Up + Downtown Festival

Up + Downtown Music Festival to Colour Edmonton "Purple City" This August

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2021

Edmonton's Up + Downtown Music Festival is excited to announce its limited-capacity return for 2021 with Purple City — a one-day festival t...

Common Holly

Up+Dt Festival, Edmonton AB, October 6

PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2018

There are a few things worth contemplating when sitting in a church. Why did the Flintstones celebrate Christmas? When concerts are in chur...

Thao

Up+Dt Festival, Edmonton AB, October 6

PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2018

There's a strange tradeoff to indie rock shows hosted in churches. There's a rarefied atmosphere that makes these shows distinctly more int...

Antibalas

Up+Dt Festival, Edmonton AB, October 6

PUBLISHED Oct 7, 2018

We've all been at a party starting to wane around 3 or 4 a.m. when some party doctor puts Fela Kuti's "Roforofo Fight" on and injects pure...

Jonathan Richman

Up+Dt Festival, Edmonton AB, October 5

PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2018

The unvarnished charm that Jonathan Richman exuded during his performance at Up+Dt Festival was enough to vaporize any trace of pretence an...

Destroyer

Up+Dt Festival, Edmonton AB, October 5

PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2018

The capacity crowd seemed more determined to enjoy themselves than Destroyer's Dan Bejar as he took the stage for a solo appearance at Up+D...

Tennyson

Starlite Room, Edmonton AB, October 9

PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2016

Back home for Thanksgiving after playing Austin City Limits and a date supporting M83, brother-sister duo Tennyson treated Edmonton to a li...

Switches

Downtown Edmonton Community League (DECL), Edmonton AB, October 9

PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2016

Local Edmonton favourites Switches played a packed, all-ages community league office Sunday night (October 9), getting the audience moving...