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Canadiana Fest 2025

Canadiana Fest 2025

The Can-Am Peace Jam will September 20, 2025 at Arcadia Creek Festival Place in downtown Kalamazoo - come join us!

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Canadiana Fest 2025: A Celebration of Music, Food, and Culture in Kalamazoo MI!

June 30, 2025 by Amy Crabtree Campbell Leave a Comment

Get ready to immerse yourself in the vibrant sights, sounds, and flavors of Canada at Canadiana Fest 2025! Join us at the Arcadia Creek Festival Site in Kalamazoo, MI on Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 3:30 pm until 10 pm, for a day filled with live music, delicious Canadian cuisine and beverages, and exciting cultural activities. Don’t miss out on this unique celebration of Canadian heritage and hospitality! Your attendance also benefits the South Michigan Food Bank and Kalamazoo Loaves & Fishes!

FREE ADMISSION this year! Join us for free or contribute if you’re able. Your generosity and kindness makes the festival possible for everyone to enjoy.

We’ll also take at-will donations at the door. Reserve tickets either way so we know how many to expect. Be a part of this unforgettable experience!

2025 Music Lineup:

Rock Rx: Rock Rx (rockrxband.com) Hailing from the Kalamazoo area, this high-energy cover band returns again in 2025 doing their renditions of the best Canadian Rock, Pop and R&B. They make the audience feel like they are part of the band, literally. Don’t be surprised if you have a mic in your face during the show, as you sing along to one of your favorite songs. 

Cécilia: Cécilia is coming to us all the way from Quebec. Widely recognized as three of Canada’s finest musicians, Timi Turmel, Erin Leahy, and Louis Schryer will bring their rollicking sounds of traditional, Celtic and Quebecois music. Bring your dancing shoes!

John Louis Good: Hailing from just down I-94 in Jackson, John Louis Good will bring the music of Canadian folk icon Stompin’ Tom Connors! You won’t want to miss this!

Woodland Stream Drum & Song, MoniFaith (Monica Padula) piano, and Deanna Bush, Flautist – We are so excited to have these Indigenous artists join us for our opening ceremonies!

Kalamazoo Pipe Band: The Kalamazoo Pipe Band is dedicated to teaching, performing & promoting highland bagpipe music in Kalamazoo, MI. Originating in the 1950’s, they have had the honor of piping at many Michigan ceremonies and events. Their heart thumping drum and heart wrenching pipes will move you and invoke the spirit of Canada’s Commonwealth origins. 

2025 Food Vendors:

Local and regional food vendors will offer delicious takes on Canadian Cuisine and local favorites.

  • Best Coast Provisions
  • PJW Creole Cuisine,
  • Pac Brazilian Pizza
  • MotorMouthMI
  • More to come as we get closer to the Fest!

Beer and Beverage Garden operated by the Kalamazoo Experiential Learning Center. Enjoy delicious craft beers and your favorite Canadian imports. We will also have a great selection of imported Canadian wines available via our exclusive offerings from Gold sponsor Pelee Island Winery

2025 Activities SO FAR!

World Champine Poutine Competition Local and regional restaurants and food trucks will compete to create the best Poutine in the World!

Butter Tart Competition Open to all who want to bring their best version of this sweet Canadian classic, professional bakers and home bakers both! Bring a dozen buttertarts to the information booth and they will be judged by a panel of bakers, Canadians, and buttertart lovers. We’ll announce the winners from the stage in the afternoon!

Children’s Culture Tent: Join us at the children’s tent for arts, crafts and cultural and educational activities about Canada!

Workshop Tent: New in 2025, we will have several workshops going on throughout the event with all manner of fascinating topics:

  • Genealogist Janine Cotugno from the Kalamazoo Valley Geneaological Society speaks on “Finding Your Canadian Roots”.
  • Canadian children’s author Jocelyn Watkinson will read from her book “The Three Canadian Pigs” and Melissa Baril of Caribou a Lunettes will read from a French or Cree language children’s story in the presentations tent.
  • Rendez-vous Détroit’s Elizabeth Bourne will speak on celebrating Detroit’s French Canadian history and her own experience of being a French Canadian in Michigan.
  • Dr. Daniel McFarlane, one of the world’s leading authorities on the Great Lakes, will present “The 7th Wonder of the World; How Canada and the U.S. Shaped Niagara Falls”.
  • Erin Leahy of the band Cécilia will lead a traditional Ottawa Step Dancing workshop! Learn the fundamental mechanics of French-Canadian step dancing as well as how the style developed historically in Quebec and Ontario. Erin will teach you “step by step” to dance a reel and how it is integrated with Traditional Music.
  • The Scottish Pipe Band and Dancers will lead a traditional Canadian Scottish country dance with the Quinn Irish Dancers.
  • Wyatt Szpliet, Mno Mijem Sovereignty Coordinator of the Gun Lake Tribe, will give a presentation on Anishinaabe maple sugaring.

