Olio Festival

Music Waste is making it's choices for it's festival this year, but there are two new festivals in the works for this summer, that will be coming at things from very different angles. One of which I will tell you about today and another which I will save for later.

The first is the Olio Festival. Organized by a plethora of local promoters like Dani Vachon from Sealed With A Kiss, my!gay!husband! from Blast Ramp, Re-Up and Glory Days, Rachel Zottenberg of Grace Gallery and the Met and the comedy stylings of Cameron MacLeod and Conor Holler from Bronx Cheer and Sunday Service respectively. I'm actually doing all of the organizers a bit of a disservice by only mentioning a couple of the things they're involved in, all of them have had their hands in a lot of pies over the last few years and are responsible for a lot of great music, art and comedy events in the city.

The lineup isn't being announced until May, but I can give you a rundown of what the event will be like. In August from the 13th to the 16th the festival is going to move around town taking place in most major venues and a lot of smaller ones, too. Each day will take place in a different neighbourhood: Gastown, Main St., Downtown and on the final day everything will be at Second Beach in Stanley Park. As the fest moves to that neighbourhood there will be a bunch of events in that neighbourhood that will be within walking distance of each other.

They're modelling this fest after SXSW, which is a pretty good fest to model something on. There will be a mix of music, art and comedy. Can't wait for them to announce the lineup.

Image lifted from the Olio website.