Great crowd takes in Mass Band Festival in Victoria Park, Kincardine

Victoria Park, Kincardine, was a sea of umbrellas at the start of the 24th annual Mass Band Festival, Saturday afternoon, hosted by organizer Norm Annetts and the Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band.

However, the weather cleared and the music played on, as the Kincardine Community Concert Band entertained the crowd, followed by the Toronto All-Star Band, the Teeswater Highlanders Pipe Band, City of Orillia Pipe Band, Cambridge and District Pipe Band, Sarnia Legion Pipe Band, and Eliza Jane band.

The Toronto All-Star Band featured 17 players and six singers, with artistic director Zygmunt Jedrzejek, and conductor Martin Matuszczyk.

Eliza Jane is a fiddle and keyboard group that takes its name from one of Paddy Walker's tugboats. The group is based out of the Walker House and entertains at the pub nights there.

The festival ended with the Mass Band parade, as more than 160 pipers and drummers marched through downtown Kincardine to Quinn Plaza, and then back to Durham Market North where they performed for an enthusiastic audience.

The Kincardine Scottish served almost 4,000 hot dogs and about 3,000 cobs of corn to the hungry crowd, and the park was full of people throughout the afternoon.



The Mass Band parade marches through downtown Kincardine, followed by a huge crowd of people at the Mass Band Festival, Saturday, at Victoria Park