Osheaga 2011 Lineup: Eminem, Elvis Costello, The Flaming Lips, The Tragically Hip

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Osheaga Festival is held annually on an island in the center of Montreal. Parc Jean-Drapeau provides the venue for a lineup which includes Eminem, Kid Cudi, Death Cab for Cutie, and Broken Social Scene. This year the dates are July 29-31st. Tickets start at $217 CAD for the weekend.

Oh, wait. You wanted to know what Osheaga means? Here’s the long answer:

Osheaga was a name used for the area that is now Montreal by some of the first European settlers in the region. The name is said to originate from Jacques Cartier when he met the Mohawks near the Lachine rapids in what is now Montreal. But so the Mohawk oral history goes the white man was waving with his hands, either offering to shake hands or asking about rapids on the river. The astonished Mohawks looked at each other and said “O she ha ga” which meant people of shaking hands. From the meeting Cartier transcribed the word Osheaga as meaning large rapids while the Mohawks would use the oral phrase to describe where they met the people of the shaking hands.

2011 LINEUP