The Water's Edge Festival is a 25 hour continuous music festival

Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

 held on the shores of Lafarge Lake

Lafarge Lake

Lafarge Lake is a five-hectare man-made lake, located in Town Centre Park in central Coquitlam, British Columbia. The Evergreen Cultural Centre lies on the southwest corner of the lake, and the Water's Edge Festival is held on the lake shore for 25 continuous hours in March.The area was originally...

 and at the Evergreen Cultural Centre

Evergreen Cultural Centre

The Evergreen Cultural Centre is a theatre and music venue in Coquitlam, British Columbia, opened in October 1996 by former Coquitlam Mayor Lou Sekora...

 in Coquitlam, British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

. The around-the-clock event features hundreds of world music, jazz and traditional performers playing at up to seven different venues, as well as workshops, a lantern procession, and a midnight drum circle.

The inaugural event took place on the same weekend as Coquitlam's Festival du Bois

Festival du Bois

Festival du Bois is the largest and most attended Francophone festival on the west coast of Canada, held in the Maillardville neighbourhood of Coquitlam, British Columbia...

. The 2010 festival will be moved two weeks later to avoid the conflict and decrease the chance for colder weather that hit in 2009.