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Publishing date: Apr 12, 2021 • 12 hours ago • 2 minute read • The Edmonton Folk Music Festival in Gallagher Park has been cancelled for a second straight year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by Tim Smith /Postmedia, file
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The Edmonton Folk Music Festival has been cancelled for a second straight summer as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Monday, festival producer Terry Wickham announced the cancellation of the popular August music festival in Gallagher Park. There are still too many variables at play to move forward with such a large festival where physical distancing wouldn’t be possible, Wickham said, pointing to the spread of COVID-19 variants as an area of concern.
EDMONTON The longest running winter festival in Edmonton has transformed Hawrelak Park into a winter play zone. The Silver Skate Festival, now in its 31st year, is deeply rooted in Dutch winter conditions. It combines sport, primarily skating, arts, culture and recreation. The festival has also added DIY events and challenges to do with your household or cohort because of the pandemic. The frigid temperatures were a bit of a challenge for some. The last week has been -30, -28, -36 with the wind chill, all that stuff. That’s been hard. But today is like, ‘Yeah that’s no problem.’ This is actually the perfect weather for doing this,” said snow carver Randall Fraser.
Lowest temperature: -27.3 C (2003) Eye On Edmonton
This space is dedicated to some of the great and interesting photos taken by Postmedia photographers while they’re out and about town. A coyote leaps in the air as it hunts for mice under the snow at the University of Alberta farm, in Edmonton Sunday Jan. 24, 2021. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia A man and his dog walk through the University of Alberta farm, in Edmonton Sunday Jan. 24, 2021. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia Runners exercise in the evening on the Dudley B. Menzies LRT Bridge as the weather cools in Edmonton, on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Photo by Ian Kucerak /Postmedia