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Biglake Festival Launches 2024 Summer Series: Roots, in Prince Edward County

April 19, 2024

| Festivals, Ontario Staycations, What's on Where: Ontario

August 23-31, 2024
Prince Edward County, Various Locations

Biglake Festival announces its summer festival scene with its 2024 series: Roots, celebrating all the things that ground us, nourish us, and make us who we are. This year’s lineup, curated by Biglake’s co-founders Johannes Debus and Elissa Lee, features an array of interdisciplinary musicians presenting programmes inspired by nature, history, and ethnic roots, exploring traditional and folk music from various cultures. Biglake Festival takes place on August 23-31, 2024…

Muskoka Is Calling at the Bayview Wildwood Resort

May 5, 2021

| Ontario Staycations, Past Reviews: Travel, Special Attractions

by Joey Cee

Ontario’s Muskoka District, which is just a two-hour drive north of Toronto, has always been a magnet for me personally since my preteen years at Camp Boulderwood on Gull Lake near Gravenhurst. As an inner-city kid, this is where I was introduced to, and learned to appreciate, nature, relishing its beauty and finding the outdoors invigorating and addicting.

As I grew older, the rush of Muskoka splendour called me back year after year. It was the area I…