The Cambridge Scottish Festival will go ahead this year after the city approved its bylaw exemption. (Cambridge Scottish Festival)
As the City of Cambridge conducts a review of its noise bylaw, council has granted dozens of exemptions for community events through the summer and early fall.
As it stands, the noise bylaw “prohibits any noise that is likely to disturb inhabitants of the city.”
The exemptions will allow the events to have amplified sound, that includes live music.
To qualify, the events had to be deemed “municipally significant” by contributing to the community be it socially, culturally or economically.
They won’t just free reign however. The sound will have to be shut off by 10 p.m. and the events will need to wind down by 11 p.m.
A total of 34 events were granted exemptions.
- Galt Jazz Street Party
- Latin on Main
- Sunday Day Markets
- Backlot Sessions
- Friday Night Markets
- Family Fun Days
- Sidewalk Sales
- Road to Oddfest Vol. 3 (Treasure Market)
- CMS Community BBQ
- Cambridge Scottish Festival Media Day
- Cambridge Summer Live – Ultimate Dog Show (July 16)
- Preston Food Crawl
- Summer in the Park – Vendor Market
- Mini-Con
- Cambridge Summer Live – Tex Rexman
- Family Picnic
- Cambridge Summer Live – Isablla Hoops
- Burgers and Beats
- The Voices of the River – Grand River Community Play
- Cambridge Summer Live – Kiki Totally Outrageous
- Praise-Fest
- Cambridge Summer Live – Ultimate Dog Show (August 13)
- Praises in the Park
- Church in the Square
- Cambridge Summer Live – Ultimate Dog Show (August 20)
- Oddfest Market
- Oddfest Summer Soiree
- Terry Fox Run
- Take Back the Night