Squamish Valley Music Festival

Squamish Valley Music Festival Wrap-up

PUBLISHED Aug 12, 2015

This past weekend, from August 7 to 9, we sent our Jazz, Experimental and Improv Editor, Alan Ranta, into the rolling mountains of Squamis...

Elle King

Stawamus Stage, Squamish BC, August 9

PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2015

There is something to be said for a theatrical stage presence. Hitting the stage in a white top hat and matching tailcoat over a skeleton-p...

First Aid Kit

Stawamus Stage, Squamish BC, August 9

PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2015

With a gold sheet covering the back of the stage and a banner for their 2014 album Stay Gold on top of it, First Aid Kit concluded a length...

Alabama Shakes

Tantalus Stage, Squamish BC, August 9

PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2015

Walking out to the dramatic sound of "Walk On By" by Isaac Hayes, Alabama Shakes captured the crowd's attention from the get-go, a fact mad...

Of Monsters and Men

Stawamus Stage, Squamish BC, August 8

PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2015

There is little doubt that Of Monsters and Men are good. These Icelanders clearly rehearse a lot, and there was rarely an awkward moment th...

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

Tantalus Stage, Squamish BC, August 8

PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2015

Guitarist Binky Griptite gave a shout out to Drake in his introduction to the Dap-Kings before the band behind Amy Winehouse's biggest hits...

Drake

Tantalus Stage, Squamish BC, August 8

PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2015

Aubrey Drake Graham didn't need any help getting the Squamish crowd on his side, if all the personalized representations of the meme-able c...

Tei Shi

Garibaldi Stage, Squamish BC, August 7

PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2015

The crowd lurched forward over the pitcher's mound at the repurposed baseball diamond that is Squamish Valley Music Festival's Garibaldi St...