Years active 2009-present Attendance 165,000 (2014) | Founded by Tim Potocic Dates 9 Sep – 11 Sep 2016 | |
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Genre Music Festival and Arts Festival Similar Festival of Friends, Burlington's Sound of Music Fe, Brott Music Festival, North by Northeast, Rock the Park Profiles | ||
Supercrawl 2016 music lineup announcement
Supercrawl is an annual art and indie music festival held in downtown Hamilton, Ontario.
Contents
- Supercrawl 2016 music lineup announcement
- Supercrawl 2015 music lineup announcement
- History
- The event
- Past musical performers
- References
Supercrawl 2015 music lineup announcement
History
Supercrawl was founded in 2009 by Tim Potocic and the music label Sonic Unyon. It grew out of the monthly event known as Art Crawl, a tour of art galleries in Hamilton that is still active.
The event
Supercrawl features three days of free music spread over multiple stages lining the length of James Street North. The festival attracts an average of 130,000 visitors annually to watch over 50 bands, making it one of the largest free music festivals in Ontario. The festival also showcases large-scale visual art installations, performance art, an artisan market, food trucks and fashion.
The arts festival has been cited as part of a larger, arts-based revival in Hamilton as the former industrial city becomes a regional center for the arts.
In 2015, Supercrawl was named Ontario’s Tourism Event of the Year as part of the Ontario Tourism Awards of Excellence.
Past musical performers
Past headliners have included Broken Social Scene (2011), Owen Pallett (2012), K'naan (2012), Wintersleep (2013), Passion Pit (2013), Arkells (2014), Spoon (2014), Charles Bradley (2014), Monster Truck (2015), HEALTH (2015), Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (2015), Hayden (2015), Daniel Lanois (2015), The Trews (2016), Four Tet (2016), The Strumbellas (2016), Junior Boys (2016), and Matt Andersen (2016).