"We’ve super enjoyed our collaborations with groups over the past sundays. Join us down at the beach this weekend for a three way featuring dubbed out sounds from Alx and the Shanti Baba crew, and the trippy live techno, dub, hip hop and drum n bass of Hot Pie Records, as well as our own hand picked Promise house selectahs. Shanti Baba is our favourite paraphernalia store at Bathurst and Queen West with a really cool and friendly staff, and Hot Pie Records is a group of diverse and motivated music lovers and they’ll be bringing a lot more than music along with them this sunday (think pies!).

Also, we recently did an interview with Raju Mudhar from the Toronto Star about Cherry Beach. Raju is an intelligent and sympathetic voice and his article aims at supporting the contribution Cherry Beach and the sunday afternoon celebrations have made to putting the fun back into our city’s public spaces and adding to the waterfront environment. Look for the article in this sunday’s edition of the Star, probably in the Metro or Entertainment section.

Shanti Baba will be starting the afternoon early with a roster of their favourite reggae and dancehall djs, then here’s the rest of the line up:

5.00 Fabien Palmer – progressive house
5.45 Sage Firman (Lazydaze) - tech house
6.30 Toye and Zumba - live dub and trip techno
7.15 Rythmicru with EF Sharp - live hop hop
8.00 Spooloops - live house
9.00 Ben Marshall - deep house
10.0 Jonah K - dreamy drum n bass

visuals by Jackie, Elysha, Siren and Tomoko

yummy cherry pies and prizes from Hot Pie Records!


Bring a frisbee, bring a kite, bring a handy sweater, bring a dog (only nice dogs), bring your lover and a hammock. And pass the time on this lazy sunny sunday afternoon with friends and friends of friends.

3 to 11pm - east end of the park, in from the water.

Directions to Cherry Beach: Take Lakeshore Blvd east of downtown just past Parliament. Turn south down Cherry Street all the way to the end, then go east into the parking lot on your left. At the furthest east of the lot walk along the bike path and turn left up the trail into the woods... you'll hear music. If you end up at the lake, you're going the wrong way.

Biking to Cherry Beach is easy along the paths beside the lake, a new bus route from Union Station goes down there too.

Things to think about: Please bring only what you plan to take back out with you - leave no trace. Pack something warm (it gets cool after dark by the lake) and something to sit on and also something to keep sun off your head. Drink lots of water. Bring something to share.

And remember while down at the beach to take care of your friends, your neighbours, and what's going on around you. It's what makes the sunday afternoons happen smoothly.

If the weather turns grey the day of, call 416 323 0361 for the contingency plan."

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"When I die, I want to be buried under the dancefloor"- Frankie Madgenta