Festival Hub: Sled Island

The Scene: This annual five day music and arts festival from Calgary brings in more than 300 artists, comedians, and filmmakers in more than 30 venues across the city. Each year, Sled Island selects a guest curator to help set the tone and direction of the current edition. Past curaters include Peaches, Andrew W.K., and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Sled Island 2024: June 19-23, 2024
  • Aladean Kheroufi
  • Alice Longyu Gao
  • ArtSaves
  • Bad Waitress
  • Bennett Mitchell
  • Brain Bent
  • Cherry Glazerr
  • Cinna Peyghamy
  • Corridor
  • Death Valley Girls
  • EKKSTACY
  • Ethereal Tomb
  • Fold Paper
  • Forest Swords
  • Ginger Beef
  • GOLPESAR
  • HiTech
  • Irreversible Entanglements
  • Jeff Parker
  • Juana Molina
  • Kari Faux
  • Kee Avil
  • Kehiwknitting
  • Kue Varo & The Only Hopes
  • Lael Neale
  • Laurel Halo
  • LUCY
  • LustSickPuppy
  • Malcolm Mooney & The Eleventh Planet
  • MAUVEY
  • Mick Jenkins
  • Midnight Pegmineo kawasaki
  • Myst Milano
  • NGHTCRWLR
  • Niloufar Shiri & Caleb Klager
  • OBROA-SKAI
  • Planet Giza
  • Pony Girl
  • respectfulchild
  • Sarah Davachi
  • Sediment Club
  • Show Me the Body
  • Slauson Malone 1
  • Soul Glo
  • Stem Champ
  • SuKha Never Dies
  • Sydanie
  • Tea Fannie & The Collective
  • Tess Roby
  • The Discussion
  • The Serfs
  • Tomb Mold
  • W.I.T.C.H.
  • WAIT//LESS
  • WiFiGawd
  • Wombo
Sled Island 2023: June 21-25, 2023
  • Bartees Strange
  • Osees
  • Helado Negro
  • DEHD
  • Akintoye
  • Emma Ruth Rundle
  • Pom Pom Squad
  • Mannequin Pussy
  • Amindi
  • Haviah Mighty
  • SPELLLING
  • KAINA
  • SUMAC
  • THICK
  • Sen Morimoto
  • Liturgy
  • Water From Your Eyes
  • Sessa
  • Pelada
  • Gulfer
  • Maassai
  • BIG|BRAVE
  • Suffering Hour
Sled Island 2022: June 22-26, 2022
  • Sudan Archives
  • Princess Nokia
  • Alex Cameron
  • Sasami
  • Pears
  • Frankie and the Witch Fingers
  • Pantayo
  • Circuit des Yeux
  • Primitive Man
  • Lavender Contry
  • Sweeping Promises
  • Control Top
  • Uranium Club
  • Joyfultalk
Sled Island 2019: June 19-23, 2019
  • BULLY
  • CASS MCCOMBS
  • CATE LE BON
  • CHANDRA
  • DTSQ
  • FLY PAN AM
  • GRAHAM VAN PELT
  • HAR MAR SUPERSTAR
  • HOP ALONG
  • IAN BLURTON’S FUTURE NOW
  • JPEGMAFIA
  • JACK HARLOW
  • JAPANESE BREAKFAST
  • JESSICA PRATT
  • JULIEN BAKER
  • KID CONGO POWERS
  • KING AYISOBA
  • LE1F
  • LUBOMYR MELNYK
  • MAN OR ASTRO-MAN?
