Huron County's eighth annual Multicultural Festival will fill the air with the sounds of music and the aroma of international food next Sunday.
Cultural Development Officer Rick Sickenger said the event has grown steadily over the last few years and he expects close to 3,000 people this year, with a little help from the weather.
Sickenger said the Multicultural Festival succeeds on two levels.
“It's certainly celebrating people's culture that live here," he said. "If you're from a different ethnic background, different customs, it's a way to share those with the community. But also for the community to experience music and dance and food from cultures they've never that they may never have encountered before.”
The Multicultural Festival runs next Sunday, June 23, from noon till around 7:30 p.m. on the Courthouse Park in Goderich.
It's free and Sickenger said they'll have music all day. The headliner is the Lemon Bucket Orchestra, an eight-piece band from Toronto and there will also be international food from all over the world.
“There's Canadian Indigenous food, sushi, Exeter Tai is there, Syrian food, we have churros this year from Mexican Treats, East Indian, Caribbean, all kinds of different food," said Sickenger.