Riverside tunes move to fairgrounds

By Sam Gillett

Music by the Gull is morphing into Music Fridays at The Fairgrounds this summer.

Gord Kidd and Friends will kick off the summer-long concert series July 1.

“I think things are going to go off with a bang,” said Dan Bingham of the Minden Lions Club who sits on the event board. “It works out well with Canada Day.”

Fireworks, vendors and a fair will coincide with that first concert which starts at 7 p.m.

Bingham said he recognizes some people will miss the river-side location.

He encouraged attendees to have an “open mind” and to recognize that for