KITCHENER — This is big.

The Big Music Festival is coming to the City of Kitchener.

The reveal was made Thursday in a provincial funding announcement.

The Big Music Festival received $272,500 for its event.

Attendance at past concerts ranged between 8,000 and nearly 25,000 people.

Between 2007 and 2013, the festival was held in Belleville, with the exception of 2011 when it was held in Bobcaygeon. Past performers include Hedley, Counting Crows, The Wallflowers, Tragically Hip and Burton Cummings.

The funding comes from the Celebrate Ontario fund.

Other local events to be granted money include:

• 2014 Manulife Financial Ladies Professional Golf Association Classic, $195,300

• Waterloo Air Show, $65,450

• Neruda Arts Kultrun Summer Festival (formerly LatinFest), $34,000

• Kitchener Blues Festival, $58,862

• KOI Music Festival, $35,062