Canadian Music Festivals
Thursday Oct 17
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Jazz
Merrickville Jazz Fest
Merrickville, ON @ Multiple Venues (Merrickville) ; Oct 17 - Oct 20 -
Ska
Montreal Ska Festival
Montreal, QC @ Multiple Venues (Montreal) ; Oct 17 - Oct 19Deal's Gone Bad | Sentries | Kman & the 45s | Cardboard Crowns | Sound One | 2 Stone 2 Skank | Rudy Mills | Rub-A-Dub Rebels | Ska-Mones | Skatton Club | Slums -
Experimental
Send+Receive
Winnipeg, MB @ Multiple Venues (Winnipeg) ; Oct 17 - Oct 21Rusalka | Sound of the Mountain | Chloe Alexandra Thompson | Tetuzi Akiyama | Ellen Arkbro | Cecilia Lopez | Zachary James Watkins | Mira Martin-Gray | Matt Henderson | VOR | Erik Tisu | Mariana Muñoz Gomez -
Avant-Garde
X Avant New Music Festival XIV: Forward
Toronto, ON @ The Music Gallery ; Oct 17 - Oct 20Willi Williams | Lido Pimienta | Holy Hum | New Chance | Germaine Liu | Sarah Hennies | Okan | Sound of the Mountain | Karen Ng | Toshimaru Nakamura | Tetuzi Akiyama | Heather Saumer | Rebecca Hennessy | Bea Labikova Friday Oct 18
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Variety
St. Albert Amplify Festival
St. Albert, AB @ Kinsmen Banquet Centre (Kinsmen Club of St. Albert) ; Oct 18 - Oct 19 -
Variety
Blackout Fest
Brantford, ON @ Multiple Venues (Brantford) ; Oct 18 - Oct 19Penske File | Seaway | Direct Hit | Harbour | Letdown | Rival Town | Carried Away | Romancer | Keep Flying | Young Culture | Eternal Boy | Boys of Fall Saturday Oct 19
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Metal
Black Mourning Light
Edmonton, AB @ Rendezvous Pub ; Oct 19Tempestarii -
Metal
Born From Death Festival II
Quebec City, QC @ L'Anti ; Oct 19Killborn | Hatalom | Necrotic Mutation | Spirit Of Rebellion | Obscure Mantra | Necroticgorebeast | Necrosphere Tuesday Oct 22
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Electronic
AKOUSMA XVI
Montreal, QC @ Multiple Venues (Montreal) ; Oct 22 - Oct 24 Wednesday Oct 23
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Variety
Halifax Pop Explosion
Halifax, NS @ Multiple Venues (Halifax) ; Oct 23 - Oct 26...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead | Mother Mother | Rich Aucoin | Arkells | Ryan Cook & Sunny Acres | Life in Vacuum | Charlotte Cornfield | Outtacontroller | Elisapie | PUP | Walrus | DOOMSQUAD | Owen Steel | Kim Harris | Wolf Saga | Lydia Persaud | Haviah Mighty | Alexandria Maillot | Diet Cig | Beauts | Designosaur | Caveboy | Hua Li 化力 | Leanne Hoffman | Jerry Faye | Alex Bent | Kaia Kater | Common Holly | Hypochondriacs | Japanese Breakfast | JustJohn & Dom Dias | Snotty Nose Rez Kids | Alexia Avina | Spencer Krug | Luna Li | Diamondtown | Villages | Janette King | Aquakultre | DJ NDN | Nicolette & the Nobodies | Wolf Castle | Deanna Petcoff | Weakened Friends | Little Cities | Calm Baretta | Yohvn Blvck | Marian | Juice Girls | Backxwash | Mouraine | Maura Whitman | Zoon | Vince the Messenger | Jennah Barry | Cassie Josephine and the Cry If I Want To's | chillteens | Driftwood People | Katie Matzell | Waants Thursday Oct 24
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Variety
Festival (506)
Caraquet, NB @ Multiple Venues (Caraquet) ; Oct 24 - Oct 26 Friday Oct 25
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Variety
Sauga City Music Festival
Mississauga, ON @ Living Arts Centre ; Oct 25 - Oct 27Haviah Mighty | Liv Marie | Yesway | Noyz MC | Sheldon Sabastian | Renee Wynter | S4G4 | DJ T-Rel | DJ Cory -
Cultural
Festival of Arabic Music & Arts
Toronto, ON @ Multiple Venues (Toronto) ; Oct 25 - Nov 10 Wednesday Oct 30
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Variety
Heart of the City Festival
