All Posts Tagged With: "Skeleton Park Music Festival"
KDG Season Opener
Tonight’s the night, as the Kingston Derby Girls make their long awaited return and kick off the 2011 season at the Memorial Centre. From the crazy uniforms and fear-inducing nicknames, to the epic spills and electrifying half time show, our Derby Girls sure do know how to put on one hell of a show, fuelled [...]
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Kingston Derby Girls
Kingston Derby Girls and Skeleton Park Music Festival proudly present Kingston’s first roller derby bout of 2011 – a double header! Featuring Kingston’s Sindarollas and The Disloyalists vs. Peterborough Roller Derby with live entertainment by: Sheezer, Slick Whippet, Rueben deGroot and The Gertrudes. Doors open at 5:30pm, Entertainment at 6:00pm, Bout start at 6:30pm Tickets: [...]
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The Skeleton Park Community Songbook with David Francey & Open Voices
There’s a new Skeleton Park Community Songbook video featuring David Francey with Open Voices Choir, Ernestown Secondary School Choir, as well as members of the National Farmers Union and Save Our Prison Farms, who combine to perform Torn Screen Door. I’m sort of embarrassed to admit that while I’ve heard a lot of great things [...]
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Five Things to See and Do
One of our first posts of 2011 was our new seasonal review of the top five things to see and do in Kingston. In our second edition, we will be looking forward and highlighting five of favourite, most anticipated festivals and activities, which you won’t want to miss during what’s left of Spring, and wait [...]
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Weekly Poll: Staycations in Kingston
First off, this week’s poll marks a momentous milestone for Kingstonist, as it’s the 50th time we’ve asked our readers to vote on a given topic of interest. Over the past year we’ve registered your support on who you will vote for in the upcoming federal election, the best small venue for live music, whether [...]
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Friday Foto
All things point towards McBurney Park this Saturday, as the 5th annual Skeleton Park Music Festival is ready to rock. Well, that’s not entirely true, as SPMF started rocking on Wednesday with a series of nightly concerts leading up to day-long, outdoor spectacular. I was fortunate enough to attend the opening night of the festival [...]
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Guide to the Skeleton Park Music Festival
The Skeleton Park Music Festival officially kicks off tomorrow night, with three consecutive evenings of fantastic entertainment prior to the main event this Saturday in McBurney Park. Due to the popularity of last year’s festival guide received, we thought that it would be beneficial to outline SKMP 2010, specifically the schedule, venues and musicians. So [...]
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Weekly Poll: Summer Plans
With just over two weeks to go, schools will soon be a fading image in many people’s rear view mirrors. I certainly do not miss those endless days spent in the classroom at this time of year, trying to stay still, calm and focused during the home stretch. There was just so much to look [...]
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Six Questions for The Gertrudes
With the Skeleton Park Music Festival less than one week away, more on that later, we thought that it would be appropriate to sit down with one of the many bands performing at this year’s festival. Who better than the fine folks from The Gertrudes for our latest round of six questions? We’ve featured not [...]
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Skeleton Park Music Festival
The Skeleton Park Music Festival is a non-profit music festival in Kingston, Ontario. This year, the festival celebrates it’s 5th anniversary, and it will take place from June 16th to the 19th. The SPMF provides venues for showcasing local musicians, in addition to family activities, artisans, and education on the history of Skeleton Park, also [...]
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