Want some incentive to go? Kevin at Cowichan Valley Photos photographs the festival seriously every year. Visit the photo galleries below to see what a great festival this is!

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Are you Vancouver Islands next great songwriter?

The Cowichan Folk Guild, the folks who produce the Islands Folk Festival, proudly present the very first “Islands Singer Songwriter Contest.” Nine contest finalists will perform in front of a panel of music professionals and the entire audience on the opening Friday night of the 2010 Islands Folk Festival’s main stage.

Artists from a wide variety of genres are encouraged to submit their best song. The grand prize winner will receive $1,000 worth of studio recording time at Woodshop Studios, radio airplay of their song and television

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Ladysmith Festival of Lights, Ladysmith, British Columbia

Fireworks at the Ladysmith Festival of Lights, Ladysmith,

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The BC Forest Discovery Centre began life as a private collection assembled by Gerry Wellburn and his family. Today, the  collections include over 5,000 artifacts, operational steam locomotives, over 12 heritage buildings and an amazing collection of tools used in the logging industry. The centre is located on the Trans Canada highway just north of town, look for the large steam locomotive on the eastern side of the highway.

Many events are

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Keating Farm Estate was purchased in 2005 by The Land Conservancy, in part to protect many of the heritage building on the site but also to protect some wetlands and the general agricultural potential. Keating Farm Estate is located in the Koksilah area of the Cowichan Valley making the site readily accessible to locals and tourists. The estate features events all year and they have been putting on a great showing at the Cowichan Wine and Culinary Festival this year.

An annual borscht cook-off and lunch was held on Saturday

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Locally produced cheeses - Cowichan Wine and Culinary Festival

The Cowichan Wine and Culinary Festival started off with a bang tonight at the Satellite Bar & Grille at the Arbutus Ridge Country Club. The food was excellent as one would expect, take a look at what was available to sample:

Of course, one of the

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Averill Creek Wine, Cowichan Wine and Culinary Festival 2009, Cowichan Valley, Vancouver Island

Eat, drink and be merry! A grand thought, that and just what is in store at the fifth annual Cowichan Wine & Culinary Festival. The festival launches its celebration of the food and wine – and beer and cider — of this fertile region with an evening of fabulous food, wine and music in the Satellite Bar & Grille at Arbutus Ridge Gulf Club on Friday, September 18th where the wines of Alderlea Vineyards will

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On September 5, 2009 Cowichan Valley Photos is going to the Honeymoon Bay Outdoor Market on British Columbia’s spectacular Cowichan Lake to take in the annual Blackberry Festival. Vendors at the Honeymoon Bay Blackberry Festival sell blackberry products of all kinds: jelly, jam, vinegar to name a few and pies, pies, pies. We’re going early so we you can buy one of the 200 blackberry pies sold to raise money for the various Honeymoon Bay Community Society events: Bay Days, the Christmas “Pot Lick” Dinner and the Blackberry Festival.

Past years have seen some old classics arrive such as the SS Master built in 1922, the only remaining wooden hulled steam tug in North America and Glendevon, a 1944 ex Canadian Navy tug that has been lovingly restored.  Numerous

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