Review: Virgin Festival Saturday
Let’s talk about Virgin Festival Alberta. And like any great conversation starter, let’s begin with the weather. The Weather The weather couldn’t have been better for Virgin Fest, Calgary was so lucky to have...
Category: Arts
Virgin Fest live blog Saturday
1:37:05 PM: All the media dudes at #vfestyyc have macbooks. Waiting for the great bloomers to start the festival. 1:50:21 PM: Thank the sunshine lords for bringing it today. If rain shows up today...
Virgin Fest: Big sound, bigger van
Ryan Guldemond, leader of the Vancouver-based modern-rock group Mother Mother, is becoming an authority on cheap hotels. “We’re on the road so much, I’m a regular hotel connoisseur,” jokes the Bowie-esque guitarist and frontman....
Virgin Fest: Arkells relish Canuck comradery
It may be cliché to paint all Canadians as a polite group of people. It’s hard to believe if you’ve ever been to a NHL game and see the devotion fans express by being...
Virgin Fest: Maritimers show plenty of Eastern promise
For Wintersleep, 2008 was quite an eventful year to say the least. The indie rock quintet from Halifax finally broke onto Canadian charts with their catchy folk-rock single “Weighty Ghost” off Welcome to the...
Virgin Fest: Dance/rap duo brings the thunder
Grahm Zilla believes a good way to gauge his latest project, Thunderheist, is to look at the hierarchy on festival flyers. “You can always tell how big you are by your font size,” says...
Rock The Bells arrives in Cowtown
The sun was shining and the dreads were flying as Rock The Bells — an international hip-hop/rap festival circuit made it’s debut in Calgary. Duncan Kinney caught the action and grabbed some audio of...
Hip-Hop enthusiasts ready to Rock The Bells
To hip-hop enthusiasts in Calgary, who stood idly by while all the country and alternative acts made their way through the city, your turn has finally come. Rock the Bells is set to visit...
Folk Fest: Party in the park closes on high note
Four days of music, dancing and likely lots and lots of drinking came to a close with a beautiful mainstage show on Sunday night, featuring the likes of Mavis Staples and Loreena McKennitt, to...
Folk Fest: Pacifika drinks in voyage
You can’t help but think of the ocean when you hear of the band Pacifika. When you see pictures of the three band members, Silvana Kane, Adam Popowitz and Toby Peter, they all seem...
