Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Amherst Festival Update


Patrick McAfee, Norman Haddow, Sunny Wieler, Ken Curran, Tracy Mahaffey, Karin Sprague, Phillipe Smith, Danny Barber, Alexandra Morosco, Jake Murray, Jason Hoffman, John Scott, Scott George, Dan Pearl, Christopher Barclay and many other professional wallers and stone artisans from around the world will be there at the 2015 Irish-Canadian Dry Stone Festival on Amherst Island this weekend, starting on Friday September 25th   

Rick Mercer will be coming to the festival on Saturday too.The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, Hon. Michael Coteau will be coming to the event on Saturday as well.  The Irish Ambassador - Dr. Ray Bassett will be there with his wife Patricia and Jane Urquhart will also be there.  The Irish Ambassador intends on being there both Saturday and Sunday. 

And the music will be awesome!  ….with special musical guests Seventh Town, The O'shraves and Turpin's Trail to name a few of the groups performing.