Peterborough Folk Festival: What Are they Thinking

A note tonight from the Burning Hell indicates that they were 'turned down again' for the Peterborough Folk Festival (again?!?). I was shocked. I mean there is alot of talent in Peterborough no doubt but the note would imply that the Burning Hell, one of the best live acts in the country, and a band that proudly lives in (and around) Peterborough has been rejected more than once to play their hometown festival. It would be like a Toronto festival rejecting Broken Social Scene, or a Vancouver fest nixing the New Pornographers. I know the Burning Hell are nowhere near that big yet, but Peterborough isn't Toronto or Vancouver either.

I hope, I really hope, that when the festival announces their lineup that it's amazingly brilliant and packed full with great Canadian artists.

Sadly, according to the rumor mill the two front runners to headline at this point are:



Or these guys.