Year-end concert makes a comeback at Beaconsfield’s St. Edmund elementary school
About 1000 people showed up to Edmund Elementary’s live outdoor concert known as EdStock, the school’s version of the Woodstock music festival.Pandemic restrictions meant that those end-of-year traditions had to be put on hiatus. But with an easing of restrictions, EdStock 2022 is back in business.
EdStock started six years ago when Gord Downie, lead singer of the Tragically Hip was diagnosed with cancer. Shauna Spear, a mother and event volunteer says from there, it blossomed into a Woodstock-style music festival outdoors. ” It’s been amazing. It’s been so much fun I can’t even put into words just how much of a great time this is.”Spear is part of a group of parents who formed a band which they called “The Parental Unit”. They chose this year’s theme: 100% Canadian content and played music from Serena Rider, Metro and Simple Plan, among others, while the students sang.
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