CAHamilton's Festival of Friends, a free music festival founded in 1976 by local artist Bill Powell, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. Despite challenges faced by many music festivals globally, including cancellations and reduced operations, the Festival of Friends has endured, drawing between 100,000 and 120,000 attendees annually. The festival originally began in a local coffee shop before moving to Gage Park in Hamilton. It briefly relocated to the Ancaster Fairgrounds in 2011 due to space constraints but returned to its original location in 2017. The festival features a wide range of musical acts and has become a significant cultural event in the region.
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