Canada Day Celebrations

2025

Come join us in Charles Hoey Memorial Park

to celebrate Canada’s 158th birthday

diversity/education/awareness

shared cake at 4:20pm

VITALS Stage

Noon   Mbira Spirit – starting off another Canada Day with intercultural roots- a Zimbabwean singing country music with soulful glee

1pm    Kelly Roxanne Gervin -a local educator who also finds much release in songwriting and performing

2pm    Tzinquaw Dancers   -  intergenerational dance troupe, honouring the traditional Quw'utsun dances and songs from the Cowichan Valley              

3pm    Kathy White Dancers – a weekly chance to watch young Scottish dance  students perform to their bestest- photo-op extraordinaire

4pm   Tropic Mayhem- ya, time to get on the dance floor with these valley favourites- wear your best Hawaiian  shirts and make sure to kick those shoes off , let that grass tickle your feet

4:20pm – Canada Day Cake Sharing – line up at the corner of the train station

5pm   Offcutz  - valley based band doing countrified folk covers delivered with spunk and finesse

6pm   Hill 60 -original tunes delivered by this valley 5 piece acoustic band quite sufficiently

7pm   McCandless Family Band –Dad came over from Ireland on a boat and in true Canadian form ended up having a family that became a wonderful band of fine musicians

City Square Stage

8:30pm Beautiful Maladies -again they grace our stage to bring a most memorable tribute to the music of the great Tom Waits

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Then we move to the City Square Stage

 independent artist in Canada’s vibrant music scene, a genre fence sitter, hanging out on the edges of country just enough  to say he isn’t, Ryan is both a whisper and a scream’