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Edmonton Folk Festival 2010 – Aug 5th – 8th

Sunday, August 8th, 2010
Festival City does it again with a great turnout at the annual Edmonton Folk Music Festival. With a mix of celtic, bluegrass, blues, gospel, roots, world beat and singer/songwriters, and some country and R&B thrown into the mix, Folk Fest has a little taste for almost every music lover.  The...

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Big Valley Jamboree! July 29th – Aug 1st

Monday, August 2nd, 2010
I’m not necessarily the biggest country music fan but the crowd at BVJ creates an atmosphere that could make 72 straight hours of Nickelback bearable. Greenman suits with cowboy hats, bikini girls in cowboy boots, and dudes sporting daisy duke cutoffs keep the people watching aspect alone enough...

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Dixon takes checkered flag at Edmonton Honda Indy.

Monday, July 26th, 2010
A successful race weekend wrapped up in Edmonton on Sunday with Scott Dixon of New Zealand taking the checkered flag. And what would race day be without a little controversy and hot tempers… Francois Dumontier, president of the Octane Racing Group inked a 3 year deal to keep the race in Edmonton....

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Vegreville Pysanka Festival – July 2,3,4

Friday, July 9th, 2010
Ah Vegreville, the proud home of the worlds largest Easter egg or Pysanka. An egg so big that we need a 3 day festival to celebrate it.  Cue the Vegreville Pysanka Festival.  As the biggest and best of its kind in Alberta, this 3 day fest always draws a wild, good lookin, polka lovin crowd. By day...

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