In 1994, a group of passionate citizens came together with a vision, to create an easy to access street festival inside the city that had something for all ages to enjoy.
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Over the next 25 years, the festival grew, and became an important local tradition! At the same time, however, it was met with a lot of challenges, one of the most prominent being that the festival itself never had a permanent place to call home.
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In 2022, after some time away due to COVID, we decided to re-focus on what our mission truly is: To bring talented artists and performers together from our area and focus more on music and arts, and to ensure that our Festival has a home. Due to funding and volunteer constraints, for the 2023 Festival, we had to condense the event to just one day.
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Now located in Pinafore Park, this is how the new Railway City Music and Arts Festival came to be! We invite everyone to come out to the multi-day festival and discover all of the amazing, talented individuals from St. Thomas and its surrounding areas - you won’t be disappointed!
