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Press Release - Hillside Line-Up Announced

Press Release - Hillside Line-Up Announced
This year’s Hillside illsummer festival will be held from July 22-24 at the Island in Guelph Lake Conservation Area. In its 28th year, Hillside still offers its eclectic mix of music, dance, food and crafts in a village atmosphere that embraces all people, all generations. This year, Hillside is...

D for D-Sisive

D for D-Sisive
“You ever watch Fred on You Tube,” asks D-Sisive. A friend sent him a link to a You Tube video about somebody named Fred who’s the object of scorn for this other guy, Chicken Little, and D-Sisive is clearly enthralled with it. “This is what I do, I watch clips on You Tube and see who’s having...

Hillside Inside Acts Announced

Hillside Inside Acts Announced
Hillisde Inside just announced the first names for its fourth annual show, which this year will unfold across two days and at multiple locations around Downtown Guelph. Sarah Harmer will headline the show with a performance at River Run Centre on Friday February 4th, while the Saturday night show...

Scenes from Hillside 2010

Scenes from Hillside 2010
You walk around with a camera at Hillside and you’re going to come away with hundreds of shots. And not just shots of the musicians, but a tonne of pictures of revellers enjoying this unique, laid back annual celebration of music and community. Below find more of Tom Brown’s photography from...

Another Year at Hillside

Another Year at Hillside
The last weekend of July, Guelph Lake played host once again for the city’s annual Hillside Festival, and like the 26 festivals which have come before, this year’s Hillside has, without a doubt, lived up to its reputation. Whether this was your first time attending Hillside, or you’re a seasoned...

Hillside Tickets Go On Sale

Hillside Tickets Go On Sale
The damp and rainy weather Saturday morning couldn’t dampen the spirits of those willing to line-up for the annual, first weekend in May ritual, and we’re not talking about Free Comic Book Day. Despite the weather and the construction that’s tore up much of the sidewalks on Quebec Street, the line-up...

Kazoofest Launches in Guelph

Kazoofest Launches in Guelph
The annual Kazoofest launched in Guelph last night to usher in five fun-filled days of art, music, film, dance and community. Kazoo, which is a Guelph-based non-profit artist run organization, started putting on these annual festivals in 2008 and have been met with ever increasing success, resulting...

Hillside Inside

Hillside Inside
Hillside is a Guelph institution, an oasis on an island in the middle of man-made lake at the end of every July. Franchise opportunities were perhaps inevitable, not to mention lucrative, so it was no surprise when three years ago Festival organizers announced that they were holding a winter edition...

Interview - Night Crash Noir

Interview - Night Crash Noir
It’s Saturday afternoon and the members of Night Crash Noir – singer Nikole Wiseman, guitarist George Bettencourt, bassist Johnny Charmer and drummer Troy Larabie – are understandably elated. The night before they played their first ever show as a band during the GO Music Festival in Kitchener. Kicking...

Interview-The Ascot Royals

Interview-The Ascot Royals
From somewhere in Southwestern Ontario there are rumblings of a band so outrageous, whose live shows are so lively, that they can only be referred to as royalty. But on this evening at Lucky’s Wings in Kitchener, after their sound check is over, all the Ascot Royals have on their minds is food. The...

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