The Festival of Friends is without a doubt the best Music Festival that I have ever covered. It is held every year, now at the Ancaster Fairgrounds.

The Festival of Friends is not just about Music. It is more like an amazing shorter and smaller version of the CNE. There is a Midway. There are all sorts of really good food vendors. There are halls where things like Automobiles are on display. Of course there is a Beer Garden.

The Main Stage is at the lower end of a small hill. Great line of sight from front to back and from the sides.

Lots of on-site parking, except when one the Bands lands on the cover of Rolling Stone and there is another huge band set to play the same night. I’m thinking about a few years back, when The Sheepdogs were scheduled to play on a Friday night at the Festival of Friends. They had just hit the big time making the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine.

The festival had more visitors in that one night, than they usually got during all three days. Cars were parked all the way up to Hwy 403. The huge festival parking lots were jammed full.

I was incredibly lucky to have gotten there in the day time, before the madness started. People were flowing in the festival grounds until the bands started started playing. The Security people which take care of the Photogs were all stunned at the massively huge turnout. I heard numbers over 50K, up to around 75K people.

In a perfectly Canadian way, the evening went down without any incident that I was aware of. The fans Rock N Rolled and enjoyed the shows.

The Festival of Friends posted their show schedules earlier this week. Please mark your calendars. This is a Music Festival that is really worth going to. Superbly organized. Safe and Family Friendly. Always an amazing list of bands which will hit the stage at the FOF.

So without further typos from Moi, the following is the latest Festival of Friends Schedule:

Photo of Brian Doherty on Guitar with Big Wreck. Photo credit Vincent Banial

Sunday August 9th

The CHCH Mainstage
12:00pm	John & Jacob
1:30pm	Whitney Rose
3:00pm	The River & The Road
4:30pm	The Silver Hearts
	Stage Break
6:30pm	Buffy Sainte-Marie
8:00pm	Cold Creek Country
9:30pm	Travis Tritt

Buffy Saint-Marie performing at Luminato in 2014. Photo Credit Vincent Banial

Make sure that you mark your calendars, so that you do not miss visiting the Festival of Friends 2015 edition.

Posted by: Vincent Banial for Uniquely Toronto
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