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| A beautiful sandy beach in Toronto, Ontario |
We went down to the beach in the Toronto beaches area.
Yes, we do have a beautiful beach in our big city where people can sunbath themselves to their hearts' content. People can relax under their beach umbrellas or enjoy a game of beach volley ball!
We were down in the beach area looking for the Busker Festival - an annual event held in the streets of downtown Toronto.
But this year, the Buskerfest was moved to a park in the Beaches area.
The Beaches is a big area; we had a difficult time locating the exact location where the festival was held.
We were happy when we saw a group of performers on high stilts walking towards us, singing and drumming.
The Buskerfest was held to raise fund to support about 40,000 people with epilepsy and their families.
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| Woodbine Park, located in Toronto's Beaches Area |
This year, the festival was at Woodbine Park.
There was no formal admission charges as admission was by voluntary donations.
There were a lot to see - booths, performers of various kinds, artists demonstrating and finishing their artwork right in front of our eyes!
Recycling some old wooden crate pieces and putting them to creative uses, an artist worked his magic and turned them to great pieces artwork.
Naturally, we had performers and buskers from the U.S., Elvis was among one of them!
Among all of the busker performers, my mom and I enjoyed this musical duo the best!
Both of these performers were quite a pair! One of them was from England, and the other one from a small middle eastern country.
Their act started with both of them walking around singing and playing their songs on their banjos. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary.
Then they started doing some interesting acrobatic stunts. One of the performers got on top of his partner who, with his feet, twirling and turning him around in all different directions.
The gentleman doing the climbing was all over his partner. He climbed on top of his belly, his torso, his back and his neck.
The amazing thing was it didn't matter what stunts these duo was doing, they kept playing music on their banjos as if nothing happened!
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| A colourful musical tricycle outfitted with drums made from recycled tins |
Another thing I really liked at the Buskerfest was an eye catching colourful musical vehicle that attracted a lot of attention from visitors to the festival, especially the kids.
On a closer look, the shinny metal musical instruments hanging on this musical tricycle were in fact made out of old metal lids, pots and pans and old tin cans, big and small!
Kids loved this musical tricycle and there were many jumping onto it and tried their hands on these homemade drums.
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| My mom taking a break and enjoying a rest. |
We had a great time at the International Buskerfest and I was glad that it was a sunny day so that my Mom was able to come and enjoy it too!
R.T.
Buskerfest
Woodbine Park
Toronto
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