NEWS: Halifax's OBEY Convention returns, this June, w/ Mac DeMarco, Pissed Jeans, Grouper, Pete Swanson & more
Press release provided by Pigeon Row
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The
OBEY Convention, Eastern Canada’s only music and arts festival
dedicated to the cultural outsider, is thrilled to return with an
uncompromising sixth season. Some of the acts scheduled to perform
include bizarre indie darling Mac DeMarco (Montreal), Sub Pop’s hardcore punks Pissed Jeans (Philadelphia, PA ), the world’s most supple free-jazz-punk drummer Chris Corsano (Boston, MA), power noise punisher Pete Swanson (New York, NY), ghost and song conjurer Grouper (Astoria, OR), psychedelic dream brothers Tonstartssbandht (New York, NY/Montreal, QC), neo-classical drone composer Kyle Bobby Dunn (Toronto, ON), deep-lunged jammers PC Worship (Brooklyn, NY), indie proggers Each Other (Montreal, QC), classic rawk weirdoes Babysitter (Victoria, BC), psych outfit The Ketamines (Toronto, ON), and Halifax’s very own road warrior party duo Cousins.
Besides music, look forward to parasitic art installations by James Gauvreau at the main events, an outdoor “Music for Plants” experience by Lindsay Dobbin and friends, experimental video screenings at the library, an art opening by Mitchelle Weibe, a resonating building, and plenty more.
Most events will take place at artist run and alternative spaces around the city—The Khyber Centre for the Arts, The Bus Stop Theatre, the Commons Roots Urban Farm, Lost & Found, the Halifax Public Library
and more. As usual, OBEY will bring in deluxe sound and light
equipment to maximize fidelity and audience pleasure. The main event
venues are small and always sell out quickly. A very limited number of
reasonably priced weekend passes are on sale now. Advance tickets for
select shows will be available when the full schedule is announced on
April 18th.
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