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Supercrawl went out with a bang Sunday. Three days of music, art, fashion and food on James St North in Hamilton wrapped up just after 6 o’oclock Sunday evening with record breaking crowds hitting the streets.
Holly Pocsai, co-owner of boutique White Elephant has seen the Supercrawl really bring the neighbourhood together.
“More and more stores are opening up, which is great, more and more businesses, restaurants. So there’s a lot more street traffic day-to day and people can see how vibrant the life is down here and it just organically grows like that.”
Supercrawl started six years ago as a way to showcase the uniqueness and the character of the James St North neighbourhood. The first year about 3000 people attended. Last year a 100,000 people turned up. This year, that number was surpassed almost the first night.
Organizer Tim Potocic says it’s filling a void.
“There really wasn’t a big urban festival in Hamilton that takes place on the streets and is in a situation where you can do so many multiple things, things on the street, things in retail shops, stages pop up. ”
As one festival-goer put it today, there’s only 363 more days until the next Supercrawl.
The little festival that grew is clearly here to stay.
