Photo Credit: Canadian Music Fest
The Scene
The largest music festival in Canada boasts 900 bands in over 60 venues for five nights of music. With a wristband running well under $100, CMF is your best bet of the year for the most music for the least amount of cash. Plan ahead — this is one of those festivals that you’ll need a schedule to see everything.
2012 Artist Lineup
- 1977
- 5th Projekt
- A Friend In London
- Aaron Glass
- Abstract Artform
- Acres of Lions
- Aerials up
- After Runnymede
- Agent Fresco
- Air Marshal Landing
- Alex the Great
- Ali Milner
- Alissa Vox Raw
- Ambassadors
- Ambisonic
- Anastasia A
- Andrea Superstein
- Andrew Hunter & The Gatherers
- Ania Soul
- Ariane Moffatt
- Avalanche City
- Avery Island
- Baby June
- Belgrave
- Ben Capian & The Casual Smokers
- Big John Bates
- Blasted Mechanism
- Bloodgroup
- Body Doubles
- Bop Skizzum
- Boxer The Horse
- Brad Fillatre
- Brasstronaut
- Breaching Vista
- Brett Caswell & The Marquee Rose
- Brothers of Brazil
- Bryce Jardine
- Busby Marou
- Cadence Weapon
- Cameron Burnette & The Ghost Ballerinas
- Candelora
- Careers in Science
- Carleton Stone
- Carly Rae Jespen
- Cartoon
- Childish Gambino w/ Danny Brown
- Christien Summers
- Cloud Castle Lake
- Cody Allen
- Copacabana Club
- Corinna Rose
- Courage My Love
- Cowpuncher
- CTZNSHP
- Dancing With Paris
- Daniela Nardi’s Espresso Manifesto
- Darrelle London
- David Fonseca
- Deep Sea Arcade
- Def3
- Dekadens
- Delay Trees
- Derek Christie
- Dibigode
- Direct Influence
- Dirty Names
- Dizzy G
- Domestic Crisis Group
- Dope D.O.D
- Double Helix
- Doyle and the Fourfathers
- Dream Jefferson
- Drew Smith’s Lonely Choir
- Dry The River
- DVAS
- Dyzack
- DZ Deathrays
- Eastborough
- Eikostate
- Elephant Stone
- Eli Wolfe
- Endast
- Endless Dark
- Erin Barra
- Ewart and the two dragons
- expensive soul
- fade
- Fairchild
- Fanfarlo
- fanny bloom
- farryl purkiss
- Felicity Groom
- felix zenger
- femme accident
- fiction in motion
- fighting for ithaca
- filligar
- final thought
- fine times
- fire and neon
- firexfire
- First You Get The Sugar
- fm hi low
- french wives
- fur eel
- gabrielle papillon
- gavin slate
- Getawaycab
- give me something beautiful
- go back to the zoo
- Gogobot
- gold & youth
- golden bloom
- Gomo
- goodnight sunrise
- Graydon James & The Young Novelists
- great big pile of leaves
- greater than giants
- grey kingdom
- Gruve
- guadalupe plata
- Half Moon Run
- hands and teeth
- helen austin
- Hellbros
- Hisland
- Honheehonhee
- hot panda
- hotkid
- husky
- I.R.O.K.
- In Medias Res
- In My Coma
- inambush
- inch chua
- ineke vandoorn & marc van vugt
- infinite
- jabe
- jackson firebird
- jacqui sutton
- jane’s party
- jerry lindqvist
- Jess Hill
- jessi teich
- jessica lurie
- jessica rose
- jesuslesfilles
- joal kamps
- jody glenham
- John K. Samson & The Provincial Band
- Jon Davis
- Jordan Klassen
- jordie lane
- journeys
- jp hoe
- juliann kuchocki
- junior battles
- kalle mattson
- katalina kicks
- Kate Todd
- katie rox
- Kaya
- keek
- kestrels
- kids and explosions
- kids at risk
- Kings and Queens: Blackie & The Rodeo Kings
- Labirinto
- lacerda
- Laganza
- level 10 band
- linda martini
- Lindsay Barr
- little city
- Live on Brighton
- London Swagger
- longital
- louise burns
- Lunic
- lynzie kent
- Mad Anthony
- Mad June
- mad ones
- Maddy Rodriguez
- Makeshift Innocence
- Maneli Jamal
- mansions
- marc o’ reilly
- marcus doo & the secret family
- margot roi
- Marina Zettl
- Mary Rose Obsession
- Mary Stewart
- Matt Groopie and the Bandits
- matt track
- max burgandy
- maybe refuge
- Mazgani
- mcalister drive
- measure
- melanie peterson with blair stutz
- melissa cameron
- mike edel
- Mike-E and Afroflow
- Mikkel Solnado
- Minute 36
- miri
- mise en scene
- Miss Emily Brown
- Miss Lava
- missing in venice
- misstress barbara live w/ girls on ducati
- Mister Loveless
- Misteur Valaire
- modernboys moderngirls
- most people
- Mujeres
- Murdering Tripping Blues
- mushy callahan
- my first tooth
- my skin against your skin
- Nash
- Neufvoin
- nightbox
- ninette & the goldfish
- Noa Bentor
- noiserv
- Noone
- Norton
- ntjam rosie
- of verona
- Oh Mercy
- ol savannah
- one bad son
- Orelha Negra
- organ thieves
- Our Mountain
- Paint
- Papa Vs. Pretty
- papermaps
- Paradise Animals
- parks and rec
- patti cake
- Paul Davidson
- paula and karol
- Peixe: Aviao
- pet conspiracy
- peter katz
- phonogarde
- pkew pkew pkew (gunshots)
- Portage and Main
- Rachel Sermanni
- racoon bandit
- ralf wiggum
- Ramona
- Random Recipe
- Redbird
- Rehan Dalal
- Rob Moir
- Rodeo Massacre
- Royal Canoe
- RPTZR
- Sam Coffey and the Iron Lungs
- Sam Lewis
- Sandman Viper Command
- Sara Lowes
- Sarah Troy
- Saskia Sansom
- Saul Williams w/ Spoek Mathambo
- Scott Holt Band
- Sea + Air
- Sherman Downey and the Ambiguous Case
- Sidney York
- Silverclub
- Slow Motion Victory
- Snorri Helgason
- Split Seconds
- Steph Macpherson
- Stephanie Bosch and the Arkayo
- Stone Parade
- The Archives
- The Balconies
- The Belle Game
- The Cat Empire w/ Tinpan Orange
- The Cheap Speakers
- The Cobrahawks
- The Crystal Keys
- The Elwins
- The Jefferson
- The Joys
- The Little Black Dress
- The Little Stevies
- The Mighty Regis
- The River Junction Band
- The Saw Doctors
- The Stanfields
- The Suburbians
- The Trews w/ Poor Young Things and Diesel
- To Tell
- Tokyo Sex Destruction
- Trap Tiger
- Traveller & Fortune
- Tupelo Honey
- Whosarmy
- Will and the People
- Windings
- Young Pacific
- Youthless
- ZA!
- And Many More