Sweet things to do this weekend: Edmonton Heritage Festival, Big Valley Jamboree, CatVideoFest
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Edmonton Heritage Festival: By default and through its reliable awesomeness, what many still call Heritage Days is the city's widest-ranging festival, celebrating, basically, the diversity of planet Earth.
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Dubbed the 'world's largest celebration of multiculturalism,' 66 international pavilions will be showing off their cultures with delectable food and fascinating wares, plus music and costumed dancing.
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Potato pancakes, tasty pickled herring and dozens of iterations of meat on a stick from around the globe are yours to wolf down, the handy full menu over at heritagefest.ca for you planners out there.
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Big Valley Jamboree: For those more keen on a pure and single-minded Alberta party culture, where else would you go but Big Valley Jamboree, where trucks, tight jeans, workin' hard, the 'good stuff' and all the other checklist lyric items will be dutifully summoned on BVJ's massive stage?
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This year's guaranteed three alpha male headliners are Illinois' 25-year-old Bailey Zimmerman Friday at 9:30 p.m., Oklahoma crooner Blake Shelton 9:30 p.m. Saturday and Georgia's Jason Aldean 9 p.m. Sunday, the latter two each 48 years old.
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Other names waving the country flag over the weekend include Tyler Hubbard and Tim Hicks Friday, Ashley McBride and James Barker Band Saturday, and Nate Smith and the mighty Clint Black Sunday — the smooth-voiced country legend walking on at 5 p.m.
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