Orchestra, Jeremy Dutcher opens Collingwood Music Fest

The Collingwood Music Festival will feature 150 performing artists, between July 8-15.

The fourth annual festival kick offs with an outdoor waterfront concert at Millennium Park (45 Heritage Dr., Collingwood), featuring the brilliant, symphonic power of the National Academy Orchestra of Canada led by Maestro Alain Trudel, with special guest, Juno award-winning international star Jeremy Dutcher singing songs in the near-extinct Wolastoq Indigenous language.

Highlights of the festival include an uplifting program of popular spirituals with the Toronto Mass Choir, the three-time Juno-award-winning ensemble Gryphon Trio with special guests James Campbell and Daniel Vnukowski, plus a performance by twice Juno-nominated multi-instrumentalist and lyricist Beny Esguerra who fuses spoken word and hip-hop cultural expressions with Colombian Afro- Indigenous. Events between July 9-15, take place at First Presbyterian Church in Collingwood, on 200 Maple St.

This year, the festival is once again hosting the popular free events for youth at Duntroon Highlands Golf Club’s grounds on July 5. For tickets and info visit collingwoodfestival.com.