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It's FESTIVAL season! Mariposa celebrates 62 years with a SOLD OUT SHOW!

2023/6/28
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Today on NOW and NEXT:Pam Carter is the President of the Mariposa Folk Foundation. She joins us to talk about the health and well being of one of the longest running music festivals in Canada.This year's festival in Orillia marks 62 years since it's inaugural weekend in August 1961. The lineup feature a guy named Ian Tyson and a young woman named Syliva Fricker:)The festival kicks off with The Way We Feel - a Lightfoot Celebration, marking Gordon Lightfoots close connection with Mariposa and his roots in Orillia.