The Dilemma of Representation: Local Content at the Calgary Folk Festival, 1999-2009

st year of operation, provides a meeting place for musicians and folk music fans in the midst of the city’s downtown. Although it has recently begun to bring in diverse acts from around the world, has partnered with other Western Canadian folk festivals to hire popular headliners, and has broadened its roster to include a variety of musical genres not always thought of as “folk,” the Calgary Folk Festival (CFF) also gives local roots