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City and Colour, Fitz and the Tantrums and Silversun Pickups: Riverfest returns to Elora
CTV's Alexandra Pinto takes weather on the road to see who's playing at Riverfest Elora this year.
CTV's Alexandra Pinto takes weather on the road to see who's playing at Riverfest Elora this year.
Music lovers are heading to Elora as Riverfest returns to Bissell Park.
The three-day festival features dozens of acts including City and Colour, Fitz and the Tantrums, Silversun Pickups and Yukon Blonde.
This year also marks the 15th anniversary of Riverfest Elora.
'It's a community event, we're all local folks here who run the festival,' Kelsey Walker, site director for Riverfest Elora, explained. 'Over 600 volunteers and we're just so thrilled that the sun is shining. It's going to be a beautiful weekend.'
One of those volunteers is Sean Bunce.
'This is actually a really great community. Elora is a beautiful place. And the community they have, they bring everything together and make it really easy for you. It's fun,' he said.
Walker described the festival as a 'party thrown in our own backyard.'
'It's such a close-knit community, we really bond over this and end up building lifelong friendships.'
The festival was founded by Elora artist Marilyn Koop who passed away in 2012. When it first started, it was a fundraiser for the Elora Centre for the Arts.
Previous guests have included Born Ruffians, Blue Rodeo, Arkells, Metric, The Sheepdogs, Walk Off the Earth, Mother Mother, Sloan, The Flaming Lips, Carly Rae Jepsen, Alessia Cara, The Glorious Sons, Metric, Feist and Treble Charger.
