Sled Island presents: Emily Yacina, Hélène Barbier, Big Rig and Bennett Mitchell
Schedule
Sat, 20 Jun, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
BLOX Arts Centre | Calgary, AB
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Emily YacinaFiercely independent and vulnerable in her craft, Emily Yacina has been creating dreamy bedroom pop for over two decades. Her 2011 collaboration with Alex G, “Treehouse,” introduced a new generation to Yacina when it exploded on TikTok in 2020. With 2025’s Veilfall, Emily continues to enchant with stripped down indie delivered straight from the heart.
Hélène Barbier
Crafting avant-pop that pairs luminous melodies with jagged fragments and vocals that move between French and English, Hélène Barbier creates songs both singular and arrestingly off-kilter. Her latest album, Panorama, features gooey jangle pop riffs, throaty melodies, and tangled grooves, evoking a dying jukebox spitting out its last perfect songs.
Big Rig
The solo project of Jen Clement (The Courtneys) is titled Big Rig and serves as a space for her to flex her coastal cowgirl chops. Specializing in a fuzzy version of country she calls “boot gaze,” her self-titled album bridges the abyss between alt-country and hook-heavy indie. Bedazzle your cowboy hat before this show!
Bennett Mitchell
A voice croons from the golden haze of the Porcupine Hills into a velvet-draped dream; it’s none other than Bennett Mitchell, Calgary’s resident psychedelic cowboy. He just dropped his fourth album, a plaintive meditation on upheaval called rearranging, and it serves as the perfect entry point to Bennett’s alt-country experimentalism.
Important info:
Start and running times are subject to change. Please check the Sled Island schedule in June for exact set times.
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All passes and tickets are non-refundable.
About Sled Island:
Sled Island is an annual five-day independent music and arts festival in Calgary, Alberta that brings together a community of music, comedy and art with over 25,000 attendees in multiple venues across the city. For more information, visit SledIsland.com.
Sled Island acknowledges Calgary as the traditional territory of the Blackfoot and the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Ĩyãħé Nakoda First Nations, including the Chiniki, Bearspaw and Goodstoney First Nations. Calgary is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta (Districts 5 and 6).
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Where is it happening?
BLOX Arts Centre, Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant, 834 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2R 0E5, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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