Fredericton, NB The Trick is a one-man synth-rock band from Fredericton, New Brunswick. Bittersweet pop songs about nostalgia and the stuff of daydreams come face to face to with a single overdriven guitar and an arsenal of live-sequenced synths and samplers. It’s music that reaches for the feet even when it means to grab…
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 the stranded and frantic Albertan Magnus von Tiesenhausen; the Willie Stratton Band has…
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 started making noise around the Maritimes. From a collection of five…
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 years ago. He bought his first set of CDJ’s June 2008,…
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. That night started a journey which created Bubble Productions (Wolfville, NS)…
Halifax, Nova Scotia The Transatlantic Zodiac Ensemble was born in the intense sweat and heat of a midsummers night, 2009. Brought together by bandleader Michael Dalton for a one-off at a local pub, What started out as a one night stand slowly reveled itself as a mysterious love affair. Dalton’s songs were lovingly embraced by…
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 as Tupper Ware Remix Party) has established a name for itself as…
Halifax, Nova Scotia 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 as Tupper Ware Remix Party) has established a name for itself as…
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 inversions. Check these ladies out on the Synergy Stage! Links Find…
Montreal, Quebec Montreal’s VILIFY has taken her city’s electronic music scene by storm. Founder and resident DJ of the popular ‘Bass Drive Wednesdays’ in Montreal, her night pushes the hardest and darkest Dubstep, DNB, Jungle and more. She has built up an enviable reputation with her signature terror-dubstep, versatility over the entire DNB spectrum &…