Edmonton's Purple City Festival Announces Lineup
Edmonton’s Purple City Music Festival returns after a successful launch in 2021. Last years festival featured one day of music at the gorgeous Hawrelak Park in Edmonton’s iconic river valley. This year, the festival is very excited to announce massive growth with nearly all pandemic related mandates having been lifted. The Cups N Cakes Network is excited to return as a media partner with the event and today we are ecstatic to help announce this years lineup.
This years festival will take place between August 26 - 28th and will host 80+ artists in nine venues across the city. Daytime programming will be located in Hawrelak Park, with evening performances taking place at historic Edmonton venues including The Starlite Room, Garneau Theater (Metro Cinema) and The Freemason’s Hall.
One big difference to this years festival is the addition of international acts and although the Cups N Cakes Network doesn’t cover music outside of Canada, we are still very excited to see dance punks !!! (Chk, Chk, Chk ), Oakland garage rock revivalists Shannon & The Clams, NYC’s noise rockers A Place To Bury Strangers, San Francisco dream-pop staples Papercuts, the California psyche rock troupe Death Valley Girls, L.A. goth rockers Glaare, and L.A. psych-folk act Pearl Charles.
In a non-music related twist, Purple City will also welcome the first-ever champion of Canada’s Drag Race, Priyanka.
The festival will also be bringing in some Cups N Cakes favourites with appearances from Dilly Dally, Mas Aya, Basement Revolver, The Garrys, ACTORS, Body Lens, Ghost Woman, Motorbike James, Radiation Flowers, Stillwaves, Vagina Witchcraft, Uncanny Valley, and Real Sickies.
Keeping in line with the ethos from Purple City’s 2021 debut, the festival will continue be extremely Edmonton artist heavy with a huge lineup of local acts and former Edmonton staples (the festivals name is taken from a local activity kids do at the Legislature grounds where you stare into the floodlights long enough that when you look away, the entire city appears to be purple). Former Edmonton acts returning to play the festival are Mitch Davis (formerly known as Mitchmatic and now based in Montreal), Michael Rault (now based in L.A.), Sister Ray (now based in Toronto), Faith Healer (split between Montreal and Edmonton), and a reunion show for the Archaics.
With still 30+ more acts yet to be announced, we are excited to see what else this new festival will bring to the City of Champions in August. Wristbands and Day Passes are available now with Individual tickets on sale Friday, April 29, 12 p.m. MST.