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.

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!

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!

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

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

OPEN VIDEO HERE

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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/

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/

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!