VIRGIN FESTIVAL BC ANNOUNCES SIX MORE RED-HOT ACTS INCLUDING DAY ONE HEADLINER – THE ROOTS!
18 stellar acts now announced for Virgin Festival’s return to British Columbia
Woo-hoo! Canada’s hottest summer music festival, Virgin Festival, added six more hot acts for its second Virgin Festival BC! Which, if you need reminding, all goes down at DEER LAKE PARK on JULY 25 & 26, 2009 to an expected throng of more than 20,000 music lovers!
Joining the already sizzling Saturday line-up are day one headliners and Grammy Award winners THE ROOTS, Juno Award winners BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE and singer-songwriter CHRIS VELAN. Artists already announced for day one of Virgin Festival BC are Canadian rockers OUR LADY PEACE, Grammy Award-winning electrorockers Mutemath, Canadian hip hop artist K-OS, punk rockers Spinnerette and Montréal based indie rockers plants and animals.
For the Sunday line-up new additions are new wave rockers METRIC, songstress CARLY RAE JEPSEN and soulful up-and-comers EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS. Artists already announced for the Sunday are day two headliner and Grammy Award-winning guitar legend BEN HARPER AND RELENTLESS7, legendary alt-rockers sonic youth, jarvis cocker of Britpop group Pulp fame, hip-hop trio de la soul, English indie rockers gomez, garage rockers awesome color and Welsh alt-rockers future of the left. More hot talent will be announced v.soon!
“What a line up! Six more sizzling hot acts including The Roots and Metric means Virgin Festival BC is gonna be hard to beat!” said Andrew Bridge, Director of Virgin Festivals. “So make sure you grab your tickets now before BC’s ultimate summer festival sells out!”
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