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Edmonton music concerts

^Which is perfect! Everyone was dressed up, if you look at previous years in Montreal it's all 'apres ski' and parkas.

Some photos of Thursday with Alison Wonderland.


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johnnyboy said:
A bunch of K-Days performers competing against K-Days is an interesting choice.
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Yes, interesting. K-Days which used to be huge, involving activities downtown and elsewhere in the city seems to have become a shrinking event mostly focused on the grounds and now others are going after similar performers.
 
David A said:
Yes, interesting. K-Days which used to be huge, involving activities downtown and elsewhere in the city seems to have become a shrinking event mostly focused on the grounds and now others are going after similar performers.
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At this point, OEG needs to be the one running K-Days (or at least partnering up with Explore Edmonton), since they currently have a monopoly on tons of big shows, and aside from music concerts, a lot of people like myself don’t really care to go.
 
This being the "inaugural" festival, it's pretty apparent OEG has zero interest in partnering with Explore Edmonton, or anyone else. Once again, Katz is only keen on lining his own pockets and everyone else be damned.

Yet in Calgary, the business elite treat their summer expo as sacred ground. Would Murray Edwards dare to launch his own festival to rival "the greatest show on earth"? Would anyone?

The real kicker? In a few months, you’ll likely find the OEG brass and most of Edmonton’s business boosters once again down in Calgary for the Stampede, rubbing shoulders with peers lamenting, "Why can’t Edmonton have something like this?"

The answer is simple: We can't have "something like this" because our biggest players would rather compete for the crown than share the throne.
 
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I may have said it on here before, but I have always thought merging two of our biggest festivals (Fringe and K-Days) into a massive two-week-long performance arts festival could be a solution to both the Fringe's recent $ problems, and K-Days' lack of identity. We could still keep the midway and have different "festival zones" between downtown and Old Strathcona featuring live music, plays, and comedy. Dedicated transit, which could be included with the purchase of a festival pass, could shuttle people between the various locations.
 
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