Vancouver, BC @ Multiple Venues (Vancouver) ; Oct 30 - Nov 10 Thursday Oct 31
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Variety
Borderless Music & Arts Festival
Peterborough, ON @ Multiple Venues (Peterborough) ; Oct 31 - Nov 04 Friday Nov 01
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Variety
Woodstove Festival
Cumberland, BC @ Multiple Venues (Cumberland) ; Nov 01 - Nov 03Geoff Berner | Yael Wand | Wax Mannequin | Tannis Slimmon | Shred Kelly | Dana Sipos | Shawna Caspi | Annie Becker | Samson's Delilah | Nice Verdes | Folky Strum Strum | Shirley Gnome | Jenny Allen | Kim June Johnson | Elise LeBlanc | Richard Garvey | Kimberley MacGregor | Hua Li 化力 | Burying Ground | Texture & Light | Old Soul Rebel | Merry McKentys | Willow | Chase the Bear | Ghostly Hounds | Sweet SantaFe | Saltwater Hank | Juniper | Mary Matheson | Ms. Panik | Stevie Wise & The Big Feelings | Paris Pick & The Pricks | Wolf & The Raven | Andrea Rose & Jesse Hampton | South For Winter | Shruti Ramani Indian-Jazz trio | Christine Fletcher | Kara Kata Afrobeat Group | Conrad F Campbell | Babyface Brass | Jannette King | Emily Cars | Anne Louise Genest | Jozy | Cheeky Bunny | Fat Tugger | Purple & The Pinks | Goatboys | Haywood Carpenter | Kristi Hawkes | Shenta & Gary Arnold | DJ Cat & Dog | Robbie Banks | Balkan Shmalkan | Amos | Bex & The Bullpen | Alannah Clark | Flo & Behold | Melisa Devost | Adam Farnsworth | Billie's Holiday | Chad Pab | Booty and the Hofish | Mike Murdoch | Bruce Allen Flett | Mr. Vibacious | Sarah Osbourne | High Quandra Ramblers | Coyote Smoke | Quiet Type Writers | Risa Rose | Undercurrents | Glen Gravel | Bailynn Mountain | One Foot Chop | Michael Keith | Etoki | Elise Boulanger | Auburn Blind | Brandon Kayes | Town Choir | Western Family Stringband | Zan Callison | Lian | Caroline Allatt | Golden Honey Second Line Orchestra | John Dark | Ross Douglas | Brane Porter | Irth | Steve Marc | Django's Jewels | Quin With One N | Slug Blume | Nicole Utulinde Trio Wednesday Nov 06
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Jazz
Steel City Jazz Festival
Hamilton, ON @ Multiple Venues (Hamilton) ; Nov 06 - Nov 09 Thursday Nov 07
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Variety
Nova Scotia Music Week
Truro, Nova Scotia @ Multiple Venues (Truro) ; Nov 07 - Nov 10Rich Aucoin | Shirley Jackson & Her Good Rockin' Daddys | Norma MacDonald | Orchid's Curse | Outtacontroller | Quiet Parade | Walrus | Christine Campbell | Ian Sherwood | Dave Sampson | Leanne Hoffman | Dan Doiron Band | Makayla Lynn | Pineo & Loeb | Jody Upshaw | Thomas Stajcer | Villages | Electric Spoonful | Blue Lobelia | Drug Rugs | Tachichi | Cameron | Jah'mila | Jordan Musycsyn | Keonté Beals | Nicole Ariana | Shannon Quinn | Shay Pitts | Zamani | Awolk | Superfluid Collective | Cassie Josephine and the Cry If I Want To's | Corey Writes | Alaska | Dr G & Astronomical Unit | Elijah Will | Gabrielle Papillon | Garret Mason | Gizelle de Guzman | Good Dear Good | Kayleigh | Matt the Music Man | Rey D | Roy Volts | Witchitaw | Working Class Band Wednesday Nov 13
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Electronic
Alberta Electronic Music Conference
Calgary, AB @ Multiple Venues (Calgary) ; Nov 13 - Nov 17 -
Variety
Indie Week Canada
Toronto, ON @ Multiple Venues (Toronto) ; Nov 13 - Nov 17 Thursday Nov 14
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Variety
Estonian Music Week
Toronto, ON @ Multiple Venues (Toronto) ; Nov 14 - Nov 17 Friday Nov 15
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Goth
Eisbaer
Toronto, ON @ The Garrison ; Nov 15 - Nov 16Adult. | Odonis Odonis | Black Marble | Lee Paradise | Dreamcrusher | Automatic | Black Dresses Tuesday Nov 19
