Valley Bluegrass Music Society

Banjo, mandolin, fiddle, upright bass and a few voices leaning into one microphone. If that is your idea of a Friday night, the Valley Bluegrass Music Society has one for you in Fort Langley.

What happens? Two things. There are Friday performances in the hall at St. Andrew’s on Glover Road, where the public is welcome and admission is taken in cash at the door: $7 if you are a society member, $10 if you are not. And there are weekly jams, the kind where players bring their own instruments and work through the standards together, which run from September through June and take the summer off.

Where exactly is it? St. Andrew’s is the heritage church at 9025 Glover Road in the village, the Fort Langley site of the United Churches of Langley. The church says the building has been in use since 1885 and is the oldest in continuous use in the province. It is the same hall that hosts the monthly Fort Langley Ceilidh, so if you have been to one you can find the other.

Which Fridays, and what time? This is where we have to send you elsewhere. The society’s public footprint is modest: a Facebook page and a standing listing in the Langley Advance Times community calendar. Neither gives us a fixed start time or a list of dates we can vouch for, so check the Facebook page for the next performance before you drive out, and treat the calendar listing as the reference for prices. When we confirm individual dates they will appear on our events list.

Do I need to be good to jam? We don’t know the society’s own house rules, and we won’t guess at them. Ask on the Facebook page, or turn up to a Friday show first and talk to the people holding instruments. Bluegrass jams generally run on courtesy more than chops, but that is a generalisation, not a promise.

Nearby

The Langley Community Music School teaches strings of the more classical kind. For the village around the hall, see our Fort Langley guide.

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