Winterruption YEG 2025

Name: Winterruption YEG 2025
Start: 2025-01-22T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-01-26T23:30:00-07:00
Location: Winterruption YEG

Schedule

Wed, 22 Jan, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Sun, 26 Jan, 2025 at 11:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Winterruption YEG | Edmonton, AB

The Winterruption YEG festival announces its first round line-up for its 5th festival taking place Jan 22-26, 2025. The music/ comedy/ drag/ winter festival takes place in multiple downtown Edmonton venues including The Starlite Room, Rocky Mountain Icehouse, McDougall United Church, Temple, The Cask & Barrel, 9910, Double Dragon, Downtown Edmonton Community League, Evolution Wonderlounge as well as adding the CKUA Radio performance space and The Dive Bar to its list of downtown locations. Earlybird festival wristbands are only $79 plus fees and are on sale now, with individual show tickets on sale Friday, November 1st at 10 am MST.
Highlights of this year’s first round include indie-pop from Los Angeles' Cheekface, the sonic guitar attack of Seattle’s Reignwolf, New York’s Hotline TNT, lo-fi indie rock from Florida’s Teen Suicide, Canada’s Owen Pallett, Montreal’s post rockers Cola, Hip Hop legend Kool Keith, indie Rock duo Ducks Ltd., RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13’s Utica Queen, Montreal’s La Sécurité, Vancouver rock n roll Dead Ghosts, Liverpool's breakout brother-sister electro-pop duo BIG SIS, Toronto’s jazz rock funk collective Badge Époque Ensemble, Vancouver’s DIY angular indie-jammers Winona Forever, Comedian and Bob’s Burgers star Ron Lynch, a special evening with the admin of the hugely popular @canada.gov.ca IG account, plus more local, national and international touring acts like Jennifer Castle, NADUH, DijahSB, Pkew Pkew Pkew, Fold Paper, Foot Ox, a Victory Pool showcase with His His, Asko, Ghostkeeper & Lauren Dillen, locals Bad Buddy, Dump Babes, Double Rider, Mouraine, Devours, Cassia Hardy, Sam Singer, Alcoves, Bluffing, The Quintessonics, Mattea, Effy In The Sky, Julius Sumner Miller, Limited Hangout, Hailey Raine The Get Down, Misfortune Tellers, Gratuitous, Midnight Diner, Sam The Living, Shag, Meatsack, Big Evil Rat, Elixir, Teacup Romance, Emmonia, Sean Davis Newton, Cedar T, Stretcher Hymen, & The Ramblin’ Ambassadors.
Artist bios and information can be found at www.winterruptionyeg.com
“With Year 5, I really wanted to make a splash with the programming - bringing in a number of international established and up and coming acts and pairing them with the great talent we have in Edmonton and the rest of Canada. I think we’ve pulled off the best festival line-up we’ve ever had, and even more artists to be announced in the coming months,” says Festival Producer Brent Oliver.
Earlybird $79 festival wristbands are on sale now, with individual shows on sale starting Friday, November 1 at 10 am through the Winterruption website. Check out more details, artists, schedule, sponsors and volunteer applications at www.winterruptionyeg.com
Winterruption YEG takes place on Treaty 6 territory, the traditional territories of the nehiyaw, Dene, Stoney Nakoda, Nakota Sioux, and Annishnabe. We would also like to acknowledge this land is home to Metis and Inuit peoples. The volunteers, producers, patrons, and artists humbly admit that we are learning what it means to be on Treaty territory and unceded land. We recognize the land as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory we reside on or are visiting. We know there is still important work that needs to be done to honor the treaties and. Indigenous histories, languages, and cultures influence our music community, and we are grateful to be guests on this land.