Imagine a summer music festival featuring two of North America's finest orchestras, with appearances by other superb orchestras and internationally renowned soloists; a festival featuring not only the greatest classical and "pops" repertoire, but also the coolest and most engaging jazz, popular, blues, world music, opera and dance.

Imagine the magical setting for this festival: the leeward shore of one of the Great Lakes — with the silhouette of Toronto on the horizon — a short distance from one of the newest and most diverse wine regions on the continent, one of the world's Seven Great Wonders, and North America's only festival devoted to the works of George Bernard Shaw.

Imagine a delightfully landscaped park, a "music garden" nestled beside a Carolinian forest of untouched beauty, with an amphitheatre of unsurpassed acoustical excellence, on a site that, precisely 200 years before, witnessed the fiery defining moments in the birth of a nation.

That is the vision of Project Niagara.

Project Niagara is a joint initiative of the National Arts Centre and Toronto Symphony Orchestra to create a 17-week summer music festival on the shores of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.

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