Huttch headlines the Fam Fest Dominion House show

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• Anthony Sheardown, Huttch

Local band Huttch headlined the fourth night of the Windsor Fam Fest and were rewarded with three encores.

Harvesting The Fam Festival is Windsor’s largest independent interarts festival. The festival is an opportunity for artists to showcase their work throughout the city. It showcases many different artists including photographers, painters, film makers and more, all spread out at different places from Oct 1 until Oct 10. Some artists work will stay up on display for the remainder of the month.

Fam Fest was created and is still run by Murad Erzinclioglu and Benjamin Young-Hart in 2006.

The music shows take place every night at a different location for the 10 days of the festival. On Oct 4 at the Dominion House in Sandwich Town, many people gathered to watch the six band show, including Ivory Hours from London and headliners, Huttch.

“Music is often times the most populated genre at the festival,” said Erzinclioglu.

There was a lot of support from fans and other artists. People were gathered around to watch every artist do their set.

“I really did dig the event, I was happy to see how much energy the artists brought to their community,” said Elliot Hale, 21, a University of Windsor student.   “It definitely shows how much respect each artist has towards each other when you see the bands jamming out to each opening act.”

This was the first year Huttch played at the Fam Fest. As the headliners of the show they went on at 11:30 p.m. and after playing their set plus three encores they finished at 1 a.m.

“The crowd was great. They kept wanting more so we kept giving it to them. We love these kinds of shows,” said Robbie Cervi, 22, the drummer in Huttch.

There are many different styles of music that are played throughout the fest. Every event is free which allows more people to come out and support.

“For us Fam Fest brings out people who wouldn’t normally go to a local show or who haven’t seen Huttch live before,” said Cervi. “It puts the Windsor art seen in an extremely available format that anyone can enjoy and attend.”