2009 Music Festival Thread

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by troutman

South By Southwest

Music: March 18-22

http://sxsw.com/home

http://sxsw.com/music/shows

Looks like a great fest. Quite a few smaller but terrific acts.

[malcolmk14]

Here's a bit of an update.

Virgin Festival - Montreal - June 19-20

Black Eyed Peas, New Kids on the Block, Simple Plan, Hedley, AKON, Live, The New Cities, Eva Avila, Lights, Divine Brown

Edgefest - Toronto - June 20

Alexisonfire, AFI, Billy Talent, K-Os, Metric, Offspring

Boonstock - Edmonton - June 25-27

Finger Eleven, Theory of a Deadman, Shinedown, Bif Naked

Rock on the Range - Winnipeg - June 27

Billy Talent, Rise Against, Rancid, Theory of a Deadman, Shinedown, Thornley, Blue October, Silverstein

Summerfest - Milwaukee - June 25-July 5

Barenaked Ladies, Bedouin Soundclash, Better than Ezra, Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Counting Crows, Dropkick Murphys, The Fray, George Strait, Jack's Mannequin, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd, No Doubt, Offspring, Paramore, Rancid, Rise Against, The Roots, Shinedown, Theory of a Deadman, Train, Whitesnake, Willie Nelson

Sarnia Bayfest (Rock weekend) - Sarnia - July 9-11

Counting Crows, KISS, Our Lady Peace, Stone Temple Pilots, The Trews

Sarnia Bayfest (Country weekend) - Sarnia - July 17-18

Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Doc Walker

All Points West - Jersey City - July 31-Aug 2

Coldplay, Tool, Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Arctic Monkeys, MGMT, Silversun Pickups

Osheaga - Montreal - August 1-2

Coldplay, Beastie Boys, The Roots, Jason Mraz, Rufus Wainwright, Arctic Monkeys

Lollapalooza - Chicago - August 7-9

Depeche Mode, Tool, The Killers, Jane's Addiction, Beastie Boys, Kings of Leon, Lou Reed, Ben Harper, Snoop Dogg, Rise Against, TV on the Radio, Arctic Monkeys, Coheed & Cambria, Silversun Pickups, Kaiser Chiefs, Sam Roberts

Outside Lands - San Francisco - August 28-30

Beastie Boys, Black Eyed Peas, Dave Matthews Band, The Dead Weather (Jack White's new project), Incubus, Jason Mraz, Pearl Jam, Silversun Pickups, TV on the Radio, Tom Jones


more to come

[COGENT]

Originally Posted by malcolmk14

Virgin Festival - Montreal - June 19-20

Black Eyed Peas, New Kids on the Block, Simple Plan, Hedley, AKON, Live, The New Cities, Eva Avila, Lights, Divine Brown

This has to be a joke. Probably the worst line up ever.

*I apologize if anyone is excited by that lineup... just my opinion.

[malcolmk14]

Originally Posted by COGENT

This has to be a joke. Probably the worst line up ever.

*I apologize if anyone is excited by that lineup... just my opinion.

Absolutely the worst lineup ever. Fully agreed.

What I don't get, is last year they cancelled the show in Vancouver because the could not get a good enough lineup. Then they roll out this crap for Montreal. How bad could it have been last year for Vancouver?

Edit: Live would be cool to see though.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Ottawa Bluesfest in July

