6th Annual Larlee Creek Hullabaloo
Perth-Andover August 16-18, 2013
musical artists and bands at the Larlee Creek Hullabaloo this year
This year the “Little Festival That Could” promises to be bigger and better than ever!
Gathering together as a community to listen to live music has been one of mankind’s greatest loves throughout the ages.
If a person could sing or play an instrument, they were sure to have an audience.
The energy generated by coming together with friends and family to enjoy a live show cannot be found by listening to recorded music. Personal, live connection makes the experience magical.
There are concerts and music festivals all throughout the Atlantic Provinces and none can offer the value and bang for the buck you get from attending the Larlee Creek Hullabaloo!
Our small river valley communities are all reeling from government cutbacks, floods and loss of health care. And we see the tragedy of small businesses closing their doors every week.
A celebration of arts and culture have the power to drive a creativity based economy. Our rural villages contain some of the greatest cultural assets of our province, and local public support of arts and culture plays a vital role in attracting tourism and new tourism dollars to our communities..
Hey, if we don’t support our own communities, why should anyone else?
As our province shifted into a public service based economy over the past 40 years or so we have enjoyed many benefits, but we also gave our rural autonomy and power away to the government.
We put our faith in the government and let it take care of us. But now, like a faithless spouse the government no longer loves us.
Our communities are now suffering from government cutbacks and political favouritism.
But, one way we can help revitalize and rebuild our rural economy is through our support of local arts and culture.
Art is vital for us. Imagine how dull life would be without art! We take it for granted, but the quality of our lives and our communities would be diminished without art.
Arts have the power to remind us of what we each have to offer. Art and culture brings us together like nothing else will.
A tiny rural town in Alberta called Rosebud (pop. 100!) has been reborn as a cultural mecca. In 1973 a school teacher began a small arts camp for her students. Over the years that original camp has expanded and grown in ways no one could have expected at the time.
The town now has a dinner theatre with stage plays and pre-show entertainment that attracts visitors and bus tours from all across western Canada.
They also now have their own radio station and recording studio, and they link to the cultural attractions in other nearby communities to further attract visitors.
By supporting local arts and culture we give our children a reason to follow their creativity and dreams instead of settling for just a job working for someone else.
We can see our own villages reborn as cultural centres that attract visitors from near and far!
But, it’s up to us to help ourselves.
This year, the Larlee Creek Hullabaloo will feature 16 different musicians and bands, all from Atlantic Canada.
Come together with friends and family to make new friends at this wonderful festival….and help revitalize the arts in the River Valley and support our talented Atlantic musicians!
Stephanie Kelley
