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There was a considerably fine display Confederate flags and clothing emblazoned with the infamous “stars and bars” at Saskatchewan’s biggest country music festival, The Craven Country, Jamboree this weekend even though the organizers had specifically requested to leave the divisive symbol at home this year. The event has so far attracted many renowned performers like Blake Shelton, Big & Rich, and Tim McGraw and it brings tens of thousands of music fans together each summer in the Qu’Appelle Valley region, i.e. just outside the village of Craven for a weekend of celebration.
In a special request made this year, the festival organizers had suggested that attendees don’t bring the Confederate flags with them due to the racially motivated massacre in Charleston, South Carolina. It was pointed out that there is already a growing campaign across much of the Southern United States to remove the flag from official spaces.
In her remarks prior to the festival, its marketing director, Kim Blevins, stated that “I think that once we can get the message out about the tragedy in South Carolina people will start to understand what the symbol really means and they’ll stop using it and stop buying it.” She alleged that “people will get the message and it will slowly just go away.” However, one of the many attendees at the festival proudly sporting the Confederate flag on Thursday replied upon an inquiry that “I love it, it’s just like the Dukes of Hazzard,” while another answered that he didn’t “see the big deal about it.”
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