FIRST 100 BANDS ANNOUNCED

Canadian Music Fest 2012 might be seven months away, but our festival team has been hard at work reviewing submissions and selecting from the hundreds of applications that have already poured in. So much so that we are all ready and excited to announce the first set of artists accepted to perform at Canadian Music Fest 2012. Representing 15 different countries from Australia to Iceland, they include:

5th Projekt, CANADA

Abstract Artform, CANADA

Alex The Great, UNITED KINGDOM

Ali Milner, CANADA

Anastasia A, CANADA

Avalanche City, NEW ZEALAND

Belegrave, CANADA

Blasted Mechanism, PORTUGAL

Bop Skizzum, USA

Breaching Vista, CANADA

Brothers of Brazil, BRAZIL

Cameron Burnette & The Ghost Ballerinas, USA

Candelora, CANADA

Carleton Stone, CANADA

Delay Trees, FINLAND

Derek Christie, CANADA

Direct Influence, AUSTRALIA

Domestic Crisis Group, CANADA

Doyle and the Fourfathers, UNITED KINGDOM

Eastborough, CANADA

Eikostate, SPAIN

Fairchild, CANADA

Felicity Groom, AUSTRALIA

First You Get The Sugar, CANADA

Getawaycab, FINLAND

Gomo, PORTUGAL

Graydon James & the Young Novelists, CANADA

Gruve, CANADA

Hellbros, CANADA

Hisland, CANADA

HONHEEHONHEE, CANADA

Jess Hill, CANADA

Jon Davis, CANADA

Jordan Klassen, CANADA

Kate Todd, CANADA

Kaya, UNITED KINGDOM

Labirinto, BRAZIL

Laganza, CANADA

Lindsay Barr, CANADA

Listener, USA

London Swagger, CANADA

Lunic, USA

Mad Anthony, USA

Mad June, CANADA

Maddy Rodriguez, CANADA

Marina Zettl, AUSTRIA

Mary Rose Obsession, CANADA

Mazgani, PORTUGAL

MIKE-E and AfroFlow, USA

Mikkel Solnado, PORTUGAL

Minute 36, AUSTRALIA

Miss Emily Brown, CANADA

Miss Lava, PORTUGAL

Misteur Valaire, CANADA

Mujeres, SPAIN

Neufvoin, FINLAND

Noa Bentor, ISRAEL

Norton, PORTUGAL

Oh Mercy, AUSTRALIA

Orelha Negra, PORTUGAL

Papa vs Pretty, AUSTRALIA

Paradise Animals, CANADA

Paul Davidson, CANADA

Portage and Main, CANADA

Rachel Sermanni, SCOTLAND

Ramona, CANADA

Redbird, CANADA

Rehan Dalal, CANADA

Rodeo Massacre, UNITED KINGDOM

Royal Canoe, CANADA

Sam Coffey and The Iron Lungs, CANADA

Sarah Troy, CANADA

Saskia Sansom, AUSTRALIA

Scott Holt Band, USA

SEA + AIR, GERMANY

Sherman Downey and The Ambiguous Case, CANADA

Sidney York, CANADA

Snorri Helgason, ICELAND

Split Seconds, AUSTRALIA

Steph Macpherson, CANADA

Stephanie Bosch and the Arkayo, CANADA

Stone Parade , AUSTRALIA

The Belle Game, CANADA

The Cheap Speakers, CANADA

The Crystal Keys, CANADA

The Jefferson, AUSTRALIA

The Joys, CANADA

The Litte Stevies, AUSTRALIA

The Little Black Dress, CANADA

The Mighty Regis, USA

The River Junction Band, CANADA

The Stanfields, CANADA

The Suburbians, UNITED KINGDOM

To Tell, CANADA

Tokyo Sex Destruction, SPAIN

Trap Tiger, CANADA

Traveller & Fortune, AUSTRALIA

Tupelo Honey, CANADA

WHOSARMY, CANADA

Will And The People, UNITED KINGDOM

Windings, IRELAND

Young Pacific, CANADA

Youthless, PORTUGAL

Za!, SPAIN