June's Edgefest Lineup Revealed

02/23/09 11:48am

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Billy Talent will headline Edgefest when it returns to Toronto's Downsview Park for a second year on June 20.

AFI, Alexisonfire, Metric, K-OS, The Stills and Arkells are also slated to play the festival's main stage. Moneen, The Waking Eyes, The Midway State, Beast, Flash Lightnin, Still Life Still, Clothes Make The Man, Dean Lickyer, CHARTattack Canadian Music Week showcase performers Dinosaur Bones and La Casa Muerte will perform on the second stage.

Tickets go on sale on Feb. 28 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster. A limited number of early bird tickets cost $39.50, while regular-priced tickets are $49.50. An exclusive pre-sale for Inside Edge members begins on Tuesday at 10 a.m. and runs through Friday at midnight.

The first 2,500 ticket buyers will get "Fast Pass" tickets that will enable them to enter the park through a separate gate and avoid nasty lineups.

A one-dollar charity fee will be added to the price of each ticket and will be donated to the Downsview Park Foundation, which plants trees at the park.