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Location
  
Victoria, Canada

Dates
  
14 Sep – 17 Sep 2017

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Rifflandia Music Festival is a four-day multi-venue music festival held in Victoria, British Columbia. With no fixed date, the festival has occurred in the month-long span between the last weekend of August and the last weekend of September. Rifflandia was first launched on August 29, 2008.

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Rifflandia also includes Artlandia, the War Child Lounge, and publishes an annual magazine. Local brewery and sponsor, Phillips Brewery also produced a Rifflandia beer, Rifflandabrau, sold around the festival’s time. The festival is staged by a local production-company, Atomique Productions, and is sponsored by local businesses and various members of the media.

Line-up

Thursday, September 15

To Be Announced

Friday, September 16

To Be Announced

Saturday, September 17

To Be Announced

Sunday, September 18

To Be Announced

Line-up

Thursday, September 17

Night Stages:

Friday, September 18

Night Stages:

Main Stage:

  • The Choir
  • The Dears
  • Arkells

  • Rifftop Tent:

  • Blonde Redhead
  • A Tribe Called Red
  • Saturday, September 19

    Main Stage:

  • Young Empires
  • Brave Shores
  • Plants and Animals
  • Big Data
  • Tokyo Police Club
  • Modest Mouse
  • Rifftop Tent:

  • The Choir
  • Dirty Radio
  • Sticky Fingers
  • The Zolas
  • Neon Indian
  • Kiesza
  • Sunday, September 20

    Main Stage:

  • Vic High R&B Band
  • The Walkervilles
  • Jesse Roper
  • Hollerado
  • Joey Bada$$
  • Mother Mother
  • Rifftop Tent:

  • The Choir
  • Grounders
  • Tacocat
  • Emancipator
  • Julian Casablancas + The Voidz
  • Line-up

    Thursday, September 11

    Night Stages:

    Friday, September 12

    Night Stages:

    Main Stage:

  • Reuben and the Dark
  • We Are Scientists
  • Airbourne
  • Serena Ryder
  • Rifftop Tent:

  • The Glorious Sons
  • Born Ruffians
  • Dragonette
  • Saturday, September 13

    Night Stages:


    Main Stage:

  • Choir Choir Choir
  • The Choir
  • Head of the Herd
  • Le Butcherettes
  • The Airborne Toix Event
  • The New Pornographers
  • Death Cab For Cutie
  • Rifftop Tent:

  • Kytami
  • Bum
  • Latyrx
  • Dum Dum Girls
  • Rusko
  • Sunday, September 14

    Main Stage:

  • Zeus
  • Dear Rouge
  • SonReal
  • To Be Announced
  • Girl Talk
  • Rifftop Tent:

  • Vic High R&B Band
  • Lowell
  • Lightning Dust
  • Keys N Krates
  • Half Moon Run
  • Line-up

    Friday, September 13

    Night Stages:

    Saturday, September 14

    Main Stage:

  • No
  • Mounties
  • Classified
  • Courtney Love
  • Side Stage:

  • Easy Star All-Stars
  • Z-Trip
  • Current Swell
  • 2012

    For its fifth year, Rifflandia built on the success of the Royal Athletic Park as a flagship venue, while also using night stage venues, including the return of the Market Square stage. Rifflandia V occurred on September 13–16. Headlining the festival was the Flaming Lips, Sloan, Cake, and Mother Mother.

    Line-up

    Thursday, September 13

    Night Stages:

    Friday, September 14

    Main Stage:

  • The Xylopholks
  • Rich Aucoin
  • Band of Skulls
  • The Flaming Lips
  • Side Stage:

  • Brasstronaut
  • The Aggrolites
  • Macklemore and Ryan Lewis
  • Night Stages:

    Saturday, September 15

    Main Stage:

  • The Xylopholks
  • Zerbin
  • The Jezabels
  • Dan Mangan
  • Cake
  • Side Stage:

  • Family of the Year
  • Bright Light Social Hour
  • The Stanfields
  • The Dudes
  • Sloan
  • Night Stage:

    Sunday, September 16

    Main Stage:

  • The Xylopholks
  • Jinja Safari
  • Current Swell
  • The Head and the Heart
  • Reggie Watts
  • Mother Mother
  • Side Stage:

  • The Archers
  • Grand Analog
  • MC Yogi
  • Hey Ocean!
  • Everlast
  • 2011

    In 2011, the fourth-annual Rifflandia restructured its venues and the festival-going experience by including the Royal Athletic Park as the flagship venue, with eight additional evening venues. The new location allowed for a main stage and side stage, as well as a partnership with local food and drink vendors, and the introduction of Rifflandia Cinema. Rifflandia IV occurred from September 22–25. The night venues included Alix Goolden Hall, Phillips Brewery, Club 9One9, the Victoria Events Centre, Lucky Bar, Metro Theatre, Wood Hall and Sugar Nightclub. The line up included City and Colour, Broken Social Scene, Cold War Kids and Mother Mother.

