Shuttle Service

With almost 200,000 attendees, our continuing goal is to reduce gas emissions and congestion in the downtown core. 

Our Shuttle bus service will continue for a second year to offer you a direct link from the Burlington Fairview GO Station to the Festival site. Ample parking is available on both sides of the GO Station. The shuttle service, provided by Burlington Transit, will drop you off at the John Street transit terminal, within a short walking distance to plenty of great Canadian music.

     Hours during the Festival:      
Friday          6pm  to Midnight
Saturday       Noon to Midnight
Sunday              Noon to 8pm 

Your contribution of $3 per person for a round trip Shuttle ride will help to keep this convenient program sustainable. Park and ride the Shuttle and do your environmental part.

... and children under 5 are free and we honour valid Burlington Transit transfers.

BIKE CORRAL

If you are able to cycle down to the Festival, you can simply check your bike at the Corral - get a ticket - enjoy the Festival, and pick up your bike when you are ready to go. This fenced and supervised area is located near the playground in Spencer Smith Park. The fee is only $2 per bicycle and will go entirely to help support our free Festival!

Hours during the Festival:
Thursday      6pm  to Midnight
Friday          6pm  to Midnight
Saturday      Noon to Midnight
Sunday              Noon to 8pm

Waste Diversion – Composting and Recycling

Annually, Festival Eco Volunteers sort over 9 tonnes of waste.  Our goal for 2010 is a diversion of over 80%!  This means we will strive to divert this amount of waste from the landfill to composting and recycling.  Located throughout the Festival grounds is a 3-cluster waste system that includes COMPOST, RECYCLING, and LITTER.  We will have ECO Ambassadors to educate you on using the proper receptacle - which will reduce our sorting efforts tremendously!   Thanks for being ECO consciences!

We would like to thank our Support Partner, TD Friends of the Environment Foundation and ECO Sponsor, Boehringer Ingelheim

The Sound of Music Festival and its Eco Team would also like to thank our Friends at Burlington Green for supporting our volunteer program! For more information on this organizattion please visit www.burlingtongreen.org

Congratulations Gerry Murphy!

In 2008, Gerry Murphy received the Environmental Award at the Civic Recognition Awards Ceremony - awarded to an individual or group who, through dedicated efforts to improve and/or protect Burlington's environment has been an example to the community.

This was in recognition of his drive, hard work and devotion to the Festival's Green program. Since 2004 the Festival has sorted 2,200 bags of garbage each year resulting in diverting tonnes of garbage to recycling and composting. Gerry has done this with his devoted (almost) round the clock, small team.

Gerry humbly accepted the award by stating "I never expected to be Garbage Man of the Year". During the introduction there were many good words stated about these efforts but also credit to the quality and value that the Festival brings each year through the many hard working volunteers. In Gerry's gracious thank you speech, he acknowledged family, Green team members, the City and Region who all supported him, the Festival and its greening efforts.  Last night, the Mayor and council continued to show support of the Festival through acknowledgment and congratulations to Gerry.

With our new funding partners of TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, we are pleased to be able to develop and sustain Gerry's and the other's efforts. Our shuttle service from the Burlington GO to Downtown will be the start of a larger plan to get cars out of the Downtown congestion during the event and eventually off the road when the 190,000 come to visit. Thanks again, Gerry!