Experience a two-day event filled with music, line dancing, and timeless tradition
Set in the heart of Delta, Ontario,
a weekend gathering begins
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"Folk melodies, lively rhythms, and line dancing in a historic setting"
This September, visitors can explore the Old Stone Mill through milling demonstrations, blacksmithing activities, heritage exhibits, and stories that reflect more than two centuries of local history — a glimpse into the traditions and craftsmanship that helped shape Delta's heritage.
The next day, the Old Town Hall welcomes guests for music, line dancing, and Lunch & Learn sessions, bringing people together through shared experiences in one of Delta's most treasured community landmarks. Together, the two sites offer a weekend rooted in heritage, community, and local history.
Two days. Two historic spaces. One shared experience
of heritage, music, art, and community.
Delta hosts its annual Harvest Festival throughout the village. Enjoy a day of heritage demonstrations, historic spaces, local traditions, and the steady turning of two-hundred-year-old millstones. Visitors can explore the village at their own pace throughout the day.
A lunch & learn gathering begins the day at the Old Town Hall, followed by an afternoon of music and line dancing. Throughout the afternoon, guests can gather, connect, and enjoy conversation, live music, and the welcoming atmosphere of this historic community space.
Delta hosts its annual Harvest Festival across the village.
A day of heritage demonstrations and the slow
turning of two-hundred-year-old millstones.
Delta hosts its annual Harvest Festival with activities throughout the village. The day is self-paced; programmes overlap so you can wander between them.
The Blacksmith Shop will be open with a blacksmith demonstrating this heritage craft. Experience the heat of the fire, the sound of hammer striking anvil, and the rhythmic pace of traditional metalwork.
The Old Stone Mill will be open with a milling demonstration featuring the 200-year-old millstones grinding heritage Red Fife wheat into flour starting at 1:00 PM.
Iron, fire, and a hand that knows the work.
The Blacksmith Shop opens for the day, demonstrating a heritage art.
Two-hundred-year-old millstones,
heritage Red Fife wheat, and a slow burn
The day begins with lunch and a learning corner
before the programme flows into an afternoon of music and line dancing at the Old Town Hall.
Tickets · $10 adults · $5 children under 12
Lunch service begins at 11:30 AM and continues through the afternoon, featuring soup and sandwiches.
Two short sessions in the Learning Corner. How we see the world through technology; Telling our stories through Instagram.
An afternoon of folk music, indie~folk songs, and in closing, line dancing.
Gather for coffee, conversation,
and good company.
With a guitar worn smooth at the second fret and a voice that sounds as if it has lived in this county for decades, Pat opens the afternoon. His set sits where a back-porch fingerpicker meets a delta blues bend — Canadian folk in the old, oral tradition, with the cracks left in on purpose.
Songs aren't museum pieces. You sing them so they keep walking.
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Amanda Keeley writes songs the way this county keeps its stories — slowly, in the voice of someone who has listened more than she has spoken. Her sound sits where acoustic folk meets an unhurried R&B lean: two registers working together, high and grounded, finding the third space between them. Drawing from Eastern Ontario's own quiet landscape and the Maritime shoreline she knows well, her music holds both places at once.
Writing is how I find my way back — to where I've been, and to what I've longed for.
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Closing the afternoon: a guided line-dancing session that is as much community ritual as country two-step. Denzel and Jen build the room from a slow grapevine to a full-floor cha-cha-cha by the final chorus — modern coaching, traditional steps, every body welcome.
If you can walk to the kitchen, you can line-dance. Start with a step. Add a smile.
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The mill has stood at the bend of the Lower Beverley for two hundred years.
The Town Hall has gathered the village for over a century.
For one weekend each September, both come alive.
