WayHome Music & Arts Festival

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WayHome Music & Arts
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Genre Music festival
Location(s) Burl's Creek Event Grounds,
Oro-Medonte, Ontario
Years active2015–2017
Website wayhome.com

WayHome Music and Arts was a music and arts festival held at Burl's Creek Event Grounds in Oro-Medonte, Ontario, Canada. The festival was held in 2015, 2016, and 2017. [1]

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Wayhome 2017

2015 line-up

July 24

Neil Young, Alt-J, Hozier, The Decemberists, Girl Talk, Future Islands, The Gaslight Anthem, Hey Rosetta!, G-Eazy, Courtney Barnett, Fucked Up, Thousand Foot Krutch, Delta Spirit, Rhiannon Giddens, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Viet Cong, Com Truise, Dwayne Gretzky, Slow Magic, Bear Mountain, Lowell, For Esmé, Saxsyndrum, The Huaraches, Cross Dog, MacArthur Clark [2]

July 25

Kendrick Lamar, Modest Mouse, Bassnectar, Run the Jewels, ODESZA, Sylvan Esso, Danny Brown, Manchester Orchestra, The Rural Alberta Advantage, Big K.R.I.T., Timber Timbre, The Lone Bellow, Django Django, The Growlers, METZ, Alvvays, How to Dress Well, SZA, Broncho, The Highest Order, Dear Rouge, Kevin Garrett, The Beaches, Tomi Swick, Teen Violence, Broken Social Scene (replaced Passion Pit, due to illness) [2]

July 26

Sam Smith, Brandon Flowers, St. Vincent, Vance Joy, The Sheepdogs, Walk the Moon, Kaytranada, Cold War Kids, July Talk, Yukon Blonde, Sloan, Broods, Chad VanGaalen, Evening Hymns, Highs, Brave Shores, Weaves, The Ascot Royals, Zorch, Amos the Transparent, Lost Cousins [2]

2016 line-up

July 22

Headliner: LCD Soundsystem [3]

Metric, CHVRCHES, Gary Clark, Jr., Mac DeMarco, Rae Sremmurd, Wolf Parade, Foals, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Matt and Kim, Tory Lanez, Keys N Krates, AlunaGeorge, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, The Struts, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, Shad, FIDLAR (cancelled due to illness), Tourist, Marian Hill, Bombino, LANY, White Lung, BRAIDS, River Tiber, Tennyson.

July 23

Headliner: Arcade Fire

Major Lazer, M83, FKA twigs, Chet Faker, Arkells, The Last Shadow Puppets, Kurt Vile & The Violators, Third Eye Blind, X Ambassadors, Bahamas, A Tribe Called Red, Half Moon Run, Phosphorescent, BADBADNOTGOOD, Patrick Watson, Vince Staples, Savages, GoldLink (cancelled due to "logistical issues"), Lindsey Stirling, Noah Gundersen, Banners, Young Empires, Mothers, Little Scream, Boom Forest.

July 24

Headliner: The Killers.

HAIM, Ray LaMontagne, Beirut, Stars, The Arcs, Glass Animals, BØRNS, , Lucius, Oh Wonder, Robert DeLong, Coleman Hell, White Denim, Black Mountain, Dilly Dally, All Them Witches, Bishop Briggs, The Paper Kites, Allie X.

2017 line-up

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Saturday, July 29
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References

  1. "WayHome Will Not Return in 2018". Exclaim!. 5 September 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 "WayHome". WayHome. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
  3. "2016 Line-up". WayHome. Retrieved February 9, 2016.

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