I don’t know about you, but the excuses can be pretty loose around my house to plan a trip to Prince Edward Island: ‘I miss swimming in the warmest beach waters north of Florida,’ or ‘I think I’d like to visit wherever Canada’s number one golf destination is,’ usually work. This year, I’m going to play the Rock the Boat Musicfest card. A part of the 64-year old Tyne Valley Oyster Festival, the one-day family- friendly music bash is back for its fourth consecutive year and it’s a full deck of new and old faces. The lineup this year includes Finger Eleven, April Wine, Slowcoaster, Gordie MacKeeman and his Rhythm Boys, The Ellis Family Band, Ben Chase, and more. The five-day Oyster Festival kicks-off Wednesday, August 2 nd with the Canadian Oyster Shucking Championship taking place on Friday the 4 th and Rock the Boat on Saturday the 5 th . Jeff Noye, the Founder and Chair of the Rock the Boat Musicfest, spoke with Spotlight on Business Magazine from his Tyne Valley, PEI home in mid- June about oyster shucking and the festival as a whole, his community of volunteers, and a Guinness World Record.
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SPOTLIGHT ON BUSINESS MAGAZINE • JUNE 2017
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