10:00 AM Smiths Falls Gordon Pipe Band

– the popular 20-piece Scottish pipe and drum corps

10:30 AM Official Opening Ceremonies
– Perth & District Chamber of Commerce
– President Mike Purdon
– Perth Mayor John Fenik
– Perth Town Crier Brent McLaren
– Lanark & District Maple Syrup
– Producers Awards Presentation

10:45 AM Rick Knowles Band
Country performers with songs from ‘Inside Out’ EP

11:45 AM Mississippi Squares Dance Club
Square and round dancing demonstration

12:00 PM RedFox Band
-Five-piece Indie-folk music group from Montreal

1:00 PM ‘ Sap-Tapping & Wood Cookie’ Challenge
2-person teams let the chips fly to drill spile
holes, hang sap buckets and clock the fastest
cross-cut sawing times! Music throughout the competition by Space Between (Fiddler and Banjo)

2:00 PM Doubleback

The Valley’s top country entertainers return

3:00 PM CR5 Bluegrass
– an exciting & progressive 5-piece bluegrass band

MCs – John Chatwood – Jack 92.3 and Brian Perkin – Lake 88.1

And on the streets…
Ken Ramsden
Canadian Heritage Fiddler