Past Music Festival Vault

The Big Band List

Here is the list of bands that have been invited to perform at last year's North by Northeast Music Festival.

13ghosts • Birmingham AL 6ixty 8ights • Toronto ON 84 • Melbourne Australia 9TH UNO • Toronto ON A Certain Symmetry • Toronto ON A Northern Chorus • Hamilton ON AA Sound System • Edmonton AB Abdominal • Toronto ON ACROBAT • Montreal QC Action Makes • Toronto ON Acute • Los Angeles CA Adam Bailie • Toronto ON Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody • New York NY Ali Eskandarian • New York NY Alina Simone • Carrboro NC Amy Honey • Vancouver BC Amy Speace • New York NY Ana Miura • Ottawa ON Andrea Revel • Montreal QC Angela Harris • North Vancouver BC Anhai • Scugog Island ON Anita George • Hobart Australia Ann Vriend • Edmonton AB Ann Walton • Winnipeg MB Anna Neale • Woking UK Annie Keating • Brooklyn NY Arise And Ruin • Guelph ON Armies of You • Hereford UK Atherton • Ottawa ON Attack in Black • Welland ON Automatic • Toronto ON Basia Lyjak • Toronto ON Ben Spencer’s Funeral • Montreal QC Beth In Battle Mode • Toronto ON Big Strides • London UK bigbabyernie • Seaside Hts NJ Bionic • Montreal QC Birds of Wales • Toronto ON Bjorn Quenemoen • Brooklyn NY Black Horse • Brooklyn NY Blackloud • Covina CA Blind Boy Lucas MacAlpine-Railway • Montreal QC BLOOD RED SUN • New York NY BLOODSHOT BILL • Montreal QC blueVenus • Toronto ON boats • Winnipeg MB Bonjay • Toronto ON Bourgeois Gypsies • Sierraville CA Brad Monk and the Union Band • Toronto ON Brant Bjork and the Bros • Palm Desert CA Bronwen Exter • New York NY Brothers Chaffey • Ottawa ON Brown Brigade • Pickering ON Buffalo Tom • Boston MA Burning Boyz • Toronto ON C’Mon • Toronto/New Orleans ON Cage The Elephant • Bowling Green KY Caleb Sweazy • Memphis TN Camouflage Nights • Toronto ON Captain Tractor • Edmonton AB Carmen Elle • Toronto ON Carmen Townsend and the Shakey Deals • Sydney NS Cat Jahnke • Winnipeg MB Cauterize • Oshawa ON Ceremonial Snips • Welland ON Chameleon Project • Toronto ON Champion • Montreal QC Charlemagne • Hamilton ON Chinese Food • Toronto ON Chocolat • Montreal QC CHRIS COLEPAUGH AND THE COSMIC CREW • Dieppe NB Chris Staig • Toronto ON Christa Couture • Vancouver BC Christopher Rees • Cardiff UK Cities In Dust • Hamilton ON clara lofaro • Toronto ON Claws Of Paradise • Brooklyn NY Club!nvited • Toronto ON colum regan • Cardiff Wales Cory Lee • Vancouver BC Crash Parallel • Mississauga ON Creature • Montreal QC D.O. • Toronto ON DALA • Toronto ON Dame • Brampton ON Dan Mangan • Vancouver BC Dance Yourself to Death • Toronto ON daphne darling • Toronto ON Dave Foley Presents the Tribute • Los Angeles CA Dave McFarlane • Toronto ON Dead Love Triangles • Brantford ON DEBASER • Toronto ON Dee • Montreal QC Del Asher • St Catharines ON Die Mannequin • Toronto ON Diemonds • Toronto ON DiggingRoots • Barrie ON Dirt Farmer • Toronto ON Dirty Boots • Toronto ON DJ Derrick Ramirez • Toronto ON DJ Peko • Toronto ON Domenica • Winnipeg MB downtown harvest • Philadelphia PA Dr. Draw • Montreal QC Drea • Peterborough ON Dru • Toronto ON Easy Targets • Toronto ON Elana McMurtry • Toronto ON Elemeno Peas • London ON Elias • Vancouver BC Elizabeth Shepherd Trio • Toronto ON Emma Cook • Toronto ON Empire ISIS • Montreal QC Entire Cities • Toronto ON Erik Brandt • St Paul MN