The Live Green Toronto Festival at Yonge-Dundas Square this weekend will welcome all the peace, love and environmental friendliness you’d expect, but with an uncharacteristically stacked roster of musical talent. On July 16, both advice and entertainment will be doled out to Toronto residents looking to lead an environmentally compatible lifestyle.
The line-up early in the day is mainly Toronto-bred pop, with pop-rock groups Done with Dolls, Neverest and Tyler Medeiros (cousin of Shawn Desman and Danny Fernandes). The Junos’ Best New Artist, Meaghan Smith (singer of The Pixies cover “Here comes your man”), is up next.
Then, internationally-recognized Crash Test Dummies and indie rockers Hollerado will be followed by an acoustic performance from Toronto’s Lowest of the Low and pop-rock group These Kids Wear Crowns, who are touring Europe in October.
The festival’s urban music will include NXNE’s jazz-hip hop-R&B stand-out God Made Me Funky in the afternoon, with veteran rapper Classified and DJ Skratch Bastid (a hip hop-head legend who has put on shows all across North America) closing it out at night.
Like many environmental festivals, Live Green Toronto will provide all kinds of energetic activities for kids and their parents, but there will be ample opportunity for an education (which is what we’re really heading over there for anyway, right?).
Community Animators will be on hand with information about how to make your neighbourhood more green; representatives of Live Green Toronto will offer information on incentives, resources and funding for Toronto residents, and the Inorganic Market invites people to drop off their unwanted electronics (phones, mp3 players, laptop, wires, etc.).
Live Green Toronto is a government-run organization that orchestrates and encourages environmental initiatives all over the city.
Live Green Toronto Festival, Yonge-Dundas Square, July 16
