![Beau Dixon performing with Slips N The High Fives at The Hootenanny on Hunter Street on August 13 (photo: Linda McIlwain / kawarthaNOW.com) Beau Dixon performing with Slips N The High Fives at The Hootenanny on Hunter Street on August 13 (photo: Linda McIlwain / kawarthaNOW.com)](https://kawarthanow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Hootenanny2016-18-696x423.jpg)
Last Saturday (August 13) saw the return of The Hootennany on Hunter Street, the annual one-day street music festival in downtown Peterborough, but Mother Nature wasn’t feeling very musical.
Bad weather resulted in the cancellation of the much-anticipated headliner, Sloan, at the end of the festival.
![Peterborough-Kawartha MP Maryam Monsef in the audience enjoying the music (photo: Linda McIlwain / kawarthaNOW.com)](http://kawarthanow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Hootenanny2016-17-696x464.jpg)
However, local bands like Slips N The High Fives with Beau Dixon (with special guest Kate Suhr) and Melissa Payne with James McKenty entertained the crowds — which included Peterborough-Kawartha MP Maryam Monsef.
kawarthaNOW.com photographer Linda McIlwain was there to capture their performances: