CITY CENTRE - Bruce Cockburn is among headliners during this summer's Fusion Festival at Holland Park. Other performers will include Hey Ocean!, The Boom Booms and Aiden Knight.
Fusion Festival, an annual multicultural celebration of music and food presented by Coast Capital Savings, takes place this year on July 19 and 20. Admission is free.
Lineup details were made public Tuesday. Last year's event attracted more than 100,000 over the two days, and the 2013 edition was declared Best Festival in the World at the International GALA awards in Nashville, Tennessee.
The activist-minded Cockburn has released 31 albums during his long career in music. These days, according to the Ottawa Citizen, the Ottawa-raised artist, 69, lives in San Francisco, where he is raising a twoyear-old daughter with his current wife, an American.
Also at this year's Fusion Festival, a special Salsa Sunday evening performance will include Orquesta Tropicana and Alpha Yaya Diallo.
Other featured performers at the fest include EnKarma, Bocephus King, T-Nile, Australia's Ash Grunwald and Pete Werner.
Debuting on the Sunday morning is a new children's matinée with puppets, stories and singers, including BC Junior Talent Search winners.
Fusion Festival details are online at Surrey.ca/fusionfestival.