Northern Lights Festival Boreal July 3-5

The Sudbury Star has all of the details and the festival has a pretty amazing lineup:

"Joel Plaskett, 34, headlines the Friday show, followed by Hawksley Workman, 34, on Saturday and Serena Ryder (pictured), 27, Juno award winner for best new artist, on Sunday.

Also slated to play are JP Cormier, Kevin Breit and Folkalarm, Mr. Something Something, Aline Morales, Bambara Trans, Bob Snider, Bob Wiseman, Elliott Brood, Les Chauffeurs a Pied, The Marigolds, Jenn Grant, Mad Moiszelle Giraf, Jon and Roy, children's performer Norman Foote and many others."

...and no, I don't know why they felt the need to give the performers ages either.

Great Lake Swimmers (w/ Serena Ryder) - Your Rocky Spine at NLFB 2008

Indie Rockers and Others Fill Cameras for Charity

Some of your favorite Canadian indie rockers and other celebrities have filled disposable cameras to support DOXA. DOXA is a documentary festival presented by the Documentary Media Society of Vancouver. To raise funds the festival (who's 2009 fest. launched on Friday) is auctioning off some used single use cameras. Those cameras were filled by Jason Collett, Bob Wiseman, the Weakerthans, Ladyhawk, Tegan Quinn, Stars, Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Great Lake Swimmers, Veda Hille and even CBC folk like Peter Mansbridge, Mary Walsh, George Stromboulopoulos, Colin Mocherie, Brent Bambury and Ian Hanomansing.

So what's on the cameras? What did they take pictures of? They're not saying but bidding on all the Cameras opened on Friday and will continue until Sunday May 31, 2009.

Royal City B-Sides Collection June 23

According to Chartattack a new B-sides and rarities collection from Guelph's legendary Royal City will be out on June 23rd.

"Royal City formed in Guelph in 2000 and included singer/songwriter Aaron Riches, Jim Guthrie, Simon Osborne and now FemBots drummer Nathan Lawr. Their At Rush Hour The Cars debut came out the same year through Guelph's esteemed Three Gut Records and was followed by the acclaimed Alone At The Microphone a year later. Lawr left the band in 2002 and was replaced by former Super Friendz drummer Lonnie James.

The band's lineup was a loose one, and also briefly included Feist, Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett and former Blue Rodeo keyboardist Bobby Wiseman. Royal City disbanded in 2004 following the release of Little Heart's Ease."

(Big day for Guelph round here, really have to get someone there to contribute).