of glory was used to tap the ceremonial first keg at Opening Tap on March 6, 2009. The Great International Beer Festival is held in Providence, Rhode Island twice annually. The KC Beerfest, located in Kansas City, Missouri, provides one of the Midwest's newest opportunities to try the wares of hundreds of different craft brewers from all over the world. The Seattle International Beer Festival is a beer festival held annually in Seattle, Washington during the month of July. The festival offers visitors a selection of 100-150 beers from some twenty countries around the world. The Great Arizona Beer Festival is the state's longest-running beer festival. Held in Tempe, Arizona since 1990 it features 50 breweries offering more than 200 varieties of frosty suds. The event benefits and is run by Sun Sounds of Arizona, a non-profit providing reading services to the blind. The organization also runs beer festivals in Tucson and Flagstaff. Brewbeque is a craft beer festival held annually in Evansville, IN. It benefits Guardianship Services of Southwestern Indiana. Fresh Fest, held annually in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania since 2018, is the nation's first Black craft beer festival. The festival features Black-owned breweries, as well as breweries collaborating with Black artists, entrepreneurs, and businesses in Pittsburgh, the surrounding area, and beyond. The Oldenburg Freudenfest, located in Oldenburg, Indiana, has been held annually since 1977. The festival offers a wide variety of German food, family-friendly activities, and a wide-selection beers on tap, both domestic and imported. Canada Beer festivals in Canada include the Great Canadian Beer Festival, which since 1993 (with help from the Victoria chapter of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)) has focused on cask ales from the Pacific Northwest. Since 2003 the festival has been held at Royal Athletic Park on the first weekend after Labour Day. The festival attracts over 60 craft breweries from across BC and Canada, with more than 8000 visitors. The Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest is a nine-day event in Kitchener-Waterloo, which started in 1969 influenced by the original German Oktoberfest. It is held every October, starting on the Friday before Canadian Thanksgiving and running until the Saturday after. Toronto's Festival of Beer was first held in 1995 at Fort York in Toronto, though has been held at Exhibition Place since 2009. There is also the Lauder Beer Festival which is a much smaller and more exclusive festival held in the North end of Toronto. On