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Lethbridge Roots Music Festival

Saturday, August 20, 2022

  

The Lethbridge Roots Music Festival is a free, family-friendly, all-day festival featuring multiple live music stages, 

children’s activities, music workshops, vendors, food trucks, and a beer garden.  See the 2022 lineup below.


The Lethbridge Roots Music Festival takes place in Lethbridge’s newest park. Legacy Regional Park is the first major park on the city’s north side, spans 73 acres and is designed for people to play, relax and connect with their community. The event will highlight some of the new amenities at the park, including the Belvedere Amphitheatre, Legacy Picnic Shelter, Pavilion Community Room and the new Spray Park.


Festival Artists 2022

John Wort Hannam

John Wort Hannam

John Wort Hannam

 The well known Southern Alberta musician and band are touring his latest album, Long Haul. John has a few feathers in that lucky hat for his previous recordings. Feathers that include a JUNO nomination, a Canadian Folk Music Award for Best Album of the Year, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, a Kerrville Texas New Folk win, and numerous Western Canadian Music Award and Canadian Folk Music Award nominations. 

Ryland Moranz

John Wort Hannam

John Wort Hannam

 Both in his own right as a solo artist and as an integral member of Leeroy Stagger’s potent alt. country outfit, the Rebeltone Sound, Ryland spends considerable time traversing the highways and byways of Canada, the US, and Europe. South Country Fair visitors will know Ryland from seeing him on stage there since he was a toddler. Now he's bringing his exciting full band to the festival.

Braden Gates

John Wort Hannam

Magnolia Buckskin

 "my name is braden

i enjoy writing songs and using a fiddle or guitar to play them

i like to wash dishes and play floor hockey

music has taken me all over the world to places like red deer, edmunston, vegreville, mission and regina "

Braden's album Kitchen Days has also taken him to the 2022 Canadian Folk Music Awards where he won

Traditional Folk Album of the Year.


Magnolia Buckskin

Magnolia Buckskin

Magnolia Buckskin

Featuring gorgeous three part harmonies with a range of instrumentation, Magnolia Buckskin bring their years of friendship, humour and love of music to the stage, telling stories that evoke a panorama of human experiences. Kathy Cook, Natasha Sayer and Corry Ulan draw upon their prairie roots, delivering a blend of indie bluegrass, folk, and pop music on guitar, banjo, mandolin, accordion and bass.

Makiisma

Magnolia Buckskin

Bryan Bradfield

A challenge to write a song led Megan Brown to become the alt-rock artist Makiisma (Mah-kees-ma).  Having performed and toured as a violinist and vocalist with numerous bands over the years, Brown is now heading up a seven-member band whose self-professed style is "doom folk", merging together classical music with elements that are heavy, raw, and expressive.

Bryan Bradfield

Magnolia Buckskin

Bryan Bradfield

Local dobro player Bryan Bradfield is a fixture of the Lethbridge music scene and has sat in with many groups over the years, in addition to his solo shows. As well as  performing for attendees at the Lethbridge Roots Music Festival, Bryan will share his expertise by teaching a workshop on the dobro, one of three unique music workshops offered at this year's event.

Papa King

Music Workshops

Music Workshops

 "Papa" King Cole is a singer / songwriter best known for original blues tunes and often found heading up a local band called The Boogiemen. 

Music Workshops

Music Workshops

Music Workshops


Vocal harmony workshop:  

Magnolia Buckskin


Dobro workshop:  

Bryan Bradfield


Songwriting workshop:  

Reid Seibert / Karen Romanchuk    

Thanks to our sponsors for making this possible

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