{"id":38283,"date":"2026-06-04T18:14:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=38283"},"modified":"2026-06-04T18:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T22:14:56","slug":"tens-of-thousands-expected-at-sundays-street-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/tens-of-thousands-expected-at-sundays-street-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands expected at Sunday\u2019s Street Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tens of thousands are expected to descend on Yonge Street this weekend as York Region\u2019s biggest annual tradition returns \u2013 the Aurora Chamber of Commerce\u2019s Street Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Aurora Street Festival, which has taken over Yonge Street from Wellington in the north to Murray Drive in the south on the first Sunday in June for more than 25 years, will once again span the heart of Aurora\u2019s Downtown Core on June 7, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 500 vendors are set to take part this year offering something for everyone, with entertainment dotted all along the route to add to the Festival atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis Street Festival has been running for more than 25 years and it started as a community garage sale to what it is today \u2013 with over 500 different vendors lining the two-kilometre route,\u201d says Aurora Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Alison Mumford. \u201cWe have a number of vendors who come back year after year and they request the same spots because they know their customers are going to be looking for them. But we also have a lot of new vendors and that\u2019s always exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just such a fun community event. There are very few communities who get to shut down such a large road like Yonge Street, and when you\u2019re standing in the middle of it, the volume of people who are all coming out for this event, if you think about 25,000 \u2013 30,000 people, it\u2019s like a stadium and it\u2019s cool to picture that all along Yonge Street.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On board with their support for this year\u2019s Aurora Street Festival is NewRoads Aurora Toyota, which is the event\u2019s Presenting Sponsor, as well as the Osborne Goddard Re\/max Team, the Town of Aurora, and Telmax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Partnering on entertainment this year is the Aurora Cultural Centre, which will program a stage near the Aurora Public Library, while returning favourites, Coyotes, will play the stage near Brookland. Buskers like The Fire Guy will perform along the route throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ever-popular Craft Beer Festival is also back as an added attraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of the coolest things about planning [the Festival] is just seeing the variety of vendors,\u201d says Mumford. \u201cSome of them come from Aurora, some of them come from outside Aurora. They come back year after year, but from as far as 50-, 100-, 200-kilometres away, and they make it a point of making the Aurora Street Festival one of the annual events they attend. As an organizer, it\u2019s really cool to see the variety of people who want to take part in the festival. On the day of, it\u2019s hard to get to all 500 vendors. It\u2019s busy, there\u2019s lots of stuff going on, you can spend all day walking up and down Yonge Street and still miss certain people. For me, it\u2019s being able to connect with each of these different businesses and meet all kinds of different people, whether they\u2019re Chamber members, local businesses, or coming from elsewhere. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a rain or shine event, so come out and support local and support all of these vendors. Parking is not available on Yonge Street, but there\u2019s lots of parking around and there\u2019s no any one point of entry, you don\u2019t need to start at one end of Yonge Street or another. This is one of those you-must-experience-it types of days. It\u2019s hard to describe it without being there and experiencing it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on this weekend\u2019s event, visit www.aurorachamber.on.ca\/aurorastreetfestival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brock Weir
Editor
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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