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Franz Ferdinand Save Saturday At Virgin Festival Ontario

By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) August 31, 2009 11:37 am

While hundreds of thousands of British and European fans were mucking about in the fields at the Reading and Leeds festivals in England this weekend, Virgin Festival Ontario couldn't even fill Toronto's Molson Amphitheatre, which has a capacity of 16,000 people. Virgin Festival Ontario was originally to be held at Orillia, Ont.'s Burl's Creek...

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Halifax VFest Feels "Alternative" Like The '90s

By Shannon Webb-Campbell (CHARTattack) July 6, 2009 1:45 pm

It wouldn't be summer without a muddy festival on Citadel Hill. This past weekend Halifax hosted the inaugural Virgin Festival Nova Scotia, free of charge due to The Tragically Hip's last minute cancellation. Virgin headquarters sent out notice less than 24 hours before the show, which stated there was an unforeseeable family emergency that...

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VFest Toronto Day Two

By Jen White (CHARTattack) September 9, 2008 1:58 pm

Day two of the Virgin Festival started out a little shaky as a light but annoying rain threatened to keep up all day. I got to the island rather painlessly this time, and reached the Virgin Mobile Stage just as Spiral Beach began. They played a pretty solid power-pop set for a bunch of teenagers on a pylon-littered stage, but their age shone...

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VFest Toronto Day One

By Jen White (CHARTattack) September 8, 2008 4:46 pm

There are a few steadfast indications that it's the end of summer in Toronto: university kids are running rampant downtown, the streets are abuzz with film nerds for the Toronto International Film Festival and the Virgin Festival invades Toronto Island for two days. After a horrendous ferry ride over (media had access to a VIP ferry, but it was...

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Virgin Fest Day 1 - M.I.A. Invites T.O. to Dance while Bjork Dazzles

By Noah Love (CHARTattack) September 10, 2007 4:30 pm

Hey, remember this? Wait, scroll 12 paragraphs down. Now remember? Yes, a year after starting with the biggest whimper imaginable, the legendary Flaming Lips disaster was somehow still the talk of Toronto's second Virgin Festival. The events that preceded this year's weekend event did nothing to quiet the negative attitude towards a festival that...

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Virgin Fest Day 2 - Killers Bemuse while Smashing Pumpkins Confound

By Noah Love (CHARTattack) September 10, 2007 11:38 am

I thought the second day's cloudy skies would keep last-minute attendees away from the island. In fact, the rain stayed in the clouds after an overnight downpour and V-Fest's attendance went through the roof. This can be attributed to two or three bands, and not so much to the haphazard scheduling that had festival-goers running back and forth...

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Virgin Festival Pulls Plug On Possible 2010 Dates

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By Jason MacNeil (CHARTattack) June 3, 2010 3:44 pm

There was already some speculation about whether any Virgin festivals would be held in Canada this summer, since no definite dates, locations or cities were mentioned on Virgin's website. But now Virgin Mobile Canada have officially announced they will not stage any Virgin Festival concerts in Canada this year. On Thursday (June 3), Nathan...

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