  • MUQATA’A
  • NUMNUM
  • OBLIVIANS
  • RAPSODY
  • SINJIN HAWKE
  • TASHA
  • THE COMET IS COMING
  • THE MESSTHETICS
  • THE PINK
  • TORRES
  • WILLIAM BASINSKI
Sled Island 2018: June 20-24, 2018
  • Dirty Projectors
  • John Maus
  • Mount Eerie
  • Grouper
  • Lido Pimienta
  • Ufomammut
  • Slow
  • Synkro
  • 40 Watt Sun
  • the Body
  • Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie
  • Wand
  • Deerhoof
  • Wye Oak
  • Cherry Glazerr
  • Shabazz Palaces
  • Tyondai Braxton
  • Guerilla Toss
  • Eucademix
  • Lithics
  • Alder & Ash
  • Basic Instinct
  • Black Pills
  • Blue Odeur
  • Body Lens
  • Bog Bodies
  • Boyhood
  • Building Confidence Through Play
  • Cascades
  • Counterfeit Jeans
  • Crims & Flow
  • Dada Centauri
  • Discovery Zone
  • Glaux
  • ItsJab
  • Janitor Scum
  • Jean Daddy
  • Jock Tears
  • Jonathan Kawchuk
  • Le Plaisir
  • Leather Jacuzzi
  • Life in Vacuum
  • Lingua Ignota
  • Man Meat
  • Overland
  • Paradise
  • Pinact
  • Possum
  • Scattered Clouds
  • Screaming Targets
  • Sightlines
  • Sister Ray
  • SLATES
  • Text Chunk
  • The Radiation Flowers
  • Truster
  • Valiska
  • Vase
  • VICTIME
  • White Hills
  • Wish Lash
  • Woodhawk
Sled Island 2017: June 21-25, 2017
  • Flying Lotus
  • Converge
  • Cloud Nothings
  • Waxahatchee
  • Low
  • Silver Apples
  • Wolves in the Throne Room
  • Weyes Blood
  • Hailu Mergia
  • Daughters
  • Land of Talk
  • Thor & Friends
  • EX EYE
  • Mothers
  • King Woman
  • New Fries
  • DJ Quik
  • MONO
  • Shonen Knife
  • Jimmy Edgar
  • Mike Watt + The Missingmen
  • Guitar Wolf
  • DIANA
  • Simply Saucer
  • Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
  • OZZIE
  • Meatbodies
  • Pinkish Black
  • Les Filles de Illighadad
  • Uniform
  • Magician
  • American Lips
  • Half Waif
  • Seven Davis Jr
  • Yves Tumor
  • Dedekind Cut
  • Ash Koosha
  • Tierra Whack
  • ANAMAI
  • Expanda Fuzz
  • Faith Healer
  • Fake Palms
  • Feminal Fluids
  • FRIGS
  • Isaac Rother & The Phantoms
  • JLK & The Assassins
  • jo passed
  • Jock Tears
  • Living Hour
  • Man Meat
  • Marlaena Moore
  • Mauno
  • Needles//Pins
  • No More Moments
  • Porcelain Raft
  • Protruders
  • respectfulchild
  • SIANspheric
  • Sightlines
  • Silver Dapple
  • The Avulsions
  • The Sorority
  • Un Blonde
  • WASIU
  • Crims & Flow
  • Crystal Eyes
  • FOONYAP
  • Gawker
  • Lab Coast
  • Leather Jacuzzi
  • Melted Mirror
  • Sinzere
  • soft cure
Sled Island 2016: June 22-26, 2016
  • Angel Olsen
  • Astral Gunk
  • BLANKA
  • Blü Shorts
  • Built To Spill
  • Cakes Da Killa
  • Chastity Belt
  • Circuit des Yeux
  • Crack Cloud
  • Crosss
  • Davachi/Smith
  • Dawn Of Midi
  • Deafheaven
  • Duchess Says
  • Feed Dogs
  • Form
  • Fountain
  • Guided By Voices
  • HEALTH
  • HSY
  • Hyenaz
  • Johnny de Courcy
  • JOOKLO ZAPPA
  • Julia Holter
  • Junglepussy
  • Lab Coast
  • Land of Talk
  • Marlaena Moore
  • Máscaras
  • New Bomb Turks
  • Numenorean
  • Oneida
  • Partner
  • Peaches
  • Planningtorock
  • PMMA
  • Protomartyr
  • Psychic TV
  • Radioactivity
  • Shearing Pinx
  • Shotgun Jimmie
  • Sightlines
  • Slo Dance
  • SubRosa
  • SUUNS
  • The Highest Order
  • The Seth Bogart Show
  • The Sonics
  • together PANGEA
  • TOPS
  • Tortoise
  • TT The Artist
  • Vice Cooler
  • Yes We Mystic
  • Zad Kokar
Sled Island 2015: June 24-28, 2015
  • 36?
