Wow, What a Weekend! I don’t know where to start in thanking you all for making this year’s festival a most incredible event! The Performers, the Audience, the Volunteers; you all made the festival the success it was, and we could not have done it without all of you! The volunteers started to roll in on the Wednesday before to help with the set up, with Thursday being a big day, and a hot and sticky one too boot! With everything up and running, the gates opened at noon on Friday, with the opening ceremonies starting up about 2:30 with Councilor Keith Reed and MPP Lou Rinaldi joining in the festivities. What a great afternoon and evening of entertainment! Everyone was having such a good time we carried on till the wee hours around the campfire! What a Jam it was! We picked things back up again on Saturday, and once again the rain tried to dampen our spirits, but Erin McCallum’s streak prevailed as she chased the rain away for us with her mind-blowing set! Erin certainly came away with many new fans after that performance! Finishing off the day was the ever popular and so smooth, Jack DeKeyzer Band who kept the dance floor hopping with every number they performed! Once again the party continued around the campfire till the morning light chased the last of the music makers to bed for a few hours of shut-eye. Sunday was a great day in the park! We opened with Bim Ingersoll and friends with their death defying blues jam, followed by some entertaining spoken word from Charly Chiarelli, followed by Georgette Fry’s main stage workshop on Harmonies where she had the entire audience singing beautiful music together as a warm-up for the ever popular Shout Sister Choir! Next we featured local hero’s Campbell, Latimer, Wills, and Acerra, with some down home electric blues, warming up the crowd for the Georgette Fry Band, and finishing up the event with the heartfelt R&B sounds from the Ila Vann Band! We Thank each and every one of you for making this year’s festival a big success! We are already counting the days until the next one……… July 16 - The festival starts today! July 1st Update: Two weeks to showtime and it is shaping up to be a terrific weekend. We are still looking for a few good volunteers. Serviced campsites are almost completly booked. If you wish to reserve a campsite and/or would like to volunteer please contact us. Important Announcement: Due to a tempory health issue, Danny Brooks has had to cancel his upcoming appearance on Sunday July 18 at the festival. We wish Danny all the best for a speedy recovery. Adjustments in Sunday's lineup will be announced soon! June Update: Our lineup for the 2010 Festival is complete. May Update: We are thrilled to announce our festival programming for this year’s event! We have added some new pages to our site, which are accessible from the menu bar on the left-hand side of each page. Follow the links for information on Artist Line Up, Workshops, and Tickets & Camping. Advance and Online tickets will be available soon, and you can pre-register for camping by emailing us at festival@loyalblues.ca, or calling 613-392-1025. Interested in Volunteering? Please contact us at the above email or phone. March Update: The Festival Committee now has over 300 artist applications for 2010. We are still entertaining submissions and proposals for workshops and participative programming. We are pleased to announce that Danny Brooks and the Rockin' Revelators will be featured on Sunday July 18 courtesy of the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Frankford. |
Thank You ! We would like to sincerely thank all the people who helped us make the 2009 Festival possible. Our volunteer staff was overworked, unpaid and can't be thanked enough. The community support at all levels was terrific and we are looking forward to another wonderful weekend of music this year.
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