Photo Credit: Michael Tan
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.
2015 Artist Lineup
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- A.Y.E. & The Extraordinary Gentlemen
- ACRONYMS
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- 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