Sled Island organizers have revealed a partial list of artists playing this year’s festival June 25-28 ’08 at various venues in Calgary...
Wire
Mogwai
Deerhunter
American Music Club
Jose Gonzales
Portastatic
Miss Murgatroid and Petra Hayden
The Gutter Twins (Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan)
No Age
Of Montreal
Jonathan Richman
The full line-up will be announced May 1. Early bird armband passes will be $140 plus service charges up until May 1 and can be purchased at www.sledisland.com.
With the inaugural Calgary Virgin Festival the weekend before and the Calgary Folk Music Festival happening the following month it will be a busy June/July for live music fans in Calgary. If I had to choose to attend only one of these due to time or money constraints Sled Island would definitely be my pick.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Sled Island 2008
and so far it's looking great! Scott Kannberg aka Spiral Stairs (Preston School of Industry, Pavement) is the token guest musical curator and will be performing along with some fantastic artists that I never thought would ever make it to Calgary such as:
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