Canadiana Fest Kalamazoo

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/

Are you a home baker? A professional baker? You are BOTH welcome to enter the Buttertart Bakeoff, sponsored by Bos Kitchens! We welcome all bakers to give us their best buttertarts! Complete the entry form here and then bring a dozen of your buttertarts to the info booth at the Fest on 9/21/24. A panel of judges will taste-test your creation and you could win gift cards from Bos Kitchens!

The buttertart is a hallmark of Canadian pastries. Its origin dates back to the pre-1900s and can be found in several recipe books as a filling for pastries. Ask any Canadian what they think and they’ll tell you that a buttertart can be defined as the following:

Buttertart -noun- one word to describe a delightful taste sensation.
Definition: take unconditional love and liquid gold, blend well, pour into a warm, loving pastry shell, bake with care and serve.

The traditional buttertart is comprised of butter, brown sugar, vinegar, and eggs that is baked in many different styles of pastries, but always as a tart. There are many nontraditional versions, and the biggest controversy is always RAISIN or no RAISIN. This results in folks taking sides at family gatherings, and creating #teamraisin or #teamnoraisin hashtags.

Biddy Buttertart is the artistic embodiment of the feeling our graphic artist Tony Steele (SteeleWorks in Lansing, MI) had after he experienced his first buttertart last spring. Our iddy-biddy friend is an avid hockey player who uses a sled to play. They are fun-loving and active, and as the smile on their face shows, happy to be a part of the team. We think they are a great addition to Tony’s other Canadiana Fest creations, Kalam A. Moose, Polli Poutine, and Bobby Beerver!

We hope you’ll come enjoy some buttertarts with us at the Fest!

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!

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/

https://www.fox17online.com/morning-mix/celebrate-our-neighbors-to-the-north-at-canadiana-fest-2024

Our final musical Spotlight shines on the Southern Straight Singers, who return to the Fest again this year after blowing people away last year! This group of 20+ Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Odawa and Chippewa drummers and singers will share their sacred drum and music at Canadiana Fest, leading our opening ceremonies with a community Round Dance.

Here’s a short video from last year’s performance:

Here they are in the larger group at the Sault Ste Marie Powwow in 2019:

Kalamazoo’s favorite cover band Rock Rx is kicking off our evening lineup! Rock Rx splashed onto the Kalamazoo music scene in early 2019. Rock Rx truly is your “rock prescription”.

The band was started by a drug dealer (a legal one, in the pharmaceutical business)—Quentin Hunt. Quentin, on lead guitar, is joined by Daniel and Kirsten Jassim on lead vocals and keyboards, Shannon Ashmus on bass, and Steven “Ziggy” Zeigler on drums.

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. 

We’ve seen their set list for the Fest, and it’s all Canadian artists! Come check them out, as a fun time is a straight up guarantee!

We’re pleased to announce that we are sourcing our wines exclusively from Ontario’s Pelee Island Winery for this year’s Royal Canadian VIP Experience Tent! A selection of their wines will be available in our beverage dome, hosted by the Chefs & Cooks Association of Kalamazoo Battle Creek, but if you’re a true oenophile, an elevated selection will be curated for tasting under the bilingual English and French direction of sommelier Austin Shynal in the VIP tent!

Pelee Island Winery is the largest private estate winery in Canada with over 700 acres of vineyards and a winemaking history dating back more than 150 years. They produce from vine to wine in an ecologically sound manner, and varietals grown on the island include both reds and whites.

White: Chardonnay, Gewurztraminer, Riesling, Sauvignon Blanc, Vial, Pino Gris, and Tokay Friulano

Red: Merlot, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Baco Noir, Shiraz, Tempranillo, Chambou

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