Hillside Festival

Tomorrow! Don’t miss it!

We loved having Lauryn Macfarlane at Hillside Inside this year, check out her live performance from the Bullring tomorrow evening!

Livestock From The Bullring is back tonight with Jennifer Castle! The show is totally FREE and is streamed live via Twitch. Castle's beautiful style of piano and acoustic guitar blends seamlessly with her voice to create an intimate feel, both inventive and subtly visceral. Tune in this evening at 7PM!

We are excited to partner with Global Toronto Conference and Small World Music for this year’s edition of #GT21. A music showcase and conference, GT is a platform for re-imagining and building a sustainable, equitable, and accessible music sector. GT takes place online from June 14-18, 2021 with events starting in the Spring. The guiding theme this year is Now What: Making Space, Enacting Change. Registration is open now! https://www.globaltoronto.org/ Registration for GT21 is $75, but we are eager to ensure that all who would like to participate can. If you would like to register at a reduced price, use PARTNER50 promo code when registering, for a waived fee type: FREEPARTNER.

Halley McKeown is a Girls & Guitars Songwriting Course alumni (you might remember her from Hillside Inside 2021!) and will be performing on The Grand's 101.1 radio show this evening at 7:45pm ET. We'll see (hear?) you there

We’re so excited for this series of live workshops! They are completely free and folks can register here: https://store.hillsidefestival.ca//improvisation-across-t/

We’ll see you in February on our website and YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7TIV0h9ER3h6DZF7Hi2bDQ) for Hillside Inside 2021! Click here for more info and updates about participating artists, workshops, and more: https://hillsidefestival.ca/lineup-hillside-inside-2021/

Girls & Guitars is a longstanding feature of Hillside Inside that is part of a 10+-year-old project designed to address a gender imbalance in the music industry and thus further our mission of encouraging inclusion and equality. The project has three streams, including songwriting courses and in-the-school workshops, and this stream represents our attempt to get more female-identified musicians in front of a music-loving audience. This year, we will feature the songwriting students from our Girls & Guitars course, some fantastic alt-country and electro-pop artists, and a big new voice all the way from Iran.

Our friends at Alternatives Journal wrote a piece about #HillsideInside2021! Read the article here: https://www.alternativesjournal.ca/sparking-hope

Ahead of Hillside Inside 2021 this weekend, listen to a fresh chat with the artist formerly known as Cold Specks, Ladan!

TWO (2) more sleeps until #HillsideInside2021! Comment below and tell us about your plans and who you're excited to see Hop on over to our website for more details about our fantastic lineup: https://hillsidefestival.ca/

The multi-day music fest has become so synonymous with community, independent arts, culture, sustainability, inclusiveness, and good vibes, man, it’s practically its own holiday. --Richard Trapunski, NOW Toronto To-do list for #GivingTuesday next week: 1. Use #WhyINeedHillside to share your memories of Hillside! 2. Help Hillside win a $5000 award from CanadaHelps by entering us in this contest: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/givingtuesday-pledge/ 3. Donate! #GivingTuesdayCA is December 1st! https://www.canadahelps.org/en/giv3/110630#guelphgives

More workshops! Crochet yourself a winter hat to go ice skating or bake some fresh homemade bread while learning Anishinaabemowin. Bread dough takes time to rest so you have HOURS to do more fun things at #HillsideInside2021. See you this weekend, starting at 6PM on Friday!

Save the date for a special live performance on December 6th to celebrate Jenn Grant's new album release! Get your tickets today: https://jenngrant.bandcamp.com//hillside-festival-guelph-o

Hillsiders! Here's your chance to share how you're supporting us this #GivingTuesday and we will be entered to win a $5,000 donation from CanadaHelps. Each donor entry is a chance for Hillside to win! This contest closes on November 30th, 2020 and the winner will be announced on #GivingTuesdayCa December 1st, 2020. Thank you for being so engaged and giving as we go through these challenging times.

