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Hello and welcome to Wapiti Music Festival’s sixth year This is beautiful Fernie, B.C.’s annual summer music festival and comes with all the mountain town charm and scenery included in your ticket price. Every festival year has been amazing, filled with the best of Canadian Indie music, local beer, good friends, new visitors, and a feeling that right now this is the best place on earth. And then the next year happens and it is even better. On August 12th and 13th we’re going to do it again. Expect to hear a spectrum of Canadian music from singer songwriter folk/blues to electronic funk and everything in between. Bring your blanket and shades for the relaxing sets and your dancing shoes for the up tempo sets. While you’re on the festival grounds sample some amazing food from a wide variety of vendors, handcrafted art from around Western Canada, and of course some local Fernie Brewing Co. beer, and B.C. wines and cider. Wapiti Music Festival is operated by a nonprofit society. We do it for the love of music and community and we hope you’ll love being here. You can show the love by helping us keep Annex Park beautiful. Check out our improved waste management stations this year with opportunities for re-use, recycling, and composting. Thanks to Wildsight for helping us with this important part of our festival. As part of our ongoing sustainability improvements pick up a couple of our new 100% recycled stainless steel mugs. They can be found in the Merchandise tent or Beverage tent. Finally, if you see someone on site wearing a volunteer shirt give them a high five for us. Without our many volunteers and sponsors Wapiti would just be another name for an Elk. Wapiti Music Festival Society
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Schedule of Events Friday August 12
Saturday August 13
6:00 pm Gates open
Noon
7:00 pm Wild Honey
12:30 pm Linden Anthony
8:15 pm The MatinĂŠe
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Wooden Horseman
9:45 pm
3:30 pm
Camaro 67
5:00 pm
Terra Lightfoot
6:30 pm
Bear Mountain
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TD Kids Tent Saturday 1 to 4 p.m.
Hat, Waterbottle, Camera, Cash, Sunscreen, and photo ID to collect your tickets. Glass containers and non-factory sealed beverages are not allowed on the festival grounds. Only service animals are permitted on the festival grounds.
There will be crafts! Children must be accompanied by an adult.
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Safety Reminder The Elk River is a fast moving mountain river. There are no lifeguards on duty. It is recommended to avoid the river and the duck pond and watch your children at all times, especially near the water. You are at your own risk.
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Free Parking • Secure Bike Check Wapiti is pleased to provide parking at no charge for those attending the event. We also have a secure bike check and strongly encourage festivalgoers to ride their bikes or walk to the event if possible. If you are driving please watch for the signs and volunteers directing you to the parking area inside the Annex Park. There is parking along city streets, but we ask that you respect the properties and driveways of residents and avoid blocking their access and not park on lawns. Also, please respect no parking signs where they are posted. Please note that care should be taken around the festival grounds, especially after dark, as there is considerable foot and bike traffic.
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There is a vendor village where food trucks and vendors will tantalize your tastebuds, along side colourful craft vendors. Fernie Brewing Company will be serving up Fernie’s best brew and wine will be served from the Gehringer Brothers Okanagan winery.
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Wild Honey - Roots, Cranbrook/Fernie B.C. Wild Honey is a female trio from the Kootenays. Their roots sound is inspired by their beautiful home and the people they share it with. Recent gigs include playing with Barney Bentall and the Cariboo Express and opening for CMT’s darlings, Belle Starr. Wild Honey has been recording in Vancouver and will be releasing an EP later this year. An invitation to stand on their homegrown Wapiti stage with the finest of musical company is a dream come true.
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The Matinée - Roots, Rock, Folk, Vancouver B.C.
Shred Kelly Stoke Folk, Fernie B.C.
It’s been an insane year for the Vancouver-based band, with four major Canadian tours, a few residencies in and around Toronto and the odd sojourn into the States under its belt to promote their breakthrough 2013 release, We Swore We’d See the Sunrise (not to mention a slew of major festival slots, like the band’s now-traditional Live @ Squamish blow-out). Eighteen months since Light Organ Records released their debut full-length album, thanks in some part to the band’s punishing work ethic, you’d be hard-pressed to walk into a bar, pool hall, or cathouse without hearing the CBC and MuchMusic-minted hits “Young and Lazy” or “The Road” pumping from the radio.
