Saturday September 6th and Sunday September 7th, 2008
BACARDI B-LIVE @ VIRGIN FESTIVAL TORONTO
Saturday Line-up
SWITCH
SEBASTIAN
FLOSSTRADAMUS
DROP THE LIME
THUNDERHEIST
LETS GO TO WAR
MARIO J
NASTY NAV
Sunday Line-up
MOBY (dj set)
DEADMAU5
LEE BURRIDGE
DOMAN & PETTIGREW
SYDNEY BLU
EVAN G
HARMONIK RAGE
Please visit www.bacardiblive.ca for more info
Toronto Virgin Festival tickets are available for purchase through ticketmaster
http://www.ticketmaster.ca/artist/1044679
The Virgin Festival (known from 2008 as the Virgin Mobile Festival in the United States) is a rock festival held in the United States and Canada, a spin-off from the V Festival held in the UK. In North America the Virgin name, and recently the Virgin Mobile brand, is used in full to increase brand association, compared with the UK and Australian festivals, where association is simply implied through the use of the V.
Like the other variants of the V Festival, the events are sponsored by Virgin Mobile, in this case, either the Canadian or US versions.
On June 30, 2006, Virgin Group chief Richard Branson announced the inaugural shows. The first, which took place September 9 and 10, 2006 at Toronto Islands Park, Toronto, Canada, featured over 40 artists. A single-day show also took place in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, on September 23, 2006, at the Pimlico Race Course with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Who.
Virgin Festival 2007 took place in Vancouver on May 20 and 21, as well as a return to Baltimore for an expanded two-day event on August 4 and 5 and Toronto on September 8 and 9. On October 16, 2007, an event was announced to take place in Calgary, Alberta on June 21 and 22, 2008. The festival is also planned to return to Baltimore on August 9 and 10, 2008.
Natural history and development
The Toronto Islands were not always islands but actually a series of continuously moving sand-bars, or littoral drift deposits, originating from the Scarborough Bluffs and carried westward by Lake Ontario currents. By the early 1800s, the longest of these bars extended nearly 9 kilometres south-west from Woodbine Avenue, through Ashbridge's Bay and the marshes of the lower Don River, forming a natural harbour between the lake and the mainland.
Visitors to the Toronto Islands have enjoyed their lakeside charm for centuries. Although the peninsula and surrounding sand-bars were first surveyed in 1792 by Lieutenant Bouchette of the British Navy, they were well-known by native people, who considered them a place of leisure and relaxation. The main peninsula became known to European settlers as the "Island of Hiawatha". D.W. Smith's Gazetteer recorded in 1813 that "the long beach or peninsula, which affords a most delightful ride, is considered so healthy by the Indians that they resort to it whenever indisposed". Many Indian encampments were located between the peninsula's base and the Don River. The sand-bars were also important to birds and other wildlife. During migration periods vast numbers of birds frequently stopped at the sand-bars and marshlands of the Don River and Ashbridge's Bay.
