Interested In Performing at Folk On The Rocks?

The 28th annual Folk on the Rocks Music Festival will be held July 18-20, 2008 at the Long Lake site in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

Each Year we programme approximately 25 artists from around North America and overseas. Typically, the composition of our anual line-up would be somewhere in the region of 50% Northern performers (living or originally from NWT, Yukon or Nunavut) and 48% coming from elsewhere in Canada or the USA. 2% would come from overseas. All Musical genres are considered. Artists perform one concert and participate in several workshops (sing-arounds, jams or developmental workshops for the general public).

Folk on the rocks receives over 200 submissions a year from artists around the world. Our Selection Comittee consideres every submission. We also consider recommendations made by other festival producers, audience members and artists. Programming decisions take into consideration the strength of an artist's performance and material, the overall variety of the Festival's artistic program and the artists ability to provide original workshop ideas.

How To Apply

We are currently accepting submissions for the 2008 festival. If you would like to be considered for our festival, please send CD's and minimal printed materials before January 15, 2008 for southern musicians and March 1, 2008 for northern performers (NWT, Nunavut and the Yukon).
Please do no consider a link to your website or printed material without an accompanying CD as a submission.

You can download an application here.
(Document is in Adobe Acrobat format)

Send your sumbission to:

	        Folk on the Rocks Music Festival
	        attn: Selections Committee
	        Box 326
	        Yellowknife, NT
	        X1A 2N3
	        Canada
	

If you have any questions or concerns about Folk on the Rocks application procedures, and are unsure what to include in your submission package please call Ruth Heijne, Office Manager at (867)920-7806 or email us to receive an application form.

Application Follow-up

As the Festival is a non-profit organisation run almost entirely by volunteers, we aim to keep administration costs to a minimun. We cannot write or telephone everyone to confirm receipt of submissions, but we will send you an email confirmation of receipt of your submission. Bookings are normally completed by late March. If you have not heard from us by then, you can assume that we were not able to include you in the line-up.

Thank you very much for your interest in our festival, and good luck!