Whether you’re a kid or not, get dressed up & visit our first ever pumpkin patch! Snap a photo in one of our decorated areas & grab a bite to eat too.

Tickets are $15 until Sept 15, & include a pumpkin & face paint/balloon art. Full event details below

Join us for this family friendly, outdoor fall event! It’s not just for kids either, so feel free to check it out with your adult friends too.

Get dressed up in your finest, funnest Halloween costume, tour our lil’ pumpkin patch and snap a photo in one of our decorated areas.

On Fridays and Saturdays, Mandy from MP Make-up Artistry is joining us to offer quick, complimentary face paints to visitors (first come, first serve). We’ll have a handful of food vendors on site so you can grab a snack or meal while you are here too.

On Sundays, Will from the Art of Magic will be entertaining visitors with his balloon art. Sunday also happens to be our vendor day! Check out the local food, clothing and craft vendors while you are here.

There will be best costume prizes, with separate prize packages for the best adult (16+) and best child’s costume (0-15 years).

Ticket price includes one pumpkin and a face paint (or balloon entertainment, depending on which day you attend) for adults and children. Tickets are $15 until September 15, and then increase to $17.50 thereafter. Tickets are limited.

Ticket purchase is optional for the accompanying adult(s) if you’re bringing kids. However, please purchase a ticket too if you want a pumpkin and/or a face paint.

Purchase one ticket for each child attending. While we haven’t sent a specific minimum age limit for a ticket, if your kiddo is old enough to walk around easily, we ask that you purchase a ticket for them so that they they can fully participate and get a pumpkin and face paint/balloon entertainment.

If your child is just beginning to walk, you may use your discretion if they need a ticket. However, at least 1 person in your group needs to purchase a ticket.

The Pumpkin Patch is open 10 am – 3 pm.

Pick up your ticket at our ticket booth on the day of event at Hunniford Gardens (8845 Aquarius Road, Prince George). We are located 11 km down Chief Lake Road.

Please note: tickets are non-refundable.

Pumpkins!

MP Make-up Artistry will be doing complementary face painting!

Hayride!

Food!

And much more!

It’s an outside event so please dress accordingly and will be cash sales.

Whether you’re a kid or not, get dressed up & visit our first ever pumpkin patch! Snap a photo in one of our decorated areas & grab a bite to eat too.

Tickets are $15 until Sept 15, & include a pumpkin & face paint/balloon art. Full event details below

Join us for this family friendly, outdoor fall event! It’s not just for kids either, so feel free to check it out with your adult friends too.

Get dressed up in your finest, funnest Halloween costume, tour our lil’ pumpkin patch and snap a photo in one of our decorated areas.

On Fridays and Saturdays, Mandy from MP Make-up Artistry is joining us to offer quick, complimentary face paints to visitors (first come, first serve). We’ll have a handful of food vendors on site so you can grab a snack or meal while you are here too.

On Sundays, Will from the Art of Magic will be entertaining visitors with his balloon art. Sunday also happens to be our vendor day! Check out the local food, clothing and craft vendors while you are here.

There will be best costume prizes, with separate prize packages for the best adult (16+) and best child’s costume (0-15 years).

Ticket price includes one pumpkin and a face paint (or balloon entertainment, depending on which day you attend) for adults and children. Tickets are $15 until September 15, and then increase to $17.50 thereafter. Tickets are limited.

Ticket purchase is optional for the accompanying adult(s) if you’re bringing kids. However, please purchase a ticket too if you want a pumpkin and/or a face paint.

Purchase one ticket for each child attending. While we haven’t sent a specific minimum age limit for a ticket, if your kiddo is old enough to walk around easily, we ask that you purchase a ticket for them so that they they can fully participate and get a pumpkin and face paint/balloon entertainment.

If your child is just beginning to walk, you may use your discretion if they need a ticket. However, at least 1 person in your group needs to purchase a ticket.

The Pumpkin Patch is open 10 am – 3 pm.

Pick up your ticket at our ticket booth on the day of event at Hunniford Gardens (8845 Aquarius Road, Prince George). We are located 11 km down Chief Lake Road.

Please note: tickets are non-refundable.

I explore what is beyond water, especially the resting water that is quiet and serene.  As I observe the reflections on the water, I delve into the dualities of reflection and depth. Water not only replicates the world and objects in its reflections but also replicates the dreamer as it invites the dreamer into a new experience. Clouds live in symbiosis with deep water as waterlilies with the sky. Water allows images to intersect with each other, making it a universal home for the world underneath and above. I explore this phenomenon using acrylics which has the benefit of conveying the degree of opacity. The depth of water is conveyed with more opaque layers of paint while a transparent and watercolour-like fluidity reveals the overlapping world of sky and water.  

