Carberry to host second annual Heritage Festival

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Published on Tuesday, July 15, 2014

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Carberry will be celebrating its rich heritage with its second annual Carberry Heritage Festival, Aug. 8-9.

This year's festival features the return of some favourites from the inaugural event last year and a line-up of new entertainers and experiences.

Returning for the Friday night old-time dance is fiddler Mark Morisseau and his band. On Saturday, the Manitoba Muzzleloaders will be back in their buckskins demonstrating flint-lock long guns.

Friday events include an old-fashioned strawberry social, street buskers and artisans as well as walking tours of Carberry's unique heritage district.

Scheduled for Saturday is an afternoon performance by Christina the ‘Crazy Hooper’ who recently won a talent contest on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.

Other new performers on Saturday include the Sweet Medicine Singers, a group of aboriginal women drummers and singers; and a workshop by Manitoba singer/songwriter Sheena Grobb. Sheena and her band will also perform a Saturday evening concert with local singer Becky Nikolaisen as the warm-up act.

Also on Saturday, there will be street buskers, artisans, kids activities, an antique flea market, Ernest Thompson Seton's birthday party, walking tours of the town and cemetery, a display about local WWI training camp, Camp Hughes and much more.

To accommodate festival events, one block of Main Street will be closed to traffic. Events begin at 2:00 pm on Friday and 11:00 am on Saturday.

Carberry is located 42 kilometres east of Brandon on the Trans-Canada Highway and three kilometres south on Highway 5.