The Sled Island Music & Arts Festival is an annual independent music and arts festival formed in 2007 and held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.[1] Each June, the five-day festival showcases over 200 bands, visual artists, filmmakers and comedians as well as close to 30,000 attendees in multiple venues across the city.[2] Each year, Sled Island selects a guest curator to help set the direction and tone of the festival through specialized programming choices and with their presence at the event. Past guest curators have included Show Me the Body (2024), Bartees Strange (2023), Sudan Archives (2022), Julien Baker (2019), Deerhoof (2018), Flying Lotus (2017), Peaches (2016), Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2015), Kathleen Hanna (2014), John Dwyer (2013), Tim Hecker (2013), Andrew W.K. (2012), Danny Vacon (2012), Grant Lawrence (2011), Bogus Tokus (2011), Fucked Up (2010), King Khan (2010), Quintron & Miss Pussycat (2010), Colin Newman (2009), Scott Kannberg (2008) and Mark Andrew Hamilton of Woodpigeon (band) (2007).[3]
- ^ "About Sled Island: Sled Island". www.sledisland.com. Retrieved March 19, 2019.
- ^ "The Story: Sled Island". Archived from the original on August 19, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
- ^ "Guest Curators: Sled Island". Archived from the original on September 7, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2015.