{"id":17372,"date":"2017-05-24T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17372"},"modified":"2017-05-24T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T20:23:15","slug":"chamber-street-festival-promises-music-fun-and-a-few-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/chamber-street-festival-promises-music-fun-and-a-few-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamber Street Festival promises music, fun \u2013 and a few secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether you\u2019re looking for a good buy, a day of family fun, or an opportunity to tap into your inner Sherlock Holmes, there\u2019s something for everyone planned at next week\u2019s Aurora Chamber Street Festival.
\nNow entering its twenty-second year, the popular annual festival, which sees Yonge Street closed from Wellington Street in the north to Murray Drive in the south for a jam-packed day of merriment, organizers are hard at work ensuring this year\u2019s Street Fest is the best yet.
\n\u201cIt is a fun, family-friendly day to either spend with the family, get outside, get some fresh air, and you can support local businesses, learn about lots of different community organizations on the streets, and there are always lots of opportunities to win fabulous raffle prizes,\u201d says Sandra Watson of the Aurora Chamber of Commerce. \u201cThe food and drinks are outstanding and there\u2019s something for everyone. I think if you want to get out there, meet your neighbours and see some local businesses, this is a great way to do it!\u201d
\nThe Aurora Chamber of Commerce is still finalizing vendor spots along Yonge Street and doing some fine tuning. Right now they have sold 620 out of 660 spots \u2013 75 sold in the last week alone \u2013 so they are on track to make sure there really is something for every taste.
\nIn fact, just what you might find at the Street Festival is never a certainty until the day of as many vendors come out at the last minute looking for opportunities to take part \u2013 opportunities which the Chamber works very hard to accommodate.
\nAt this point, however, the big food trucks are all confirmed and ready to go, as is the entertainment lineup.
\nBuskers will be entertaining all along Yonge Street at various locations and various times throughout the day. Two live stages are always popular draws and the northern most stage at Yonge and Church, just south of the Aurora Public Library, will feature the local band Six Ways to Sunday while the southern stage down at Brookland Avenue will host The Coyotes, which Ms. Watson says \u201care always a Street Festival favourite and play fabulous music all day long.\u201d
\n\u201cWe mix up our buskers every year, but one that always draws a huge crowd and remains a fan favourite is our fire guy,\u201d Ms. Watson continues. \u201cHe will be doing four performances at the intersection of Yonge and Brookland starting at 1 p.m. on the hour. His shows last about 15 minutes and he just does amazing fire breathing, running around on an electric scooter with flame-throwing obstacles and the young and old just love him.\u201d
\nOld favourites in place, the 2017 Aurora Street Festival will offer some new twists this year.
\nAmong them is a partnership with Brainy Games and Mark Kolb who has developed a Pokemon GO-style app which will encourage Festival-goers to find \u201csecrets\u201d along the street and in various vendor booths.
\nAnother feature is a partnership with Activate Aurora on Open Streets, which will see a couple of streets adjoining the Street Festival route closed to vehicular traffic and open to sports and play, including a three-on-three basketball tournament.
\n\u201cI am hoping there is going to be a really good flow of people who are attending the Open Streets and will come to the street festival,\u201d says Ms. Watson. It is just going to be really good for the Open Streets participants and our vendors, bringing in another mix of attendees.\u201d
\nAs a note, following last year\u2019s controversy over a petting zoo hosted by a third-party business adjacent to the Street Festival last year, the Chamber will not allow live animals at any of the booths at the Street Festival this year and going forward.
\nThe 2017 Aurora Chamber Street Festival will take place Sunday, June 4, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Yonge Street. The Festival is brought to you by presenting sponsor St. Andrew\u2019s College and \u201cFriends of the Festival\u201d the Town of Aurora, Magna, Geranium Homes and Goodlife Fitness.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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