Exploits Valley Salmon Festival Almanac: All the Quick Facts on Almost Every Salmon Festival that you can’t find anywhere else.
It is hard, if not impossible to find all of the details on who played each Salmon Festival. I have done my best to put all of that information in one place. I threw in the weather, because that is always a big factor in the days leading up to the concert.
Any help in filling in the gaps would be greatly appreciated.
The Beach Boys DID NOT play the Salmon Festival.
| Year | Acts | Date
(Some have whole festival Date, others only concert date) |
Notes | Weather.
Note that the lows are recorded as low at 11:30 PM. Temperatures recorded at Badger |
| 1985 | Early Salmon Festivals included events in a few towns in the Exploits Valley, mainly Grand Falls, Windsor and Bishop’s Falls | |||
| 1986 | ||||
| 1987 | Photographic evidence suggests that Buddy Wasisname played a small inside venue. | |||
| 1988 | Hank Snow
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Lloyd Colbourne was patron. | ||
| 1989 | Tommy Hunter
Donna and LeRoy Simani (stadium Dance) |
July 20-24
July 22 |
Kideo Probably played Windsor Stadium in many of the years below. Gordon Pinsent was Patron. | High: 16.1 |
| 1990 | Terry Kelly
Barry Canning |
The beach Boys played a CANADA DAY concert at Centennial Field this year with over 30,000 in attendance. | ||
| 1991 | Trooper
Rogues Gallery |
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| 1992 | Bachman, Turner, Overdrive (BTO)
Crash test Dummies Jeff Dyer Band Irish Descendants |
July 11 or July 18
Judging from other dates more likely the 18th. |
High: 19.4
It hit 0 degrees early that morning! |
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| 1993 | Waylon Jennings
Alanah Myles The Pursuit of Happiness |
July 16 and 17 | According to former Town Manager Mike Pinsent, Waylon Played on Friday along with his wife Jessi Colter and Alanah Miles played on Saturday. | Jul 16, High: 11.6
High: 15.5 Low: 8.3 |
| 1994 | The Rankin Family
The Irish Descendants Debbie Jordan band Great Big Sea “Major rock Act” (Tom Cochrane) |
The “Major Rock Act” was Tom Cochrane | High: 18.8 | |
| 1995 | Blue Rodeo
The Stampeders The Irish Decedents Ray Lyell Debbie Jordan Maximum 80 |
Saturday July 15th | Bon Jovi Played a separate concert only a few weeks later on August 5th. | High: 20 |
| 1996 | The Doobie Brothers
Burton Cummings I Mother Earth Bass is Base Spirit of the West Sideline |
July 18-22
July 20 |
High: 21.1
Low: 19.4
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| 1997 | Amanda Marshall, Kim Stockwood, Pamela Morgan, Billy & the Bruisers, Signal Hill | July 19th | High: 26.5
Humidex hit 35 Low: 16.7 |
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| 1998 | Great Big Sea
The Rankins, Chantal Kreviazuk, Philosopher Kings, Wide Mouth Mason Sideline, Celtic Connection |
July 11 | The Great Big Picnic | High: 20.4
Low: 6.2 |
| 1999 | Crash Test Dummies
Matthew Good Band Sky Johnny Favorite Swing Orchestra |
July 17th | I remember it being extremely hot but I had no idea that the humidex reached forty. | High: 32.3
Humidex Reached 40 |
| 2000 | Blue Rodeo, Damhnait Doyle, Nazareth,
I Mother Earth, The Fables Versatile |
July 15th | High: 29.3
Low: 14.9 |
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| 2001 | Nelly Furtado,
The Tea Party, The Moffatts, Tom Cochrane, Barnacle, Crush, Rod Jackson, Timber |
July 21, 2001 | High: 32.8
Humidex hit 35 Low: 17.3 |
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| 2002 | Our Lady Peace
Dr. Hook David Usher The Fables Colin James Timber Barry Canning |
July 20th | High: 14
Low: 10 |
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| 2003 | Great Big Sea
Sam Roberts Bif Naked Swollen Members Tom Cochrane and Red Rider |
Thursday, July 17 – Monday July 21
Concert July 19 |
High: 28.6
Humidex Hit 37 Low: 19.1 |
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| 2004 | Bryan Adams
Colin James, Crush, Shaye, Gob, Simple Plan, Barry Canning |
July 15th until Monday, July 19th | High: 28.3
Humidex 32 Low: 19.4 |
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| 2005 | The Tragically Hip
Finger Eleven, David Wilcox, Brothers in Stereo, Rod Jackson, The Novaks |
July 14th until Monday, July 18th
July 16 |
High: 18.9
Low: 12.2 |
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| 2006 | Live
Billy Talent Theory of a Deadman Kim Mitchell Lou Gramm The Fables |
July 13th until Monday, July 17th.
