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Lots of Fun for Everyone
Main Stage - Live Music All Day
Main Stage - Live Music All Day
Main Stage - Live Music All Day
Check out our amazing bands performing live on the Main Stage.
Performance Stage
Main Stage - Live Music All Day
Main Stage - Live Music All Day
Performance Stage by 2nd St
Sponsored by Toronto Pearson, Your Neighbor, Your Airport.
Lots of fun for the whole family.
Super Dogs Show
Main Stage - Live Music All Day
Great Lakes Beer Garden
3 Shows and a meet and greet after after each show. (plus petting of course)
Show times 1pm, 3pm and 5pm.
Brought to you by Furlani and Lakeshore Village BIA
Great Lakes Beer Garden
Grilled Cheese Challengers!
Great Lakes Beer Garden
Time to relax, have a beverage and listen to some great live music. 19+
Grilled Cheese Challengers!
Grilled Cheese Challengers!
Grilled Cheese Challengers!
How many Grilled Cheese will you try? Don't forget to vote for your favourites in our Peoples Choice Awards!
More details on challengers to come.
Classic Car Show
Market Vendors & Exhibitors
Local Businesses are open!
If you love classic cars, you won't want to miss this. Different car cruise clubs are coming with old classics and hot newer cars too. Bring your camera!
Local Businesses are open!
Market Vendors & Exhibitors
Local Businesses are open!
Do some local shopping. Check out the all the great stores and businesses all along the Lake Shore.
Market Vendors & Exhibitors
Market Vendors & Exhibitors
Market Vendors & Exhibitors
Visit our Vendors & Exhibitors. Some are from the neighborhood and others are here just for the festival.
Kids Games & Prizes
Kids Games & Prizes
Market Vendors & Exhibitors
Carnival Games
Women's habitat
Kids Games & Prizes
Women's habitat
This year, we are in support of Community Health. One of great local charities, drop by to say hello or to make a donation.
Furlani Live Music Stage
OUR HOST GEORGE WESTERHOLM
George is a Gemini, Canadian Screen Award and Canadian Comedy Award winning writer/producer/director/musician/comedian who has worked on numerous television shows including The Rick Mercer Report, This Hour has 22 Minutes and is currently writing and producing A Little Sketchy TV.
He has also appeared on and was a regular contributor to CBC Radio’s The Irrelevant Show where his song ‘Zen Hokey Pokey’ earned a Comedy Award.
Artist Bios
George Westerholm and the Wild Wildcats
George is a Gemini, Canadian Screen Award and Canadian Comedy Award winning writer/producer/director/musician/comedian who has worked on numerous television shows including The Rick Mercer Report, This Hour has 22 Minutes and is currently writing and producing A Little Sketchy TV.
He has also appeared on and was a regular contributor to CBC Radio’s The Irrelevant Show where his song ‘Zen Hokey Pokey’ earned a Comedy Award.
Some of the many performers he has written for includes Howie Mandel, Jason Priestly, Jane Krakowski, Gordon Pinsent, Andrea Martin, Weird Al Yankovic, Tom Green, Mark McKinney, Sean Cullen and Shannon Tweed.
As a performer George has toured across Canada, into the US and Britain. His show ‘Unscheduled Stopover’ was nominated for ‘Pick of the Fringe’ at the Edinburg Fringe Festival.
The James Clark Institute
Whether he is in the institute or not, Toronto based music artist James Clark is a doctor of pop. His prescription is simple, three minute blasts of medicinal music. “A wealth of songwriting talent.” says renowned music writer/ ex-MuchMusic VJ Michael Williams in Cashbox Canada. Producer Moe Berg adds "James takes the power pop traditions of The Beatles, Jellyfish and Split Enz and combines them with the high IQ lyrics of Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson. The result makes him one of Canada's greatest unsung songwriters". The JCI’s appearance at this year’s Grilled Cheese Challenge Festival will be their first live show after returning from their short UK tour which will include an appearance at the world famous Cavern Club in Liverpool.
The Stephen Stanley Band
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist Stephen Stanley is best known from his many years as a founding member, lead guitarist and vocalist with alternative rock band The Lowest of the Low. After years of touring and sharing the stage with the likes of Billy Bragg, The Violent Femmes, The Jayhawks and Lloyd Cole, a gold record for their “genuinely timeless album” (Exclaim!) Shakespeare My Butt, Stanley now leads his own band, The Stephen Stanley Band and has logged other monumental shows with Bob Mould, Cracker and Jake Clemons. The band also played at the 2018 Static Roots Festival in Germany and then went on to tour the UK and Ireland. Americana UK described the band's 2018 album Jimmy & The Moon and Stephen's artistry this way: “The songs are big and bold, unafraid, unashamed to flaunt their heritage… Stanley’s voice being not a thing of beauty but a workman’s tool skillfully used to create just the right effect...” The band is currently finishing up the follow-up record to Jimmy & the Moon, slated for release in summer 2022.
