Camp Wavelength 2016: Thanks for the MAGIC!
August 24, 2016Magic. Pure joy. A waking dream. These are the words we’ve been hearing since this past weekend on the Island. Camp Wavelength 2016 was everything we could have hoped it would be and more. We’re only beginning to touch down in reality (a.k.a. the mainland) but we want to take a moment to thank everyone who helped make our second annual summer festival a success beyond our wildest imaginations.
Get to Know the Camp Wavelength Artists!
August 20, 2016Basement Studio Project If you were to go to summer camp now, what’s one merit badge that you’d be most likely to get? Most Intense. Tell us a three-line ghost story. What if we packed the car for install and forgot something important? Spooky? I think so. Best campfire food? Halloway likes roasted pineapple, Heather likes hot dogs and Natalie hates it all. What can people e
Camp Wavelength Late Night Ferry – Free Tickets from Wild Turkey Bourbon!
August 8, 2016You don’t have to camp over to get the full Camp WL experience. Wild Turkey Bourbon wants you to stay late and party on the Island! Follow @wildturkeycanada on Instagram for your ticket – the first 100 people to redeem each day get a FREE ride back to the city on our chartered Late Night Ferry, the Ste Marie I. Stay after the public ferries stop running and dance the night away with us. Camp Wa
5 Reasons to Visit POP Montréal
August 3, 2016POP Montréal is one of our favourite festivals to visit – if you love la ville de Montréal, sunny/breezy late September weather, great music, good food, cool art, historic venues, and excellent-looking people, then it’s the place for you. If you haven’t been yet, we’ve got none other than festival creative director Daniel Seligman here, with a guest blog to give you five reasons to visit POP, be
Select Camp Wavelength – Get Your Lawn Sign!
July 13, 2016Are you ready to pack it in, pack up and high tail it across the lake for an escape to summer camp? Have you elected to select Camp Wavelength as your Toronto music festival of choice? Let the neighbours know about your island staycation with one of our LAWN SIGNS and save 15% off your passes! “How do I get my sign?” – Email us at contact@wavelengthmusic.ca with the subject line SELECT CAMP
Camp Wavelength 2016 Volunteer Call
June 20, 2016Camp Wavelength wants you! Volunteer and lend a hand to pitch a tent at Toronto’s ONLY camping and music festival. Make new friends, discover new music, and help put on a world-class music festival. Camp Wavelength is a three-day music festival that takes place at Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island, August 19-21. Presented by Wavelength Music, Toronto’s longest running and most inf
Camp Wavelength 2016 – Save The Date + Call for Submissions
March 2, 2016CAMP WAVELENGTH 2016 Toronto’s ONLY Camping & Music Festival RETURNS! SAVE THE DATE: August 19-21 Artscape Gibraltar Point Toronto Island SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN: Open Call for Performers, Visual Artists, Vendors & Activities Submission Deadline: EXTENDED to March 31, 2016! NO SUBMISSION FEE CAMP WAVELENGTH RETURNS! The chilled-out high-point of last year’s insane Toronto s
She-Devils: Live Video from WL16
April 7, 2016#TBT alert! It still feels like winter here in Toronto, so it doesn’t feel like seven weeks since Montreal’s She-Devils bewitched us on Valentine’s Day to wind down Wavelength Music Festival 16… Our friends at Exclaim! were there to document the occasion, and these two live tracks are gorgeous slices of retro-futuristic Franco-pop, made all the more entrancing by General Chaos Visuals’ swirling
Camp Wavelength: Art, Games, Food & More!
August 15, 2015Attention Campers! Camp Wavelength is just two weeks away. Two weeks today! And now it’s time to make it official: Camp Wavelength is more than just music. In addition to the awesome line-up of music we’ve announced on our main stage, we’ve also got an exciting line-up of immersive fun and games, interactive installations and performance, and hunger/thirst-quenching food and drink to share! Her
Camp Wavelength: Important Info for Overnight Campers
August 27, 2015DEAR CAMPERS!! We’re very proud to offer overnight camping at the very first Camp Wavelength! This marks the only chance the public has to camp on Toronto Island. If you’re one of the lucky people who purchased a camping pass, we have some points of interest to prepare you for your stay! PLANNING YOUR TRIP WHEN TO ARRIVE Camping spots are assigned on a first come, first served bas
Wow, did that really happen? Was it only a week ago we were all setting up our tents, hugging old friends for the first of many times, wandering down to the beach and asking ourselves, “Where are we?!” It wasn’t a dream — the first-ever Camp Wavelength did happen last weekend — and it definitely won’t be the last-ever. We are still awed, humbled, thrilled, and bowled-over ecstatic
Dirty Frigs – Live at Camp Wavelength via Exclaim!
