{"id":107078,"date":"2025-09-11T18:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editionap.ca\/?p=107078"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:52:16","slug":"good-times-at-hawkesbury-country-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tribune-express.ca\/en\/actualites\/good-times-at-hawkesbury-country-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Good times at Hawkesbury Country Music Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Everything combined for a good time at this year\u2019s Hawkesbury Country Music Festival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was a big success,\u201d said Yves Paquette, one of the co-founders and promoters of the annual country music event.<\/p>\n<p>Paquette noted that late-July weather blessed the festival with sunshine and organizers had a good lineup of local and regional musicians to take to the stage at Pioneer Place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing went wrong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Most spectators during the festival tried to keep to the shade when possible, due to the summer heatwave. Those who sat out in the sun made sure they had their sunblock and sunglasses on.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event is the Ninth Edition of the Hawkesbury Country Music Festival. Paquette helped launch the project in 2016 during his term in office as a member of municipal council and he has lobbied every year for financial support of the festival as part of the municipal budget. There was a two-year hiatus for the festival during the COVID pandemic but the event has carried on strong since then and Paquette is sure it will remain part of Hawkesbury\u2019s summer event profile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important for this town,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything combined for a good time at this year\u2019s Hawkesbury Country Music Festival. \u201cI think it was a big success,\u201d said Yves Paquette, one of the co-founders and promoters of the annual country music event. 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