Joel Plaskett Emergency
From Halifax, Nova Scotia
9:45 - 11:00pmSince spending his teenaged years recording and touring with Halifax indie upstarts Thrush Hermit, Plaskett has been writing his own story.
Schedule
Check out the schedule for The Cicada Music & Arts Festival in St. Catharines.
Main Stage
Wintersleep
From Halifax, Nova Scotia
8:00 - 9:00pmOn Wintersleep's seventh full-length record, In the Land Of, this geography is both real and imagined. It is understood that our surroundings are not, in fact, essential or concrete elements they're constructed in relation to us, the inhabitants.
Born Ruffians
From Toronto, Ontario
6:30 - 7:30pmTen years ago, on the very first song on their very first album, Born Ruffians revealed their ambitions to start their own country.
My Son The Hurricane
From St. Catharines, Ontario
5:00 - 6:00pmMy Son the Hurricane is a multi horn, multi drummer, multi singer brass funk beast. No dance floor is safe.
The Weather Station
From Toronto, Ontario
3:30 - 4:30pmThe Weather Station is the project of Canadian songwriter Tamara Lindeman folk music based in classic elements of songcraft – melody, tension, meaning.
Logan Staats
From Six Nations / Brantford, Ontario
2:00 - 3:00pmFrom a young age, Logan’s haunting and distinct voice has won him multiple opportunities to share the stage with acts like Buffy Sainte-Marie, Keith Secola and Mumford and Sons, to name a few.
Spencer Burton
From Niagara, Ontario
1:00 - 1:30pmSpanning a musical life with hardcore beginnings, to the somber strings of his acoustic guitar in his country-folk infused solo project, Spencer Burton is a mainstay musical virtuoso.
Side Stage
The Wooden Sky
From Toronto, Ontario
9:00 - 9:45pmThe title of The Wooden Sky’s fifth full-length album is an abridged quote from Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel, Dune: “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
The Mandevilles
From Niagara Falls, Ontario
7:30 - 8:00pmThe entirety of Windows and Stones is just as creatively, spiritually and emotionally intense and takes the listener on an aural and experiential journey that they won’t soon forget.
Basement Revolver
From Hamilton, Ontario
6:00 - 6:30pmBasement Revolver has successfully encapsulated the yearning and hopefulness of their generation, whilst harnessing a unique, yet familiar soundscape.
Dan Edmonds
From Hamilton, Ontario
4:30 - 5:00pmFrom the grooving opening track “To Be That Needle,” to the charmingly lo-fi “Yearning,” Edmonds presents himself as a folkie with a tough, inner-city edge.
Katey Gatta
From St. Catharines, Ontario
3:00 - 3:30pmKatey Gatta writes songs and sings them. You might think she sounds a little like Norah, or Joni or Janis - but the truth is, she sounds like a little of all of them.
The Weather Wild
From St. Catharines, Ontario
12:30 - 1:00pmWith elements of folk, indie-rock, alternative, alt-country and more, the band projects a unique sound that invokes foot-stomping and head bopping good times.