Faber Drive • Vancouver BC Famous Framus Band • Hamilton ON Five Blank Pages • Toronto ON Five Hot Bitches • Toronto ON Five Star Homeless • Saskatoon SK fjord rowboat • Toronto ON Floor Thirteen • Winnipeg MB Ford Pier • Vancouver BC Fox Jaws • Barrie ON Foxfire Forest • Toronto ON Frank Patrick • Toronto ON Frankie Whyte & The Dead Idols • Toronto ON From Other Planes • Toronto ON Future Clouds And Radar • Austin TX General Miggs • New York NY Germans • Toronto ON Geronimo • Regina SK Ghettosocks • Halifax NS Ghostwalk Creek • Toronto ON God Made Me Funky • Toronto ON Grainne Ryan • Toronto ON Grand Analog • Winnipeg MB Grand Theft Bus • Fredericton NB grand:pm • Uxbridge ON Great Northern • Los Angeles CA Grimskunk • Montreal QC Groove Bros. • Brooklyn NY Handsome Furs • Montreal QC Hayley Taylor • Los Angeles CA Hello Operator • Toronto ON Hey Ocean! • Vancouver BC hey rosetta! • St John's NL Hezekiah Jones • Philadelphia PA high deafinition • Val Caron ON high voltage • Hamilton ON Hojas Rojas • Minneapolis MN Hollerado • Montreal QC Holoscene • Toronto ON Horton the Irrelevant & August the Creep • Madison WI Hostage Life • Toronto ON Hostile Takeover • Toronto ON Hot Springs • Montreal QC How I Won The War • Toronto ON Hue • London ON Hunter Valentine • Toronto ON Ian North • Keswick ON Ian Shaul • San Francisco CA Icarus Line • Los Angeles CA Idiots! • Toronto ON In-Flight Safety • Halifax NS Inamere • Morristown NJ infighter • Toronto ON ivy mairi • Toronto ON Jacob and Lily • Winnipeg MB Jade McNelis • Montreal QC James Teej • Toronto ON Jamil • Toronto ON Jan Bell • Brooklyn NY Jason Falkner • Los Angeles CA Jean Caffeine • Austin TX Dundas ON Jen Militia • Berlin ON Jenn Grant • Halifax NS jenn mierau • Montreal QC Jesse Malin • New York NY JF Robitaille • Montreal QC Jim Armstrong & the Sonic Deli Band • Toronto ON Jim Bryson • Ottawa ON Jim Lauderdale • Nashville TN Jim Protector • Trondheim Norway John Doe • Los Angeles CA Jon Brooks • Toronto ON Jonathan Cooke • Paris France Jonathan Coulton • Brooklyn NY Jonathan Seet • Toronto ON Jonny White • Toronto ON Joshua Heard Park • Philadelphia PA JP Hoe & the Truly Richards • Winnipeg MB Just Jinjer • Los Angeles CA Justin Nozuka • Toronto ON Justin Rutledge • Toronto ON Kae Sun • Hamilton ON Kat Goldman • Toronto ON Kate Schutt • Cambridge MA Kathleen Edwards • Ottawa ON KC Roberts • Toronto ON Kenny Glasgow • Toronto ON Ketch Harbour Wolves • Toronto ON Kevin Phillips and the It Men • Toronto ON Key Witness • Toronto ON Khiasma • Montreal QC Kid Metropolis • Toronto ON Kim Koren • Hamilton ON King Sunshine • Toronto ON Ko Kapches • Toronto ON Konqistador • Melbourne Australia Kristin Sweetland • London ON Ladyfingers • New York NY Last Days of April • Stockholm Sweden Layla Zoe • Coombs BC Les Breastfeeders • Montreal QC Les Kilt • Toronto ON Lesbians On Ecstacy • Montreal QC Levi Weaver • Birmingham UK Liam Griffin • Brisbane Australia Lights • Toronto ON Lily Frost • Toronto ON Linda McLean • Huntsville ON Lindsay Barr and The Bullies • Halifax NS Lindsay Mac • Boston MA Lindsay Phillips • Melbourne Australia Lipstick Machine • Toronto ON LONGWAYDOWN • Edmonton AB Lori Nuic • Toronto ON Lotus Child • Vancouver BC Lou Rose • New York NY Love Kills • Toronto ON Love Mound • Tucson AZ Low Level Flight • Toronto ON Luke Doucet & Melissa