Prepare The Ground 2025

Schedule

Fri, 30 May, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Sun, 01 Jun, 2025 at 11:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Toronto, ON

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Prepare the Ground, Toronto’s Heavy arts & music festival, has released its final lineup announcement for the 2025 edition. The artist announce includes Baroness performing a set of songs exclusively from the Red & Blue albums, the reunion / final show of Burning Love, silent movie scores by Pygmy Lush & Planning for Burial, along with previously announced set by Kylesa (reunion), Khanata (reunion), Have a Nice Life, Yob (performing ATMA & a second set) and many more. Prepare the Ground is a three day arts and music festival taking over two full blocks of downtown Toronto. Containing an outdoor arts market, four music venues and significant side programming, the second year of PtG is shaping up to be the blueprint for years to come.

FULL LINEUP:
YOB (ATMA & a career spanning set)
KHANATE (reunion)
KYLESA (reunion)
HAVE A NICE LIFE
BARONESS (songs from the red & blue albums)
A MONOLITHIC DOME
ADULT.
ALASKAN (reunion)
ASHBRINGER
ASTRAL WITCH
BIG BRAVE
BURNING LOVE (reunion / final show)
COLISEUM
DISMAL AURA
FALL OF RAUROS
FOTOCRIME
GENITAL SHAME
GUILTLESS
HARVESTMAN
HIDE
IMMORTAL BIRD
JETSAM
JOHN WIESE
KOWLOON WALLED CITY
KOWLOON WALLED CITY & FRIENDS: SHALLOW, NORTH DAKOTA TRIBUTE
LANA DEL RABIES
MIDWIFE
MORNE
NO MAN
OLDEST SEA
OLGA
ORA COGAN & ESTER THUNANDER
ORISKA
PLANNING FOR BURIAL scoring "the Phantom Carriage"
PRISONER
PYGMY LUSH
PYGMY LUSH scoring "An Original Composition of Archival Footage"
RAPHAEL WEINROTH-BROWNE
SHALLOW WAVES
STEVE VON TILL
THE ATLAS MOTH
THE DISCUSSION
THE RITA
TRUCK VIOLENCE
YOUNG WIDOWS
19+
www.preparetheground.com
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