A Review of Saturday’s Riverfest Gig in Elora, Ontario
Curtis Sindrey/Aesthetic Magazine TorontoI was one of the hosts for the annual Riverfest event in the amazingly picturesque and ridiculously pretty town of Elora this past Saturday night. Riverfest was held in a place called Bissell Park which is right alongside the Grand River just up from the Elora Gorge. You’d be hard pressed to find a nicer spot for an outdoor gig.
Rich Aucoin was his usual amazing self. Ashley MacIsaac brought fire with his fiddle. And the Born Ruffians closed th enight. Aesthetic Magazine was there and filed this review.
Over 900 people came out for the fifth annual Riverfest Elora this past weekend, which took place in the scenic Bissell Park in Elora, Ontario.
This is the first year that Riverfest has booked artists from outside of the province and in addition to the headliner in Toronto-based indie rock quartet Born Ruffians, the bill couldn’t have been better. From Cape Breton-based fiddler Ashley MacIsaac to Halifax-based experimental pop madman Rich Aucoin, who brought his exhilarating live show to the small town of Elora, which included a chaotic mosh-pit underneath a giant rainbow-coloured parachute, a surfboard which he used to crowd surf and screened video projections of anything from Youtube clips to old movies that he synced to his music, the crowd was treated to an eclectic mix of sounds. If that wasn’t enough, Aucoin also projected his Twitter handle (@richaucoin) and his phone number (+1 902 877 6534) so fans could get his music for free.