Concert Sat July 15th |
High: 15.5 | |
| 2007 | Good Charlotte, Alexisonfire, Classified,
Bachman and Cummings, Hey Rosetta! Fuse |
July 21 | High: 21.0
Low: 18.4 |
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| 2008 | Blue Rodeo
Finger Eleven Hedley Crash Metric |
July 17-21
July 19th |
High:24.4
Humidex 27 Low: 11.4 |
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| 2009 | Akon
Our Lady Peace Hey Rosetta Tara Oram Johnny Reid The Navigators Papa String |
July 16th to July 20th | July 18 | High: 13.5
Low 10.5 |
| 2010 | Tree Days Grace
Matthew Good Faber Drive Classified Sloan Doc Walker Matt Hornell and the Diamond Minds |
July 17 | High: 26.4
Humidex: 34 Low :17.6 |
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| 2011 | Kiss
Down of Webster Fefe Dobson Smash Mouth ELO (but not really ELO) |
July 9 | Issues with beer lineups. Rained out of the heavens when KISS started set. First of the Maga concerts. | High: 24.9
Low: 12.6 Rained around 9pm |
| 2012 | Aerosmith
Cheap Trick Flo Rider Uncle Kracker Carly Rae Jepson |
July 14 | Excellent concert, possibly only complaint was with washroom lineups. | High: 23.7
Low: 7.9 |
| 2013 | The Eagles
The Tragically Hip Blue Rodeo Johnny Reid Matt Minglewood Band |
July 13 | Possibly highest attendance at festival. Issues with water and VIP section. | High: 30.8
Humidex Hit 34 Low: 12.8 |
| 2014 | Maroon 5
Pitbull Simple Plan American Authors Virginia to Vegas |
July 5 | Date was originally set for concert on July 12. Date shift due to mysterious circumstances with little notice before show, led to low attendance. Reportedly Elton John was to play the original date but cancelled because he was taking time off. | High:26.6
Humidex hit 29 Low 17.8 |
| 2015 | John Fogerty
Collective Soul Tom Cochrane America The Fables |
July 11 | Attendance was severely effected by the Rod Stewart concert in St. John’s on the same day and the fact that Fogerty had played St. john’s twice in the past few years. This is actually a pretty solid line up, Had these issues not been factors this would have been a high attendance Salmon Festival. | High: 14.9
Low: 10 |
| 2016 | Trooper
The Stampeders Cabbages and Kings Buddy Wasisname |
July 16 | Scaled back due to loses with previous two years. | High: 29.4
Humidex 33 Low: 12.5 |
| 2017 | April Wine
Loverboy Tyler Shaw Repartee Barry Canning Clever |
July 13 | High:21.8 | |
| 2018 | Emerson Drive
Aaron Pritchett The Punters 8-Track Favorites Kellie Loder Rod Jackson and the Perfect Strangers
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July 14 | Bit of a bomb. Considering that most of the opening acts are probably more recognizable than the headliners. Reportedly only 700 tickets were sold. The Stadium Dance probably sold twice as many tickets. | High: 25.0 |
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