The Renfrew Roots Music Festival took put for the very first time this weekend in Renfrew.

The two-day region new music display was held at the Ma-te-Way Centre grounds Friday and Saturday.

“We truly wanted to deliver a little something different to Renfrew,” activities and internet marketing coordinator Jenna McEwan claimed.

“We have finished tunes festivals in the previous. This just one is really centred on supporting nearby and bringing in some huge names that we have not had in Renfrew right before.”

The Renfrew Roots Audio Festival has changed the once-a-year Bluegrass Songs Festival that was traditionally held in Renfrew each individual 12 months.

“I assume we required to have interaction a additional various inhabitants and not just be targeted on just one sort of tunes,” Renfrew Mayor Tom Sidney stated.

“It’ll deliver additional of the more youthful group in,” 19-12 months-previous competition-goer Morgen Months said. “I signify, I am below.”

“I feel it can be fantastic,” stated Renfrew resident Sherry Inexperienced. “I do like bluegrass but I’m much more of a country enthusiast. So I appreciate this.”

The Bluegrass Pageant generally drew a couple thousand individuals above the program of its various days of exhibits and also showcased on web page tenting for out of towners.

The town estimates roughly 600 tickets have been marketed for Friday night time, with far more envisioned to market for Saturday.

Tenting for this year’s function was not an choice, but organizers are not ruling it out for long run gatherings.

“For our to start with year I feel that’s a great turnout,” Sidney mentioned.

The Roots Competition line-up was composed of nearly all Ottawa Valley-based artists, which includes headliners Jason Blaine and the River Town Saints, The Abrams, Lemon Dollars, and others.

Pembroke-centered band Sawmill Road claims transforming the festival structure to bring in a youthful demographic will assistance area artists.

“It really is vital to convey them out since everyone’s obtaining in their automobiles and driving down to the town to see the bigger bands,” reported guide singer Josh Coleman.

“Though we may well not have all those bigger names in this place, we still have the vitality, we continue to have the enjoyment, and we even now have the talent.”

The Doughtery Sisters were a person of the functions to open Saturday’s festivities.

Sisters Caitlin and Sarah Doughtery were being born and raised in Renfrew. They imagine having very well-recognized artists participate in significant displays in the valley will help grow their occupation.

“To be sharing a stage with people names, in the future we can reference it,” reported Caitlin.

“It is good for us to observe the reveals like Elise Saunders, artists of that caliber that we can learn a thing from.”