Street fairs and festivals. Vancouver is in fair festival frenzy. This past Saturday alone there were two good ones. So how come there was little or no advertising and then why two in one day?
Not that I’m complaining as I’m always looking for a party but it cut my day in half as I noticed a fair while on my way to a festival. Here’s a recap:
MexicoFest in conjunction with Independence Day in Mexico took place outdoors at the new downtown Vancouver Convention Centre. Many people and what seemed like all of Vancouver’s Mexican population were there for the live shows (best mariachi I’ve heard in ages), food, arts & crafts and dancing. It was a wonderful opportunity to discover the diverse cuisine, musical tradition, artistic heritage, and tourism destinations of this fascinating county and its people.
It was a beautiful series of cultural, culinary and social events with a big centre stage and many rotating performances. I’m sorry to have missed the ballet Mexcaltital as I’m sure it was excellent.
West End Fest (formerly called Davie Days) took place all along Davie street which was closed to traffic from Burrard to Denman. White tented vendors lined the streets and there were several music stages with live performances and lots of food. Tiny bubbles, roller blading, buskers, animals and kids.
It’s always interesting along Davie at the best of times so this just made it that much more FUN.
Then it was off to Enigma restaurant on West 10th to see Sybil Thrasher, our local entertaining jazz/blues singer extraordinaire! Our own Billy Holiday.
Until next year….
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