Spoon, Cat Power And The Walkmen To Play Calgary's Sled Island Festival
Tuesday May 01, 2007 @ 05:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff

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Calgary will dip its toe into the alternative music festival pool this summer by staging the Sled Island Festival from June 27 to 29.

While no schedule has been posted yet, headlining acts will include Spoon, Cat Power, The Walkmen, The Dears, Les Savy Fav, Destroyer, Boredoms and Mates Of State.

The event is being put together by: Shawn Petsche, the art curation and marketing co-ordinator for the Pop Montreal International Music Festival for the past three years; Broken City booker Zak Pashak; and Woodpigeon and Spreepark member Mark Hamilton.

There's no actual Sled Island site that will host the fest, but Knox United and Grace Presbyterian churches and the Mac Hall Ballroom will stage the biggest shows. Though the "Venue Maps" link on the Sled Island site doesn't work, it's probably a safe assumption that Broken City will present some performances.

Four-day festival passes, which will set you back $180 each, can be purchased from the festival's pain-in-the-ass website.

Here are the confirmed performers for the Sled Island Festival:

• Fred Armisen
• Axis Of Conversation
• The Bigfoot Rocketship
• The Black Dots
• Azeda Booth
• Boredoms
• Castle Greyskull
• Cat Power
• The Consonant C
• CPC Gangbang
• The Dears
• Destroyer
• The Details
• Duck!
• Forbidden Dimension
• Geronimo
• Ghosts Of Modern Man
• Gunther
• Rebekah Higgs
• Hot Little Rocket
• Hylozoists
• Jagatha Christie
• Jane Vain & The Dark Matter
• The Johnsons
• Kilbourne
• Lazersnake
• Les Savy Fav
• Light City Fiction
• Lint
• Lonely Vulcans
• The Marble Index
• Mark Brittles Project
• Mates Of State
• Mongoose
• The Mongrels
• Mother Mother
• My Robot Unicorn
• The National Frost
• The Nymphets
• Paramedic
• The Petites
• Reily
• The Remones
• Ricca Razor Sharp
• Rocket Smog
• The Rocky Fortune
• Curtis Santiago
• Spoon
• Sudden Infant Dance Syndrome
• The Summerlad
• Twin Fangs
• Chad VanGalen
• The Walkmen
• Woodpigeon