Birdtown Jamboree returns to a full weekend music pageant

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A longstanding music pageant in Norfolk County makes a return this yr to a full two-day occasion.

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The 18th annual Birdtown Jamboree Cornstock Pageant is to be held Sept. 10 and 11 on the Homegrown Hideaway, adjoining to the Lynn Valley Path, close to Port Dover.

“The Birdtown Jamboree is a bunch of Norfolk County musicians who’ve been coming collectively to donate their time and expertise to boost funds for youngsters’s and youth music and humanities programming,” mentioned Tony Duclos, spokesperson and first organizer of the occasion. “Annually, our Cornstock Music Pageant invitations the general public to purchase tickets and are available out to get pleasure from a full roster of those fantastic performers.”

Duclos mentioned music applications in any respect native excessive colleges and lots of public colleges in Norfolk have acquired funding from the Birdtown Jamboree.

Sara Moody Veldhuis, head of music and visible arts at Valley Heights Secondary Faculty in Langton, mentioned her music program has “benefited  drastically” from the jamboree.

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“Now we have acquired financial donations, devices, gear,” she mentioned.

“It’s unimaginable what Tony Duclos and all of the volunteers so selfishly do for the youngsters of Norfolk County. We’re so grateful.”

The Norfolk Musical Arts Pageant, Guitars for Children, Simcoe Heritage Friendship Pageant and the Younger Theatre Gamers even have benefited from sponsorship by the jmboree.

Initially a weekend occasion held on the Wagonwheel Produce and Corn Maze for its first 15 years, pandemic protocols resulted in a diminished one-day format for the previous two years on the Homegrown Hideaway.

This yr’s pageant may also function an Artwork Guitar Public sale of older guitars which have been reworked into artworks by native visible artists. As well as, a silent public sale might be held with gadgets donated by native companies and supporters.

Doorways open every day at 11 a.m.

Organizers say those that buy their tickets by Sept. 4 might be entered right into a draw on Sept. 5 for a one-night keep at one among Homegrown Hideaway’s glamping tents for the night time of Sept. 10.

To buy tickets and see a full lineup of performers go to homegrownhideaway.com/occasion/the-birdtown-jamboree-2022/

Anybody interested by donating gadgets to the silent public sale can contact Duclos at birdtownjam@gmail.com.