Featured Bands 2019
The Dundas Cactus Parade Committee welcomes all of the great bands and thanks you in advance for your excellent performances.
We ask the audience to please give generously to the toonie collectors to support the bands.
Enjoy!
Also attending are many of the area’s Shrine clubs including the Hillbillies, the go-carts, The Maid of the Mist, and the clowns. We thank them for the entertainment they bring to the parade and their ongoing work with the children’s hospitals.
48th Highlanders of Canada Pipes and Drums
In recent years, the Bands of the 48th Highlanders have perhaps become the most recognizable part of the Regiment, but current soldiers have continued to answer the call to serve in such places as Bosnia, Somalia, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan where they continue to distinguish themselves as evidenced with one member earning the Medal of Bravery for actions after a suicide bomber attack near Kandahar and a former highlander making the supreme sacrifice. These part time soldiers are an essential part of the defense of Canada and contribute greatly to the safety of Toronto. They appear this evening by the kind permission of their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Harold Pedwell, CD. |
Band of The Royal Regiment of Canada
The Band appears at various functions across Canada and Internationally. The Royals engagements include ‘live to air’ radio broadcasts, park concerts, military and civilian parades and military tattoos. In recent years the band performed at The Stone Mountain Highland Games in Atlanta, GA, and tattoos in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, Whistler, BC, Gettysburg, PA and Kingston, ON. In June of 2006, The Royals represented Canada at the 16th Annual Festival of Military Music in Krakow, Poland. In November 2009, the Regiment was presented with new Colours at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, by HRH Charles Prince of Wales, Colonel in Chief of The Royal Regiment of Canada. In April 2012 The Regiment commenced its 150th Anniversary celebrations with a Gala Band Concert at Toronto’s Koerner Hall. In May 2016 The Regiment was granted the Freedom of The City and paraded through the streets of Toronto with Military Band leading. On Canada Day 2017 the Royals performed in Ottawa for the official Canada 150 Celebrations at Rideau Hall with HRH Prince Charles and His Excellency David Johnson in attendance. In May 0f 2018 The Band was honoured to return to The Living Arts Centre in Mississauga to perform with the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra. On July 1st 2018 the Band was joined by The Pipes and Drums of The 48th Highlanders of Canada, to celebrate Canada Day at the magnificent Kingsbrae Gardens Amphitheatre in St Andrews, NB. The bands performed before a capacity audience of 2500 concert goers. Director of Music is Captain Kevin Anderson, CD, Band Sergeant Major is Sergeant Sheila Andrews, CD. The Band performs by kind permission of LCol Joseph Nonato, CD – Commanding Officer. |
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The Barr Band
They are excited to be playing in the Dundas Cactus Parade for the 12th time and are happy to announce that their new CD “The Barr Band – I Live For You” will be available during performances over the Cactus Festival weekend at the Winchester Arms. |
The Dundas Pipes & Drums
The Dundas Pipes & Drums is made up of experienced players and up and comers. We come from all walks of life and range in age from 14 to over 70. What we all have in common is a love of highland music and a desire to become better players. |
Grimsby Pipe Band
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Hamilton Youth Steel Orchestra
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Impact Entertainment
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Silver Leaves Ensemble
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Tomato Soup Band
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Top Hat Marching Orchestra
The Top Hats have been enthusiastically welcomed at the 2018 Montreal St Patrick’s Day Parade, The West Virginia Strawberry Festival Parade, the San Antonio Fiesta Flambeau Parade, at Chicago’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, The Key West Fantasy Fest Parade, and the New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade. They are excited to be returning to Key West in October 2019 for a repeat performance in their Fantasy Fest Parade! The Top Hats are talented musicians, known for their fun-loving nature, spirited performances, and original music arrangements, packaged in an informal, laid back marching style. The Top Hats only dress formally! |
Trickbag
Trickbag music crosses many boundaries. It encompasses rocking blues, roots music, classic Americana, soul sounds, delta blues and rhythm and blues with a distinctly southern flavour. So diverse and yet it always sounds like Trickbag. Over the years they have released four acclaimed CDs: Trickbag, Cacti Redux , Tricknology and North End Ramble –several of which were nominated for Hamilton Music Awards and tracks from Tricknology were included as incidental music for the popular television series One Tree Hill, New Girl and Heart of Dixie. Their recording career is also complemented by many club and concert performances including appearances at the Toronto Harbourfront Blues Festival, the Festival of Friends, It’s Your Festival, the Royal Botanical Gardens Jazz and Blues Series, the Burlington and St. Catharines Rib Fests, the Toronto Beaches Jazz and Blues Festival, the Canal Bank Shuffle Fest, the Ancaster Fieldcote Museum Concert Series, the Dundas Cactus Festival, the Blues With a Feeling Tribute to King Biscuit Boy and the Hamilton Westdale Blues and Roots Festival among others. Trickbag has also served as opening act for a number of renowned acts including Downchild, Colin James and Big Sugar. Trickbag looks forward to seeing all our Dundas friends once again at our favourite annual event. |