Concert organizer Patrick Quesnel is expecting to eclipse attendance figures at this year’s Tabac Jr. Little Nashville country music festival, thanks to a stellar location at the Glengarry Sports Palace.
“We’ve already tripled our presales compared to last year,” Mr. Quesnel told The News on Monday afternoon.
Last year marked the second time that the festival ran at the arena, a venue that hundreds of country music lovers appreciated immensely.
As a result, Mr. Quesnel expects that the arena’s parking lot will be virtually flooded with motor homes, many of which will come from as far away as the Maritimes.
“We had 420 motor homes last year,” he says, adding that this year he’s expecting more than 500.
Part of the reason the arena is such a wonderful venue, he says, is that people know the concert will go ahead no matter what happens with the weather.
The festival begins on Thursday, Sept. 2 and wraps up the evening of Sunday, Sept. 5.
This year, Mr. Quesnel and his co-organizer and wife, Lou Lou, have lined up an impressive mix of talent including Tommy Cash,  J.C. Harrison, Marc Andre Lemieux, the Cornwall Fiddlers, Marvin James, Liberty Valance, Phil Daignault and Alexandria’s own Anik Quesnel.

Mr. Quesnel says that the festival will provide free admission to Community Living Glengarry, area retirement and nursing homes, and the physically disabled on Friday afternoon from 1-3 p.m.