BARRIE, ONT. Dozens of hippie-themed Volkswagen buses paraded through the Sunshine City for a drive-by demonstration Saturday. Organizers anticipated 10 to 12 buses, but say 30 participated in the event. With the Mariposa Folk Festival cancelled this year due to COVID-19, organizers wanted to celebrate the occasion. Linda Alcock, event organizer, says the idea came as a result of missing the festival. We wanted everybody to get out and see these wonderful sculptures, Alcock says. The artists have done an amazing job. The drive-by parade goes in tandem with the Streets Alive program, which displays hippie-themed sculptures and art in the city s downtown.
Sunday, July 11th
Big Dave McLean is one of Canada’s premier blues musicians. Dave has been playing the blues since he first heard John Hammond perform at the Mariposa Folk Festival fifty years ago. He has always been open to a variety of musical styles and approaches to presenting a song. As Dave puts it, ‘Music is just music and when it’s good, you forget about the genre or whatever label you want to put on it, and just appreciate the beauty of what you’re hearing.’
It will be a pleasure to celebrate the start of summer and the return to live music performances by hearing Big Dave’s bellowing, prairie storm of a voice conjuring smoke and fire as he delivers one of his impassioned performances.
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How a Canadian company diverted millions of plastic bottles
Nathan Howes
lundi, 22 avril 2019 à 13:53 - From a local folk festival to the White House, this Orillia, Ont. company found a solution to help reduce the mass public consumption of plastic bottles
While trying to solve a plastic bottle problem locally, Paul Baker ended up with a solution for the rest of the world, as well.
For years, the Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia, Ont. would run into the same issue – thousands of plastic bottles would get consumed and then thrown into the trash or recycled improperly.
Although Event Water Solutions was founded in 2010, with help from the festival’s green committee, Baker introduced the first refill station at the 2009 folk festival.
Pow Wow Cafe owner Shawn Adler with his takeout containers. (Submitted by Shawn Adler)
Unreserved7:22Pow wow pivot: How this Indigenous chef has found new ways to keep food on the table
There may be fewer cars on the highways these days, but there s a lot more soup. The back of chef Shawn Adler s vehicle is carrying about 325 containers of frozen Three Sisters Stew (corns, beans and squash), he s cooked and plated on beds of wild rice pilaf. This load, and the two-hour drive that takes from his home in Eugenia to downtown Toronto, are part of his new normal.