Salmon Festival, 2006
If you are familiar with Newfoundland at all I am sure you have heard of the famous 
Salmon Festival. If not i'll fill you in. This festival is held in Grand Falls-Windsor, NL. I have no idea why its called Salmon Festival when it has absolutely not one thing to do with Salmon. For the most part it is just one huge party, especially for the younger out-of-towners. It's like 4 or 5 days of events, the main event being this huge outdoor concert held at Centennial Field. This years lineup included The Fables, Kim Mitchell, Theory of a Deadman, The Trews, Billy Talent, and Live. There is literally thousands of 
people there. They say there was an influx of about 15-20,000 people to GFW over the weekend. Thats alot considering the population here is only approximately 13,340. I know that since I was 18 or 19 maybe I have never missed one. We always came and stayed at Red Cliff campgrounds. This is a special campground that is only used for the festival every year. I not sure I can do justice just explaining this to you. Picture literally thousands of tents all in a huge big field. I think there is about 1500 
campsites with 4 people permitted to a site, so thats 6,000 people all together. Then you have the Bud Big Rig there, a few bands, lots of beer and lots of people...you can only imagine!
This year I had to work...of course, you know my luck. BUT, I was lucky enough that I got off at 4 on Saturday just in time to get over to Donna's for the annual Salmon Festival get-together. Lots of beer, lots of buddies which
usually turns into lots of fun. Then about 7ish we went over to the field just in time to catch Billy Talent (who I thought didn't have much talent at all) and then Live. Live was fantastic. We spent the whole night listening to the bands perform from the beer tent. Cory was absolutely loaded, practically falling asleep while standing up.(anyone reading this who knows Cory is saying 'what else is new' right about now). Anyways, a good time was had by everyone I am sure. I have added some photos as well for your viewing enjoyment :-) as i am sure you have already noticed.
Til next time
Salmon Festival. If not i'll fill you in. This festival is held in Grand Falls-Windsor, NL. I have no idea why its called Salmon Festival when it has absolutely not one thing to do with Salmon. For the most part it is just one huge party, especially for the younger out-of-towners. It's like 4 or 5 days of events, the main event being this huge outdoor concert held at Centennial Field. This years lineup included The Fables, Kim Mitchell, Theory of a Deadman, The Trews, Billy Talent, and Live. There is literally thousands of 
people there. They say there was an influx of about 15-20,000 people to GFW over the weekend. Thats alot considering the population here is only approximately 13,340. I know that since I was 18 or 19 maybe I have never missed one. We always came and stayed at Red Cliff campgrounds. This is a special campground that is only used for the festival every year. I not sure I can do justice just explaining this to you. Picture literally thousands of tents all in a huge big field. I think there is about 1500 
campsites with 4 people permitted to a site, so thats 6,000 people all together. Then you have the Bud Big Rig there, a few bands, lots of beer and lots of people...you can only imagine!This year I had to work...of course, you know my luck. BUT, I was lucky enough that I got off at 4 on Saturday just in time to get over to Donna's for the annual Salmon Festival get-together. Lots of beer, lots of buddies which
usually turns into lots of fun. Then about 7ish we went over to the field just in time to catch Billy Talent (who I thought didn't have much talent at all) and then Live. Live was fantastic. We spent the whole night listening to the bands perform from the beer tent. Cory was absolutely loaded, practically falling asleep while standing up.(anyone reading this who knows Cory is saying 'what else is new' right about now). Anyways, a good time was had by everyone I am sure. I have added some photos as well for your viewing enjoyment :-) as i am sure you have already noticed.Til next time
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