COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the cancellation of many high-profile local events — the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Jazz Winnipeg, and countless others — but one standby is hoping it can still give Winnipeggers a bit of summer fun, just a little later than usual.The Red River Ex announced Thursday that it’s bumping its dates back to Aug.
27 to Sept. 6, in hopes that by then, the province’s case count will be down and vaccinations will be way up. Red River Ex optimistic for 2021 festival “We certainly don’t want to cancel the Red River Ex, but we can’t have it June, obviously,” Ex CEO Garth Rogerson told 680 CJOB.“It looks like the September long weekend — the end of August — might be safe.