Friday, August 3, 2012
2012 Osheaga Music and Arts Festival, Aug 3-5
The 7th edition of the Osheaga Music and Arts Festival starts today at Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène.
Over the weekend, performers will include The Black Keys, Snoop Dogg (aka Snoop Lion), Metric, Sigur Rós, Feist, Florence + The Machine, City And Colour, The Shins, MGMT, The Weeknd, Bloc Party, M83, Franz Ferdinand, and Garbage.
In addition, the festival also hosts an industry gathering, exhibitions, shows, parties and other related events.
"Inaugurated in 2006, OSHEAGA Music and Arts Festival stands as the largest festival of its kind in Canada. An exciting party dedicated to showcasing music and visual arts, OSHEAGA offers a world-class European-style event across its many outside venues. The outdoor events of the festival are staged in the breath-taking environs of Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène, an island of tranquility and oasis of greenery set in the middle of one of North America’s most stimulating cities. Bringing together tens of thousands of music lovers from North America and Europe alike, the festival aims to showcase emerging local and national artists, as they share the stage with some of the industry’s biggest names. Thus, over several days, more than 90 bands will take the stage across the city, fostering an unparalleled festive ambiance that Montreal alone can create under the summer sun."
The 7th annual Osheaga Music and Arts Festival continues to Sunday, August 5 in Montreal.
http://www.osheaga.com/
2012 Osheaga Music and Arts Festival lineup
FRIDAY, AUG 3
Justice
Sigur Rós
Florence + The Machine
MGMT
The Weeknd
Franz Ferdinand
Amadou & Mariam
Fun.
Of Monsters And Men
Zeds Dead
Classified
Down With Webster
The Walkmen
Bombay Bicycle Club
The Jezabels
Wintersleep
Gary Clark Jr.
Atlas Sound
Dum Dum Girls
Les Breastfeeders
Yukon Blonde
Poliça
Graffiti6
Huoratron
Half Moon Run
Prison Garde
Freelance Whales
Mak 10 & Hyper MC
Solids
LP
Funkyfalz
Hey Ocean!
SATURDAY, AUG 4
Snoop Dogg
Feist
Garbage
Brand New
Dumas
The Jesus and Mary Chain
A$AP Rocky
Young The Giant
Yeasayer
Plants and Animals
Calexico
The Raveonettes
The Sheepdogs
Adventure Club
Black Lips
Portugal. The Man
Kathleen Edwards
Avec pas d'casque
Little Dragon
Arkells
The Aggrolites
Brandt Brauer Frick
Memoryhouse
The Death Set
Young Galaxy
Karim Ouellet
Kandle
Propofol
Kaytradamus
Simon Called Peter
SUNDAY AUG 5
The Black Keys
Metric
City and Colour
The Shins
Bloc Party
M83
Common
Passion Pit
Santigold
Knife Party
Wolfgang Gartner
Buraka Som Sistema
Madeon
Aloe Blacc
Zola Jesus
Woodkid
The Airborne Toxic Event
Austra
Tame Impala
The Black Angels
James Vincent McMorrow
Michael Kiwanuka
Keys N Krates
Dan Mangan
Zeus
Zombie Disco Squad
Le Matos
Vosper
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