Since their inception, the Fernie, B.C.-based “StokeFolk” band have been re-defining what “folk music” means in Canada. Through their individual panCanadian backgrounds, Tim Newton, Sage McBride, Jordan Vlasschaert, Ian Page-Shiner, and Ty West have amplified the traditional sound of folk music with a more contemporary approach. They have humbly pioneered Canada’s modern folk sound – pushing the boundaries of the genre, and creating “Stoke-Folk” – a genre that truly encapsulates the peaks and valleys that define Canada. Their music is a perfect blend of “stoke” and “folk”. That translates perfectly onto an album, or a packed dance floor.
Linden Anthony – Alt Folk, Fernie B.C. Linden Anthony is an alt-folk artist from Fernie, B.C. Gathering influence from acts such as Bon Iver, City and Colour and Ben Howard, he has developed his own style of indie/folk/alternative. Sticking to the roots but with modern twists. Anthony will make the fans dance, smile and enjoy themselves by giving his all with every performance.
Wooden Horsemen – Neo-Swamp Rock, Vancouver B.C. Garnering critical praise with their folk laden debut album in 2013, Wooden Horsemen have expanded their sound considerably since embarking on multiple cross-country tours. With the addition of horns and an expanded rhythm section the group seamlessly blends a down and dirty version of Americana with an eclectic mixture of ingredients derived from Latin and African elements. Defined as consciously perceiving feelings and emotions, ‘Sentient’ - produced by Mark Lawrence of Big in Japan Recordings, promises to deliver just that.
Camaro 67 Heavy Funk, Vancouver B.C. Camaro 67 brings together classic Afrobeat influences (Fela Kuti, Tony Allen), and modern Afrofunk / Groove sounds (Antibalas, Budos Band, The Herbaliser) to produce a propulsive, high-energy, made-in-Vancouver heavy funk experience. This explosive 10-piece instrumental groove-band debuted in 2015, picking up from where Miami Device B.C.’s premier Afrobeat orchestra over the past seven years) left off. As Miami Device, members of Camaro 67 have played jazz, folk and indie music festivals throughout B.C., having opened for international dance/urban artists including K-os, Chali 2na (Jurassic 5), Chin Chin and Passion Pit, plus local cohorts in the Vancouver groove scene (Star Captains, Five Alarm Funk, David Ward). Camaro 67 released their debut album on April 8th, and are touring to support the new record.
Festival Friendly Cups
This year Wapiti Music Festival is introducing re-usable stainless steel cups as part of our ongoing effort to reduce waste from the event and enhance attendee experience. The 1 Pint stainless steel cups have been purchased from Glogg, a bespoke stainless steel cup maker in the U.K. Designed and manufactured in the U.K. The cups are designed to replace disposable plastic cups. Glogg created these cups for the world-renowned Glastonbury music festival in England. They’ve been custom etched with the eye catching Wapiti Logo. We have been searching for five years to find a way to reduce the plastic waste generated at the festival, and believe we have finally found it. Wapiti is thankful for the generous support of the United Steelworkers Local 9346 who helped us bring these cups to Fernie. The cups will be sold at Wapiti, in the merchandise tent, and in the beverage garden. They are discounted when purchased with drink tickets. The cups will retail for $10 including taxes. These are stunning cups and we hope people will take them home and use them year-round to remind them of the great time at Wapiti. Please bring them back next year. These cups are meant to be used year after year.
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Bear Mountain – The Funk Hunters – Yukon Blonde – Indie, Dance, Alternative, Electronic, Vancouver B.C. Indie Rock, Kelowna B.C. Terra Lightfoot – Vancouver B.C. Borrowing inspiration from classic funk and hip hop, The Funk Hunters are putting Out now via Dine Alone Records, Yukon Blending live instrumentation with fully the soul back into electronic dance music. Blonde’s On Blonde, produced and immersive visual projections and lighting Roots, Hamilton, Ontario Having honed their craft at over 450 mixed by Tony Hoffer, (M83, Beck, components, Bear Mountain (who take their performances in 16 countries, the DJ duo’s show is a brilliant technical display of creative collaboration between four turntables. But words can’t do justice to two friends whose passion is dance floor mastery – breathless audiences at global festivals including Wakarusa, Burning Man, Rhythm & Vines, Shambhala, Ottawa Bluesfest, and Envision are the ultimate testament.
name from Jack Kerouac’s 1958 novel The Dharma Bums) far surpass the parameters of a traditional indie band. While their highly rhythmic, vocally driven sound draws heavily upon a shared appreciation of house music and always keeps an ear to the dance floor, their atypical live show has been likened to performance art that seeks to awaken the senses and push the boundaries of the live experience indefinitely.
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