Tuesday, December 1st marks the eighth annual edition of GivingTuesday and, beyond asking you for financial donations, we want to know what Hillside means to you, via #WhyINeedHillside on socials! GivingTuesday is a global movement for giving and volunteering, taking place each year after Black Friday. The Opening day of the giving season, it’s a time when charities, companies and individuals join together and rally for favourite causes. In the same way that retailers take... part in Black Friday, the giving community comes together for GivingTuesday. For GivingTuesday this year, we want you to share your stories about why you love, support, or need Hillside using #WhyINeedHillside on social media and tell us how Hillside has helped you heal and grow. YOU make Hillside happen-- Help Hillside flourish! Donate to us for Giving Tuesday here: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/giv3/110630#guelphgives

Andrew Craig created and directed the Andrew Craig’s Gospel Christmas Project, a sold-out show at Guelph Little Theatre and the River Run Centre for five years. Watch their performance this FRIDAY at 7pm for Unmuted co-presented with Hillside Festival.

Hillside Inside workshops coming to you this weekend! Starting Friday, February 5th until Sunday, February 7th, you can learn all about biking in the winter, cooking macaroni pie to warm up your bones after biking in -20 degrees, and so many more new skills! Here's a look at some of our workshops at #HillsideInside2021.

Both at the height of summer and in the middle of winter, Hillside curates festivals that bring innovative music, Indigenous drumming, children’s entertainment, environmental learning, and glorious food to thousands of people. At the festivals and during the rest of the year in local schools and at camps, we offer over 140 educational workshops in Indigenous culture, songwriting, peacemaking, health & wellness, and environmental projects. This #GivingTuesdayCa, tell us which of these projects matter most to you using #WhyINeedHillside. Share your stories on social media and tag us, or donate to help us continue creating special events for you: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/giv3/110630#guelphgives #GivingTuesday #GuelphGives

With the seasons turning, Jenn Grant has her sights set on the holidays. Her forthcoming holiday record, Forever On Christmas Eve, is set to drop on November 27. Recorded during last year’s holiday season, the album is filled with Patsy Cline-style swagger and sees Jenn covering all of the classics, in addition to her own new original, Downtown on Christmas. The holidays are nostalgic, Jenn reflects. We watch the same old movies, we hang the white and blue lights, and che...ck in with each other on how it’s been. We miss our families, we fall in love, we find hope again in human kind. I’ve had over a decade of Christmases now with my partner Daniel Ledwell, and we made this album together last holiday season. We hope it gives you something to get into that special spirit, and we hope that our kids will always love this time of year as much as we do. May this be a keepsake for them and for you, as we all get older and watch the snow fall. To celebrate the release, Jenn will be giving a special live performance in her Halifax hometown at The Convention Centre on Sunday, December 6. While performing live in person at The Halifax Convention Centre, the show will also be livestreamed for all fans to enjoy. Jenn has also partnered with venues across Canada and will be doing a profit share of the show, in an act of solidarity with venues that she would normally be touring around this album’s release. Get your tickets for the live concert here: https://jenngrant.bandcamp.com//hillside-festival-guelph-o

It's the weekend and a good time as any to catch up on the #Unmuted series on https://www.silencesounds.ca/ and https://hillsidefestival.ca/unmuted/ Silence P.S. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7TIV0h9ER3h6DZF7Hi2bDQ

We're back for another #Unmuted performance co-presented by Silence this Friday at 7pm with Andrew Craig! Tune in at http://silencesounds.ca and http://hillsidefestival.ca

We’re LIVE now with Andrew Craig’s #Unmuted performance. Tune it at silencesounds.ca and hillsidefestival.ca

TWO MORE SLEEPS! Wild Rivers' virtual concert experience benefiting mental health organizations Bring Change to Mind (US) and Jack.org (Canada). In this never-before-seen performance filmed live at The Mod Club in Toronto, Canada, Wild Rivers shares brand new songs from their 2020 EP Songs To Break Up To, their brand new single Pink Shades, and more. The evening will also feature a special guest virtual performance by Didirri. 100% of Wild Rivers’ net ticket proceeds will benefit Bring Change to Mind and Jack.org, two organizations who are committed to ending the stigma around mental illness and providing programming for youth to better take care of their mental health, we hope you can join us! Get your tickets here: https://wild-rivers-merch.myshopify.com//live-from-lockdow

Until our next #Unmuted performance next Friday, November 20th, watch TRP.P's mesmerizing performance (co-presented by Silence) again here:

#GivingTuesdayCa is coming up in 2 weeks! We're so proud to be continuing programming despite the challenges we are presented with this year to help spread the good vibes. Use #WhyINeedHillside to tell us why Hillside matters to you and make a donation this #GivingTuesday: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/giv3/110630#guelphgives