2 3 Inside Welcome/Acknowledgment 4 Contact Information 4 Getting Involved 5 Blast from the Past 6 Camp Etiquette RULES 7 Greatly Unexpected Expectations 8/9 The Artists 10-23 Campfire Jam 17 Schedule 24-26 Lineups Through the Years 27 The Knit(ted) Teepee 28/29 SITE MAP 30/31 Kidz/ Kountry 31 Awareness 32-35 Marina’s Cheesecake Recipe 36 Visual Arts 37 SCF Marketplace 38-40 SCF Faire Foode 40/41 Call For Poster Submissions 41 Message from the Mayor of SCF 42 Coordinators 44 A Very Special Thanks To... 44 Name that Camp Competiton 46 4 5 Welcome Getting to the Fair! involved with SCF If you’ve never been to our little festival, a special hello isn’t hard - we hope you find the weekend as invigorating as we do! We are an affiliation of like-minded individuals We like to meet like-minded people to share the from all walks of life who choose to express our artistic matchless beauty that is embodied by the word tendencies from within the borders of the South Country ‘festival’. Fair Association. More of a cost/time-share scheme than an event in the conventional sense, feel free to immerse/ If you want to volunteer or have a special talent submerge yourself in the special & unique qualities only you would like to share to help us continue to to be found at folk ‘n’ roots festivals -- dance, sing, have improve our little fair, talk to April at the Info/ fun, but be harmless and take care of each other. Volunteer Tent. On page 3 there is a list of rules; take the time to read In exchange for your time, you get a reduced and observe them. Please help us continue the tradition! rate on the cost of your ticket and you get to Don’t forget... experience a level of conviviality known only to those who take ‘the plunge’ plus you get a snazzy teeshirt in the bargain, not to mention Contact the free volunteer BBQ Thursday evening apres information the volunteer orientation, followed by a concert at East Stage, with performances from our Mayor South Country Fair Association Washboard Hank and rockabilly trio Eve Hell. www.southcountryfair.com If the Fair is already over and this short missive subscribe to our electronic newsletter! finds you nostalgically thumbing through the, by now, well-worn pages of a SCF program email: [email protected] book, you can email our Volunteer Coordinator Box 1251, Fort MacLeod, AB T0L0Z0 and set yourself up early for next year - [email protected]! South Country Fair gratefully acknowledges the financial Canadian Poets for their tireless work and finally the people support we receive for programming from the Government of Alberta for the perennial support we enjoy, designed to of Canada through the Canadian Heritage Canada Arts benefit all Albertans, from Alberta Lotteries and the Arts Presentation Fund, and indirectly through the participation Organization Operating Grant through the Alberta Foundation of Canada Council For The Arts. We also thank the League of For The Arts. 6 7 CAMP ETIQUETTE RULES Blast from SCFs past... 1. ESCHEW OBFUSCATION Bart Willis and Bernadean. 2. NO DOGS 1988/1990-ish. 3. NO GLASS 4. NO UNATTENDED FIRES Jame Mcdowell (l), 5. NO AGGRESSION, FIGHTING OR SWEARING John Wort HannamEarth, (r), Dwayne Donald 6. NO CAR STEREOS, RADIOS OR BLASTERS TO BE USED IN THE (falling), about 1997. CAMP 7. NO FIREWORKS 8. NO ILLICIT DRUGS 9. NO LIQUOR IN MAIN STAGE AREA 10. NO INTOXICATED PEOPLE ON SITE, NO UNDER AGED DRINKING Old site, John 11. NO UNAUTHORIZED VEHICLES Zoeteman Park, 18+ years ago 12. BEACH IS CLOSED AT SUNDOWN. RIVER CAN BE DANGEROUS - DON’T SWIM ALONE. SWIM AT OWN RISK. 13. NO LITTERING – PLEASE CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELF. Rawn Wolfe 14. USE THE PORTABLE TOILETS, NOT THE BUSH Very First Fair, 1987. On stage is Great 15. RECYCLE IN PROPER BINS Western Orchestra, our very first touring 16. GATE WILL BE CLOSED FOR ENTRY AT 1:00 AM NIGHTLY act. David Wilkie, Cindy Church and Nathan Tinkham. Complaints regarding behaviour will be treated on a two strike basis - first one gets a warning, second strike results in being escorted from grounds. East Stage, 17. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND! approx. 1998. Much like SCF itself, this years’ graphic is a community affair. The banner was designed by Ryland Moranz, Alex Pavlenko, 29 years ago. Maureen Chambers, The woodcut flowers are Helen Folkmann’s, Gillian Moranz, from 1994. Trent Moranz. Trent Moranz colourized it. Voila! 