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Fairport Canal Days poster unveiled
Fairport Canal Days poster unveiled
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The 42nd annual Fairport Canal Days Arts Festival poster has been revealed.
The winning poster, by Chili artist Tom Moyer, features a duck followed by four ducklings and a rubber duck, on a blue-green background representative of the canal water. Moyer is a two-time winner of the festival poster contest; he created the first Canal Days commemorative poster in 2006.
“I sought to embody the family unit through mother and her ducklings,” said Moyer, who is associate creative director at Mason Marketing and founder of Downhill Threads. “The iconic liftbridge, so prominent in my last poster, is now represented as a subtle reflection on Erie’s waters. The rubber duck symbolizes not just the Duck Race but the joy and whimsy that we feel during festival time.”
Some 200 16×20 inch copies of the poster will be available for purchase at the information booth at the festival.
Canal Days will feature nearly 200 artisans, 40 food vendors and 100 local merchants, as well as Corning Museum of Glass’s live glass making demonstrations on Liftbridge Lane Saturday and Sunday.
The event will begin at 4:30 Friday and includes an annual chicken barbecue and a concert featuring the Eastman Youth Jazz Orchestra opening for the party band, Allegro. Saturday’s traditional parade begins at noon, while the festival runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Saturday evening concert will feature Teagan and the Tweeds and the Miller and the Other Sinners at the Fairport Junction festival site. At North Main Street a charity dunk tank will benefit children who attend the YMCA of Greater Rochester’s camps. The event has raised $6,000 in the last three years, allowing 30 children to attend the camp.
The Fairport Canal Days Festival draws roughly 200,000 people to the village each year. The festival is produced by volunteers coordinated by the Fairport Perinton Merchants Assocaition.
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