FESTIVAL DETAILS
Centrally Located
Between ottawa and toronto
An affordable festival JUST for the drummers and dancers to improve their craft, enjoy professional performances, and connect with each other.
Gorgeous Land
just waiting to become your favourite summer festival
Already home to large raves, spiritual experiences, and owned by magical people, this huge tract of land has room to grow the best drumming and dancing festival in Canada!
Community Focused
led and directed by you!
Workshops led by community members and special guests, dancing an equal partner and experience to the drumming, 'Bring Your Own Spirituality' – the whole event is about rhythm and movement, performances to inspire, electronic rhythm and dance also encouraged, Chill Out zone, nightly fire dancing... what else would YOU like to experience? Let's build it!
Heads-up, PATAKINs and rhythm and dance enthusiasts! A committee has been formed to launch a massive Ontario Drum and Dance Festival at the StoneHeart Retreat in Coe Hill - a gorgeous site that is equidistant from Toronto and Ottawa - just over a year from now.
There will be high-energy performances, provocative workshops, delicious food, coffee (of course!!!), a wide variety of unique vendors, and interactive events - from drum making, to sacred dance, to sound baths, to hypnotic rave-electronica, to belly-dancing, to sound embodied experiences, to primal evening drumming and dancing around the main bonfire ... and much more!
Competitively affordable entry! (Also, please find out from us about discounts and waivers based on age, mobility, services, labour, and other status considerations.)
We intend for the festival to be fun, interesting, and family friendly, with different zones (from high-energy - to chill-out), and it will be eclectic, secular, and rhythm-centric. This means BYOS (bring your own spirituality). EVERYONE is welcome.
The planning has already begun, so if you are interested in attending, participating, offering suggestions or services, or helping us with clearing and building the land, and construction of simple structures, please contact the current committee: Willow Marsh (Chief Organizer) or Claudia Valdes Vega or James Ljosvidr Hobson (StoneHeart Retreat custodians and co-organizers).
Otherwise, please stay tuned for solidified information and dates during the course of the year.
Build this inaugural rhythm and movement festival with us!
Volunteering available for 2026 to get the land ready!
See volunteer form for details: https://forms.gle/oYx1AyjKdGpVUoWg8