Green Festival

The Green Festival is based on a 500 acre site just outside Clairville, 30 minutes north of Moncton, New Brunswick, was established by Peter James in 2008. With over 750 attendees and 250 entertainers, venders and volunteers, the first festival was considered a significant sucess for the rural community.
It's message is to celebrate community, ecology and live music.
The festival contained many local vendors, artists and energy saving products. The festival promotes general fitness with treasure trails for children and Geocaching for adults. Loosely based on the huge Glastonbury festival in the United Kingdom, The Green Festival in 2008 show cased many up and coming bands, mainly from across the Maritimes with a few from further afield.
Over 30 bands performed an eclectic range of musical styles in 2008 including local headline country band The Divorcees.
(in alphabetical order)
1. Aphasia. Tyler Carmody.
2. Beautiful Disaster.
3. Berend’s Pages.
4. Bill Kidney.
5. Boogie Bonnie Simon.
6. Brite-Vu, Robb Medwid and Steve Dewolfe.
7. Colpitts & Brown.
8. Celtic Mystique.
9. Dean Cormier.
10. Flat Broke.
11. Easy Street, Larry Kelly.
12. Hard to Handle, Piero Baiani.
13. Julie Aube.
14. Julie Mermelstein. Lampshades & Offlights.
15. Melanie Keith and The Strombachs. (guest Chris Copaloah)
16. Mike Kennedy.
17. Moe Clark.
18. Olivia Fader.
19. Peter Churchill.
20. Penny Blacks.
21. Piper Perabo, Marc Bragdon.
22. Polygame, Patrick Robichaud.
23. Robert Glencross.
24. Roy Gould.
25. Space Cactus, Jean Pierre Morin.
26. The Divorcees.
27. The Kickbacks, Cody Finck.
28. Tireless Sudans, Dave Rahmer.
29. TROY Fulton.
30. Vonnie Mann.
31. White Rabbit, Andrew Stevens.

The festival promotes a generally greener way of life and was opened by the local Green Party MP Mike Milligan.
More can be seen on the website for the current festival plans
Media Coverage for GF2008 included.
Here, Moncton, 17-23rd July 2008.
The Times and Transcript, 26th August 2008.
The Times and Transcript, 1st September 2008.
Bread 'n' Molasses, Dec2008/Jan2009.
CJSE Radio.
CBC.
Current booked performers for The Green Festival 2009 include:- Lennie Gallant, Grand Derangement, Neon Highway plus 40 others.
Plans for The Green Festival 2010 include:- The National Youth Orchestra of CANADA, The Stereophonics, plus 50 others.

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