  • A.Y.E. & The Extraordinary Gentlemen
  • ACRONYMS
  • Advertisement
  • Aleem Khan
  • Alex Aleco
  • Ashley Soft
  • Astrakhan
  • Astral Swans
  • Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche
  • Beach Season
  • Beat Cops
  • Ben Disaster
  • Ben Frost
  • Betrayers
  • BIG|BRAVE
  • Birdstriking
  • Bitter Fictions
  • Black Givre
  • Black Milk
  • Blonde Elvis
  • Blü Shorts
  • Body/Head
  • Bog Bodies
  • BRASS
  • Brushsigns
  • Bry Webb
  • Bullshit Hardcore Band
  • Burnt Shrines
  • Burro
  • Carla Bozulich
  • Cave Girl
  • Chairs
  • Chieftain
  • Christians
  • Chron Goblin
  • Chronobot
  • Colleen Green
  • Conduct
  • Construction & Destruction
  • Corinthian
  • Counterfeit Jeans
  • Cousins
  • Crosss
  • Cult Babies
  • Daniel Lanois
  • David Dondero
  • De La Soul
  • Dead Ranch
  • Dead Soft
  • Dextress
  • Diamond Mind
  • Divepool
  • Dojo Workhorse
  • Domestic
  • Dories
  • Dream Whip
  • DRI HIEV
  • Dried Out
  • Drive Like Jehu
  • Duotang
  • Empty Heads
  • Energy Slime
  • Ex Hex
  • EXITS
  • Failgiver
  • Faith Healer
  • Feel Alright
  • Fever few
  • Fountain
  • Fred & Toody
  • Friesen/Waters Duo
  • Fu Manchu
  • Fuckworld
  • Fury Things
  • Gender Poutine
  • Genders
  • GHIBLI
  • Ghostkeeper
  • GIRL ARM
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor
  • Grossbuster
  • GROUNDERS
  • Guantanamo Baywatch
  • Hag Face
  • Heartbeat(s)
  • Heaven For Real
  • Her Harbour
  • HexRay
  • High Wasted
  • Homebody
  • Hood Joplin
  • Humble Giants
  • Hundred Waters
  • Hush Pup
  • Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
  • I Hate Sex
  • Iceage
  • Iceberg Ferg
  • Invisible Ray
  • J Sherri
  • Jade Statues
  • Jaga Jazzist
  • Jom Comyn
  • Jon Cohen Experimental
  • Jon McKiel
  • Jons
  • JOYFULTALK
  • Juan Ton
  • Juan Wauters
  • Jung People
  • Kappa Chow
  • King Tuff
  • La Luna
  • Lab Coast
  • Leeky Tearducts
  • Lightning Bolt
  • Little League
  • Loc-Nar
  • Look Vibrant
  • Loscil
  • Low Levels
  • Low Life
  • Lucid 44
  • lushush
  • Lydia Ainsworth
  • M16
  • Maica Mia
  • Mamiffer
  • MANcub
  • Mark Mills
  • Mark Templeton+Kyle Armstrong
  • Máscaras
  • Matana Roberts
  • MAXJULLIAN
  • Mdou Moctar
  • Meat Wave
  • Melted Mirror
  • Michael Feuerstack
  • Milk
  • Monolith AB
  • Monomyth
  • Morewine
  • Mortality Rate
  • Moss Lime
  • Mourning Coup
  • Mykki Blanco
  • Mystic Triangle
  • Nap Eyes
  • Neu Balance
  • Night Committee
  • No Hands
  • No River
  • Numenorean
  • Obnox
  • OHMWAR
  • OK Jazz
  • Open Letters
  • Orthicon
  • Oseko
  • Other Jesus
  • Overnight
  • Oxbow
  • Patrick Seager
  • Pentagram
  • Pigeon Breeders
  • pinner
  • Pissed Jeans
  • Plastick
  • Pop Crimes
  • Prepared
  • Psychic Pollution
  • Quaker Parents
  • Racket
  • Real Sickies
  • Renny Wilson Punk Explosion
  • Rougies Clique
  • S.P. Davis
  • Samantha Savage Smith
  • Sarah Davachi
  • Scars and Scarves
  • Scattered Clouds
  • SET
  • Shaani Cage
  • Shooting Guns
  • Sigh Down One
  • Sightlines
  • Sigil
  • Skinny Kids
  • Slates
  • Slow Down Molasses
  • slow learners
  • Soft Cure
  • Softess
  • Son Lux
  • Sprïng
  • Stepmothers
  • Strange Fires
  • STRESS EATING
  • Sturle Dagsland
  • Sumac
  • Summering
  • Superbloom
  • Susan
  • Swervedriver
  • Switches
  • Taxa
  • Technical Kidman
  • Teengirl Fantasy
  • Tee-Tahs
  • Television
  • The Avulsions
  • The Backhomes
  • The Basement Demons
  • The Blue
  • The Coathangers
  • The Courtneys
  • The Ex
  • The Ex-Boyfriends
  • The Faps
  • The Lad Mags
  • The Mandates
  • The Neutral States
  • The Now Feeling
