Planning Your Camp Wavelength: Day Camp in the City Route
August 17, 2017This year’s Camp Wavelength is unlike any other edition of our festival to date! We’ve got art, music, and activities happening around the city at different times and places, so if you want to experience everything, you’ll have to plan your days accordingly. We’re here to help! Camp Wavelength kicks off on Friday, August 18 at one of the coolest music venues in the city: The Garrison! L
Changing Tides: How Camp Wavelength 2017 became Day Camp in the City
August 10, 2017How did Camp Wavelength 2017 become “Day Camp in the City”? There’s more to the story than a flooded Island. Wavelength Board President and long-time crew member/writer/performer Dean Williams has got the scoop… Wavelength Isn’t a Place Toronto Island’s idyllic glades, slightly melancholic shores, and – above all – soothing isolation was a perfect backdrop for the ALL CAPS! Island
Camp Over at the Gladstone Hotel during Camp Wavelength!
August 9, 2017Want a true weekend getaway? Camp Over at the Gladstone Hotel during Camp Wavelength! We’re teaming up with our friends at West Queen West’s famous arts hotel landmark to offer a special room rate during Toronto’s summer indie music festival #CampWL, August 18-20th. Limited room availability, so act now! Got Camp WL tickets or passes already? Go to gladstonehotel.com and use the promo code:
Camp Wavelength 2017 Arts & Activities
August 7, 2017Camp Wavelength is more than music! With Day Camp in the City, we’ve got a new multi-venue format, including a magical new waterfront venue, Sherbourne Common park, for our daytime programming. We’ll have a boatload of visual arts installations, performances and interactive activities for you to enjoy at all of our venues. So jump on your bike or grab a free ride to and from the park, on the BOLD
Camp Wavelength Lawn Signs are BACK!
July 31, 2017Last year our lawn signs were a hit and now they’re back! SELECT Camp Wavelength as your summer festival of choice by proudly displaying our election-style sign in your yard! These are extremely limited, so sign up soon and also receive 15% off your festival tickets. Only 100 signs are available, so act fast! CONTEST: Want your chance to win free stuff? Share a FUN photo of your placed lawn si
PLUS “Camp Cruise” pre-festival event line-up feat. Cadence Weapon, Greys & more presented by Red Bull Sound Select (August 11)! We’re thrilled to announce the location of our FREE Day Camp shows at Camp Wavelength 2017. Sherbourne Common is an award-winning city park right on the Toronto waterfront, close to Sugar Beach, at Queens Quay and Sherbourne. The “Day Camp” component of
Camp Wavelength 2017: Day Camp in the City
July 11, 2017New location, new format, same magical vibe! Important announcement – Due to the flooding on Toronto Island, for this year only, Camp Wavelength 2017 becomes DAY CAMP IN THE CITY! It is with heavy hearts that we must break the news that Camp Wavelength 2017 will not be taking place on the Island this year. Though we have held out hope that the tragic situation will improve, we have not been
Hey Campers! Camp Wavelength’s line-up includes a stellar array of musical talent! But did you know that there is also an assembly of exceptional installation art, performance artists, activities and activism awaiting you? Here’s a teaser of the fun to come… DIY video games! Interactive installations! Campfires! Storytelling! Glitter station! Mask play! Hidden dioramas!&nbs
Volunteer at Camp Wavelength 2017
June 8, 2017Camp Wavelength 2017 wants you! Volunteer, lend a hand, and pitch a tent at Toronto’s ONLY camping and music festival. While you’re at it, make new friends, discover new music, and help put on a world-class music and arts festival. Camp Wavelength 2017 is a three-day music festival that takes place at Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island, August 18-20. Wavelength Music is a non-pro
A word about Camp Wavelength 2017
June 2, 2017Dear Camp Wavelength friends and community, Rest assured: Camp Wavelength is ON for this summer. As you may have heard, Toronto Island is experiencing higher than normal water levels, and the park is closed until July 31st. Thankfully, our event is in mid-August, which should allow for water levels to return to normal and the ground to dry out. We look forward to working with our venue partne
The Pucumber Sasssquash Family Band: The Wavelength Inner-View
May 26, 2017Purveyors of: Cornucopic cult theme songs File next to: Deerhoof, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Fantomas Playing: Wavelength’s Doors Open Toronto After Party, Saturday, May 27 @ Bike Pirates. Get tickets here, or at the door! I first saw the Pucumber Sasssquash Family Band in their hometown of Hamilton. With lead vocalist Zucchini Jackson flailing his way across the venue floor and much o
Exclusive: Del Bel Download w/ Broken Pencil x Wavelength Song of the Month
March 27, 2017After our first Song of the Month release featuring Hush Pup was a big hit, we’re continuing to partner with Broken Pencil Magazine to treat their subscribers to new tunes from the indie music scene. April’s Song of the Month is “Go On,” an exclusive advance download from Del Bel’s “III.” Go here for more info! Del Bel seems to never musically settle on each new installment within their discogr
Camp Wavelength 2017 – Save The Date (August 18-20) & Call for Submissions NOW OPEN!
