EDITORIAL COMMENTS Fantastic success of LOCALfest will lead to another brew next year!

To The Editor:

WOW, wow, wow, wow Six straight hours of singing, dancing, musicianship and local celebrations of talent at the Debut of HOME BREW LOCALfest ... held in conjunction with the 2023 Brant County Culture Days!!!

Where do I start? It was such a monumental success ... I'm beyond stoked. Mint, epic, Holy frijoles... just freaking awesome Altogether, we had about 300 people, including the performers in a jam-packed, speed-dating fever pitched marathon of goodwill.

There are not enough words in the English Language to describe my pride and overwhelming thanks to our entertainers. Mind-blowing GREAT.

Special thanks to all of our entertainers: Taya Humpartzoomian, Angus Academy of Highland Dance, Delilah Minshall, Ryleigh Fitzpatrick, Greg Zaluski, Ruby Williams, Shelby Lapinski, Carl Mulligan, SIVLE (the Minnery Family - Bob, Bill and Joan), Kyra Humpartzoomian, the Hungarian Village Dancers, Morgan Whitcroft, the Ukrainian Village Dancers, the STOMPtastic Line Dance Troupe, Iris Mottershead, Hilary Cowell, Steve Duran and the Keuning Family

Quartet.

To Jennifer Moore and Ryan Nelson our happy sound crew who arrived at 10:30 am and then Jen worked like a trojan ALL day. Good times DJ Services WOO HOO!!! And to special helpers Barb and Bob Nelson.

To Nancy Carubba for gracing us with the beautiful atmosphere of the Adelaide Hoodless Homestead YOU, my new friend, have been a dream to work with and a total blessing to our community I cannot say enough kind words

To my MAN Keith for his helping with the marketing, shopping for the water and snacks, transporting everything, helping with set-up and tear down and just being the only other person who helped with this event up until today

To my much-missed buddy but happy to see you beyond compare- Pam Humpartzoomian, for helping clean up and tear down. Gosh, your hug.

To my gals ... Taya and Kyra Humpartzoomian -- SINGING with you takes me to a level of instant Euphoria. Thanks for pitching in ALL day from Noon - 6pm and singing here, there, and everywhere and staying until the well, until the last note was sung.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention our MP Larry Brock and our Councillor Mike Sullivan for speaking on behalf of the local governments and rooting us on from the picnic tables and very briefly on the mic ... thanks kindly for your smiles and wonderful words.

I especially want to thank our smiling paparazzi from BScene and our spectarular coverage in the Paris Independent WOW!

A breath of sighs to Nathan Inglis for stepping in to assist with parking … we needed you!!

And finally, to you ... our patrons, fans, friends, new friends, visitors and attendees we couldn't have done this without your support, and we are grateful for your attendance, your generous donations towards the museum and your enthusiastic support of our entertainment

I am Euchred but I am one very happy Canadian.

Larry Brock encouraged me to do this again next year, at the same place ... and we're assuredly going to serve up a SONGtastic 2024 cup of HOME BREW!!!

Joan Minnery