27th Annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival: Day Two July 17, 2004MusicRaymond Tomlin Oliver Schroer, Kelly Joe Phelps and other on workshop Stage 2 Well, here it is the first full day of the 27th annual Vancouver Folk Music Festival, following a fabulous first, Friday evening series of concerts (here and here), with Janis Ian and Mercan Dede as particular standouts. Coming up on the main stage tonight, B.C.’s own The Bills (formerly The Bill Hilly Band) and Bruce Cockburn, while this afternoon, it’ll be one workshop after another, on any one of the seven stages. Well, back I go to the Festival to catch Ellen McIlwaine, Po’Girl, Utah Phillips, Martyn Joseph, Odetta, and so many more fine artists. Raymond Tomlin Raymond Tomlin is a veteran journalist and educator who has written frequently on the political realm — municipal, provincial and federal — as well as on cinema, mainstream popular culture, the arts, and technology. See author's posts