Northern Lights Festival kicks off next week with headliners Jully Black, Rural Alberta Advantage and more
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Northern Lights Festival Boréal has brought established and up-and-coming artists from around the world to Sudbury, Ont., for 53 years. Headliners at this year's edition of the long-running festival include Jully Black, July Talk, The Rural Alberta Advantage, and Tim Baker.
The festival runs from Thursday, July 4 to Sunday, July 7, at Bell Park, along the shore of Ramsey Lake.
R&B and soul artist Jully Black, who is performing on July 4, told CBC she hopes to get people of all ages on their feet during her show.
"Make sure you bring something to wipe your sweat more than your brow," Black said.
Sage McBride, who sings and plays the keyboard for the alternative folk band Shred Kelly, says she loves performing at festivals like Northern Lights.
"The mentality of people who are entering a festival site for the weekend are usually just doing it with so much joy and just so much excitement about discovering new artists and having a great time that we're just excited to play to some new people," McBride said.
Shred Kelly will hit the main stage on July 5.
Michelle Murray, the festival's interim executive director, says she is really excited about some of the smaller acts, including festival opener James Gray and Sudbury's Dayv Poulin, who performs on July 7.
"I like the smaller acts because that's where you discover, you know, your new favourites and you get to watch some of them grow into becoming famous performers," she said.
"Like Shania Twain, one of her first performances was on an NLFB stage and now look at her."
New this year will be some free daytime performances at the William Bell gazebo in Bell Park, near the festival grounds.
"We're having performers throughout the weekend there for people who may not be attending the festival," Murray said.
"Maybe they're walking the boardwalk and all of a sudden they see somebody performing and they go, 'Oh, wait, that's right, there's a festival happening this weekend. Let's go buy a day pass.'"
For Murray, leading the festival this year is a bit of a homecoming.
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