Sled Island Announces Full 2022 Lineup
Today, Calgary’s Sled Island Music & Arts Festival unveils the full lineup of artists playing their 2022 event, which runs June 22-26, 2022. The annual festival presents a thoughtfully-chosen lineup of music, comedy, film and art in multiple venues across Calgary, Alberta each June. The names of over 150 artists revealed today are added to a list of more than 30 previously announced artists, confirming over 200 acts to perform at the festival from June 22-26, 2022.
As always, we are more interested in covering the Canadian acts at this years festival but we’d be remiss if we never mentioned some of the incredible international acts added to the lineup. Newly announced additions include indie rock legends Built to Spill, ambient singer-songwriter Grouper, pop-punk from Joyce Manor, minimalist indie luminaries Low, Seattle’s La Luz, garage rock trio L.A. Witch, rapper and producer R.A.P. Ferreira, death metal from Mortiferum, noise project Body Void, and the recently-established heavy metal outfit Worse, featuring former members of Pride Tiger and 3 Inches of Blood.
With that out of the way, let’s discuss some of the Canadian acts that we will be lining up for this year. They include local legend Chad VanGaalen, 2020 Polaris Prize-winner Backxwash, legendary singer/songwriter Julie Doiron, doom metal duo Mares of Thrace, art rock outfit Motherhood, Vancouver punk powerhouse Necking, the new “twangmo” project from The Courtneys’ Jen Payne, alt-pop trio Little Destroyer, garage punks Wine Lips, jangle-pop trio Motorists, alt-R&B electronic artist Janette King, jazz-tinged experimental rock group Heaven For Real, alternative singer-songwriter Marlaena Moore, adored singer-songwriter Samantha Savage Smith, local legends of true-school hip-hop Dragon Fli Empire, and Montreal avant-pop artist Hélène Barbier.
To see the complete music lineup, visit the Sled Island website. The Sled Island 2022 schedule will be announced in the coming weeks, along with comedy, film, art, special events and conference programming.
Get wristbands now or wait for a limited number of single tickets to newly-announced Sled Island 2022 shows to go on sale this Friday, May 6 at 12pm MDT.
As always, the Cups N Cakes Network will be looking to highlight some acts you may have never heard in the weeks leading up to this years festival. Keep coming back to stay in the know!