{"id":95652,"date":"2022-05-16T22:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T02:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=95652"},"modified":"2022-05-17T15:39:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T19:39:41","slug":"we-want-to-be-a-festival-that-belongs-to-the-community-say-levee-on-the-lake-organizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/we-want-to-be-a-festival-that-belongs-to-the-community-say-levee-on-the-lake-organizers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We want to be a festival that belongs to the community,&#8217; say Levee on the Lake organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Sackville festival has been honoured with an East Coast Music Award for the second consecutive year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On May 8, Levee on the Lake was named Event of the Year at the awards event in Fredericton.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The festival is happening in Sackville again this summer from Aug. 18-21.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The music and arts festival began in 2020, after the COVID-19 crisis wiped out the live music scene. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For that event, music lovers attended by socially distancing in boats, with a paddle-up stage at Silver Lake.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, the festival moved onto dry land at Lillas Fawcett Park.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more on the festival, CHMA spoke to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">organizers Shelley Chase and Stacey Read.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reporter David Gordon Koch<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">started out by asking the organizers who they\u2019re most excited about seeing at this year's festival.<\/span><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-95652-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FINAL_Stacey-Read-and-Shelley-Chase-Levee-On-the-Lake-May-12-2022-.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FINAL_Stacey-Read-and-Shelley-Chase-Levee-On-the-Lake-May-12-2022-.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FINAL_Stacey-Read-and-Shelley-Chase-Levee-On-the-Lake-May-12-2022-.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>This report includes <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can see the festival\u2019s full line up at <a href=\"https:\/\/leveeonthelake.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leveeonthelake.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sackville festival has been honoured with an East Coast Music Award for the second consecutive year. 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