Paris Drinks Fest relocating to Two Rivers Stadium (Syl Apps Community Centre)

By Casandra Turnbull

Paris Drinks Fest is relocating to Two Rivers Stadium for next month’s two-day food, beverage and musical festival

The announcement came this week after Brant County Council approved the relocation to Twin Rivers Stadium, beside the Syl Apps Community Centre. During the council meeting on Tuesday night, Councillors voted 10-1 in favour of supporting the venue change. Paris Drinks Fest organizers had to apply for a venue change because significant flood damage from recent rainfall impacted their plans to host the popular festival at Lions Park in Paris. Following council’s approval, event organizers had to reapply for a noise exemption as the current approval was restricted to Lion’s Park. It was also noted that event organizers will be taking multiple steps to ensure they minimize disruption to the surrounding residential areas, including using smaller and more directional speaker systems, enforcing curfew, live monitoring and control of the decibel levels, and positioning the stage and tents to minimize sound leakage.

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