Mission Statement

The Ottawa Folk Festival is a non-profit volunteer-based community organization which celebrates the creativity of musicians, dancers, artisans, and storytellers through an annual festival and a series of concerts during the year.

The Mandate of the Ottawa Folk Festival is to:

• Provide performers with a space in which creativity, imagination, and exploration are celebrated as fundamental to personal expression;
  
• Recognize dance as a means to both connect the body with the spirit and the music to ourselves; embrace the participation of visual artists and craftspeople as an integral component of the artistic community at the festival;
  
• Present the greater community with the opportunity to enhance their experience of the festival by listening to, sharing in, and creating music, dance and stories; treat our volunteers and staff, who are the heart of our organization, with respect and care, and provide them with opportunities for personal and professional growth;
  
• Consider our sponsors and friends as valuable members of our organization, whose presence, ideas, and feedback are essential to the ongoing vitality of the festival; enhance the cultural life and contribute to the economic activity of the local community, the city, and the region; and encourage a sense of community in all who participate in shaping the festival, while challenging ourselves to uphold the values the festival promotes.

Ottawa Folk Festival Board of Directors

Pam Marjerrison, President
Lynn Chiarelli, Vice President
Alan Marjerrison, Secretary (officer)
Nubia Ceremeno, Erin Barnhardt, Claudia Radmore, Roberta Huebener, Anne-Marie Brugger, Lynn Haggarty, Carol Noel

Staff

We gratefully acknowledge the support of our major festival sponsors: