NEWS: Only ONE WEEK before EVOLVE - Atlantic Canada's Biggest Music & Activism Event
EVOLVE 2012
The 13th Annual Evolve Music and Awareness Festival
Twitter: @evolvefestival
July 20, 21 & 22 in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
featuring
Deerhoof, Hey Rosetta!, Shout Out Out Out Out, Dan Deacon, The Garrett
Mason & Keith Hallett Show, Rich Aucoin, Skratch Bastid, Gramatik,
Chali2na w/ Break Science, Grand Theft Bus, Scientists of Sound,
Gypsophillia, The Idlers, Keys n Krates, Olympic Symphonium, Paper Beat
Scissors, Slowcoaster, The Funk Hunters, Three Sheet, Vinyl Ritchie
+ over 150 acts on 5 stages!
Recently chosen as one of Canada’s Top 10 Outdoor Festival’s by CBC Radio’s Grant Lawrence in his “Go Outside and Play” blog, Evolve Festival 2012
touches down on weekend of July 20-22, in the spectacular rolling
oceanside hills of Antigonish, Nova Scotia! Over 150 acts from around
the world are scheduled to perform, and with over 75% from the Maritimes
Evolve continues to distinguish itself as the summer’s largest showcase
for local talent. The mainstage of Evolve 2012 will be curated by one
of Canada’s hottest international buzz artists Rich Aucoin, with another stage run by East Coast sceneshapers Forward Music Group Label.
Evolve
has always been known for awakening consciousness, and this year it
will awaken festivalgoers’ senses like never before. For 2012, Evolve is
honoured to welcome Tyrone Reveen of Streamer Effects International to
the A/V and effectrs team. The son of legendary magician “A Man Called
Reveen”, Tyrone is one of the world’s most respected special effects and
event experience gurus. Clients who use his wizardry to enhance their
events include ZZ Top, Miley Cyrus, and the National Football League. He
invented the world’s first portable High Performance Confetti Cannon,
and his innovations in pyrotechnic simulation have revolutionized
stadium and arena events. Evolve attendees are in for an experience
they’ll never forget! For more information on SEI, visit www.streamereffects.com
Limited
quantities of tickets for Evolve 2012 are still available online via
Ticketpro, through their affiliate locations as well as local vendors in
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI & Newfoundland. For more info on
ticket outlets & locations, click here:
About Evolve
The
Evolve Music and Awareness Festival is an annual 3-day summer
celebration of music, culture, and social awareness. From its humble
beginnings in 2000 as a grassroots music and awareness festival
featuring local bands, the festival has grown to become one of the
finest outdoor festivals in the world -- with performers from around the
globe, workshops that inform spectators about social issues and
environmental awareness, and an overall commitment to enhancing personal
and community well-being. Evolve was named Canada’s #1 Festival by CBC
Radio 3 listeners in 2010, and U.S-based Outside Magazine has
distinguished Evolve as one of its Top 10 Outdoor Festivals.
Evolve
is an immersive weekend music and camping experience. With paid
festival admission, wristband-wearers are invited to free camping on
soft grass in designated General and Family Camping areas. All camping
is a short walk from the stages and parking areas and will offer
full-service facilities, including port-a-johns, drinking water, and
sink stations. More than just a great music festival, Evolve also offers
attendees an amazing range of activities and workshops -- to nourish
the mind, body and soul and give thousands of festivalgoers the
inspiration they need to keep the true spirit of Evolve alive in
communities across Canada and the world.
With
the help of a community receptive to sustainability action, and
organizers who are dedicated to doing their part to ensure a green
future, Evolve has been dubbed “Canada’s greenest festival."
Since its inception, Evolve has shown that it is possible host a fun
outdoor music festival, while at the same time championing environmental
causes issues and inspiring positive behavioural change.
Upon
entering the festival site, all Evolve attendees will participate in a
ceremony led by a local native elder, in which they will commit in a
spiritually authentic fashion to Evolve’s Green Pledge; to be
environmentally responsible during their time at Evolve. Musicians will
reference the Green Pledge from the stage, reinforcing the message as a
core theme of Evolve. A “Green Team” will help festival goers sort and
dispose of their waste. Eastern Region Solid Waste Management (ERSWM) is
providing enhanced clustering and signage for recycling and waste that
will make disposal more efficient, and will have a booth set up in the
Awareness Village with information on sorting and disposal; ERSWM is a
committee of representatives from the six municipal councils in
Antigonish and Guysborough counties who are dedicated to ensuring that
the area achieves the disposal and recycling goals set out in the
Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperities Act. All Evolve posters
and marketing materials are printed on select recycled stock using
environmentally-friendly waterless printing presses that eliminate vast
amounts of water waste. Our print shop uses sustainable, renewable
Bullfrog Power to run their printers. Festival clothing merchandise is
printed on either organically grown cotton or recycled materials using
fair trade and labour practices. And Evolve food vendors in the village
use compostable and biodegradable food packaging and cutlery.
About Rich Aucoin
Part indie-rock preacher, part wunderkind, Rich Aucoin has just released a remarkably ambitious album, We’re All Dying To Live.
Aucoin invited anyone and everyone -- from St. John’s, NL to Dawson
City, YK -- to be on the record. This result is a musical scrapbook
uniting over 500 musicians from community choirs to some of Canada’s
best-known artists, friends and fans from across Canada.
““The
record is really about making big life decisions or at least about
thinking about those decisions and how to live one's life,” says Aucoin.
It follows up on his 2007 debut Personal Publication, an EP that synchs to Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas,.
Much
like the makings of We’re All Dying To Live, Aucoin wants to be
surrounded by everyone he knows and loves and everyone he has yet to
know and love every night forevermore. Cash in your golden ticket to an
all inclusive electro-pop dance explosion!
About the Forward Music Group
In
the far East of Canada, amongst the forests of the Saint John River
Valley, rose a music community of musicians and friends in the province
of New Brunswick. The Forward Music Group began as a label with a small
collection of bands in 2007, releasing 12 albums in its first two years.
Now with 29 releases from over 13 artists, and offices in both Halifax
and Fredericton, they have entered the international scene and
highlighted Atlantic Canada as a vibrant source of music.
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