COATICOOK. Chartier Park, in the heart of downtown Coaticook, was the scene of Canada Day celebrations on Monday afternoon (July 1).
The Rues principales organization had put together a program for the occasion.
Festival-goers were able to hear traditional songs performed on drums by members of the Sherbrooke Aboriginal Community. A little later in the day, it was artist Tim Brink’s turn to take to the stage of the main stage to get the crowd dancing and singing.
“We were really spoiled,” says Julie Favreau, general manager of Rues principales Coaticook. “The park was packed and the weather was also on our side. Tim Brink offered us a whole repertoire and we discovered something new with the songs and drums of members of the Sherbrooke Aboriginal community.”
Let us recall that this was the first Canada Day celebration in more than fifteen years in Coaticook.
