Hamilton's Something Else! Festival Announces Initial 2020 Lineup

Matthew Shipp, Ivo Perelman, Les Filles de Illighadad, Eve Egoyan and more will perform

BY Allie GregoryPublished Mar 2, 2020

Hamilton's Something Else! Festival has revealed its first round of performers for this year's edition.

The festival's seventh edition, which runs from June 18 to 21, will feature performances from Matthew Shipp, Ivo Perelman, Les Filles de Illighadad, Tollef Østvang and Psychedelic Furs' Mars Williams, Eve Egoyan, and Togetherness!, as well as Nicole Rampersaud and Marilyn Lerner's Brass Knuckle Sandwich.

In addition to the above musical guests, the festival will also host a special screening of Imagine the Sound from celebrated Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann, who will be in attendance.

With shows taking place at a number of venues across town, the festival aims to showcase "local, regional, national, and international artists from the fields of creative, improvised, experimental music, musique actuelle, and otherwise unconventional newer traditions in jazz."

Tickets for the festival are on sale now. Find early bird passes for $85 here. For more information about Something Else!, head over to Zula Presents' website

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