September 25, 2015If you missed Camp Wavelength — or you were there and want to go back and relive the magic — our friends at Exclaim! have got you covered. Our series of live videos from August’s Toronto Island festival/sleepover camp launches today with Dirty Frigs, a fresh-faced Toronto quartet who’ve been hypnotizing audiences with their swampy, spooky psychedelic rock, driven by Bri Salmena’s commanding
Anamai – Camp Wavelength Live Video
September 28, 2015Lie back and pretend you’re chilling on the beach on a hot, sunny August day. The second in our series of Camp Wavelength live videos is now up via Exclaim!, and it features the meditative dark folk sounds of Anamai (Buzz Records). The duo of Anna Mayberry and David Psutka was joined for this set by guest performers Allie Blumas (Doomsquad) and Ami Spears (Crosss, Ostrich Tuning).
Camp Wavelength: Camp out on Another World – also known as the Island – this summer
June 30, 2015Toronto Island is undeniably the most beautiful place in the City of Toronto, and one of our truly unique civic treasures. What other big city has a tree-lined, car-free park a 10 minute ferry ride from its downtown core? (Okay, New York might have Governor’s Island, but it’s a quarter the size and lacks an amusement park or hedge maze or beach, clothing optional or otherwise.) The Islands are
JOYFULTALK at Camp Wavelength – Live Video on Exclaim!
October 13, 2015Slo-mo sway along to our latest Camp Wavelength live video on Exclaim! TV, featuring Nova Scotia’s JOYFULTALK and their homemade electronic jams. Here’s what our friends at Exclaim! had to say about it: Jay Crocker is the mastermind behind such experiments as No More Shapes, the Polaris Music Prize-nominated Ghostkeeper and now, a new project dubbed JOYFULTALK. This innovative solo endeavour y
Moon King at Camp Wavelength – Live Video on Exclaim!
October 23, 2015Our latest Camp Wavelength live video is now up on Exclaim! TV, and it’s a banger: Moon King rocked out hard on the opening night of our Toronto Island festival this past August, and had the crowd bopping to their power-dream-pop. Here’s what Exclaim! had to say: Daniel Benjamin and Maddy Wilde form the boisterous Toronto-based shoegaze-pop duo Moon King. Following the 2013 release of their Ob
Wavelength New Year's Eve: Because it's almost 2016
December 5, 2015It might be hard to believe, but in less than two weeks, we’ll all have seen The Force Awakens (and will know if Luke turned to the Dark Side, if BB-8 can out-sass R2D2, if Chewbacca will bite the big one, sob)… and in less than four weeks, it will be 2016. The rumours are true: Wavelength will be ringing in our Sweet 16th year with our first-ever New Year’s party! We’re pulling out all the sto
100 Essential Canadian Songs from 2015
December 9, 2015Delicious sounds abound across our vast National expanse. Canada is now recognized more than ever for its fascinating musical magic and with good reason. If you look, you’ll find it. The scintillant splashes of iridescent electronics, the punishing crushes of noise rock, ever stranger beats and meticulously composed ambience. We’re happy to offer up a small glimpse of that weird confetti here. The
Camp Wavelength Volunteer Call
June 2, 2015If you love independent music and are looking for a rewarding volunteer experience, we want to hear from you! Volunteer and lend a hand to pitch a tent at Toronto’s ONLY camping & music festival, Camp Wavelength this summer…. Make new friends, discover new music, and help put on a world-class music festival! CAMP WAVELENGTH is a new, intimate, boutique festival launching on Toronto Isl
Job Posting: Camp Wavelength Festival Production Coordinator & Volunteer Coordinator
June 3, 2015We’re accepting applications for the contract positions of: Festival Production Coordinator and Volunteer Coordinator for Camp Wavelength Camp Wavelength is a new, intimate, boutique music and arts festival taking place at Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island the weekend of August 28-30, 2015. We are seeking two highly motivated individuals who want to join the Wavelength team this sum