Vancouver Folk Music Festival will bring Marlon Williams back to town

New Zealand songwriter Marlon Williams generated some of the loudest applause at last summer's Vancouver Folk Music Festival.

Those who missed him at Jericho Beach Park will have a chance to discover what all the fuss was about.

That's because Williams will be back in town on January 29 at a VFMF concert at the Media Club.

Tickets go on sale on Friday (November 13) and are available online or by calling 604-602-9798.

In a review last summer, Straight critic Alexander Varty declared that Williams "appears to have emerged in the pantheon of the folk music greats fully formed".

"The young musician won the first spontaneous standing ovation of the day while sharing a workshop with two of the best, Richard Thompson and Mary Gauthier," Varty noted. "Many of those on their feet had probably never heard an old-school Italian tenor—there was something of Mario Lanza here, along with perhaps some mellifluous strains of Polynesian singing—but Williams’ ability to harness those glorious sounds to the old folk ballad 'When I Was a Young Girl' seemed new, and impressive."

Below, you can watch a video of Williams playing the same song in Melbourne earlier this year.