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1050: Folk Fest 2017

Since 1980, children in Edmonton have been forced to attend the annual Edmonton Folk Festival with their family. As they age, they gain Folk Fest survival skills such as begging for used food plates and estimating a safe number of deep fried Oreos to eat without throwing up. After high school, they spend all of their time standing in the massive line up for the beer gardens. The Folk Fest cycle is complete when they become those weird aunts and uncles who drag children of bed at 5 a.m. to catch the tarp lottery. Witness them all below.

 

People rush in to put down their tarps on Thursday afternoon. Brittney Hubley
Ian St. Arnaud and Luke Jansen of North of Here finish playing their first song on stage 2 at Edmonton Folk Fest. Brittney Hubley
Maddie Storvold out in the crowd before her set on Stage 2, with the School of Song. Brittney Hubley
The crowd at Stage 2 cheer for the School of Song at Edmonton Folk Fest. Brittney Hubley
“Natural Blues” breakout session featuring Amos Garrett, Cécile Doo-Kingué, Monkey Junk, Paul Reddick, Steve Dawson, and Tim Williams. Nik Bhargava
Watching stage 6. Nik Bhargava
Valerie June’s boots. Nik Bhargava
Andy Shauf plays Stage 6. Nik Bhargava
Some people never leave the beer gardens. Nik Bhargava
Folk Fest lit up with candles. Nik Bhargava
Brandi Carlile plays the main stage Nik Bhargava
Lights on the hill. Nik Bhargava

Rosty Soroka

Rosty Soroka is the photo editor at The Gateway. He joined the team based on his prolific resume of baby passport photos. Starting from babies, Rosty has worked his way up in the industry to photograph bigger clients such as shooting his uncle’s birthday party. Even though he has moved on to student journalism, he still feels deeply drawn to baby passport photos as the highest form of photographic expression.

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