CBRM Canada Day 2017
Celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday with a party on the Sydney Waterfront! Food trucks, music on the Sydney Credit Union Makin’ Waves Music Festival Stage, an incredible performance from The Mud Bay Jugglers, and fireworks at 10pm!
With infectious and captivating lyrics, reinforced by a commanding groove, Slowcoaster takes you on a ride to the heart of the party with no apologies. Throwing down their high-energy danceable tunes, the Cape Breton trio fuses ska, reggae, hip hop, and classic house influences with their unique brand of funky rock and roll. Having spent the past ten years infiltrating the Canadian live music scene, Slowcoaster has firmly established themselves as one of the country’s most popular jam rock bands.
Fortunate Ones‘ dynamic, harmony entwined performances have been creating significant buzz across Canada, earning the duo thousands of new fans. Their debut album The Bliss has yielded two national number one singles at CBC, a JUNO nomination, a Canadian Folk Music Award, an East Coast Music Award and four MusicNL awards.
The Mud Bay Jugglers is a startlingly inventive troupe juggles genres as easily as objects, weaving theatre, dance, physical comedy, and juggling into a creative and infectious entertainment experience. Based in Olympia Washington the Mud Bay Jugglers work their choreographic and juggling magic to lively music for a mesmerizing and emotional performance.
A masterful storyteller writing songs about life and love with pathos and humour in a Folk-Country style, Jordan Musycsyn sustains a busy touring schedule thruout Canada in support of his sophomore album Old State Of Mind. Drawing on his own life experiences he writes relatable songs of love, loss and the human condition.
Sydney Canada Day Concert is brought to you by CBRM Recreation and the Port of Sydney Development Corporation. This event is funded in part by the Canadian Government through the department of Canadian Heritage.