March 17, 2017SAVE THE DATE / CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS CAMP WAVELENGTH 2017 “TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART” The One and Only Toronto Island Slumber Party is back for year three! SAVE THE DATE: August 18-20, 2017 Artscape Gibraltar Point Toronto Island SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN: Open Call for Performers, Visual/Media Artists, Games & Activities Submission Deadline: April 14, 2017 NO SUBMISSION FEE
Wow, that was a weekend!!! HUGE THANKS to everyone who helped Wavelength celebrate our 17th. Packed houses, great vibe, amazing performances, fantastic visuals… 2017 will definitely go down in the record books as one of our wildest anniversary fests. THANK YOU to all our amazing artists, venues, partners, sponsors, staff, board, and volunteers for your hard work and passion to help make #W
Track Premiere: Hush Pup – "Wearing Dark Colours" + Broken Pencil Song of the Month Club Launch!
February 17, 2017It’s an exciting day here at Wavelength – tonight marks the opening night of our 17th anniversary fest, Wavelength Music Festival 17 (#WL17), and everyone is hyped for it! We’re also stoked to announce the launch of a new collaboration, a monthly Song of the Month club in partnership with Canadian indie-culture magazine, Broken Pencil! If you don’t know Broken Pencil, you should – since 1995, they
Listen: WLFM 001 – Wavelength Music Podcast – The #WL17 Edition
February 10, 2017WLFM marks the return of the Wavelength Music Podcast! Your hosts Jonny Dovercourt and Dean Williams run down all the awesome bands playing Wavelength Music Festival 17 – February 17-19, 2017 in Toronto. Along the way, they make some friendly crank calls, and talk about the Big Earplug conspiracy, the true identity of Scott Pilgrim, yoga poses as stage banter, movie reviews by your future self,
Calling all aspiring Toronto music documentarians! Join our Wikipedia Jam February 19.
February 3, 2017Ever noticed that our local music history isn’t that well-documented? Online encyclopedia Wikipedia, in particular, has a lot of blind spots when it comes to Toronto musical artists and institutions, such as the almost-60-year-old live club The Silver Dollar Room, which we recently learned will close this spring. Someone who deserves a Wikipedia page is Joe Strutt, a beloved figure in Toronto’s
Check It Out: Chastity – Peroxide
January 20, 2017Whitby, Ontario’s hometown heroes Chastity released a brand new 7” last weekend entitled Peroxide. Fresh off of a North American tour alongside PUP, and now signed to Captured Tracks — the same label as Mac Demarco — after a serious bidding war, the noise-punk outfit has created a two-song single that cuts deep. Both songs are anthems to heartache, that sound as if they could fit in easi
Help out our friends Rachel and Doc!
January 10, 2017‘Tis the season – to help out friends in need! On Thursday night (Jan. 12) you have 2 chances. First up, our friend Rachel Conduit, the owner of Handlebar in Kensington Market, was recently treated very badly by a former business partner, and is saddled with some hefty debts. Handlebar is a great space for new artists, and Rachel is a stellar human, so lend them all a hand at Handlebash! They’r
2016: The Hated Year in Review
December 31, 2016Looking back on the last 12 months of Wavelength – and the world by Jonny Dovercourt Well I’ve taken my number and it’s now my turn to weigh in and reflect on the most detested calendar year in living memory. Good riddance 2016! So long, we hardly knew ya. I’m in a Gemini, so if you believe that mystical stuff, I don’t just see both sides of a situation, I actively take both. On the on