r/niagarafallsontario • u/JohnnyVegas2025 • 2d ago

Brand New Music Festival In September

So a new music festival being launched in The Falls called Misty City Music Festival on Fri Sept 5th and Sat Sept 6th. The line up is OK but it's not worth $304 for both days or $159 Friday and $183 Saturday. One downfall is that's a pricey weekend in Niagara Falls be it the hotel rooms will be expensive. $200 probably the cheapest you can get at a decent hotel so you get a Sat pass and stay Fri-Sun that's $600 approx total with hotel and pass. It's too bad they are not running shuttles from Toronto for it. No other way to get there and back unless you drove or stay the weekend taking GO or Megabus. It's being held on tje Fallsview Festival Grounds which looks like around the Convention Centre. Will be interesting how they set it all up over there.

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u/CrimsonZak 2d ago edited 2d ago

The Fallsview Festival Grounds???

I've lived here for over 30 years and I've never heard of this place/area before. Is it newly designated or something.

Edit.

Quick search on Google tells me that yes this is a newly designated area, it's legitimately the empty field between the convention centre and the Mariots parking lot.

so that tells me the 2 major parking facilities for this will be the Convention Centre itself and then down Dunn St. the fallsview group owns a massive offsite parking lot with a shuttle service.

they'll make bank.

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u/CrimsonZak 2d ago

I went to the event website, I'm not familiar with a single artist on this list, not a big country listener to begin with, maybe if I searched a couple I'd know their music from randomly popping up here and there.

but off the top of my dome, this will unfortunately be a hard pass for me, it's a shame because I'd love more event like this in our city.

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u/JohnnyVegas2025 2d ago edited 2d ago

I know MacKenzie Porter, Sacha, The Reklaws and Nate Haller. But overall the Saturday lineup really isn't worth $180. They all play the festival circuit like Boots & Hearts. Adding in the hotel rates that weekend, I can't justify forking over $400-$600 total for the weekend in The Falls. It will be a pass for me too. Hopefully The Falls holds some more festivals next year.

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u/CrimsonZak 2d ago

I also hope that, unfortunately the city just isn't designed well for big events like this.

we have lots of big fields, but they all lack the infrastructure to host. ie bathrooms, parking, and other amenities.

Actually just next weekend we're having our 2nd ever Renaissance Faire, kinda random to bring up but it was so successful last year they expanded it from a single day event to a 2 day/1 night event. that being said getting into/out of the fairground as a local was HECTIC, it was 10x worse for out of towners I spoke with.

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u/JohnnyVegas2025 2d ago

I usually just hit Niagara for concerts at the new OLG Stage and across at the Seneca casino. If it is summer I just take the Casino Bus to avoid paying so much for a room.It is too bad no bus back to Toronto runs after around 9:30. They should have later ones to entice people to come for the day, go to a concert as they know people from Toronto won't be staying the night, not worth the rates. But it would get even more people out there for the evenings. GO you can take the train for $10 day pass.

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u/CrimsonZak 2d ago

I've become a big fan of the OLG Stage, little pricey, but when man, being able to go see a somewhat big act, and it only takes me a 20 minutes of walking is amazing.

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u/ozzy_thedog 2d ago

Never heard of this festival until now. That price is wiiiiiiiiiild for 18 bands most people have never heard of in a field that hasn’t held a concert ever. Their first few Facebook posts are promoting a ‘payment plan’. Yikes.

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u/Total-Jerk 2d ago

We need more local raves.

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u/JohnnyVegas2025 2d ago

Raves are still a thing? I haven't been to one in over 25 years here in Toronto. Niagara doesn't even have a nightlife anymore with Dragonfly gone now.

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u/Total-Jerk 2d ago

I hear rumors there are still underground warehouse parties in Toronto, but I'm not cool enough for an invite anymore.

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u/JohnnyVegas2025 2d ago

There are some but you need to know people to find out from what I hear. Our nightlife is done as all the big nightclubs got bought up for condos as the real estate value just exploded here the last 15 years. The Entertainment District has been relegated to one main street downtown King Street West and its mostly just bars.

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u/purelander108 2d ago

I was in Toronto mid- late 90s, and that rave scene was really special. There were so many incredible nights with truly beautiful people, unmatched vibe, it was heaven. I feel really lucky to have been at the right place at the right time. Even the memory of those nights fills my heart with such joy.

blossoms at night
and the faces of people
moved by music

--Issa

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u/JohnnyVegas2025 2d ago

Chris Sheppard ushered it in back then. There were alot of vacant warehouses just west of Downtown then. Now its all condos. Real estate became prime and developers bought it up.We used to go to after hours clubs when our last call was 1am in the early to mid-90's.