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Originally Posted by McMurph
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That's a great link! Apart from Pickathon, you can see that the other festivals heavily rely in the big name headliners who are often repeated on a number of the bills. Sled Island is expertly curated and really is a music connoisseurs festival.
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Originally Posted by MasterG
Agreed. Sled Island is top notch, among the best festivals available anywhere. Amazing, amazing line-up, venues and experience. Truly one of the best and most under-reported week-events in the city.
Not to mention Chasing Summer (don't know if its going again this year) for EDM stuff and X-Fest, which is always surprisingly good at getting sweet acts (Jack White?!!). afrikadey & Folk Fest are another few that are in that 10,000+ attendees range and offer substantial quality. Also Reggaefest.
Anyone who thinks Calgary has a dearth of awesome music festivals and is interested in exciting live music is doing their lives wrong. More will always be better, but this is one area we are not lacking for a place our size.
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I think that a lot of people have visions of Calgary hosting a HUGE festival like Coachella, Ultra Music Fest or Lolapolooza. Kudos to Chasing Summer and X-Fest for raising the bar. I think its a great goal to work towards and our music scene is certainly doing the ground-work. At the moment I really don't think that we have a suitable venue to host anything like those. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't Folk Fest our largest music festival? I am not sure if Princess Island has the capacity to host anything larger. Fort Calgary also isn't ideal and I feat that as the EV becomes more developed as will the NIMBYism.
Coachella is honestly one of the BEST organized festivals I have been to. I don't think that we are there yet, nor are our promoters. The way we do food, beverage and toilets seriously needs to be refined.
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