Edmonton Folk Fest, and the Fringe are world class festivals. Heritage Days is a great multicultural festival too.
Is Edmonton's fringe even better than Saskatoon's? It's certainly worse than Winnipeg's. And I don't really think any of them qualify as 'world class'. Fringe isn't exactly Broadway. And Folk Fest is pretty much the same in cities across Canada. Edmonton doesn't even get Bare Naked Ladies or City and Colour.
Edmonton claiming they are 'The Festival City' is no different than when they claimed they were the 'City of Champions'. It's just propaganda aimed at keeping edmontonians happy/deluded.
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Edmonton does have that cool international festival that they host during the summer. I remember going to that as a kid, but besides that the city is a dump. Non-existent downtown culture and it's sad that the selling point to tourists is a mall and an arena. I'm sure locals don't even care for that old and falling apart mall either, it's cool to visit, but I doubt it's something you'd want to see more than a couple of times a year.
Edmonton does have that cool international festival that they host during the summer. I remember going to that as a kid, but besides that the city is a dump. Non-existent downtown culture and it's sad that the selling point to tourists is a mall and an arena. I'm sure locals don't even care for that old and falling apart mall either, it's cool to visit, but I doubt it's something you'd want to see more than a couple of times a year.
Being that people died on the roller coaster in that mall they should count their blessings the place is even open. However, humbleness & gratitude are not the defining characteristic of thee uhm... self proclaimed "City of Champions".
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Edmonton suggesting they are the festival city is laughable. Montréal beats them by a factor of 100 for festivals in the summer. It really isn't remotely close.
Nobody outside of Edmonton gives two craps about Edmonton's festivals.
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Edmonton Folk Fest, and the Fringe are world class festivals. Heritage Days is a great multicultural festival too.
I've heard little to nothing of either. If they're world class, don't you think I should be hearing more about them being in such close proximity?
I've heard more of Edmonton's failed imitations of the Stampede than those. And I still don't know what K-days is.
Perhaps you need to get out and travel a bit to really determine whether they're world class. Seems most Edmontonians don't get out a lot, but look at something in their city and just proclaim it's the best there is because it's the best that's available to them and that's what the people in the TV tell them.
Thing with Calgary is the hordes of tourists come through and actually tell us the area is world class. Do you hear such things from first timers that go through Edmonton?
They're just suckers with low self-esteem, that need validation that they're team has turned it around and are awesome now because deep down in their heart of heart when they're sitting up at night staring out the cracked window of their ramshackle, social style concrete block apartment buildings listening to their wives eating yo-ho's by the ton that last year was a matter of things going way to perfectly and well. And that a 30+ point improvement is more then likely a fluke that can't be replicated .
So to make themselves feel better they wrap themselves in a false cloak of superiority made up of shaved cat hair and tears and mount a vigorous and often empty defense of anything Oiler or Edmonton negative.
Knowing that for a few brief seconds that they are empowered and have risen beyond their one bed room tenement with the TV with the bent antennae, and the Sally Ann inspired outfit made of burlap and depression medicine containers.
But they know that it will all come crashing down like that time when their wheel of government cheese was delayed by an incompetent Mailman named Joey Joe Joe.
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I've heard little to nothing of either. If they're world class, don't you think I should be hearing more about them being in such close proximity?
I've heard more of Edmonton's failed imitations of the Stampede than those. And I still don't know what K-days is.
Perhaps you need to get out and travel a bit to really determine whether they're world class. Seems most Edmontonians don't get out a lot, but look at something in their city and just proclaim it's the best there is because it's the best that's available to them and that's what the people in the TV tell them.
Thing with Calgary is the hordes of tourists come through and actually tell us the area is world class. Do you hear such things from first timers that go through Edmonton?
Dude - you need to get off your high horse. I have lived in Calgary for the last 5 years. I love the city, and I can compare it to Edmonton quite objectively. Both cities have their good and bad points. And I have travelled all over the world so perhaps I am not the one talking out of his a**
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Edmonton does have that cool international festival that they host during the summer. I remember going to that as a kid, but besides that the city is a dump. Non-existent downtown culture and it's sad that the selling point to tourists is a mall and an arena. I'm sure locals don't even care for that old and falling apart mall either, it's cool to visit, but I doubt it's something you'd want to see more than a couple of times a year.
Heritage Days, yeah it's awesome, especially if you're into culture and food. I went pretty much every year I lived there. Edmonton doesn't have anything that can even touch the well-known popularity of the Stampede, but I'll agree they have better summer festivals than us. But that's just to cover up the fact you're in Shelbyville. I guess that's why they beat us in football nearly half the time.
1. The bolded part is untrue. Many, many families and shoppers got to West Ed. Don't kid yourself.
2. It's the hipster thing to "avoid tourist traps" in their own city and disparage them. That isn't specifically limited to Edmonton. And even then, it's because locals have likely seen them before and don't need to go again, not because of a conscious effort to avoid tourists, teens, and scuzzy types.
"Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded."
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Dude - you need to get off your high horse. I have lived in Calgary for the last 5 years. I love the city, and I can compare it to Edmonton quite objectively. Both cities have their good and bad points. And I have travelled all over the world so perhaps I am not the one talking out of his a**
If you've traveled all over you know what a crock it is saying the Edmonton Folk Fest and Fringe are both world class, whatever that means anyway. Edmonton's folk festival is pretty standard, that doesn't mean it's not a blast and a lot of fun but nothing separates it from the many folk or musical festivals happening all over.
As for fringe, the Edinburgh fringe festival is truly world class and the one most known. It spans almost a month and sells well over a million tickets to the 50k shows they put on. 50 000 is a lot more then the 16 000 in Edmonton. Edmonton Fringe is great and I've enjoyed it, but certainly don't toss the world class label on it.
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Maybe that says more about you than about Edmonton.
What does it say? That he doesnt like fringe or folk music? Hardly a great comment
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Glasgow, Bonaroo, Oktoberfest, Coachella. Those are world class festivals. Festivals people will travel from all over purely to attend. Not show up for a cousins wedding and realize "Oh, there's a festival here this weekend? Wait I grew up three hours away with family there and the only person I've ever heard refer to it as the Festival City is them... sarcastically."
Edmonton festivals are probably really fun and well done. But they are not world class sorry.
If you've traveled all over you know what a crock it is saying the Edmonton Folk Fest and Fringe are both world class, whatever that means anyway. Edmonton's folk festival is pretty standard, that doesn't mean it's not a blast and a lot of fun but nothing separates it from the many folk or musical festivals happening all over.
As for fringe, the Edinburgh fringe festival is truly world class and the one most known. It spans almost a month and sells well over a million tickets to the 50k shows they put on. 50 000 is a lot more then the 16 000 in Edmonton. Edmonton Fringe is great and I've enjoyed it, but certainly don't toss the world class label on it.
What does it say? That he doesnt like fringe or folk music? Hardly a great comment
Fine, not world class. But nothing to sneeze at. The Edmonton Fringe Festival is the oldest and largest arts festival in North America. 850,000 attendees to the last one.
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