Folk fest reports record attendance

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Despite scorching temperatures and a few thunderstorms rumbling through, the 49th Winnipeg Folk Festival saw record-breaking crowds over the weekend.

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Despite scorching temperatures and a few thunderstorms rumbling through, the 49th Winnipeg Folk Festival saw record-breaking crowds over the weekend.

Attendance was 76,500, which includes the highest-paid attendance in festival history with sellouts for four-day tickets and four-day-with-camping tickets, according to the festival, besting 2019’s record of 76,000.

Last year’s attendance was 74,500.

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                                Crowd size was up at the 49th edition of the Winnipeg Folk Festival on the weekend.

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Crowd size was up at the 49th edition of the Winnipeg Folk Festival on the weekend.

The 50th edition of the Winnipeg Folk Festival will place July 10-13, 2025, at Birds Hill Park. Two festivals were missed owing to the COVID-19 pandemic; the first festival was in 1974, so the 50th edition would have been in 2023.

— staff

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