Exploits Valley Salmon Festival

The Exploits Valley Salmon Festival is an annual festival held in Grand Falls-Windsor of the Exploits Valley, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada that dates back to 1985. Events that are part of the festival include a dance in a stadium and a dinner of salmon. There is also a concert, although the concert in 2007 was so poorly attended that the organisers lost $200,000 on it. The organisers continued to lose money on the festival in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Businessman Boyd Cohen was the patron of the 2009 festival. The main festival concert in 2010 featured Matthew Hornell and the Diamond Minds. There was also a gospel concert that was attended by hundreds of people. Kellie Loder, Starfield, and Reverend Roy Martin performed at this concert. In 2012, '' The Daily Telegraph'' named the festival one of the top ten attractions for British foodies vacationing in Canada. In 2011, The town signed a deal with concert promoters RFO. As a result, the festival experienced a resurgence attracting larger crowds, The shows were headlined by popular groups such as Kiss, Smash Mouth and Down with Webster in 2011, Aerosmith & Flo Rida in 2012,