North Country Fair No. 47 full of cosmic wildlife onstage and off
Three dawn coffees and a ten-minute, chittering conversation with a red-winged blackbird later, the dirt-majestic North Country Fair is coming together once again.
Running Thursday to Sunday up near Driftpile — three hours and change northwest of Edmonton via highways 33 or 44 — the annual open-sky wumpus is the most free-range of affairs, aimed directly at Friday's Summer Solstice at 8:41 p.m.
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CTV News
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