McClelland • Toronto ON Mad Young Darlings • Winnipeg MB Man In Gray • Brooklyn NY Mardeen • Halifax NS Marie Read • Montreal QC Mark Wilson & The Last Dinosaur • Ottawa ON Masia One (M1 Academy) • Toronto ON Matt Masters • Calgary AB Matthew de Zoete • Hamilton ON Maxfield • London UK Megan Hamilton and The Volunteer Canola • Toronto ON Melissa McClelland • Toronto ON Memphis • Vancouver BC Metermaids • New York NY METZ • Ottawa ON Michael Brennan • Toronto ON Michael Cavan • Kitchener ON Million Dollar Marxists • Ottawa ON mischief&frankie • Toronto ON Miss Derringer • Los Angeles CA Miwagemini • New York NY Modernboys Moderngirls • Toronto ON Mother Mother • Vancouver BC Motion • Toronto ON Mr. Quibble • Toronto ON Muffler Crunch • Hull QC Nadine Medawar • Montreal QC Nathan Wiley • Summerside PE Ned Collette • Melbourne Australia Nees and Vos • New York NY Nerv • Monterrey Mexico Neverending White Lights • Windsor ON Nif-D • Toronto ON NLX • Hamilton ON No Dynamics • Toronto ON No Luck Club • Vancouver BC Noah's Arkweld • Toronto ON Notes to Self • Toronto ON Nouveau Riche • Philadelphia PA NQ Arbuckle • Toronto ON Nudie and the Turks • Charlottetown PE +nurse • Toronto ON Oh Susanna • Toronto ON Oh! The Pretty Things • Toronto ON Ohbijou • Toronto ON ok city ok • Tokyo Japan Old Soul’s Infinite Night Party w/ DJ Pancho Vila • Toronto ON OttO Vector • Detroit MI $outhpaw • Perth Scotland Ox • Sudbury ON Pablo Discobar • Melbourne Australia Pappy Johns Band • Ohsweken ON Parkas • Toronto ON Pascale Picard • Montreal QC Pat Robitaille • Windsor ON Pat The White Band • Quebec QC Percy Farm • Montreal QC Peter Elkas • Toronto ON Pontiak • Baltimore MD Poorfolk • Ottawa ON porkbelly futures • Toronto ON Pride Tiger • Vancouver BC priya thomas • Montreal QC ProCon • Toronto ON Prototype-A • Montreal QC Public • Toronto ON Put The Rifle Down • Toronto ON Rachael Sage & The Sequins • New York NY Rallycar • Vancouver BC Randall Spear • Quebec QC Rebekah Higgs • Halifax NS Red Blanket • Winnipeg MB Reels • Dartmouth NS Republic Of Safety • Toronto ON REVIVAL DEAR • Toronto ON Rides Again • Oshawa ON ROAM • Toronto ON Rob Reynolds • London UK Rochester aka Juice • Toronto ON Rock Plaza Central • Toronto ON Romi Mayes • Winnipeg MB Royal Mountain Band • Montreal QC Royal Wood • Toronto ON Ruth Minnikin and her Bandwagon • Halifax NS Said The Whale • Vancouver BC Saigon Hookers • Kitchener ON Sarah Burton • Toronto ON SB • Chicago IL Schooner • Chapel Hill NC Scott MacLeod • Calgary AB Scotty Hard • New York NY Sean Patrick McGraw • Nashville TN Seawolf • Los Angeles CA Sebastien Grainger • Toronto ON Seconds To Go • London ON Secret Agent • Toronto ON secret broadcast • Calgary AB Sergeant • San Francisco CA Shad • London ON Shane Alexander • Los Angeles CA She Keeps Bees • Brooklyn NY Shelby Lamb • Toronto ON shortwave • Toronto ON Simon Wilcox • Toronto ON Sleeping in the Aviary • Madison WI sleeping pilot • Ottawa ON Smash Brovaz • Mississauga ON Smokey Witt • Toronto ON Snowbyrd • San Antonio TX Soundtrack Of Our Lives • Gothenburg Sweden spacekitti • Los Angeles CA Spiral Beach • Toronto ON Spookey Ruben and the Young Coconuts • Toronto CA St. Phillip's Escalator • Rochester NY Stacy Burke • Saltspring BC Starvin Hungry • Montreal QC Staylefish • London ON Still Life Still • Toronto ON Stone Deaf • Tokyo