I am moving from representation to abstraction in order to make the process become an experience of being in nature. In my process, there’s a balance between chance and control, unexpected and expected and coincidental and intentional. I like my brush to guide itself, making its own movements. I like to control the shapes by giving loose strokes a defined form. There are areas that are dense with delicate shapes and lines that merge and overlay, while there are areas that are airy, open and simple. Intuitive choices conceal some layers and brushworks and allow those underneath to rise above. Some brush marks fade, some redefine; some create their own form. The background becomes the foreground and the foreground merges into the background with some brushworks floating above the surface, some sinking below. This conscious and unconscious act of layering creates a depth of water, as well as the surface of the water, that reflects its imagined, unknown world above.

 As we know, water is a source of life, renewal, healing, change and reconciliation. It echos an intimate reflection of one’s own inner being. My paintings reunite me with many happy memories of being by the water. It becomes a metaphor for my inner peace and reconciliation. I constantly strive to express the natural beauty and what is yet to be seen.

Join our games master, Jonathan Thursfield, for a board games night at The Makerie!

Join us for a fun evening of Board Games, with our games master, Jonathan Thursfield!

The evening will have available a number of small games as well as several featured games (TBD).

Games are first come first served.

Session Fee: $15 per person + taxes

Push away from the table and take a break from the turkey by heading out to Huble Homestead to enjoy the fresh, fall air! This event features scarecrow making, crafts, and games for the entire family.

Enjoy the changing colours of the leaves while you sip from a hot drink, or sample the soup from the special autumn menu. Don’t miss your last chance to shop in the General Store, and take advantage of our season-end 10% off sale!

Bring the family out and enter the scarecrow making competition, enjoy a self-guided activity, and make a craft. Site tours will be available for those wanting to learn more about the history of the homestead! 

Whether you’re a kid or not, get dressed up & visit our first ever pumpkin patch! Snap a photo in one of our decorated areas & grab a bite to eat too.

Tickets are $15 until Sept 15, & include a pumpkin & face paint/balloon art. Full event details below

Join us for this family friendly, outdoor fall event! It’s not just for kids either, so feel free to check it out with your adult friends too.

Get dressed up in your finest, funnest Halloween costume, tour our lil’ pumpkin patch and snap a photo in one of our decorated areas.

On Fridays and Saturdays, Mandy from MP Make-up Artistry is joining us to offer quick, complimentary face paints to visitors (first come, first serve). We’ll have a handful of food vendors on site so you can grab a snack or meal while you are here too.

On Sundays, Will from the Art of Magic will be entertaining visitors with his balloon art. Sunday also happens to be our vendor day! Check out the local food, clothing and craft vendors while you are here.

There will be best costume prizes, with separate prize packages for the best adult (16+) and best child’s costume (0-15 years).

Ticket price includes one pumpkin and a face paint (or balloon entertainment, depending on which day you attend) for adults and children. Tickets are $15 until September 15, and then increase to $17.50 thereafter. Tickets are limited.

Ticket purchase is optional for the accompanying adult(s) if you’re bringing kids. However, please purchase a ticket too if you want a pumpkin and/or a face paint.

Purchase one ticket for each child attending. While we haven’t sent a specific minimum age limit for a ticket, if your kiddo is old enough to walk around easily, we ask that you purchase a ticket for them so that they they can fully participate and get a pumpkin and face paint/balloon entertainment.

If your child is just beginning to walk, you may use your discretion if they need a ticket. However, at least 1 person in your group needs to purchase a ticket.

The Pumpkin Patch is open 10 am – 3 pm.

Pick up your ticket at our ticket booth on the day of event at Hunniford Gardens (8845 Aquarius Road, Prince George). We are located 11 km down Chief Lake Road.

Please note: tickets are non-refundable.

It’s time to get spooky and bring on Halloween!  We are looking for merchants in good Halloween spirits to join us and showcase their unearthly wares. Mooohooohahahaha.  If you are maker of your own sinister creations, have a nice selection of goods and inspired seasonal items we invite you to the nightmare market.  We’ll supply the ambiance, Halloween inspired activities, tricks and some treats.  We encourage you to dress up, bring goods with a Halloween flare and have fun at this fantastic community event.

Prince George Folkfest Society board and staff are excited to announce our fall Warm Up to Coldsnap event featuring JUNO Award Winning musician, William Prince!

This event takes place October 28 at the Prince George Playhouse (2626 Recplace Drive). Doors open at 7:00 PM, with the show at 7:30 PM. Tickets are $35 (plus applicable taxes and fees) and are available online! We will also livestream the event live at a reduced ticket price of $15 (plus applicable taxes and fees) with our usual professional production and technical expertise provided by Russell A/V

Step back in time to Halloween 1982! Things are going to get strange, and they are going to get FUNKY!

Come get your boogie on and dance the night away with the soul-shaking sound, mind-blowing lighting, and visuals, and internationally acclaimed DJ / producer and future funk maestro DEFUNK!

