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Northern Lights Festival Boréal: July 8-11, 2021
Artists
Showtime
Sunday 10:00 pmOrigin
Montreal, QCGenres
Folk, Indie, RockConnect
Half Moon Run
The music of Half Moon Run is often described as dreamy alt-pop, bucolic alt-folk, and psychedelic indie rock. Armed with classical training and omnivorous influences, they build on cerebral, acrobatic arrangements and harmonies, lilting prettily in one moment then feral the next.
They rose out of the fertile cultural scene of Montreal in 2009, when Connor Molander and Dylan Phillips, students and recent transplants from Vancouver Island, connected with Devon Portielje, fresh out of Ottawa. Later, they tapped a third Comox-born musician, Isaac Symonds, to intensify their live show.
From the outset, the lingua franca of these four multi-instrumentalists and vocalists was music and, in a typical show they play instruments ranging from guitar, piano, keyboard, pedal steel, bass, harmonica, and mandolin, to synth.
Less than a year after their later debut album, Dark Eyes (2012), they found themselves opening for Mumford and Sons on a European arena tour. Two years of furious worldwide touring followed, opening for international acts like City and Colour, and Of Monsters and Men, and making waves at major festivals all over North America and Europe.
For their second album, they packed up the tour van, headed west to California, and recorded Sun Leads Me On (2015), which went Gold in Canada. After back-to-back hometown shows selling 9,000 tickets in about 45 minutes, they hit fourteen European festivals and sold out rooms across Canada, the U.S., Australia, and Europe.
Now, with their third album set to drop in 2019, things have changed but things are also the same, like an evolving, close relationship where each record serves as a checkpoint. They have shows lined-up from June through to the end of November right across Canada, the U.S. the United Kingdom and Europe.
Al Simmons
Anola, MB
Ansley Simpson
Toronto, ON
Arctic Songs Workshop: Kevin Closs
Basia Bulat
Montreal, QC
Bedouin Soundclash
Toronto, ON
Ben Sures
Edmonton, AB
Boogát
Montreal, QC
Born to Run: A Springsteen Tribute Workshop
Boundaries Blur Workshop: Kevin Breit, Cris Derksen, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson,
Brooke Bruce
Sudbury, ON
Céleste Lévis
Ottawa, ON
Character Sketches Workshop: Ben Sures, William Prince, Eric Clancy, Fred Eaglesmith
Chuck Roberts
Sudbury, ON
CKLU Open Stage
Sudbury, ON
Cris Derksen
Toronto, ON
David Dino White
North Bay, ON
Dreamscapes Workshop: Ansley Simpson, Jojo Worthington, Eva Foote,
Duncan Cameron
Sudbury, ON
ECHLO
Toronto, ON
Eric Clancy
Sudbury, ON
Eva Foote
Edmonton, AB
Guilty Pleasures Workshop: Nick Ferrio, Marc Donato, Jane’s Party, Oh Geronimo
Half Moon Run
Montreal, QC
Hannah Shira Naiman
North Bay, ON
Haviah Mighty
Brampton/Toronto, ON
Jane’s Party
Toronto, ON
Jean-Paul De Roover
Thunder Bay, ON
Jennifer Holub
Sudbury, ON
Jennis
Guelph/Toronto, ON
Jojo Worthington
Waterloo, ON
K’NAAN
Toronto, ON
Kevin Breit
Toronto, ON
Kevin Closs
Sudbury, ON
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Alderville First Nation, ON
Magoo
Udora, ON
Mayhemingways
Peterborough. ON
Mélissa Laveaux
Montreal, QC
Nick Ferrio
Peterborough, ON
Ode to the banjo Workshop: Mayhemingways, Sheesham & Lotus, Hannah Shira Naiman, Arnie Naiman
Oh Geronimo
Burlington, ON
Old Time Workshop: Sheesham & Lotus & Son, Hannah Shira Naiman, Duncan Cameron
Poetry: Tom Leduc
Sudbury, ON
Pop Mach!ne
Sudbury, ON
Rayannah
Winnipeg, MB
Rodney Meilleur
Chelmsford, ON
Sad Song Saturday Workshop: William Prince, Safia Nolin, Jon Danyliw, Tif Ginn
Safia Nolin
Quebec City/St-Férréol-Les-Neiges, QC
Sam Roberts Band
Montreal, QC
Shaky Stars
Sudbury, ON
Sheesham & Lotus & ‘Son
Canada
The Almighty Rhombus
Sudbury, Ontario
The Burning Hell
Saint John's, NL
The Canadian Songbook Workshop: Safia Nolin, Kevin Closs, Jennis
The Entertainers Workshop: Al Simmons, Sheesham & Lotus & Son, Magoo, The Burning Hell
The Fred Eaglesmith Road Show Starring Tif Ginn
Port Dover, ON
Trapment
Sudbury, ON
William Prince
Winnipeg, MB
World Party Workshop:, Boogat, Mélissa Laveaux, Bedouin Soundclash
Zeus
Toronto, ON
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