Set-up was well underway Friday morning for the Street Performers Festival. Photo by Curtis Galbraith.

By Curtis Galbraith

Community

Street Perfomers Festival returns to usual location this year

Jul 19, 2019 | 12:47 PM

It has been a Grande Prairie tradition for 19 years now.

The Street Performers Festival starts downtown Friday afternoon at 4:30.

Co-chair Wayne Ayling says they are back at their usual location at 100 Street and 100 Avenue after being displaced by construction last year.

“The downtown business core has had a couple of years where the streets have been torn up and put back together again in wonderful, new, modern way. As a result, they want to welcome patrons down to (downtown) Grande Prairie to share in the excitement of the new street scape.”

He adds performers from all over the world will be here.

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“We have an award-winning street performer from Sweden, from Belfast, Ireland, from Australia, from (the) United States, from Ontario, from England.”

Local talent will be featured as well.

“One of the things we’re very proud of is using this festival to give local performers a chance to develop their street-performing skills. Amanda Syryda and Marcia Tofer have taken advantage of those opportunities and they’re now independent street performers (in) their own right. They travel all Canada performing at street performers festivals, thanks to the start they got here in Grande Prairie.”

The festival will run through Sunday. 100 Avenue between 99 and 101 Streets and 100 Street between 99 and 101 Avenues will be closed to traffic while it takes place.

Drivers are asked to take an alternate route through downtown during the festival.

People are asked to leave their pets at home. Vaping and smoking are not allowed. That includes cannabis.

There is no admission charge, but fans are asked to bring loonies and toonies to make voluntary donations to the performers they watch if they so choose.