Supercrawl Reveals 2024 Festival Lineup

Festival poster framed with an abstract motif of city blocks in light, medium and dark blue with yellow highlights. Poster reads: Supercrawl, Hamilton’s Music and Arts Festival, September 13, 14 and 15, 2024. Free admission. Presented by TD Ready Commitment. Featuring musical performances by Matt Andersen & The Big Bottle of Joy, The Anti-Queens, A Side B Side, Rich Aucoin, Bend It Like Beck, Born In The Eighties, Boys and Girls Club, Colour Film, Charlotte Cornfield, Danko Jones, The Dears, Elliott Brood, Ellis, Explosions in the Sky, Golden Feather, Hamilton Children's Choir, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Hamilton Superstars (featuring Steve Strongman, Dawn Tyler Watson, Roly Platt, Alfie Smith, Joel Parisien, Colin Lapsley, and Dave King), Haters, iskwē, Jambassadors, Kaïa Kater, Mia Kelly, Kellie Loder, Matthew Runaway, MonkeyJunk, MOONRIIVR, My Son the Hurricane, Peter Dreams, Rise Carmine, Royal Castles, The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Sadies, Jamie Shea & the Gentle Reminders, Superstar Crush, The Wild High Yassin + Sean Terrio, and Zeus. Plus An Interactive Residency From Squonk “Brouhaha”. Art installations from Arts For All, BecauseDesignMatters, Nathan Eugene Carson, Clear Eyes Collective, Cesar C. Cordoba, Frenly, Anthony Haley, Leafton Labs, Little Dada and The Boys, Koe Design, Chrix Morix, Open Window Artist Talks, and Stylo Starr. Fashion Showcases From Amici, Ashes, The Better Days Club, Certitude By K, Dope Chief, The Eye Of Faith, HeyHey & Co., Kandy Intimates, Mooncraft Market, The Muses, RoyalTeeP33, sariKNOTsari, Steel City Slither, Supercrawl Cosplay Showcase, Theatrix Costume House, and True Hamiltonian. Dance From Defining Movement Dance, Garba Groovers, Omega Dance, RXD, Schiehallion Dancers, Tocani. Theatre From Catherine Allen & Tarah Ahmad, Emerson Arts, Make Art Theatre, and Carly Pokoradi. Author Talks + Spoken Word From Gary Barwin, Raymond Beauchemin, Gloria Blizzard, Lana Button, Kate Cayley, Steacy Easton, Dustin Galer, Ai Jiang, David Neil Lee, George Matuvi, Paige Maylott, Lishai Peel, Deepa Rajagopalan, Aimee Reid, Jessica Rose, Nicola Ross, Nicholas Ruddock, Brent van Staalduinen, Jamie Tennant, Anuja Varghese, A.G.A. Wilmot, Nicola Winstanley and More. Plus Hamilton Pro Wrestling, James North Yoga, The Local Invitational Skate Competition, MovementOM, and Sapphyre Poison Drag Xtravaganza. And Family Fun, Food Trucks, and Craft Vendors. Below this text is the Supercrawl logo, flanked by the words James St. N. and Hamilton, ON. Festival website supercrawl.ca is listed below the logo, and is flanked by the social media handle @supercrawl and event hashtag #supercrawl. Festival sponsors arrayed across the bottom of the poster include TD Bank Group, Jackson Square, RSK Automotive and Collision, Tim Hortons, McMaster University, Collective Arts Brewing, Clifford Brewing Co., LIUNA Local 837, Metrolinx, Building Communities, Canadian Heritage, City of Hamilton, and Hamilton Halton Brant Regional Tourism Association. Media partner logos arrayed on the line below include 102.9 Bounce FM, Cable 14, CBC Hamilton, CFMU, CHCH, Energy 95.3, Exclaim!, Hamilton City Magazine, 97.7 HTZ-FM, Indie 88, and Y108. Bottom of poster features Community partners in all-cap text: Bates Audio Productions, The Beer Store, Black Fly Beverages, Core Urban Inc., Cowabunga Pizza, Downtown Hamilton BIA, DPAI Architecture, Dr. Disc, Evans Philp LLP, F45, Feltmate Delibato Heagle LLP, GFL Environmental Inc., Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Mike Jerome, KPMG, Elizabeth Parker Judy Marsales Real Estate Ltd., Martin & Hillyer Associates, McMaster Museum Of Art, Mulberry Coffeehouse, RBC Royal Bank, Reprodux, Sheraton Hotel Hamilton, Sonic Unyon, and Tixr.

