Early bird tickets are now on sale for the Underground Railroad Music Festival on Aug. 18 at Centennial Park in Drayton.
Tickets are $30 until May 1 and can be purchased online at www.ticketscene.ca/events/5977.
The festival, billed as a celebration of the Underground Railroad and the early black pioneers of the Queen’s Bush settlement, is celebrating its fourth year in 2012.
“The festival is held in the region of Ontario that was a main terminus on the Underground Railroad,” said event founder Diana Braithwaite, chairperson of the Underground Music Society.
“It is the only one of its kind in North America.”
This year’s line up of includes: Timothy Epp, The Sensational Gospel Tones, Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley, Melissa Adamson and The Weary Travellers, Curley Bridges, Blackburn, Ken Whiteley, Miss Angel (“Mississippi Delta Queen of the Blues”), Harrison Kennedy, and an old time blue grass cuntry jubilee.
For more information visit www.braithwaiteandwhiteley.com or call 416-857-4951.
