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Owen Sound Celebrates Canada Day!

June 25, 2007

Canada Day!Starting at 12 noon on July 1st, with a program stretching over two days, Kelso Beach Park will be buzzing with activity.

The Fulfillment of A Dream Native Arts Festival produced by Anishinaubaek author and cultural producer Basil Johnston returns, with a fantastic entertainment showcase July 1 and 2. Both days begin at 12 noon and include an afternoon and evening of
performances by established and emerging artists alike. Performers include Juno nominees Digging Roots and, from Central America, the Surco Dancers.

On Canada Day kids are welcome to bring a swimsuit and towel to try the Crazy Canuck Waterslide. There are games, face painting, bouncing castles and pony rides for the kids and Randy’s Challenge Games for older kids and teens. As always, a great variety of food and refreshment vendors will be on hand as well.

Magic-lovers will enjoy the strolling performances of John T the Magic Man. His shows are always entertaining and fun for all ages. John T will be providing walk-around magic on Canada Day and will also perform two special stage performances near the entrance to Kelso Beach Park at 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. on July 1st.

Leading up to the fireworks on Canada Day is a great entertainment line-up featuring Rewired. An original and dynamic four-piece homegrown Owen Sound band, Rewired features songs from Led Zeppelin, Melissa Etheridge, Heart, Sass Jordan, Rush, and many more. Join Angele, Scott, Roger and Jay and ROCK your Canada Day with Rewired.

Opening for Rewired is Turnerbridge, an innovative acoustic quintet from Bruce County. Turnerbridge plays songs drawn from the joys and tribulations experienced in the courageous act of living an ordinary life. The emotions of the lyrics, whether funny, sad or inspirational, are underscored by the music of guitar, mandolin and keyboard and by the group’s warm vocal harmonies.
Owen Sound Celebrates Canada Day!
Also performing during the evening event, 11 year old singing sensation Rain Richardson. Rain is from Six Nations and is one of the performers featured in the Festival of Native Arts. Rain says, “I started to sing when I was six years old and I love it! I recently performed in the Barrie Jazz & Blues Festival for the first time and I’m honoured to sing O Canada at Owen Sound’s Canada Day Celebrations.” Rain will also be performing a selection of her favourite songs.

Also in the Canada Day evening program: the Owen Sound City Band and the Owen Sound & District Pipes & Drums. Mayor Ruth Lovell and MP Larry Miller appear at 8 pm. The evening program begins at 6:30 and is emceed by J.D. Moffat from The Mix 106. The grand finale occurs at 10 p.m. with a spectacular fireworks display over Owen Sound Bay.

Canada Day extends into Monday with the continuation of Fulfillment of A Dream at Kelso Beach Park.

For more information please see the Canada Day program insert in The Sun
Times Tuesday June 26, visit www.e-owensound.com/canadaday.htm or call
Owen Sound Tourism at (519) 371-9833.

This piece on Canada Day 2007 was contributed by Doug Cleverley. Please feel free to send us coverage of events that matter to you and (barring any inappropriate content) we will post them for you!

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4 Responses to “Owen Sound Celebrates Canada Day!”

  1. tommyboy Says:
    June 25th, 2007 at 8:11 pm

    whew! with all this disaster preparation i was beginging to feel like i was back in the eighties reading endless gwynne dyer doom and gloom….yeah go canada day…

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  3. adam Says:
    June 26th, 2007 at 7:17 am

    I think you’ll like some of today’s content Tom. Also just a friendly warning that Gwynn will be making at least one more stop with a post on how to handle post-emergency situations. He may very well do a follow-up on internet safety for younglings. Also, if you think OUR posts are doom & gloom you should see the government website. It’s got disaster preparedness outlines for terrorist attacks & nuclear disasters. Now THAT’S Gwynn Dyer territory!

  4. theOwen.com/go : Blog Archive : Weekend Events On the Calendar in Owen Sound Says:
    June 28th, 2007 at 3:43 pm

    […] is the best and most exuberantly celebrated of all statutory holidays… of course it’s CANADA DAY!!! There will be fun for the whole family down at Kelso beach. To find out about Owen Sound’s […]

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