Heavy Friends
Saturday July 6th, 2024 with Heavy Ben w/ guest Napalm Dan
Hillside 2024

Hillside has been a summer ritual for me and my family since the mid-2000s. Road trip, camping (not as easy in middle age), live music, trail mix, camp fires, independent arts and crafts and food and drink... it's a breath of fresh air compared to corporate festivals. Heavy Ben and Napalm Dan preview 30 performers who will take the stage in two weeks in Guelph Lake. The Hillside Summer Festival is a three-day, multi-stage event with a broad artistic vision that emphasizes diversity of culture, of musical heritage and style, of age, geography and influence. As an artistic presenter working in a time of reconciliation and reckoning, Hillside remains committed to offering space and work for artists and arts workers from all races, cultures, and communities, particularly Indigenous, people of colour, LGBTQ2S+, and women whose inclusion will help stitch a richer and more varied cultural fabric. Set in a beautiful, accessible conservation area with campgrounds on Guelph Lake, our summer festival is world-renowned as one of Canada’s most progressive, environmentally conscious, non-commercial community celebrations. We create a village on Guelph Lake Island that we fill with music, dance, drumming, food, crafts, and more. Hillside Official Website https://hillsidefestival.ca/ Guelph's Hillside music festival awarded Small Festival of the Year (plus an interview with Hillside's new executive director Kate Johnston) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/guelph-s-hillside-music-festival-awarded-small-festival-of-the-year-1.7229355