  • The Plodes
  • The Pygmies
  • The Radiation Flowers
  • The Soft Option
  • The Tontos
  • The Weir
  • The WPP
  • The Zorgs
  • Tigerwing
  • Tory Lanez
  • Tough Age
  • TroyBoi
  • Tunic
  • tuques
  • Untrained Animals
  • Uptights
  • VAMPIRES
  • Vapid
  • Viet Cong
  • Virgins
  • Waingro
  • Wares
  • We Hunt Buffalo
  • WHIMM
  • WHOOP-Szo
  • Witchstone
  • Woolworm
  • Wormwood
  • Yankee Yankee
  • Year of Glad
  • Yo La Tengo
Sled Island 2014: June 18-22, 2014
  • Anciients
  • Bass Drum Of Death
  • Black Atlass
  • Black Cobra
  • Blitzen Trapper
  • Bob Mould
  • Chelsea Wolfe
  • Dead Ghosts
  • Deadbeat
  • Disappears
  • Dominic Pierce
  • Each Other
  • Earthless
  • Elliott Brood
  • Fiver
  • Hunx And His Punx
  • Jay Arner
  • Jerusalem In My Heart
  • Joel Plaskett Emergency
  • Julianna Barwick
  • Jung People
  • Killer Mike
  • La Luz
  • Mindtroll
  • Mise En Scene
  • Mission Of Burma
  • Natasha Kmeto
  • Neko Case
  • Old Man Markley
  • Power Trip
  • PS I Love You
  • Quaker Parents
  • Red Sea
  • Renny Wilson
  • Rhye
  • Rocket From The Crypt
  • Roman Polanski’s Baby
  • Royal Canoe
  • Screaming Females
  • Shannon And The Clams
  • Sheer Agony
  • Shooting Guns
  • Slow Down, Molasses
  • Solids
  • Spiritualized
  • St. Vincent
  • Technical Kidman
  • Temple
  • The Blind Shake
  • The Fresh & Onlys
  • The Julie Ruin
  • The Lad-Mags
  • The Shivas
  • The Shrine
  • The Stanfields
  • Touché Amoré
  • Tough Age
  • U.S. Girls
  • White Lung
  • William Tyler
  • Wilt
  • Young Braised
  • Younger Lovers
Sled Island 2013: June 19-22, 2013
  • Jesus and Mary Chain
  • Explosions In The Sky
  • Swans
  • Divine Fits
  • Joel Plaskett Emergency
  • Mac DeMarco
  • Colin Stetson
  • Tim Hecker
  • Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
  • Metz
  • Thee Oh Sees
Sled Island 2012: June 20-23, 2012
  • Feist
  • The Hold Steady
  • Archers of Loaf
  • Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
  • Hot Snakes
  • Andrew W.K. (Guest Curator)
  • The Sadies
  • Thurston Moore
  • The Antlers
  • Lou Barlow
  • Craig Finn
  • Reigning Sound
  • Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
  • The Strange Boys
  • Timber Timbre
  • Hayes Carll
  • Samantha Savage Smith
  • Willis Earl Beal
  • Tim Hecker
  • Trust
  • Bonjay
  • The Spits
  • Nomeansno
  • Russian Circles
  • And So I Watch You From Afar
  • YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN
  • How To Dress Well
  • Duchess Says
  • Prince Rama
  • CFCF
  • Doldrums
  • BadBadNotGood
  • DJ Jonathan Toubin
  • Terry Malts
  • Teledrome
Sled Island 2011: June 22-25, 2011
  • ADALINE
  • ADEBISI SHANK
  • ALBERTA CROSS
  • ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO AND THE SENSITIVE BOYS
  • AN HORSE
  • ANIMAL BODIES
  • AU
  • AULD BEAK
  • B-LINES
  • BARE WIRES
  • BARN BURNER
  • BATTLE SNAKES
  • BAYONETS!!!
  • BEEKEEPER
  • THE BELADEANS
  • THE BELLRAYS
  • BIBLICAL
  • BISON BC
  • B.J. SNOWDEN
  • BLACK DIRT OF THE WEST
  • BLACK MASTIFF
  • BLACK RABBIT
  • BLONDE REDHEAD
  • BLUE KING BROWN
  • BOOK OF CAVERNS
  • BRAIDS
  • BRAIN FEVER
  • BRODY STEVENS
  • BUZZCOCKS
  • CAMP RADIO
  • C’MON
  • CHAD VANGAALEN
  • CHAINS OF LOVE
  • CHALI 2NA
  • CHEESEBURGER
  • COLD CRAVING
  • COUSINS
  • CROCODILES
  • CROWEATER
  • CURSIVE
  • DAMAGES
  • THE DANDY WARHOLS
  • DBL DRAGON
  • DEAD GHOSTS
  • DEAD VOICES
  • DEER TICK
  • DEMON’S CLAWS
  • DINOSAUR FEATHERS
  • DOMINIQUE FRICOT
  • THE DONKEYS
  • DOUBLE FUZZ
  • DREAMDATE
  • DRUNK HORSE
  • DUM DUM GIRLS
  • DUZHEKNEW
  • EGG TOOTH
  • ELECTRIC SIX
  • EXTRA HAPPY GHOST!!!
