{"id":709462,"date":"2026-06-02T06:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709462\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:34:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:34:42","slug":"edmonton-folk-festival-2026-lineup-new-and-familiar-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/709462\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Folk Festival 2026 lineup: New and familiar faces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Edmonton Folk Music Festival<\/a> (EFMF) announced its 2026 lineup on May 28, featuring Of Monsters and Men, Nathaniel Rateliff, and Cat Power. EFMF will run from August 6\u20139, with tickets going on sale June 6. A total of 60 artists make up this year\u2019s festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I watch the ticket sales come in on June 6, the first 15 or 20 minutes pretty well tells me what I need to know,\u201d Terry Wickham, the festival\u2019s producer, said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world is full of great folk music. We only touch the surface of it,\u201d he said. \u201cMaybe we dig down and find a few diamonds, but there\u2019s never a problem there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, we had disappointments along the way, that\u2019s the nature of it \u2026 but I\u2019m really pleased with this lineup.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that headliners are more of a challenge to get these days as artists often make more money doing their own shows thanks to dynamic pricing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFortunately, they still like to play [festivals],\u201d Wickham said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Main stage acts and School of Song lineup <\/p>\n

Among this year\u2019s headliners is Nathaniel Rateliff<\/a>. He will close out the festival on the Sunday night solo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a full circle moment for us because when we booked him the first time, he was a solo. It didn\u2019t turn out that way because two months before [the festival] we got a call saying \u2018hey, he\u2019s got a band,\u2019\u201d Wickham said.<\/p>\n

Thee Sacred Souls<\/a> will end the first night of the festival. Of Monsters and Men<\/a> will close Friday night. Arrested Development<\/a> will return to Edmonton Folk Fest to finish the Saturday evening.<\/p>\n

Another main stage act will be Corb Lund<\/a>, a singer-songwriter who has more recently been campaigning<\/a> against coal mining in the Grassy Mountains.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been taking a lot of flack, in certain quarters, but it\u2019s a pretty folky thing to do really,\u201d Wickham said.<\/p>\n

Other main stage acts include Cat Power<\/a>, The Womack Sisters<\/a>, Buffalo Traffic Jam<\/a>, Leif Vollebekk<\/a>, Bombino<\/a>, Dailey & Vincent<\/a>, Amble<\/a>, and Annie & The Caldwells<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The School of Song will also return with Caylie G.<\/a>, Mitch Gorman<\/a>, Paul Cournoyer<\/a>, and The Western Thistles<\/a>. CJSR radio host, Rhea March, brings together four emerging artists each year to form the School of Song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Folk Music Festival (EFMF) announced its 2026 lineup on May 28, featuring Of Monsters and Men, Nathaniel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[257645,6175,49,48,257646,248878,23752,257647,255321,71276,257648,116102,36775,255319,203250,257649,203251,203252,81244,174757],"class_list":["post-709462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-arrested-development","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cat-power","tag-corb-lund","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-folk-fest","tag-edmonton-folk-music-festival","tag-folk-music","tag-leah-hennig","tag-nathaniel-rateliff","tag-of-monsters-and-men","tag-terry-wickham","tag-the-gateway","tag-thee-sacred-souls","tag-u-of-a","tag-ualberta","tag-university-of-alberta","tag-yeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}