• Alan Parsons Live Project
• All Nations Gospel Choir
• Amanda Rheaume
• Amos the Transparent
• Ana Miura
• Anders Drerup
• Andrew Vincent
• Ani DiFranco
• Arkells
• Beast
• Becky Abbott
• Ben Harper and Relentless7
• Black Mountain
• Blue King Brown
• Blue Rodeo
• Blues in the Schools Performance
• Bob Corritore
• Brian Setzer Orchestra
• Brock Zeman
• Brothers Chaffey
• Buckwheat Zydeco
• C.R. Avery with the Sojourners
• Cake
• Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm
• Chris Smither (Blues Meets Folk Series)
• Christophe Elie
• City of a Hundred Spires
• Clem Snide
• Coeur de pirate
• Colin Linden
• Cotton Jones
• Craig Horton
• Crystal Castles
• Curumin
• Daddy Mack Blues Band
• Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women
• Dave Mason
• David Lindley
• David Maxwell
• Deep Dark Woods
• Deer Tick
• DeVotchKa
• Die Mannequin
• Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy
• Divine Brown
• Downstone Rhythm
• Doyle Bramhall
• Drew Nelson
• Drew Nelson Band
• Drive-By Truckers
• Eden Brent
• Eppiphane
• Eric Lindell
• Ernie Hawkins
• Estelle
• FEMI KUTI & The Positive Force
• Flecton Big Sky
• Freddie Roulette
• Funktagon
• Giant Hand
• Girl Talk
• GOOD2GO
• Gunsmoke
• Handsome Furs
• Henry Butler
• Hey Rosetta!
• Hollerado
• Holy
• Homemade Jamz' Blues Band
• Hoodlum
• Hubert Sumlin
• Hundreds and Thousands
• Ice Cube
• Iron & Wine
• Israel & New Breed
• Jackson Browne
• Jack White's The Dead Weather
• James Cohen Caravan
• Jeff Beck
• Jeff Lang (Blues Meets Folk Series)
• Jeff Rogers
• Jenn Grant
• Jennifer Warnes
• Jesse Cook
• Jill Barber
• Joe Cocker
• Joe Louis Walker
• Joe Pug
• John Allaire
• John Vanderslice
• Jon Creeden
• JW Jones Band with Little Charlie Baty
• k.d. lang
• Ken Workman & the Union
• King Sunny Ade & His African Beats
• Kingdom Shore
• KISS
• Kyrie Kristmanson
• Land of Talk
• Larry Garner
• LeE HARVeY OsMOND
• Leif Vollebekk
• Les Claypool
• Library Voices
• Lindsay Ferguson
• LIVE
• Loreena McKennitt
• Los Lonely Boys
• Loudlove
• Louisiana Red
• Lucas Haneman
• Ludacris
• M83
• Mannie Makris & The Polaras
• Marc Charron
• Marie-Josee Houle
• Matisyahu
• Matt Andersen
• Meredith Luce
• Mick Taylor
• Mishka
• MonkeyJunk
• Moreland and Arbuckle
• Murray Kinsley Duo
• Neko Case
• New Mastersounds
• NEWWORLDSON
• Okkervil River
• Ornette Coleman
• Oumou Sangare
• Our Lady Peace
• Paolo Nutini
• Papa Mali
• Papa San
• Peter Voith Trio
• Philip Sayce
• Politique
• Poorfolk
• Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile
• Rachael Yamagata
• Reggie Young & Gospel Park
• Reverend Billy Wirtz
• Rhythm Council
• Rick Fines
• Roomful of Blues
• Ryan Shaw
• Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women
• Sam Roberts Band
• Sedatives
• Sergent Garcia
• Shane Simpson
• Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
• Shawn Tavenier & Peter Voith
• Shemekia Copeland
• Shiloh
• Silver Creek
• Sista Monica
• Skydiggers
• Spam Allstars
• Spencer Davis
• Steve Earle (Blues Meets Folk Series)
• Steve Marriner
• Steve Poltz
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Styx
• Sugar Blue
• Sunparlour Players
• Tara Holloway
• That 1 Guy (Blues Meets Folk Series)
• The Allrights
• The Balconies
• The Church
• The Dodos
• The Duhks
• The Heavy
• The Human Statues
• The Low Anthem
• The National
• The Rebel Year
• The Road Hammers
• The Roll Models
• The Soul of John Black
• The Stills
• The Yardbirds
• The Zombies
• Thunderheist
• TJ Wheeler
• Toots & the Maytals
• Treasa Levasseur
• Tympanic
• United Steel Workers of Montreal
• Van der Graff Generator
• Voices of Praise
• Watters Brothers
• Xavier Rudd
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Zac Harmon

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp

Ottawa Bluesfest in July

I've never been, but this festival seems to be perennially underrated. Every year they have one of the best, if not most complete lineups out there. Is it a bad venue or something? How come it rarely gets any publicity outside of Ontario?

[Jayems]

So very excited to go to Edmonton Folk Fest to see Slaid Cleaves. I was looking around the NW USA for close to Calgary venues, and saw he'll be performing up there. Wicked.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by rubecube

I've never been, but this festival seems to be perennially underrated. Every year they have one of the best, if not most complete lineups out there. Is it a bad venue or something? How come it rarely gets any publicity outside of Ontario?

Honestly, I've never gone to it. Probably because I'm not a huge fan of concerts. It's recently moved to just outside of downtown but it's right on the river so I'm guessing it's a great venue.

I think the problem is the name. It's not just a Blues festival anymore and gets tons of acts that have little to do with the Blues but maybe people just see Bluesfest and don't know that it's got lots of good non-Blues acts.

[Claeren]

Originally Posted by malcolmk14

Edit: Live would be cool to see though.

They played for free at the Coca Cola Stage at the Stampede 2 years ago...

I didn't like their attitude though, you could tell they HATED playing their old (popular) songs and wanted sooo badly for the audience to listen to their new (unpopular) stuff -- but to everyone but them, the new stuff sucked (IMO).

That being said, they did finally get to the old stuff and rocked it out pretty well.



That Ottawa line-up looks wicked. I've been wanting to see 'The National' live but they seem to keep a pretty low profile.....



Claeren.

[peter12]

Originally Posted by rubecube

I've never been, but this festival seems to be perennially underrated. Every year they have one of the best, if not most complete lineups out there. Is it a bad venue or something? How come it rarely gets any publicity outside of Ontario?

Last year's line-up was pretty IMO. My highlight was Bettye Lavette and that's about it. Good venue though outside of the war museum. Looks like an amazing line-up this year.