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Report an error. Journalistic Standards. About The Star. Edgefest , a yearly outdoor rock concert festival held on Canada Day in Toronto, Ontario that primarily promotes Canadian rock music. It was founded by staff members of Toronto radio station As of it is the longest running rock show in Canada. The station had launched ten years earlier in , and in order to celebrate their tenth birthday and Canada Day, the staff took the financially risky decision to throw a large outdoor rock festival.
A lineup, including Blue Rodeo, The Pursuit of Happiness, Teenage Head, and the first foreign act, The Saints, was soon arranged, but finding an appropriate location proved to be difficult. A farmer's field in Oakville, Ontario was considered, but would have involved complications with staging, electricity, bathrooms and parking.
Although the festival was supposed to be a one-off event, its success encouraged the organizers to think ahead to the next year. The Canada Day show was sold out, and brought over 32, people to Molson Park. For , Canada Day fell on a Saturday for the first time; in spite a competing summer weekend activities, Highway leading up to Molson Park was jammed both from Cottage country and from Toronto, and the festival was once again sold out.
Between and the end of , CFNY underwent a change in management, which brought with it a change in format. While the festival did go on that year, and once again sold out Molson Park, many people came in order to protest the new programming policies in fact, someone even hired a plane to tow a protest banner over the park.
However, the show went on glitch-free, and featured second appearances by and The Tragically Hip. By the fifth show, in , the station owners had again been replaced, and the format of both show and station had stabilized. However, the two companies came to an agreement to share the show, with half the bands booked by the Edge including , The Tragically Hip, and Leslie Spit Treeo and the other half booked by Molson including Sass Jordan, Amanda Marshall and Spinal Tap.
This show was among the last events held at the Forum, which was torn down shortly after and replaced with the Molson Amphitheatre. Once the new Molson Amphitheatre was built, Molson offered it to Edgefest for three dates in summer The first was on the May long weekend, 21 May About 9, people came to see Blur and Elastica, during the height of Britpop.
It was also an early major appearance for Our Lady Peace, who had recently had success with their Canadian hit singles "Starseed" and "Naveed", and Ned's Atomic Dustbin was back for the last time before breaking up.
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