The Rogue Folk Club is a registered non-profit Society in the Province of British Columbia. It was formed in the Spring of 1987 to present concerts of Celtic, Folk and Roots Music in Vancouver. The Club is a founding member of the North American Folk Music and Dance (formed in 1989), and has been a member of the Vancouver Alliance for Arts and Culture since its inception.
The Rogue Folk Club provides a unique approach to concert presentation, offering audiences the opportunity to see and hear some of the most accomplished musicians and singers in the world in a relaxed, intimate setting.
The vast majority of our shows take place at St. James Hall (3214 West 10th Avenue, in Kitsilano) and we also stage several shows per year at the Capilano Performing Arts Theatre (2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver) in the Cap Folk & Roots Series - which is a joint venture of the Rogue Folk Club, Capilano Performing Arts Theatre, and the Vancouver Folk Music Festival.
"To promote and foster folk music and its cultural heritage through concerts, workshops, publications and other such means, thereby bringing the experience of folk music to as wide an audience as possible"
Membership of the Rogue Folk Club is open to anyone interested in Celtic, Folk and Roots Music, and costs $30 per year ($40 for families).
The benefits of membership include: voting at the A.G.M., discounts on admission to our concerts and dances, discounts on merchandise at our events, discounts on tickets for events such as the Vancouver and Mission Folk Music Festivals, discounts at selected record stores and restaurants in Vancouver, and a monthly magazine detailing Club events, reviewing CDs, festivals, concerts, etc.
The Rogue Folk Club presents around 50-60 concerts and dances per year in Vancouver. No other volunteer-run concert series does this much.
Our mandate is to entertain, educate and inform our audience by presenting internationally-renowned performers of Celtic, Folk & Roots music in an affordable, accessible, friendly, comfortable, smoke-free setting. We regard the quality of sound reproduction to be extremely important at our events.
Our principal venue is St. James Hall, which has seating at tables and chairs as well as some pews: it is a beautiful - de-sanctified - church, with a vaulted wooden ceiling, a dance floor, and a balcony. All our events are open to folks of all ages, and we offer discounts to seniors, children, and people with disabilities.
We encourage participation through volunteering, dancing, workshops, and interaction with the performers.
We make every effort to work with other folk music organizations in Vancouver and Victoria to minimize date conflicts, increase awareness about all folk music related events in the vicinity, and to offer incentives to our members to support them.
We are committed to cooperating with our neighbours with respect to minimizing noise levels outside the venue before, during and after our events.
Our booking policy is determined to a large extent by the availability - and affordability - of touring performers. These performers will be renowned for their abilities as instrumentalists, singers, entertainers - or preferably all three.
We are committed to presenting local performers as often as possible (within the above guidelines for headliners). We are also committed to presenting local performers as opening acts whenever we have concerts on a Friday or Saturday night (in order to keep the running time of our events at a reasonable level).
