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‘We want to be a festival that belongs to the community,’ say Levee on the Lake organizers

Two women smile, as one of them holds up a trophy.
Stacey Read (left) and Shelley Chase, organizers of the Levee on the Lake, were honoured with the East Coast Music Award for Event of the Year on Sunday, May 18, 2022. Photo: Screenshot: facebook.com/leveeonthelake.
David Gordon Koch - CHMA - Sackville • NB | 16-05-2022
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A Sackville festival has been honoured with an East Coast Music Award for the second consecutive year.

On May 8, Levee on the Lake was named Event of the Year at the awards event in Fredericton. The festival is happening in Sackville again this summer from Aug. 18-21. 

The music and arts festival began in 2020, after the COVID-19 crisis wiped out the live music scene.

For that event, music lovers attended by socially distancing in boats, with a paddle-up stage at Silver Lake. Last year, the festival moved onto dry land at Lillas Fawcett Park. 

For more on the festival, CHMA spoke to organizers Shelley Chase and Stacey Read. Reporter David Gordon Koch started out by asking the organizers who they’re most excited about seeing at this year's festival.

This report includes music performed by some of the artists on this year's festival lineup, including the Barra MacNeils, Ivan Hicks, the Sacred Wolf Singer and Jud Gunning, who plays us out with his version of Deep River Blues by Doc Watson. 

You can see the festival’s full line up at leveeonthelake.com.