Supercrawl organizers have unveiled the festival lineup for the 2024 free festival weekend, taking place September 13-15, 2024 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.

Musical performers at Supercrawl 2024 (in alphabetical order) will include Matt Andersen & The Big Bottle of Joy, The Anti-Queens, A Side B Side, Rich Aucoin, Bend It Like Beck, Born In The Eighties, Boys and Girls Club, Colour Film, Charlotte Cornfield, Danko Jones, The Dears, Elliott Brood, Ellis, Explosions in the Sky, Golden Feather, Hamilton Children’s Choir, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Hamilton Superstars (featuring Steve Strongman, Dawn Tyler Watson, Roly Platt, Alfie Smith, Joel Parisien, Colin Lapsley, and Dave King), Haters, iskwē, Jambassadors, Kaïa Kater, Mia Kelly, Kellie Loder, Matthew Runaway, MonkeyJunk, MOONRIIVR, My Son the Hurricane, Peter Dreams, Rise Carmine, Royal Castles, The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Sadies, Jamie Shea & the Gentle Reminders, Superstar Crush, The Wild High, Yassin + Sean Terrio, and Zeus.

Supercrawl will host an interactive residency from globally acclaimed Squonk, who made their festival debut in 2022 to popular acclaim. The Pittsburgh-based post-industrial art rock performance troupe will be presenting their new production Brouhaha, an immersive outdoor spectacle bursting with rollicking music, dazzling imagery, and the thrill of audience participation.

In addition, the festival will feature:

• visual art installations from Arts For All, BecauseDesignMatters, Nathan Eugene Carson, Clear Eyes Collective, Cesar C. Cordoba, Frenly, Anthony Haley, Koe Design, Leafton Labs, Little Dada and the Boys, Chrix Morix, Open Window Artist Talks, and Stylo Starr;

• fashion showcases from Amici, Ashes, The Better Days Club, Certitude by K, Dope Chief, The Eye Of Faith, HeyHey & Co., Kandy Intimates, Mooncraft Market, The Muses, RoyalTeeP33, sariKNOTsari, Steel City Slither, Supercrawl Cosplay Showcase, Theatrix Costume House, and True Hamiltonian;

• dance from Defining Movement Dance, Garba Groovers, Omega Dance, RXD, Schiehallion Dancers, and Tocani;

• theatre from Catherine Allen & Tarah Ahmad, Emerson Arts, Make Art Theatre, and Carly Pokoradi.

• author talks and spoken word from Gary Barwin, Raymond Beauchemin, Gloria Blizzard, Lana Button, Kate Cayley, Steacy Easton, Dustin Galer, Ai Jiang, David Neil Lee, George Matuvi, Paige Maylott, Lishai Peel, Deepa Rajagopalan, Aimee Reid, Jessica Rose, Nicola Ross, Nicholas Ruddock, Jamie Tennant, Brent van Staalduinen, Anuja Varghese, A.G.A. Wilmot, and Nicola Winstanley;

• plus Hamilton Pro Wrestling, James North Yoga, The Local Invitational Skate Competition, MovementOM, and Sapphyre Poison Drag Xtravaganza.

Supercrawl will also offer dozens of food trucks, scores of craft vendors, plus a Family Zone packed with creative options for children and youth. Announcements on all three will follow shortly.

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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.

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Supercrawl’s schedule and festival map will be released in the last week of August.

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