Fredericton’s Living Roots Music Festival have announced the line-up for their third installment today. The festival, with its panache for unorthodox venues and its focus on maintaining a strong balance of local talent and imported gems, has expanded to ten venues. This year’s lineup promises three days packed with diverse talent.
“Last year’s festival went very well and we are looking forward to another great year,” says Living Roots organizer Eddie Young.
The venues for this year’s festival include Grimross Brewing Company, The Capital Complex and Wilser’s Room, The Abbey Cafe & Red Rover Cider House, Reads Cafe & Newsstand, Cinnamon Cafe, Bellwether and The Royal Barbershop. The festival also added Keswick Ridge’s Barnhouse Pub as a new satellite venue alongside Harvey Station’s recently opened Loch Pub & Grill.
“Over the last couple years we have built a great relationship with some of these businesses, participating each year and asking to be included in following years. They have been a large support system and help make this happen in a big way,” says Young.
“I am happy to include some friends that have come through and played at Grimross the past couple years, these are folks I like to be around and feel that others will as well.
A big part of the festival is to infuse some great people/acts into our community and build some relationships with venues, local acts and friends, with the goal that Fredericton will be a destination for them to come back and play and have a community of friends when they do.”
The event will also include local food trucks and live art, along with the addition of an Open Mic night at Read’s Cafe, and a series of poetry readings spread across the venues.
Living Roots eagerly announce festival headliners including ECMA-nominated Irish Mythen, JUNO-nominated Del Barber, probably the only country singer we’ll willingly listen to: Ryan Cook along with Fredericton’s The Tortoise, The Hare & The Millionaire and Before The War.
The full line-up also includes: Outside I’m a Giant, ART The Band, Morgan, Freeman Dre & Kitchen Party, Taylor Holden & The Law of Averages, Ryan LeBlanc, Rory Taillon, Brooklyn Doran, Black Suit Devil, Bad Strangers, Superfluid, Morohubu, Ali McCormick, The Lifers, Annie Sumi, Tragedy Ann, Vic Horvath, Ghostly Hounds, Mike McKenna Jr, Old Man Grant, Sam Lynch, Fluffy Little Cowboys, Jason Haywood, Kurtis Eugene, Belia, TWIN, The Montgomery St Band, Jamie Comeau & Crooked Teeth, The Falling Leaves, The Crossroad Devils, Colin Fowlie, Creative Differences, Quinn Bonnell, Dapper Dan & the Drive In Classics, Oak, Ash, and Thorn, Kendra Gale Band, Michelle Morrison, White Lyres, Ian Mac McGabaan, Jordan Brown, Delirious Monks, Unholy Freqs, Calum Jackson, Liam Keith Jacques, Richie Young, Jamie Comeau, and Keegan Dobbelsteyn.
Living Roots Music Festival goes from May 24th – 27th, 2018. Passes will be on sale beginning Friday, March 23 at 10 AM at etixnow.com and ticket kiosks located at Grimross Brewery and Graystone Brewery. Separate passes are also available for both the Harvey Station and Keswick Ridge shows and can be purchased directly at the venues.