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Around Town: Praise Fest, Folk Fest, Whitecaps Faith Night, L’Arche Softball

by Flyn Ritchie • July 23, 2015 • 0 Comments

Metro Vancouver has not experienced a really big festival of Christian music for years. That situation will be remedied just over a week from now (August 1) with Praise Fest at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds’ Stetson Bowl. Joining headliner TobyMac…

Blues and Gospel will share the stage at Folk Fest’s Sunday morning workshop

by Flyn Ritchie • July 9, 2015 • 1 Comment

Many top blues musicians got their start with gospel music. For Lurrie Bell it was the other way round. His father was a noted blues harmonica player; Muddy Waters, Big Walter Horton and other band members were regular visitors to…