LOLA Festival Returns

Final Fantasy, Akron/Family, Bruce Peninsula, Polar Bear, A Horse And His Boy, Canaille and Nihilist Spasm Band, NOMO, and the University Of Western Ontario New Music Ensemble are the musical acts that will play the London Ontario Live Arts Festival (LOLA) from Sept. 17 to 19.

Free concerts and programming will once again be held in London, Ont.'s Victoria Park and throughout the city's downtown area over three days.

"The objective with this year's line-up was to showcase artists who tend to explore more composition-based notions of song through instrumental narratives, yet who remain palatable in a traditional pop or indie type style festival setting," LOLA music curator Ian Doig-Phaneuf says.

LOLA 2009 will once again feature art exhibitions in Victoria Park and the Forest City Gallery, along with a downtown light-based installation that will transform an entire city block.

More information about the festival is available on the LOLA website.

The inaugural LOLA festival was held in 2006, and past performers include Grizzly Bear, Do Make Say Think, Plants And Animals, Holy Fuck, Constantines, Shad, Basia Bulat, Tokyo police Club, Born Ruffians and Elliott Brood.