Canadian Sports Center! Come out and enjoy skills workshops, experiences and learn the history of these sports! We will have:

  • Curling! sponsored by the Kalamazoo Curling Club. Come throw a rock for charity! All proceeds to be donated to local food banks to fight hunger.
  • Lacrosse! Canada’s official winter sport! Meet the athletes and coaches of many local teams like Kalamazoo United, Portage Central/Portage Northern, and Kalamazoo College.
  • Basketball! Invented by a Canadian and staffed with WMU Bronco basketball players!
  • Hockey! Come learn street hockey led by NCAA Champion WMU Bronco hockey players!
  • Crokinole! If you don’t know what crokinole is, come find out at the Fest! This traditional Canadian game is a family favorite.

Try the Royal Canadian VIP Experience and enjoy the Fest in style!

  • NO WAIT GATE- Enter at the west gate on Koopsen’s Alley for NO WAITING! 
  • Tasting Ticket includes up to 6 tasting pours of either Canadian Style Beers or Canadian varietal wines!
  • We will have Ontario wines exclusively from Gold sponsor Pelee Island Winery, Canada’s oldest winery!
  • Enjoy creative and delightful no-alcohol cocktails featuring Platinum sponsor Clearly Canadian sparkling waters. The Clearly O’Canada Smoked Maple Mocktail is just one we’ll have on offer! Come taste enticing treatments and unique flavor profiles!
  • NOSH on delicious finger foods and bites across the day by top local chefs!
  • POSH private luxury portable bathrooms, covered tables and seating area. 
  • No wait dedicated craft beer trailer, exclusive access to the stage with outdoor cocktail tables and seating. 
  • Meet and greet with all of the bands.
  • And MUCH MORE YET TO COME!

Follow our socials for up to the minute announcements!

  • Canadiana Fest on Facebook
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Walk and talk with Channon Mondoux!

April 2, 2025 by Amy Crabtree Campbell

Event creator Channon Mondoux walks us through why we should come out to the Can-Am Peace Jam on Saturday, September 2025 from 4 pm to 10 pm.

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Canadiana Fest 2025: Can-Am Peace Jam

April 1, 2025 by Amy Crabtree Campbell

It might be April 1, but this is no joke! Canadiana Fest and CN Rail present:

🍁 CAN-AM ☮️ PEACE ☮️ JAM! 9/20/25, Arcadia Creek in downtown Kalamazoo!

*FREE ADMISSION*

You read that right! (But we’ll gladly accept at-will donations at the door!)

Join us for friendship, fun, and of course, plenty of poutine! Our theme this year is to bring us together in peace and solidarity, as good neighbors. Come celebrate the founding cultures of Canada, and experience our First Nations, French, and British Commonwealth heritage together and have a hella kitchen party!

What’s a kitchen party? Well, we’re glad you asked:

Definition: CANADIAN ENGLISH: kitchen party (noun) · kitchen parties (plural noun)

A warm and welcoming social gathering with music and dancing, especially in Newfoundland and the Maritime Province, typically held in a person’s home, or in this case, our “backyard” of Kalamazoo at the Arcadia Creek Festival Site!

Follow our socials for details as they happen! The event page on Facebook can be found here!

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A great day ice-skating and hanging out with the community!

January 26, 2025 by Amy Crabtree Campbell

We had beautiful weather today for the Canuck Club skating event at the Millenium Park ice rink Portage, MI! Folks enjoyed hot cocoa, hot cider, buttertarts, and the antics of Kalam A. Moose. Follow our Facebook page to find out our next events and come join us! We appreciate the City of Portage Parks and Recreation Department hosting us!

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Canadiana Fest 2024 Kzoom wrapup video!

November 15, 2024 by Amy Crabtree Campbell

Platinum sponsor Kzoom created this wrapup video for us, enjoy!

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Canadiana Fest 2024 Public Media Network wrapup video!

November 15, 2024 by Amy Crabtree Campbell

Check out the interviews in this wrapup video from Kalamazoo’s own Public Media Network!

OPEN VIDEO HERE

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See you next year!

September 24, 2024 by Amy Crabtree Campbell

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9/13/24 Rick Green on WRKR Morning Show

September 13, 2024 by Amy Crabtree Campbell

Listen in on the chat with Meatball and Mark and Canadian comedy legend Rick Green! They cover a wide variety of topics including Rick Green’s advocacy work with ADHD. He’s appearing at the Canadiana Fest Saturday 9/21 on the main stage and then in the Red Green Show Possum Lodge! Come join us!

https://wrkr.com/show/rocker-morning-show/

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Rick Green (Bill Smith of the Red Green Show) on WILS Morning Wake Up 9/12/24

September 12, 2024 by Amy Crabtree Campbell

Rick Green played inventor Bill Smith on the Red Green Show and he’s coming to Canadiana Fest on 9/21/24! He’ll be in the Possum Lodge at the Fest!

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9/12/24 – Detroit Free Press article

September 12, 2024 by Amy Crabtree Campbell

We are BEYOND grateful to Kiley Martin at the Detroit Free Press for this exhaustively detailed article about our beloved Fest coming up next weekend! Please share this to your socials and help us get the word out!

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/09/12/canadiana-fest-to-bring-canadian-culture-to-kalamazoo/75172232007/

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