Home County Folk Festival
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Home County Folk Festival is a folk music festival in London, Ontario.[1] It is an admission by donation festival held each July in Victoria Park in downtown London. The non-profit organization which produces the festival was formed in 1973, and they have held a festival every year since.[2]
The 2007 Home County Folk Festival was held July 20–22, 2007.
The 2010 Home County Folk Festival was held July 16-18, 2010 and featured the renowned singer Bruce Cockburn. There was a crowd of an estimated 10-20 thousand people that came to hear Cockburn, which was possibly the largest crowd at any Home Country Folk Festival.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Ontario Council of Folk Festivals. "MEMBERS: Festival". http://www.ocff.ca/members/festival.html. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
- ^ "About Us". Home County Folk Festival official website. http://www.homecounty.ca/about/index.php.
- ^ James Reaney (July 19, 2010). "The sounds of summer". London Free Press. http://www.lfpress.com/entertainment/music/2010/07/18/14752136.html. Retrieved February 9, 2011.
- Michael Stepaniak, Joanne Stepaniak (November 1995). Folk & Traditional Music Festivals: 1996 Guide for U.S. and Canada. Shoreline. pp. 144. ISBN 1570670153.
[edit] External links
- Home County Folk Festival official site
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