Thousands Take Part in Summer Streetfest 2015

Monday, 10 August 2015 16:38

The 4 day event enjoyed record breaking numbers to the downtown core

WOODSTOCK - The event that closed Dundas Street for 4 days is now over and as the numbers still come in from Streetfest it is looking to be the most well attended in recent years. For over 40 years vendors along the main street in Woodstock have moved their products outside for Streetfest and this year people were ready to spend their money. Events and Marketing Coordinator with the Downtown Woodstock BIA, Victoria Harke's, explains just how successful it really was. "We had a lot of really positive feedback from a lot of the vendors, there was a lot of great variety in the different places, they had a really great opportunity to see a lot of people that don't always get to come down to the downtown area. It overall went really well even at the further reaches which sometimes had been an issue in the past, but that found that this year in particular that really wasn't the case." Many genres of music were present and Harke's pointed out that may have been the reason for the high attendance over the 4 days.

Harke's knows that 2015's edition will be hard to beat in terms of entertainment and vendors. ''Thursday night headliners were really big hits, Saturday night brought in a very large crowd of people filling up museum square. We had a lovely time planning this event and look forward to having it next year as well, hopefully it will be bigger and better with more excitement going on in the future."

The Downtown Woodstock BIA are still in disbelief after the amount of people that took part in Summer Streetfest 2015 and Harke's goes in to detail on how amazed they were of the number of people that took part. "It was one of the busiest Thursday's I think we have ever seen, Sunday was fantastic we had over 400 cars show up. We're actually sending out feedback forms to sort of get a better notion from our various vendors that were there. We think it was pretty equivalent to last year as far as that went, probably a little bit busier, somewhere in the vicinity of 30,000 but it might be a little higher we are hoping to find that out soon."