{"id":2400513,"date":"2026-05-03T19:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2400513"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T19:55:24","slug":"the-ontario-government-will-invest-20-million-in-music-festivals-and-other-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-ontario-government-will-invest-20-million-in-music-festivals-and-other-events\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ontario Government will invest $20 million in music festivals and other events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>It\u2019s been a rough 18 months for music festivals, with a couple of good ones, Sound of Music (Burlington) and Riverfest (Elora), closing down. Both were fantastic long-running events, but financial pressures eventually got the better of them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_under_page_title - under_page_title --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_under_page_title - under_page_title --><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the bad news. The Good news is that the Ontario government has just announced an investment of $20 million through a fund called Experience Ontario that will be spread around nearly 400 festivals and events around the province. This includes:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ottawa Bluesfest<\/li>\n<li>Thunder Bay Festival of Colours<\/li>\n<li>Grimsby Lights and Apr\u00e8s Winter Nights<\/li>\n<li>Festival Franco Ontarien (Ottawa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are good investments given the return. The Canadian Live Music Association says if $20 million goes in, $40 million of economic benefits will come out. <\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_under_first_paragraph - under_first_paragraph --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_under_first_paragraph - under_first_paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cExperience Ontario continues to play a vital role in ensuring the viability of Ontario\u2019s festival and event industry. The program has helped Ottawa Bluesfest expand into an annual international event, contributing over $40 million a year in tourism economic benefits to Ottawa,\u201d said Mark Monahan, Founder of Ottawa Bluesfest and member of the CLMA.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/en\/release\/1007376\/ontario-investing-more-than-20-million-to-support-local-festivals-and-events\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a rough 18 months for music festivals, with a couple of good ones, Sound of Music (Burlington) and Riverfest (Elora), closing down. Both were fantastic long-running events, but financial pressures eventually got the better of them. That\u2019s the bad news. The Good news is that the Ontario government has just announced an investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2400514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[22005,468695,22783,360131],"class_list":["post-2400513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-concerts","tag-experience-ontario","tag-festivals","tag-ontario"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Ontario-Government-will-invest-20-million-in-music-festivals.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400515,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400513\/revisions\/2400515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2400514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}