  • FABULOUS DAD
  • FAUX FUR
  • FEEL ALRIGHT
  • FERAL CHILDREN
  • FIST CITY
  • FLOAT LIKE STONES
  • THE FOGGY NOTIONS
  • FRIENDO
  • THE FRIENDS ELECTRIC
  • THE GET DOWN
  • GIANNA LAUREN
  • THE GOOEYS
  • THE GREENHORNES
  • GREY KINGDOM
  • GROWN-UPS
  • HEART FAILURE RESEARCH UNIT
  • THE HITS
  • HONHEEHONHEE
  • HOT PANDA
  • HOT SWEET NOISE
  • HOWLIN’ RAIN
  • HUNTER-GATHERER
  • HUNX AND HIS PUNX
  • IGLOOS
  • IN MEDIAS RES
  • INDIAN WARS
  • THE INTELLIGENCE
  • INVASIVES
  • THE JAMES T. KIRKS
  • JASPER SLOAN YIP
  • JENN GRANT
  • JENNIFER CASTLE
  • JEREMY CLARKSON
  • JIM WARD
  • THE JOLTS
  • JON MCKIEL
  • JULIANNA BARWICK
  • JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
  • KEEP TIDY
  • KETAMINES
  • KEYS N KRATES
  • KINGDOM CLOUD
  • KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS
  • LAB COAST
  • LEE RANALDO
  • LEGS
  • LIBRARY VOICES
  • LONG LONG LONG
  • LOUISE BURNS
  • THE LUSITANIA
  • THE LUYAS
  • THE LYTICS
  • MAN LEGS
  • MAN MAN
  • THE MANDATES
  • MARIA IN THE SHOWER
  • MARIYA SOETART
  • MEMORY SCREEN
  • MICHAEL RAULT
  • MIESHA & THE SPANKS
  • MINTO
  • MINUS THE BEAR
  • MODE MODERNE
  • MONOKINO
  • MOON DUO
  • THE MUFFS
  • THE NANCEES
  • NEEDLES//PINS
  • NEIL HAMBURGER
  • NO GOLD
  • NO RIVER
  • OF MONTREAL
  • OLD BONES
  • ON LOCK
  • ORGONE
  • PARTS AND LABOR
  • PAT JORDACHE
  • PIERCED ARROWS
  • PIERRE LAPORTE
  • PIPER DAVIS
  • PLAY GUITAR
  • PUJOL
  • QUEST FOR FIRE
  • QUINTRON AND MISS PUSSYCAT
  • QUIVERS
  • RAE SPOON
  • RAJAS
  • RALEIGH
  • RAMBLIN AMBASSADORS
  • RANDOM TASK COLLECTIVE
  • THE RAVEONETTES
  • RED CEDAR
  • RED FANG
  • ROCOCODE
  • ROLE MACH
  • ROYAL CANOE
  • SAMANTHA SAVAGE SMITH
  • THE SANDWITCHES
  • SANS AIDS
  • SCRAPBOOKER
  • SEIZURE SALAD
  • SHANNON AND THE CLAMS
  • SHOOTING GUNS
  • SHORTWAVE SOCIETY
  • THE SHRAPNELLES
  • SHUTTLE
  • SHUYLER JANSEN
  • SIDNEY YORK
  • SKRATCH BASTID
  • SLAM DUNK
  • SLATES
  • SLEEP
  • SLEEPY PANTHER
  • SLOW DOWN, MOLASSES
  • SOCIAL STUDIES
  • THE SOFT PACK
  • SONNY & THE SUNSETS
  • THE SSRIS
  • STALWART SONS
  • STRFKR
  • STRESSED OUT
  • STRIKER
  • SUN WIZARD
  • SUSIE FORSYTH
  • THE SWORD
  • TEEN DAZE
  • TEENANGER
  • TEENGIRL FANTASY
  • THEE OH SEES
  • TIG NOTARO
  • TIMECOPZ
  • TIMES NEW VIKING
  • TOPLESS MONGOS
  • TRIGGER EFFECT
  • TWIN SHADOW
  • UN
  • UNCLE BADTOUCH
  • THE VICIOUS CYCLES
  • WAKE
  • WASTELANDERS
  • WE ARE THE CITY
  • THE WHITSUNDAYS
  • WILD FLAG
  • WILD NOTHING
  • YIP DECEIVER
  • YOUNG LIARS
  • YOUNG ONES
  • ZOLA JESUS