    Line-up

    Thursday, September 22

    Night Stages:

    Friday, September 23

    Main Stage:

  • Dinosaur Bones
  • The Cave Singers
  • Ra Ra Riot
  • Mother Mother
  • Broken Social Scene
  • Side Stage:

  • Randy Ponzio
  • Mike Edel
  • Jon Middleton
  • The Besnard Lakes
  • Jakarta
  • Night Stages:

    Saturday, September 24

    Main Stage:

  • Vince Vaccaro
  • Jets Ovehead
  • Awolnation
  • Cold War Kids
  • City and Colour
  • Side Stage:

  • Sun Hawk
  • Mindil Beach Markets
  • Library Voices
  • Hollerado
  • Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker (USS)
  • Night Stages:

    Sunday, September 25

    Main Stage:

  • Kuba Oms and the Velvet Revolution
  • Gomez
  • Blackalicious
  • Daniel Wesley
  • De La Soul
  • Side Stage:

  • The Scale Breakers
  • Greenlaw
  • Lance Herbstrong
  • The Knocks
  • Felix Cartal
  • 2010

    The third Rifflandia Festival featured a record 165 artists over four days at 11 festival stages with approximately 3,500 attendees from September 23–26. Rifflandia III also introduced “Win!landia,” a treasure hunt city-wide across Victoria, and Artlandia, an art showing in partnership with White Hot Magazine.

    Line-up

    Thursday, September 23
    Friday, September 24
    Saturday, September 25
    Sunday, September 26

    2009

    Rifflandia II grew with 2,500 people in attendance, with over 80 artists and more venues. The Rifflandia Magazine was first published for Rifflandia II. The festival was held from September 24–27. The venues included Sugar Nightclub, Element Nightclub, Alix Goolden Hall, Metro Theatre, Market Square, the University of Victoria’s Vertigo, Lucky Bar, and the Strathcona Rooftop.

    Line-up

    Thursday, September 24
    Friday, September 25
    Saturday, August 26
    Sunday, September 27
  • Mother Mother
  • Brendan Canning(DJ Set)
  • k-os (DJ Set)
  • 2008

    The inaugural Rifflandia started as a three-day festival from August 29–31, with seven stages, 65 artists and approximately 1,500 people in attendance. The venues were organized in a showcase style and included Alix Goolden Hall, Element Nightclub, Logan’s Pub, Lucky Bar, McPherson Playhouse, Royal Theatre, Smith’s Pub, Sugar Nightclub and the Strathcona Rooftop.

    Line-up

    Friday, August 29
    Saturday, August 30
    Sunday, August 31

    Artlandia

    Artlandia is the art component with Rifflandia. It was launched in 2010 with Rifflandia III in partnership with White Hot Magazine, featuring a variety of artists in different galleries near and during the time of the festival. For 2012, Artlandia included the Live!Stock poster show and Headspace.

    War Child Lounge

    The War Child Lounge was first launched during Rifflandia III in 2010. It features intimate acoustic performances from artists performing that year. All donations from the sets go directly to War Child Canada. Past performers include Hey Rosetta!, USS, Mother Mother, Jets Overhead and Melissa Auf der Maur In 2012, War Child Lounge featured Luluc, Current Swell, Rich Aucoin, Family of the Year, Hey Ocean!, Mother Mother and Frazey Ford.

    Rifflandia Magazine

    The first edition of the Rifflandia Magazine was published for the 2009 festival. It is a free publication published annually since 2009 that features profiles on the artists playing at Rifflandia, a festival schedule and map. It also includes details on other Rifflandia events, like Win!landia, Artlandia, War Child Lounge, and Wristband Connect. In 2012, the Magazine also included a Rifflandia passport and fortuneteller.

    Press

  • 2011 Rifflandia Festival Highlights at Exclaim!
  • Rifflandia Festival Preview in 2012 at Pitchfork Media
  • Rifflandia Festival Preview in 2011 at Pitchfork Media
  • Rifflandia Festival Preview in 2010 at Pitchfork Media
  • Rifflandia Review in 2010 at CBC Radio 3
  • Rifflandia's Food Vendors at Globe and Mail
  • References

    Rifflandia Music Festival Wikipedia


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