Streets Alive! Owen Sound’s Busker Extravaganza

August 13, 2009

Calling all Buskers! Streets Alive! is coming to Downtown Owen Sound on August 21st and 22nd, 2009. It is a busking festival showcasing a wide variety of local and non local grassroots performers, seasoned veterans, in the age old tradition of crowd involvement and pure unadulterated exciting entertainment!

Friday, August 21, 2009 to Saturday, August 22, 2009
Friday Night 8-10 pm; Saturday 10 am – 4 pm
Free Downtown & the Inner Harbour
For more information, please contact Doug Cleverley 519-376-4440 ext. 251

Friday night will be a preview that will showcase select buskers on the natural stage at Owen Sound City Hall. There will be a mix of acoustic, and electric, artisans and performance pieces. It’s bound to be an exciting evening!

Saturday will have a variety of buskers in a various key locations throughout the downtown area, as well as around the Sydenham river and spilling into the harbour area. There will be a lots of sights, sounds, and moving performances for all!

Busker categories include:
* Children’s entertainers
* Musicians of all sorts
* “Street shtick” i.e. jugglers, magicians, fire twirlers
* Physical performers i.e. acrobats, mimes, dancers
* Visual artists, i.e. caricature artists, face painters

Written by Deb · Filed Under Downtown, Events, Features, Get Out, Music, The Arts

Dragon’s Den – Meaford Style

August 11, 2009

Look out CBC, Meaford is doing it’s own homegrown version of the very popular “Dragon’s Den” on October 21, 2009 at the Meaford Hall.

The Dragon’s Den is being presented by The Meaford & District Chamber of Commerce.

In a nutshell, 7 contestants will pitch their new business ideas to a panel of 5 Dragons in front of a live audience for criticism, compliments and hopefully some cold, hard cash. The Dragons are comprised of five local business people.

To participate, your submission must be handed in to the Meaford Chamber before September 15th at 4:30. (Submissions must include a one-page synopsis outlining their business idea, specifying how it relates to the Meaford Economic Development Strategy. You can pick up your applicant package at the Meaford Chamber office.) They’ll go through the sumbissions and selected applicants will be interviewd between September 28 – 30th. The finalists will be announced on October 5th.

So, Dragon’s Den should create a lot of buzz in the community and beyond. The Meaford Hall gets to showcase the event. And, great new business ideas will be unvailed. Sounds like a project to get excited about.

Recently we had the opportunity to talk to Jamie Pettit of the Meaford and District Chamber of Commerce. He told us all about it and how we can get involved.

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Download the Dragon’s Den Criteria for Application

If you have any questions about the Dragon’s Den Meaford, please contact Jamie Pettit at the Meaford Chamber by calling 519-538-1640

Written by Deb · Filed Under Audio, Business, Features, Meaford

Summerfolk 34… almost here

August 6, 2009

So you you’re not sure if you’re going to Summerfolk yet… I can give you quite a few reasons why you should put it on your “to do” list for the weekend of August 14, 15 and 16, 2009. Hard Ryde, Tanglefoot, Shane Cook w/Brain & Jake, Valdy, Aline Morales Band, Trout Fishing in America, Chloe Hall Trio, Brian McNeill, Jonathan Jerome, Al “Suitcase” Walker, Scatter the Cats, Tara & Trevor MacKenzie, Jon Farmer, Sarah Hillis, Claire McLeish, Liam Sanagan… the list goes on. Need I say more?

As if the music weren’t enough, there’s also the Artisan’s Village featuring the works of many talented folks including Silverstrong Jewellery Design, Henna – Under the Willows, Larry A. Cluchey Wood Turning, Mud Puppy Art Studio, Richard Mudd Pottery, Ron Belanger Guitars, Dan Paper-cutting Art Studio, Delicate Touch and so many more… and you certainly won’t go hungry there will be lots of great food and beverages to purchase as well.

So, are you convinced? I am. Hope to see you there!

Written by Deb · Filed Under Community, Events, Features, Get Out, Music, Summerfolk

Summerfolk 34 – August 14, 15 & 16, 2009

July 13, 2009

Summerfolk celebrates it’s 34th year this year with “The Beat Goes On”.

As expected they have a huge amount of talented performers scheduled for the weekend event, a great many artisans will be showing and selling their wares, lots of food and an assortment of acitivites and events are planned.

The following is the first of several promotional videos for this year’s Summerfolk.