Lake Cowichan bluegrass fest now biggest of its kind in B.C.

Now based at Laketown Ranch Music & Recreation Park near Youbou, the Cowichan Valley Bluegrass Festival can accommodate upwards of 2,000 patrons.

COWICHAN VALLEY BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL Where: Laketown Ranch Music & Recreation Park, 8811 Youbou Rd., Lake CowichanThe lineage of the Cowichan Valley Bluegrass Festival can be traced back to 2002, when it began life as a tiny, homespun festival held at the Sooke River Campground.

Organizers eventually found a sympathetic location and made the move from Sooke to Lake Cowichan in 2019. Now based at Laketown Ranch Music & Recreation Park, a 250-acre multi-use entertainment complex near Youbou, the Cowichan Valley Bluegrass Festival can accommodate upwards of 2,000 patrons. That makes it the largest bluegrass and old-time music festival in B.C.Ticket sales thus far support his theory. “People who are into bluegrass are like curlers on on the Prairies.

Cowichan Valley Bluegrass Festival is a cut above the competition artistically, with several Grammy Award-winning and Juno Award nominated acts performing this weekend, including The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys , AJ Lee and Blue Summit , and Veranda . “When we brought in square dancing, we really lowered our age demographic,” he said with a laugh. “Bluegrass audiences, like folk audiences, these people are getting older. When we brought in Appalachian old-time square dancing, we had a really good demographic mix.”

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