Wavelength Winter Festival
20th Anniversary Edition
February 13-16, 2020
#WL2020
Wavelength Music warms up winter with the launch to our 20th anniversary year and the Wavelength Winter Festival, a live curated mixtape featuring twenty of the best independent music artists from the Canadian underground scene February 13-16, 2020. The festival launches Thursday, February 13, exactly 20 years since Wavelength’s first show at Ted’s Wrecking Yard. Despite that venue being a distant memory, Wavelength will provide a nostalgic nod to its older days by presenting the first night of the festival at Sneaky Dee’s! Festival venues also include Longboat Hall (Fri & Sat nights), Sonic Boom Records (Sat. afternoon – all ages) and The Garrison (Sun night).
20 Years, 20 Bands!!
Announcing this year’s lineup:
HAVIAH MIGHTY – THE HIDDEN CAMERAS – LES MOUCHES
LAL (Corners Anniversary Performance) – TORII WOLF – LITTLE SCREAM
LOU PHELPS – SANDRO PERRI – YVES JARVIS
KEITA JUMA – KAIA KATER – NEW FRIES – TRP.P
SHEENAH KO – MIMICO – SLOWPITCHSOUND
DESIIRE – SILVER POOLS – PSYCHIC WEAPONS
Visual art/projections: Roxanne Ignatius & General Chaos Visuals
Guest Curator: Ian Steaman
Single-day tickets are on sale Thursday, January 9 at noon for – in advance, or for an all access festival passes (limited number available). Tickets are available in person at Rotate This (801 Queen Street West, Toronto) and Soundscapes (572 College Street, Toronto) andonline at wavelengthmusic.ca.
As well as glancing back at the past 20 years, Wavelength’s winter festival programming is future-forward, a “live curated mixtape” line-up of the newest, freshest and most exciting sounds in the Canadian independent music scene. Guest Co-Curator, Ian Steaman (Different Kitchen, CBC), brings a fresh new voice to the programming mix with the inclusion of more acts from the worlds of hip-hop, R&B, electronica and art-pop, as Wavelength continues to expand the boundaries of “indie” music.
Winter Festival highlights include: Global electro-soul pioneers LAL in a20th Anniversary Performance of their debut album “Corners”, a reunion of Owen Pallett’s manic art-folk trio LES MOUCHES, indie folk-pop collectivists THE HIDDEN CAMERAS performing their first Toronto show in four years, talented woman rapper and 2019 Polaris Prize Winner HAVIAH MIGHTY, and special guest from Los Angeles, hip-hop meets avant-pop artist TORII WOLF, who has collaborated with DJ Premier and Mike Zombie (Drake’s OVO Sound).A free all ages afternoon show has also been announced for Saturday February 15 at Sonic Boom Music, featuring no-wave punk trio NEW FRIES.