8 9 Greatly Unexpected Expectations by Billy Bowlegs “I am a balance freak in a dead football coach’s pants.” – Divine Right Davenport In the beginning, we believed our own lies. “South Country Fair is an important regional folk music festival that acts as a showcase for the club scene across Southern Alberta.” Or something similar – it’s strange how your dreams come true if you just keep your head down and work at the thing you love. After three decades the urge to look back and survey the trail we’ve taken is difficult to resist. There are dangers: the odds are good that at least one boot will get suctioned down into the hopeless muck of sentimentality. Another is that you’ll attempt, insipidly, to restate your vow of commitment to the ideal that Viewed that way, these flashes strung together form got our collective steam up to start with. almost three whole months of uninterrupted festival. “South Country Fair is a pirate enclave that once a year Uh, not counting a week either side representing setup warps in from Porto Bello for a few days, then ghosts and takedown. Between, we’ve held that bright line back out to wherever it came from again.” and managed to take all the flags we set out to take. And then some... We started out as a band of merry, carefree, somewhat bedraggled young men and women; a brace of jolly “South Country Fair is a human institution.” It’s the escaped asses who embraced ideals of peace on Earth “institution” part that rubs. We ponder, after 30 years, and wanted nothing more than to save the planet the dangers of becoming a countercultural parody of from ruin whilst listening to some strange new/old/ the dark machines we rage against. A little too close new music outside in the dark together. There wasn’t to letting dogma overtake charisma, just to grease a decent credit score to brandish among the lot of us. the progress of the unintentional edifice. A little too Well except as luck would have it, one. slick. A little too on-message. A little too invested in the talking points we’ve strenuously avoided “crafting”. That scorched scrap of plastic carried the first two or Because the kind of craft and artifice we want to stay three festivals, if that’s what you wanted to call them... invested in is the underappreciated hard work that single-day events that ran from noon to midnight on goes into writing an amazing lyric, and then another. the third Saturday in July. In getting a musical lick right, and then another. In pulling together those kinds of humans, and the ‘The Long Day’, that’s what some call us. Because Time humans who appreciate them. slows, shivering on an event horizon where all days run together – there is no difference or bright line between In shivering on the event horizon, bathing in novalight. this Fair and any other iteration of it. They have all been part and parcel of one long day, a series of nova flashes punctuated by a few months of quietus, after which the rogue star picks right up where it left off. 10 11 The Artists Amelia Curran A Canadian singer-songwriter born and raised in St. John’s. From busking on the streets of St. John’s to her first album release in 2000. Amelia’s knack for writing has yielded another 6 albums since. In 2010 Amelia was awarded a Juno in Billie Zizi This energetic lady mixes blues and jazz to create a Roots and Traditional Albums for self described “jazz influenced folk with dirty guitar.” We may Hunter Hunter, the first to be have missed out on this stunning natural-born talent if it weren’t recorded in Curran’s home-town . for an injury that ended her professional soccer career before it Her music has been described by had gotten started. Like fate itself her father booked a gig for the National Post as “a bit like them and the rest is history. Her solo album Gun Metal Dress Leonard Cohen being channeled in was released Feb 2015 and has since been hitting the festival a dusty saloon by Patsy Cline.” Which helps to describe how she scene. With one album out and nowhere to go but up Billie Zizi is very much an author of songs, delivering meaning in every has found a wonderful career. - CC lyric. - CC billiezizi.com ameliacurran.com Blackfoot Big Rude Jake Medicine Toronto born, Hamilton based Speaks guitarist/vocalist Last year we had Jake Hiebert aka Big Rude the honour of Jake, blends jazz, swing, starting our gospel, rockabilly and blues festival off with with a touch of punk. He has this amazingly been performing this blend powerful dance of music since the early ’90s. performance. This He will be bringing all of that year there will be to this years fair. He will be more dancers and bringing all of that the this an even bigger energy to awaken and inspire you on Sunday year‘s Fair.