Money Problems Forcing N.L. Folks Arts Society, Annual Festival to Likely Shutter

Money problems forcing N.L. Folks Arts Society, annual festival to likely shutter

After nearly 50 years of highlighting the arts, along with traditional and folk music, the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival could be taking its final bow — along with the folk arts society that runs it.

Organizers say this years Folk Fest will ‘likely be its last’

NL Folk Art Society has announced that due to a loss of core funding from Arts NL, it will likely not be able to host the Folk Festival again next year. According to NL Folk Art Society Board president Julie Vogt the organization was denied a four-year-grant that it typically relies on to partially fund the festival. In an interview with the Muse, Vogt says that Arts NL is not to blame: “It wasn’t them, it was us, we made our bed now we have to …