Rockin' the Fields of Minnedosa is an annual rock festival

Rock festival

A rock festival, or a rock fest, is a large-scale rock music concert, featuring multiple acts.The first rock festivals were put on in the late 1960s and were important socio-cultural milestones. In the 1980s a minor resurgence of festivals occurred with charity as the goal.Today, they are often...

 held in Minnedosa, Manitoba

Minnedosa, Manitoba

Minnedosa is a town in the southwestern part of the Canadian province of Manitoba. Situated 50 kilometres north of Brandon, Manitoba on the Little Saskatchewan River, the name means "flowing water" in Sioux. The population of Minnedosa reported in the 2006 Statistics Canada Census was 2,474...

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Rockin' the Fields (RFM) is a non-profit cooperative that organizes a rock concert each August long weekend on the shores of Lake Minnedosa, Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

. Classic rock

Classic rock

Classic rock is a radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format features music ranging generally from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, primarily focusing on the hard rock genre that peaked in popularity in the...

is the primary music style, but newer rock as well as some blues can also be seen.

The festival henceforth referred to as RFM, rose from the ashes of the previous two for-profit festivals; Classic Rock Long Weekend & Little River Rock Fest. Music fans contacted each other at the last festivals demise and decided to form the non-profit coorperative also known as RFM and try to organize their own festival.