{"id":111858,"date":"2022-08-19T10:48:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=111858"},"modified":"2022-08-19T12:11:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T16:11:23","slug":"first-busker-fest-a-success-given-short-timeline-plans-for-next-year-under-consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/first-busker-fest-a-success-given-short-timeline-plans-for-next-year-under-consideration\/","title":{"rendered":"First Busker Fest a success given short timeline, plans for next year under consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rough estimates are that about 1,000 people attended the first Sackville Busker Festival last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>One day of the festival was rained out, but from Thursday night to Saturday night, Bridge Street hosted a number of buskers and local performers, as well as vendors and a mini Japanese summer festival put on by Mount Allison\u2019s MASSIE students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very happy with how it went,\u201d says Wendy Epworth, organizer and Downtown Sackville Business Improvement Area (BIA) vice president. \u201cThe performers were pleased, and the spectators. Everyone really seemed to have positive comments and enjoy themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\">\n<p><div id=\"attachment_26053\" style=\"width: 659px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26053\" class=\"wp-image-26053\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chmafm.com\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/299282064_505940227961400_7116149807061368618_n.png?resize=649%2C834&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"A performer stands on a purple stand and twirls seven orange and pink hula hoops around themselves. There is a large crowd watching in the background.\" width=\"649\" height=\"834\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Busker Lisa Lottie (the Hula Hoop Queen) wows the crowd at the Sackville Busker Festival, August 2022. Photo by Nick Chase.<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Epworth says the downtown Sackville BIA has not yet met to discuss future plans, but she\u2019s already thinking of ways to improve the festival in the future. She says she\u2019d like to see more performers and additional events for kids on the street. And she\u2019s definitely made note of the need for washrooms, which was something the short timeline didn\u2019t allow for this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe only had about a week to put out the entire event,\u201d says Epworth. The festival was funded by ACOA\u2019s Revitalize Main Streets Initiative, and although the BIA applied to the program in April, they didn\u2019t receive approval of funding until mid-to-late July.<\/p>\n<p>The company that booked the performers was Premier Entertainment Group, the same company that runs the Halifax International Buskers Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were very happy with how it went,\u201d says Epworth. \u201cWe will begin talking to them sometime in the fall about sources of funds that can be sought for next year\u2019s festival and changes we might make want to make, or additions to just build it from this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of different ways we can add to it and get more people aware of what\u2019s going on earlier,\u201d says Epworth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the CHMA news story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rough estimates are that about 1,000 people attended the first Sackville Busker Festival last weekend. One day of the festival was rained out, but from Thursday night to Saturday night, Bridge Street hosted a number of buskers and local performers, as well as vendors and a mini Japanese summer festival put on by Mount Allison\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":111867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[3441,17674,17898,3619,17675],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111914,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111858\/revisions\/111914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111858"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=111858"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=111858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}