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Canterbury Folk Festival Celebrates 150

Wednesday, 5 July 2017 at 07:38

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Every province will be represented by a special artist as the Canterbury Folk Festival begins in Ingersoll.

INGERSOLL - The Canterbury Folk Festival will be filling the town of Ingersoll with live music for three days. 

Thousands of people are expected to attend the free festival this weekend. Things get started on Friday night with 5 bands lined up and Lennie Gallant closing the show. Chair and Artistic Director Ted Comiskey tells Heart FM the event will once again be Waste Free thanks to the Transition to Less Waste team. 

"Bit by bit we have made Canterbury zero waste and they have done a fantastic job and it will continue on - that is our goal to make it a zero waste festival. We have been encouraging other festivals to do the same thing and it has been working. The whole idea is that we can live and enjoy life without producing waste or what waste we have, finding other means and uses for it other than just going into a landfill. We hope that someday, landfills will just be totally out of the question." 

Comiskey says they have acts coming in from all across Canada including Valdy from British Columbia. 

"We are bringing in a highlighted artist from every province; every province will be represented here a the Ingersoll festival. We have Valdy coming in from B.C. and at the other end we have The Once coming in from Newfoundland." 

Some of the Ontario acts include Pavlo, Ian Thomas, and Tia McGraff. Friday night also features the Swine and Dine pig roast and on Saturday they have the Downtown Sidewalk sale. 

Each day will feature five acts - you can see the entire list of performers online here. 

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