Supercrawl organizers have unveiled the festival lineup for the 2025 free festival weekend, taking place September 12-14, 2025 along James Street North in downtown Hamilton, Ontario, made possible by presenting sponsor TD Bank Group (TD).
Supercrawl’s schedule and festival map will be released in the last week of August.
Headliners and direct support at Supercrawl 2025 will be Born Ruffians, Basia Bulat, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Steve Strongman, TOBi, and Donovan Woods. Other musical artists announced include (in alphabetical order) AOIFE, The Beans, Sean Bienhaus, Rachel Bobbitt, Born In The Eighties, Buddah Abusah, Cadence Weapon, Jean Caffeine, Classified, Sarah Church, The Commune, Council House, Criminal Inhibition, cute, Da Bomb, Dammit Goldie, The Darcys, Don’t Hit Your Head, Eyes Like Opals, James Favron, Foxwarren, Delyn Grey, Hamilton Children’s Choir, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Neil Haverty, Jambassadors, Ro Joaquim, Jocelyn June and the Bugs, KTxKP, Rob Lamothe, Hua Li 化力, Linebeck, Loaded Dice, Lonely Little Kitsch, Los Chukos, Lost Faculty, Loversteeth, Lucky Honey, Mayor McCA, DJ Danny Miles, Minuscule, Neon Dreams, Nezqwik, NOVIÆ, PYPY, Rapid Transit, Rexford Drive, Shealagh Rose, Evan Rotella, Rocket and the Renegades, $EAMS, ShaaMaa, shishi, Spookyguava, Thunder Queens, Trout Lily, Menno Versteeg, Alex Whorms, and CJ Wiley. As well, The Wild High will play a Saturday night afterparty at Bridgeworks (200 Caroline St. N., Hamilton).
In addition, the festival will feature:
• visual art installations from Arts For All, Art Gallery of Hamilton featuring Douglas Tewksbury, Beaten Path Vintage x Vilegloom Vintage, Nancy Benoy, DopeChief, Dawn Grant, Koe.Design, Studio Sunday, Tom Wilson, and the Work In Progress Festival featuring Burnt Toast, The Half Decent, Clear Eyes Collective, Bruno Smoky, Bribe, Bacon, Hiero, and Squid Licker;
• fashion showcases from Amici, Baumbchell, The Better Days Club, Certitude By K, Created By Chimaera, Cosmic Couture, Cosplay Showcase, DopeChief, EXCLSV, Garba Groovers, HeyHey & Co., House Of Hendo, I Love Kandy, Lady Gray Burlesque, Modern Artchitect Supply, Mooncraft Market, The Muses, Pink Powder Puff Co., RoyalTEEP33, Shedo, Sockiety, Steel City Slither, StereoRuss, True Hamiltonian, Vilegloom Vintage, and Zetenio;
• dance from Battle by the Centre presented by Art & Water and Defining Movement Dance, plus Ensemble Topaz, Garba Groovers, Omega Dance, SBJ Studio Dancers, Schiehallion Dancers, and Steel City Slither;
• theatre and performance from Big Nazo, Emerson Arts, Mikey Gough, Hamilton Aerial Group, Hamilton Pro Wrestling, James North Yoga, Kate Mior, Lishai Peel, and Sapphyre Poison Drag Xtravaganza;
• author talks and spoken word from Gary Barwin, Martha Bátiz, Matt Bobkin, Steacy Easton, Adam Feibel, Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez, Matthew Green, Jess Hannigan, Andrew Kaufman, Saad Omar Khan, Amanda Leduc, David Neil Lee, Lynn Hutchinson Lee, Jarrett Mazza, Joe Ollmann, Jessica Rose, Sunny Singh, Michelle Stark, Jamie Tennant, John Terpstra, Anuja Varghese, and Liz Worth;
• plus family activities from Bruce Trail Conservancy, City of Hamilton Youth Team, Cycle Hamilton, Hamilton Anti-Racism Resource Centre, Hamilton Cardinals Baseball Club, Hamilton Fire Department, Hamilton Music Collective, Hamilton Public Library, Hamilton/Burlington SPCA, Navy League of Canada, Play Project Parkour, Premium Health and Safety, Reptilia, SCORE! Active Research Team, Telling Tales Festival, The Hamilton Face Painter, and Toronto Rock Lacrosse. The Family Zone will also host the return of the Chess Simultaneous Exhibitions that made a splash with festival audiences last year.
Supercrawl will also offer dozens of food trucks and scores of craft vendors. Announcements on those lineups will follow soon, along with festival schedule and map.
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Supercrawl is Hamilton’s premier multi-arts festival, fusing new and independent music with art installations, fashion, performance, literature, theatre, and artisanal craft. Supercrawl’s diverse multidisciplinary program of sound, performance, visual and media arts is staged along a pedestrian-only creative corridor in the heart of downtown.
A not-for-profit arts organization, Supercrawl is committed to honouring, showcasing and celebrating all varieties of creative work, positioning local and emerging artists alongside significant provincial, national and international peers. The festival fosters and promotes arts and culture as well as the myriad benefits they provide.
Founded in 2009, Supercrawl has successfully evolved from a modest arts-based single-day occurrence to a multi-day event with national/international profile and attendance. The festival has gone from a one-day celebration on a single block to a weekend-long experience encompassing over two kilometres of downtown streets, with attendance growing steadily from 3,000 to over 275,000 in that time. In addition to its namesake free festival weekend, Supercrawl Productions also produces ticketed concerts and events throughout the year.
Supercrawl was shortlisted for a 2019 Ontario Tourism Award of Excellence for Tourism Event of the Year and 2017 Canadian Tourism Award for Event of the Year. The festival received the 2015 Ontario Tourism Award of Excellence for Tourism Event of the Year and has been repeatedly recognized as one of Festival and Events Ontario’s Top 100 Festivals/Events (2015-2020, 2023-2024). In 2019, Supercrawl’s Family Zone programming earned a Festivals & Events Ontario Achievement Award for Best Youth Initiative.
