Comments on: Falling for Gentlemen of the Road: Simcoe Stopover

By: CP

CP — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:34:19 +0000

NR & CR, your kind words about our town & that awesome event just warmed my heart! It was such a wonderful weekend!! On behalf of Simcoe, we were inundated with such wonderful people from Ontario, the rest of the country & fans of the GOTR from around the globe. It was an exceptional time for our small town & one that will be forever in our collective memory here. This experience has left such a wonderful taste in our town that we’re contemplating how to host another. It may not be as memorable as this GOTR again, but keep watching, you may be able to have a taste of Ontario’s south coast again!

Blessings,
CP

By: NR and CR from 'SSauga

NR and CR from 'SSauga — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:53:00 +0000

I found your post in the deep cold of winter which brought back such wonderful memories of warm summer nights that weekend in Simcoe. Unbelievable once in a lifetime experience, if only we could go back for one more taste of that Simcoe summer! To the town of Simcoe…your people are incredible and it was a privilege to experience your hospitality!

By: Admin

Admin — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:56:50 +0000

We’re glad you liked it Susan! Thanks for checking us out!

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:56:44 +0000

Thanks for your great article and photos! I was at the Simcoe GOTR stopover too! What an enjoyable weekend!

By: Admin

Admin — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:32:41 +0000

Thank you for reading Wilson! Brings us chills too

By: Wilson

Wilson — Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:39:07 +0000

Such a great review. I couldn’t have worded the atmosphere, people, or energy better myself. We were four people from the stage both days and the as tight as it was everyone was laxed, and in great spirits. Just thinking about it brings me chills.

Cheers!

By: ame

ame — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:34:41 +0000

great review, happy you enjoy Norfolk county. There ain’t no folk like Norfolk!

By: Bill Meems

Bill Meems — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:18:44 +0000

From the perspective of a local, it was an amazing weekend, and such a great event for this community! I’m happy to see that our hospitality was rewarded by the kindness and friendship of so many campers and concert goers. I was one of the photographers in the pits just prior to Mumford & Sons start on stage, and with 35,000 people behind me cheering, the positive energy was nothing like anything I’ve experienced before. The end to the Mumford & Sons performance being a cover of The Band’s “The Weight” was an awesome tribute to the late Rick Danko (Norfolk County native), and to Norfolk County. Such a great time!! If anyone is interested in taking a look at some of the photographic memories I took from Saturday’s performances, you can see the at http://www.facebook.com/bthreephotography

Enjoy!

By: Carry Quigley

Carry Quigley — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 17:36:45 +0000

Amen to that. Best weekend of the summer by far! Xo

By: Colleen

Colleen — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 16:47:15 +0000

Oh Kaylee, your review brought tears to my eyes. You captured not only the quality of this Stopover from the Mumford & Sons’ benevolent purpose, to bless small communities with a quality musical event, but also the essence of our small town Simcoe and rural Norfolk County. The cordiality, the friendliness, and the unassuming hospitality that awaits those willing to travel here to experience it. The pictures you included speak so loudly of the general feeling and the atmosphere of camaraderie that permeated this Stopover and the town itself. There was just so much excitement building, as store windows were decorated and Mumford coloured signage was displayed. And through the capable hands of our Fairgrounds Manager and staff in coordination with the Live Nations Personnel our fairgrounds, used to midways and crowds, horse shows and nightly grandstand concerts transformed into the impressive site you displayed above; comfortably hosting 35,000 festival goers who wore smiling faces behind their Mumford ‘mustaches on a stick’. Locally an appetite to recreate another event of this calibre has been created within us, although matching the magical level of this Gentlemen of the Road Stopover will never be possible again.
So please keep your ear to the ground for further rumblings of another musical event that may occur at our fairgrounds, and please come back. You’ve found our pulse here in Norfolk…and you already have a place to park I’m sure, even without a wine chaser!
And also Kaylee, thank you for pointing out to our Toronto brothers & sisters that Simcoe is indeed southwest of your fair city and not north near Lake Simcoe in Simcoe County. We’re that ‘other Simcoe’ place, where Mumford & Sons chose to roost for two magical nights in 2013, celebrating our town, the birth place of Rick Danko of ‘The Band’ fame (a major influence to the GOTR Stopover Tour musically).
Again, thank you for a wonderfully expressive and descriptive review! Hopefully we’ll see you at the next Stopover in Canada in 2014 too!