Dress in your funkiest 80s gear for our costume contest

Supporting DJs:

DJ Nige

Inspire

Phat Funk

Bruce Illist

Live lighting and projection mapping provided by Visual Universe

FREE appetizers and snacks provided throughout the night

THE WASHBOARD UNION, Juno Award Winning, Three-time CCMA Group of the Year and five-time CCMA Roots Artist/ Album of the Year are among Canada’s preeminent country bands. Their songwriting and storytelling that has resonated with audiences from North America to Europe. THE WASHBOARD UNION keep the good times rolling with an irresistible blend of roof-raising anthems and poignant ballads, coupled with their impeccable three-part harmony and top-notch musicianship. This is a band that cares deeply about their fans, and anyone who has seen them live knows The Washboard Union engage with their audience at every opportunity.

On their new album Everbound, The Washboard Union secure their status as one of Canada’s preeminent country bands with 10 songs that celebrate the simple joy of life. The follow-up to their 2018 album What We’re Made Of—which earned the trio their first JUNO Award for Breakthrough Group Of The Year—Everbound keeps the good times rolling with an irresistible blend of roof-raising anthems and poignant ballads.

The impeccable three-part harmony and top-notch musicianship once again displayed by Aaron Grain, Chris Duncombe and David Roberts is only one aspect of The Washboard Union’s appeal. With about 30 songs in the running to make Everbound’s final cut, the group was determined to offer only their best material, aided by the keen ears of Nashville producers Gordie Sampson, Thomas “Tawgs” Salter and producer Karen Kosowski, who also co-wrote the album’s uplifting first single “Country Thunder.” Accompanied by a video starring puppet versions of Aaron, Chris and David, its quick rise up Billboard’s Canada Country chart made the song their highest charting single to date.

It’s all part of the unique relationship The Washboard Union shares with their audience that has evolved from playing the western Canadian bar circuit in the early 2010s to performing in front of over 200,000 people in North America and Europe last year alone. “We’re pretty positive people by nature,” Chris says. “We often hear that our music gives people hope, and that’s probably the thing that unites the songs on this album. There are rallying cries, but there’s also a lot of personal stuff too. If we’re able to put into words things that people sometimes aren’t able to say, then that’s a huge accomplishment.”

In alluding to the second single “Dock Rock” and songs such as “My Weekend Amen” and “Shut ‘Er Down,” Aaron adds, “As the album came together, it started to take on a real summer-y vibe, which we hadn’t intended but was really cool. At the same time, there’s the first real tear-jerker we’ve ever done, ‘More Memories Than Wishes,’ and a couple mid-tempo tunes that were new territory for us. We’re growing as writers, and we’re really thankful for our fans’ support as that’s happened. We’ve always felt like square pegs in a round hole in terms of our overall sound.”

That sense of gratitude largely inspired the album’s unusual title, as David explains. “The songs were giving us so much energy, and a sense of creative freedom that I don’t think we’d ever felt before. We wanted the album title to reflect that, and as the ideas popped up, we kept returning to this wordEverbound. It’s a made-up word that has real life meaning. To us, Everbound means never letting life set limits on what you can imagine and never losing that sense of wonder we are all born with. We hope people come up with their own definition, just as they can interpret the songs on the album however they want to.”

By now, fans are familiar with the Washboard Union’s origin story, but it bears repeating. Grain and Duncombe first met at age 15 in Kelowna B.C. when Chris’s father began dating Aaron’s mother. The pair immediately forged a close friendship and a few years later decided to move to Vancouver to establish a music career. There, they soon encountered Roberts who at the time happened to be living in a 1920’s Tudor mansion overlooking the beach. While Chris and Aaron had already developed their harmonizing skills, the addition of David’s voice opened up even more artistic possibilities. Relying largely on acoustic instrumentation, including Roberts’s historic washboard that gave the band its name, 2012 saw them release their independent self-titled debut, co-produced by Garth Richardson and the legendary Bob Ezrin.

Three years later, The Washboard Union signed to Warner Music Canada and the hits, along with the awards and accolades began flowing. It’s an impressive list of awards that attests to the band’s dedication and talent. They are 7-time CCMA Award winners which includes being the 2-year-reigning Group of the Year and winners of the Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year, bringing their career music award total to an awe-inspiring 28 wins. It’s a story not just about how three guys managed to make great music together and become one of Canada’s most successful and beloved country bands, but that they’ve done it through the genuine friendship they share. Chris says, “We are incredibly close. We always joke that if everything to do with the band ended tomorrow, the first thing we’d do is call each other up and say, ‘Wanna hang out today?’”

Aaron concurs, “Our friendship is definitely based on making music together, but it goes way beyond that. We talk to each other every day, whether we’re working or not, and our lives are so entwined that I can’t imagine that ever changing.”

It is indeed rare to find a band led equally by three distinct personalities. It’s not something The Washboard Union has gone out of its way to promote—their bond has naturally sent the message that all are welcome. As David says, “At one point, some of our female fans started telling us after shows that their husband or boyfriend wasn’t a country music fan, but after seeing us he became one. That’s one of the most satisfying things to hear, because it’s totally beyond our control.”

There are sure to be many more converts in the wake of Everbound as The Washboard Union continue to prove that creativity is not limited by the use of traditional instruments. Although they will still be called country, The Washboard Union will always sound exactly like who they are.