Riverfest Elora is celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2025, and its lineup is fittingly monumental — headliners Silversun Pickups, City and Colour, and Fitz and the Tantrums will hold down main-stage festivities on each respective night of the event, and there's plenty more to check out earlier in the day and on smaller stages.
Between soaking in the natural beauty of Bissell Park, getting in some afternoon yoga on the boardwalk, and hitting up each night's after-party, you may want to get the low-down on the festival's best coffee vendor — you're gonna need it!
Tickets for the event are on sale now. See our picks for the festival's must-see acts below.
Rich Aucoin
His parachute's goodbye tour is in the books, but now's the chance to see the Haligonian experimentalist between eras; with Season 1 through 3 of his Synthetic quadruple album out now, Aucoin's next chapter is still in its infancy. Get a peek at what he's laying down on Sunday night ahead of City and Colour's festival-closing set.
Chinese Medicine
Stay-out-lates should drop the extra bucks at Elora Brewing Co.'s Friday night after-party to check out Toronto's punk upstarts while they're on the rise. The Exclaim! Class of 2025 grads are dropping their second EP, The Trans Agenda, on May 16.
Slash Need
If you're a little freak looking for some theatricality, industrial performance art group Slash Need's Koop Tent show should be starkly lit at their 8:25 p.m. slot. Think latex, fishnets, sweat and horror in golden hour.
Tune-Yards
Holding down the international faction of performers, Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner's Tune-Yards will warm up the main stage for Fitz and the Tantrums on Saturday evening, no doubt offering up new cuts from their new album, Better Dreaming, also out May 16.
Wheatus
When else are you gonna be able to catch "Teenage Dirtbag" live?!