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by Chris Bryson<\/b><\/p>\n
Continuing tradition can be a great thing. Apply that to music festivals and you\u2019ve found many people\u2019s version of heaven. Areas of the world have so many memories spread across what eventually becomes sacred musical land. The first ever Hoot Owl festival makes its home in Kerry, Manitoba at the old locale of the legendary Shine On festival and sets out to continue tradition while being its own thing in the process. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Hoot Owl\u2019s inaugural year boasts an eclectic blend of Winnipeg and area\u2019s finest. From Red Moon Road<\/strong> to Casati, Moon Tan<\/strong> to The Middle Coast, Greg Arcade<\/strong> to Deep Dark Cave,<\/strong> and many more to list, there\u2019s something to satisfy a broad range of musical tastes. <\/span><\/p>\n It all happens in the last weekend of August, the same weekend that Shine On would end off the summer months. Lisa Mills, main organizer behind the festival, who up until Hoot Owl, says she\u2019d only undertaken smaller events for friends and none of them music related, has been adapting well to the new enterprise. Explaining the continuation at the Kerry campground location, Mills describes the owner\u2019s love for what the festival became and meant to him, and his desire to keep it going.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhen they announced that Shine On was going to stop, it was because the organizers grew up and started families, they got new jobs, they moved away, so many things happened in their lives so they just didn\u2019t have time for it anymore. So they announced that last year was going to be their last year,\u201d explains Mills. \u201cAnd actually the owner of the property where Shine On is based, he didn\u2019t want it to end. He loves having everybody come out every year. He loves having all the people there, meeting everybody, seeing everybody, getting to know everybody. When you see the same 500 people every year for 13 years, you don\u2019t want to let that go.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Mills had worked at Shine On for several years leading up to the moment she was asked if she\u2019d help run the festival that would take its place. She was asked around the beginning of last year\u2019s Shine On, and she took a bit of time to see what all was involved before making her decision.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSo as the weekend went on I started paying more attention to what people were doing and how they were doing it, where they were going for these things, how it was being put together,\u201d says Mills. \u201cSo by the Sunday he came up to me again and he\u2019s like, \u2018So what do you think?\u2019 and I was like \u2018Yeah, I think we could do this. I think it would be fun and something new, a brand new adventure to get started.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n With the owner of the property wanting the festival to be something new, Mills says one of the hardest things has been separating it from Shine On. \u201cWe want it to be on as much as the same lines as possible as far as music and atmosphere goes. But we wanted to get different activities going just things you can do during the day,\u201d says Mills. \u201cWe\u2019re looking into having somebody come out and possibly do a yoga session the Saturday afternoon like earlier in the day, and maybe fire dancers and stuff at night. Just to kind of break it up and put something new in there.\u201d There\u2019ll also be vendors that Mills will be rolling out the details of in due time, a caf\u00e9 and small secondary stage, and a pig roast on the Saturday night that any attendee that wants will have to pre-buy tickets for. <\/span><\/p>\n In filling out the festival\u2019s lineup, Mills says she initially started getting traction by herself but things really picked up when she got some help from someone who knows a lot of people in the local music scene, who is also in one of the bands she already booked. Unsure of how behind the scenes this person wanted to be at the time of print, she chose to leave their name unknown. <\/span><\/p>\n Ending off the conversation, Mills reminisced about the scene of arriving at the Kerry campground site in past years, and leaves a story for continued tradition. \u201cPeople are so shocked when they come out, like if they come out early instead of showing up Friday night at 10 o\u2019clock when everything is going on. If you show up a day earlier it\u2019s quiet, it\u2019s huge and open. And you don\u2019t realize that when you have so many people there.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWhen it was Shine On it did start out with like fourty-five people that came out, and just a few bands or whatever. They were doing a barbecue off the back deck of his house before he actually built off the garage and built the other caf\u00e9. It\u2019s definitely grown from there,\u201d Mills says with a laugh. \u201cI was looking through pictures and there were pictures of them standing on the deck serving ice cream one year.\u201d The best traditions are those that start from somewhere that feels like home. <\/span><\/p>\n Weekend passes only $90! Be sure to buy your tickets before they sell out like last year (Shine On). Here\u2019s the simple steps to buy:<\/em><\/p>\n 1) E transfer ($90 per ticket) to hootowlfestival@gmail.com\u00a0<\/em> by Chris Bryson Continuing tradition can be a great thing. Apply that to music festivals and you\u2019ve found many people\u2019s version of heaven. Areas of the world have so many memories spread across what eventually becomes sacred musical land. 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