Friday May 30
The Wilderness
The Wilderness is what you get when six chosen brothers from Kingston, ON spend nine years driving 100,000 miles for nothing but the love of rock n’ roll. Sometimes, you get songs like therapy sessions, oversharing to strangers about your weird relationship with your dad and how you thought you'd be young forever. Other times, you get your mum's favourite would-be arena band crammed into your hometown's sweatiest dive bar on a Tuesday night with rent due in the morning. No matter what, you get the hardest-working, harmony-belting, saxophone-growling, cowboy-chord-strumming, tambourine throwing small-town rock n’ roll band your friends have probably never heard of, in it for the long haul from 2015 - forever
About: https://thewildernessband.com
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0S_xmUJ-S4
Listen: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5wzvWuUm4lWNziBAHEpr3X
Based out of Montreal, Quebec, RedFox is a high energy folk band, focusing on contemporary and traditional blends with an emo twist. They are a five piece ensemble consisting of violin, banjo, guitar, bass and drums, led by Daphnée Vandal's dynamic voice. Their current discography includes 2023 CFMA award winning full length album “Stranger Love”, achieved with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, a second full length album "Letters in Violet", as well as two previous four track EPs.
RedFox has performed on a number of major Canadian festival stages including Frank Turner's Lost Evenings Festival (2024), Montreal Canal Fest (2024), Kingsville Folk Fest (2024), Stewart Park Fest (2024), Mariposa Folk Festival (2022), Summerfolk Music Festival (2022, 2023), Ottawa City Folk (2023), Kemptville Live Music Festival (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023), and more. In 2023, the group completed a 17 date tour of the United Kingdom, and 12 dates of the Canadian Maritimes. Most recently, the band spent the summer of 2024 touring their recently released full-length album "Letters in Violet" across Canada.