The Sandra Bouza Band
Sandra Bouza is an award winning Independent Soul Blues artist with decades of live performance experience. She cut her teeth performing in Toronto and Vancouver clubs and then spent three years honing her craft overseas in Europe and North and West
Africa. Upon returning to Canada she invested in her songwriting career and immediately received recognition winning the 2019 Toronto Blues Society Talent Search and representing Toronto at the 2020 International Blues Challenge in Memphis. Her EP ‘Three Years’ received significant radio play in Canada, and her following FACTOR funded album ‘Falling Away From Me” received Canadian radio play and rave reviews in Europe. Her upcoming album, “A Sound in the Dark” is due for release in spring of 2023.
Reggadiction
Reggaddiction is an 11-piece reggae band from Toronto, Ontario. The reggae band includes sensation vocals led by the 2020 Soul Slam Winner D.M., songstress Trish Campbell providing a unique vibe and falsettos, and Sunray Grennan the son of the famous Jamaican drummer Winston Grennan, known for his studio one performances with Bob Marley and the Wailers as well as the creator of the One Drop reggae rhythm in the late ’60s. Backing the band includes a multi horn, multi-percussion, multi drum, and a powerful guitar, bass, and keys instrumental section.
Perfecting the arrangements and recordings for their 2022 “Ganja Harvest” album, a reggae interpretation of Neil Young’s 1972 album “Harvest” The band is known for delivering cross-over vibes, refreshing vocal harmonies, and powerful instrumental riddims. Reggaddiction’s live performances consist of material from Bob Marley, Studio One, iconic Canadian classic remixes as well as reggae originals. The band’s live debut was in February 2019 opening for Sister Nancy and some of the largest shows in Canada have followed including headlining both the 2019 Beaches Jazz Festival at Woodbine Park with Otis Gayle and the 2019 Caribana launch party at Dundas Square with Carol Brown. Reggaddiction also performed at the Q107 Canada Day Picnic.
CBC selected the band’s remix interpretation of “A Man Needs a Maid” featuring Jimmy Reid for national radio airplay on CBC Radio One and national airplay for additional singles from the “Ganja Harvest” album (A reggae tribute to Neil Young) have followed including “Harvest” on Big City Small World.
With a stage filled with reggae riddims powered by an 11-piece band and three talented vocalists, Reggaddiction will take you back to the island. Expect a night when we can all come together, dance and rejoice, and live in a world of ONE LOVE.
Luke and the Apostles
Luke and the Apostles, Toronto’s legendary blues rock band have been part of the Canadian music scene since 1964. Fixtures of Yorkville Village’s clubs throughout the sixties, they recorded the single “Been Burnt” for Elektra Records in 1965 and later after stints with the Grateful Dead in New York released “You Make Me High” on True North In 1970. Core members Luke Gibson and Mike Mckenna have continued over the years with an assortment of drummers and bass players too numerous to list here. The band was honoured on a Toronto Heritage plaque in 2016 along with Gordon Lightfoot and Buffy Sainte Marie, at the former site of the Purple Onion where all three had performed. Mckenna and Gibson are currently playing with drummer Dave Breckels and bassist Jim Morgan. Luke and the Apostles is on Facebook.
Jersey Nights
"THE HISTORY OF ROCK & ROLL" was born in America’s south; the musical child of gospel, ragtime, and the blues. It was first heard in the cotton fields, plantations and in the small towns and villages on both sides down the mighty Mississippi River. It was new, different, special, and held a beat and a feel that, once heard, could not be denied. It traveled up the Mississippi at a time when Americans were struggling to find their new identity after a depression, a war, and social upheaval that would change the face and sound of not just America, but the entire continent. This new sound transformed the lives of everyone who heard it, black and white, and it struck a musical chord deep in the heart of North American youth, who sang and danced it into the mainstream with a joy and a drive that could not be denied. That music was SOUL! Soul transformed the American musical landscape and it became the sound of a new, youthful generation, bringing with it a fresh, funky sound that made it impossible to deny. With Soul’s arrival, North America saw and heard a new kind of entertainment, with Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Isley Brothers, Stevie Wonder, and a galaxy of other Soulful stars that took the continent by storm. That Soulful sound is still with us today, stronger and funkier than ever, and tonight we bring it to you live with all its excitement! Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, Pauly and the Goodfellas!