Spoon, Cat Power And The Walkmen To Play Calgary's Sled Island Festival

05/01/07 5:00pm

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