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Folks out in force for festival

09.02.53

"I've attain every year since I was just born (in June 12 years ago). There's a picture of my mom holding me in the program," she said from the kids tent on Sunday at the red-letter day.

The tween wanted to be a volunteer this year, but she couldn't do it on her own because of her age. So Willow's mom helped her find some face-painting classes and she helped out the birthday in her own way. She said she loves coming to the festival every year, and this was a good way to show it. She'd rather help out than just join the audience.

"It seems like they have so much fun and I partiality helping with the little kids, they're so cute," she smiled.

The festival wrapped up Sunday evensong, after losing a little steam on Saturday due to weather.

Artistic director Shandra MacNeill said Sunday afternoon the deluge on Saturday was a big challenge for the festival because it eventually drove the audience away from the venue.

"But today's effective great, beautiful sun, it's definitely festival weather," she said. "Last night, once things cleared up a bit, we certainly had most of our audience back. But the weather (delivered) a bit of a hit."

Source: Brandon Sun