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Fiona Black

Aug 12, 2026

16:21
You know, obviously a lot of changes have happened with folks, like, post-pandemic, but is there, like, a change that the festival's over- overgone in the last decade or so that sticks out to you?
16:31
We trimmed down the number of stages.
16:33
You know, I think most festivals have a pre-pandemic world and then the post-pandemic world.
16:39
Yeah, when we came back in...
16:41
I wasn't involved, but when the festival came back in 2022 for their first edition since 2019, we went down to three day stages and the main stage, and it had been at five, originally six day stages and the main stage.
16:54
So it was a seven-stage festival.
16:56
It did pare down to a six-stage festival.
20:25
Is there anything that you're particularly keeping in mind when you're programming those stages? There's something that you like to kind of see happen when, when people are up there.
35:51
And she says one to watch this weekend is Ireland's Joshua Burnside.
35:56
Joshua Burnside, he's kind of the sleeper hit of the festival.
36:00
He's from Northern Ireland.
36:01
There's a ton of Irish people in Vancouver.
36:03
Yes.
36:04
So they know who he is.
36:05
He's a really kinda up-and-coming rising star.
36:07
So he's having his Canadian debut, and he's got family in Vancouver.

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