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Rock'n August

Aug. 6, 2024 to Aug. 10, 2024

St. Albert Place
Free
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Rock'n August is a five-day car show and music festival in the community of St. Albert. Funds raised support the Alberta Diabetes Foundation.

About Rock'N August Rock'n August is an international car show and music festival taking place in St. Albert, Alberta - a suburb of Edmonton. The event starts the Tuesday after the August long weekend and runs until the Saturday. 2017's event was a record breaking year with over 850 classic car entered into the event and more than 50,000 people attending, making Rock'n August one of the largest events to take place in the province of Alberta. 2018 plans to be another huge year with at least as many people estimated to attend as 2017. Visitors to Rock'n August not only come from our home province of Alberta, but also British Columbia and Saskatchewan, and even Washington, Idaho and Montana - truly making Rock'n August an international car show.

St. Albert Place

5 St Anne St
St. Albert, AB, T8N 3Z9


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