| Organization Name: | Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival |
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| Organization Description: | Founded in 1998 and incorporated in 2005, the Southside Shuffle Blues and Jazz Festival attracts over 60,000 people to the village of Port Credit to enjoy music, food and entertainment. The Festival’s mandate is operate a community based music festival, to foster a vibrant, diverse environment, and to promote Port Credit as a tourist destination. The Festival has developed into a premiere music event and is the only Blues & Jazz Festival in the Mississauga area. |
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| Organization Website Link: | http://www.southsideshuffle.com/ |
| https://www.facebook.com/southsideshuffle/ | |
| https://twitter.com/ssshufflepc | |
| Project Name: | World Stage at Southside Shuffle Jazz and Blues Festival |
| Project Description: | This application is for “World Music Stage at the Southside Shuffle”, taking place September 5 to 7, 2025 at Memorial Park on Mississauga’s lakeshore. The World Music is a new initiative which will showcase emerging artists from diverse communities, including Indigenous, people of colour, differently abled, and LGBTQ2S+ performers. Programming includes: (1) Three stages in Memorial Park over the Festival weekend, two of which are free The ticketed stage features the headline acts, which will include Big Sugar and Tom Wilson in 2025. This year the Festival will include a new World Music Stage showcasing music from around the globe in hopes of broadening the audience demographic. The Shuffle also uses various smaller venues in Port Credit including the Legion and nine curated stages, both permanent and pop-up; and (2) The “Street Shuffle”, a musical parade featuring 20 Ontario artists performing along Lakeshore Rd. |
| City: | Mississauga |
| Region: | Central Ontario |
| Start Date: | 2025-09-05 |
| End Date: | 2025-09-07 |
| Amount Funded: | $20,000.00 |