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Hillside Festival

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The Hillside Festival is an annual three-day, five-stage (including one kids' stage) summer festival occurring in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, hosting musicians, spoken word artists, workshops and more.

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The Hillside Festival is an annual three-day, five-stage (including one kids' stage) summer festival occurring in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, hosting musicians, spoken word artists, workshops and more.

01 · What it is
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Vocal, percussive, or instrumental sound tradition carried by community performers.

02 · Where & name
Canada

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03 · How it is doing
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What is Hillside Festival in plain words?

The Hillside Festival is an annual three-day, five-stage (including one kids' stage) summer festival occurring in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, hosting musicians, spoken word artists, workshops and more.

Where is Hillside Festival practised or documented?

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The tradition & historical record

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The Hillside Festival is an annual three-day, five-stage (including one kids' stage) summer festival occurring in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, hosting musicians, spoken word artists, workshops and more. The Hillside Festival occurs in late July on Guelph Lake Island. 1

List of past performers

Notable performers who have played at Hillside include: 1

Notable spoken word artists who performed at the festival include Sandra Alland (2005), Stuart McLean (2008), Robert Priest (2005), Tony Leighton (2007, 2008), Tom King (2007), and Shane Koyczan (2010, Inside 2011, 2013). Barenaked Ladies played a concert before the festival to celebrate the construction of the permanent Hillside main stage that had recently been built. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Hillside Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Hillside Festival is summer festival in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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