Home County Folk Festival

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]

References

↑ Ontario Council of Folk Festivals. "MEMBERS: Festival". Retrieved 11 January 2011.
↑ "About Us". Home County Folk Festival official website.
↑ James Reaney (July 19, 2010). "The sounds of summer". London Free Press. Retrieved February 9, 2011.

Michael Stepaniak, Joanne Stepaniak (November 1995). Folk & Traditional Music Festivals: 1996 Guide for U.S. and Canada. Shoreline. p. 144. ISBN 1-57067-015-3.

External links

Home County Folk Festival official site

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