Nuit Blanche North returned to Huntsville for its sixth year after a one-year hiatus and it was well worth the wait.<\/p>\n
The popular street festival draws hundreds to Main Street and River Mill Park for an eclectic mix of performance art, music, and interactive activities.<\/p>\n
This year’s event, inspired by the theme “On This Day”, began with a lantern parade in the style of a New Orleans Jazz funeral march, led by The Heavyweights Brass Band and the Boxcar Boys. Being in honour of the 100th anniversary of Tom Thomson’s death, the lanterns were paper sculpture canoes – three trapper-sized ones created by local artist Patricia Astley and dozens of smaller community-decorated canoes – which were launched into the Muskoka River at the end of the parade. An aerial arts performance by Theatre Arcturus followed to kick off the evening’s festivities.<\/p>\n\n\t\t