Japan Stoned Grace • Haledon NJ Strata • Campbell CA Stuporhero • Seattle WA Sun Parlour Players • Toronto ON Surgeon • Philadelphia PA Sweet Thing • Toronto ON Sydney • Burlington ON Tacoma Hellfarm Tragedy • Guelph ON Tallships • Ottawa ON Tanya Morgan • Brooklynati Tara Slone • Toronto ON Teeloo’s Kitchen • Toronto ON Terror Lake • Toronto ON Terry Hart • Ajax ON The Beasts of Eden • Brooklyn NY The Blood Lines • Saskatoon SK the BROWN HORNETS • Newcastle ON The Carps • Toronto ON the Central Nervous System • Toronto ON the City Streets • Edmonton AB The Coast • Toronto ON The Cush • Burlington VT The D’Urbervilles • Oshawa ON The Decay • Guelph ON The Defibulators • Brooklyn NY The Details • Winnipeg MB The Diodes • Toronto ON The Disraelis • Toronto ON The Ease Down • Montreal QC the exchanges • Toronto ON The Flatliners • Richmond Hill ON The Free Press • Toronto ON The Ghost is Dancing • Toronto ON The Hemingway Solution • Toronto ON The High Violets • Portland OR The Jamestown Union • Brighton UK The Joys • London ON The Kill Devil Hills • Fremantle Australia The Kiss and Tells • Peterborough ON The Knifings • Toronto ON THE LEATHERETTES • Dundee UK The Little Millionaires • Toronto ON The Machines • Waterloo ON The Manvils • Vancouver BC The Mark Inside • Whitby / Toronto ON The Matavaras • Halifax NS The Matt Truman Ego Trip • Bowling Green OH The Midway State • Toronto ON The Miles • Toronto ON The Neutrinos • Norwich UK The Northern Whiskey Syndicate • Detroit MI The Nymphets • Montreal QC The Old Ceremony • Chapel Hill NC The Old Soul • Toronto ON The Outfit • Toronto ON The Outside • New York NY The Pantones • Lansing MI The Pinker Tones • Barcelona Spain The Rum Circus • London UK The Sadies • Toronto ON The Saint Alvia Cartel • Burlington ON The Scenario • London ON The Shondes • Brooklyn NY The Souljazz Orchestra • Ottawa ON The Suede Brothers • Perry OH The Sunday Sinners • Montreal QC The Superfantastics • Halifax NS The Surplus Sons • Toronto ON The Two Koreas • Toronto ON The Undesirables • Toronto ON The United Steel Workers of Montreal • Montreal QC THE VANDELLES • Manhattan NY The Vestaloynes • Toronto ON The Vibrants • London UK The Vulcan Dub Squad • Brampton ON The Weather Station • Toronto ON The Winks • Montreal QC Therapy? • UK These Electric Lives • Toronto ON Theset • Victoria BC Think Twice • Montreal QC Thomas Lunch • Washington DC Throbbing Purple • Montreal QC Thunderheist • Montreal / Toronto ON Tim’s Myth • Ottawa ON Tin Bangs • Toronto ON Tona • Toronto ON Track Dirtyaz • Toronto ON treasa levasseur • Toronto ON Trophy • Toronto ON Turn Off The Stars • Toronto ON TV HeartAttack • Vancouver BC Two Hours Traffic • Charlottetown PE Uberko • Quebec City QC UltraMagnus • Toronto ON Uncle Seth • Toronto ON uncut • Toronto ON Untitled • Toronto ON Urge Overkill • Chicago IL Valery Gore • Toronto ON Vanderpark • Toronto ON volcanoless in canada • Saskatoon SK Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys • Boston MA We Are The Take • Toronto ON Wendy McNeill • Edmonton/Stockholm AB White Cowbell Oklahoma • Glenspey OK WhosArmy • Toronto ON Will Kevans • London UK Wooden Stars • Toronto ON Woodhands • Toronto ON woodpigeon • Calgary AB Wordburglar • Toronto ON Yo Majesty • Tampa FL You Say Party! We Say Die! • Abbottsford BC z’Howndz • Toronto ON ZUKU • Toronto ON