2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Yazmanian Devil Halifax, NS The Yazmanian Devil aka Yaz aka the Man Behind the DJ aka Yazan Shaker discovered his love for House music in 1994 listening to DJs from the likes of Pete Tong, Armand Van Helden, Derrick Carter, Dave Morales, and Roger Sanchez…
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 The Willie Stratton Band Halifax, NS Willie Stratton is not only a nice boy from Bedford. The Willie Stratton Band is a howling, seething cyclone of god-fearing folk music. Comprised of the band’s founder, chief writer and namesake Willie Stratton, his half-wolf little sister Grace, and…
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Three Sheet Halifax, NS . . . 3 microphones and 2 guitars (bass, electric), all beatbox percussion, funky rhythms and potent lyrics. Born through kitchen jams with wooden spoons for drumsticks, beat-boxing, freestyling and improvised guitar playing, it didn’t take Three Sheet long before they…
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Tom Fleming COLE HARBOUR, NOVA SCOTIA Tom was the winner of the 2010 BigCityNights University DJ Search earning him a residency with BCN and a DJ set at Evolve 11. Tom is 19 years old from Cole Harbour, NS and started Djing less than 2…
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Tommy Knuckles Halifax, NS A true veteran to the Halifax Underground music scene, Tommy Knuckles is a Halifax house music staple. It all started on a fateful night in ‘96 when Tom experienced his first underground party. His love affair with house music was born….
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Tupperware Remix Party Halifax, NS The four cosmic entities that comprise TWRP have inhabited the bodies of four simple humans, and have been playing danceable space-rock since crash landing on Earth three years ago. In their time on this planet TWRP (also known in longhand…
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Urban Chameleon Halifax, NS Urban Chameleon is an acrobatic dance troupe, from Studio in Essence, located in downtown Halifax. This charismatic and highly entertaining troupe will be performing on a light up stage pole at the festival this year with death defying moves, spins and…
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Vinyl Ritchie Vancouver, BC Scott Arkwell, widely known as Vinyl Ritchie (or by his production moniker, Wicked Lester) made a name for himself as an inventive mash-up artist, long before the hipsters and Ableton/Serato remixers started hybridizing newer forms of electronica. In the early days of Vancouver’s embryonic…
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 We’re Doomed Halifax, NS A groovy yet heavy assault on progressive rock, the 4-piece Halifax-based band We’re Doomed draws inspiration from the impending apocalypse. With heavy riffs, syncopated rhythms, dynamic vocals, and a general disregard for the genre barriers between rock, pop and metal, We’re Doomed…
2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Wet Grow Light Saint John, NB What began as a one man project in 2006, with a vision of blending world and electronic elements into a hard driving, danceable musical force has evolved into a 5 piece behemoth obliterating the soundmosphere. Constantly melding elements of…