Gravenhurst August 1st and 2nd 2008
Come out and join in a new community party in our town on the Civic long weekend in August.
Musko-Ka-Bana is a new two day cultural explosion of music, dance, and fun on August 1st and 2nd 2008. Last years Civic Holiday long weekend in Gravenhurst drew 5000 people out to watch the fireworks alone. This year there is a whole new spectrum of events and a powerful two day line up of exciting interactive attractions for everyone and the capacity to double last years turnout.
The party warms up on Friday night in Kinsmen Park at the south end of Gravenhurst with Cirque performers, Drummers and Dancers decked out in full costume. Cirque and street performers including Stiltwalkers and Fire POI (fire spinning), contests and draws by local businesses with Mardi-Gras costumes by participants and Limbo competitions with great prizes to close the night.
The celebrations continue the next morning at 10:00 am with the opening of The Muskoka Wharf Piratefest that runs all day featuring multiple inflatables, face painting and tattoos, and everyone dressed as pirates (arrgh!). The steamship Wenonah is decked out as a pirate ship along with Captain Hook, blasting cannons, constantly being attacked and boarded by the numerous summer cottagers on Lake Muskoka that look forward to the melee, and lie in wait for the right moment.
Then we kick it up a notch or two by adding a thrilling watershow at 4:00 sponsored by Boston Pizza for an hour followed by the start of a stacked deck of evening shows at 5:00. The gated events area holds a capacity of 10,000 people and is located in the gorgeous 93 acres of the newly developed Muskoka Wharf. The Caribbean performers and Mardi-Gras costumed audience join us at the events area for the upcoming evening shows.
At 5:00 we begin the evening with local favourite Just4Kicks followed at 6:00 by Juno Award winning hot Progressive Jazz with The Richard Underhill Quintet. To make sure things roll along and heat up properly we have two 40 foot mainstages and a 40 foot big screen with high resolution projection, 10,000 watts of PA and a full intelligent light show to boot. At 7:30 we turn it up even more with the 9 piece Reggae/Fusion band TheFunkyUdu that also features an exhilarating Aerial Silks Performance by Femmes du Feu during the show. We follow up the Reggae at 9:00 with a one half hour traditional Caribbean drum and dance performance featuring The Twisted Hair Spirit Dancers joined in by the Caribbean dance participants.
Now we have the half hour fireworks show that pulled 5,000 people last year, remember? The big screen gets rolling at 9:00 and features the Town of Gravenhurst fireworks, audience, performers, and sponsors. We bring out the big guns at 10:00 with the cutting edge, multiple award winning, internationally acclaimed Brownman Electryc Trio to rev right through to midnight. See you there!
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