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Variety
Mundial Montréal
Montreal, QC @ Multiple Venues (Montreal) ; Nov 19 - Nov 22 Wednesday Nov 20
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Variety
M for Montreal
Montreal, QC @ Multiple Venues (Montreal) ; Nov 20 - Nov 23High Dials | Nomadic Massive | Odonis Odonis | Absolutely Free | Nap Eyes | Xarah Dion | Close Talker | Wake Island | Tennis System | New Fries | les Deuxluxes | Post Script | Atsuko Chiba | Corridor | WHOOP-Szo | Foreign Diplomats | GrandBuda | Busty and the Bass | Clay and Friends | Dylan Menzie | Caveboy | Sex Machine Octopus | Paupière | Ponteix | Mehdi Cayenne | Alistair Blu | Mind Bath | Blue Odeur | Bodywash | Russell Louder | Radiant Baby | Mappe Of | Tallies | Prado | Lydia Képinski | TEKE TEKE | Badge Époque Ensemble | Ada Lea | Loving | Nana Zen | Operator Music Band | Sebastian Gaskin | Ciaran Lavery | David Lee | Efy Hecks | Rowjay | Tizzo | Sophia Bel | Ragers | Charlie Shulz | Naya Ali | Vince James | LIA | Gladys Lazer | NOV3L | Jambori Jambora | Antony Carle | Claudia Bouvette | Vince the Messenger | Laura Krieg | Absolem | Adwaith | Blick Bassy | Brown Family | Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard | Caballero & JeanJess | Dezy Joan | Hologramme | Jealous of the Birds | Just Mustard | Louis Venne | LayLit | Merryn Jeann | Miko | Maybe Watson | O.G.B. | Silly Boy Blue | Soran | Thierry Larose | Venlo | Valdimar | WARMLAND | Willygram Saturday Nov 23
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Variety
Surrey Tree Lighting Festival
Surrey, BC @ Civic Plaza ; Nov 23 Friday Dec 13
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Hip-Hop
Winter Breakout
Vancouver, BC @ Pacific Coliseum ; Dec 13ScHoolboy Q | DaBaby | Lil Tecca | Roddy Ricch | DAAMCP | Polo G | NLE Choppa | Jugger | Sega | a4 Thursday Dec 26
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EDM
Get Together Holiday Massive
Edmonton, AB @ Shaw Conference Centre ; Dec 26 - Dec 27Kaskade | Dabin | Destructo | Slander | Rezz | San Holo | Kompany | Said The Sky | Nitti Gritti | Bonnie X Clyde Friday Dec 27
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EDM
Contact Winter Music Festival
Vancouver, BC @ BC Place Stadium ; Dec 27 - Dec 28Kaskade | Tiesto | Major Lazer | Dabin | FEED ME | Destructo | G Jones | Tails | Rezz | San Holo | Wuki | Sivz | Young Bombs | Nostalgix | Graves | Wooli | Kompany | Fisher | Said The Sky | Droeloe | Nitti Gritti | Bonnie X Clyde Friday Jan 24
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Metal
New Years Winterfest
Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre ; Jan 24 - Jan 25Gross Misconduct | Anciients | Scimitar | Obsidian | HALLOWED CATHARSIS | Revenger | Apollyon | Arrow In The Quiver | Truent | Thousand Arrows | Saints of Death | Pound | Kosm | First Reign | Wraiths Friday Apr 17
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Metal
Hyperspace Festival 2020
Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre ; Apr 17 - Apr 20Iron Kingdom | Lycanthro | Helion Prime | Dire Peril | PowerGlove | Syryn | Apprentice | Immortal Guardian | Silver Talon Friday Jul 24
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EDM
Shambhala Music Festival
Salmo, BC @ Salmo River Ranch ; Jul 24 - Jul 27 Thursday Jul 30
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Country
Rockin' River Music Fest
Merritt, BC @ Merritt Festival Show Site ; Jul 30 - Aug 02Keith Urban Thursday Sep 17
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Variety
Rifflandia Festival
Victoria, BC @ Multiple Venues (Victoria) ; Sep 17 - Sep 20