The City of Toronto is having a wonderful Winter CityFest starting Friday January 28th and extending through the weekend of Feb 6th. Many events are downtown at New City Hall – Nathan Phillips Square. If you are in Toronto on business consider staying an extra day or two for the festivities. The picture below is from the Cavalcade of Lights show this past Christmas:
There will be two major shows on the weekends of Jan 28-30th and Feb 4-6th.
Here is the schedule of events at Nathan Phillips Square:
Friday January 28th from 6:00 to 10:00 PM there are events going on:
6:00PM Cowboy Band
6:30PM Dynamic FireShow
7:00PM Groupe F from France who did Fireworks display at Athens Olympics
7:30PM Cowboy Band again
8:00PM Dynamic Fireshow 2nd performance
Other performances to 10:00PM
see details here: The Spectacular Shows at Nathan Phillips: and The Street Events and Performers at Nathan Phillips Square. Groupe F appears again on Saturday January 29th at 7:00PM in case you missed the first show.
Saturday Feb 5th from 6:00 to 9:00 there are shows again featuring:
7:00 to 8:00PM Close Act Malaya – Dutch Troupe one hour show
Again see website references above for other shows/events and even more!
Toronto is providing a really packed series of events for this years WinterCityFest – and I havent even mentioned the special events at Art Gallery of Ontario, Canadian Opera Company, CasaLoma, National Ballet of Canada, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto Symphony Orchestra and others sites, theatres, and restaurants around town.
(c)JBShamelessplugger 2005