More details about Squamish’s newest festival are emerging.
The upcoming new Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵConstellation Festival has announced the first wave of artists to perform July 26 to 28.
A variety of Canadian folk and indie-rock artists, and famous children's entertainer Fred Penner, are set to perform.
The event will be a "celebration of music, art, food and so much fun," said Tamara Stanners, one of four Squamish-based festival directors in a news release.
Artists booked to appear at the festival include: Juno Award-winning Indigenous musicians A Tribe Called Red; Indie-rock starlet Serena Ryder; Ontario-based folk musician Bahamas; Montreal-based indie rockers Half Moon Run are slated to take to the Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵstage.
Other performers include:
*Juno award-winning, Vancouver-based Dear Rouge;
*Canadian singer and songwriter, Jocelyn Alice;Ìý
*YouTube sensations Peach Pit;
*Canadian prairies-based Foxwarren;
Ìý*London-based multi-instrumentalist Cosmo Sheldrake;
*Canadian indie rock band Fast Romantics;
*Alternative rockers Scenic Route to Alaska;Ìý
*Nunavut's The Jerry Cans;
*the Gulf Island's Art d'Ecco;
*R&B Vancouver-favourites The Boom Booms;
*Swedish-Canadian singer and songwriter Sarah MacDougall;
*Folk singer Luca Fogale;
*Alternative band from Vernon, daysormay;
*Indie group Parker Bossley;
*U.S. singer Jessicka;
*Electro-folk duo The Sunset Kids.
Also taking the stage for the three-day festival slated for Hendrickson Field are Hunting; Begoina; The Modelos; Sam Lynch; Taylor James; The Kwerks; Squamish’s Cat Madden and family entertainers The Oot n' Oots.
More headliners are still to be announced, the festival's news release states.
Squamish-based event production company Aquila Constellation Festival Productions Inc produces the Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵConstellation Festival.
Tickets for locals are available online ator in person at Tantalus Bikes after 10 a.m
General admission tickets will be released on March 8 at 10 a.m.