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Blackie And The Rodeo Kings, Daniel Lanois, Aysanabee and more to hit Hillside Stage this year

Hillside Festival has released its full lineup for this summer and includes bads like Ashley MacIsaac, Nobro, Dwayne Gretzky, Aysanabee and Blackie And The Rodeo Kings with Daniel Lanois and Terra Lightfoot, plus more.

Annual festival set to run at Guelph Lake Conservation Area July 19 to 21

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Man with long hair singing at microphone
Tom Wilson of Blackie And The Rodeo Kings performs at a concert in this file photo. Blackie And The Rodeo Kings with Daniel Lanois and Terra Lightfoot are set to perform at this year's Hillside Festival at the Guelph Lake Conservation Area in July. (Adam Carter/CBC)

The Hillside Festival lineup is out.

Musicians including Blackie And The Rodeo Kings, Daniel Lanois, Terra Lightfoot, Aysanabee and Dwayne Gretzky are set to hit the stages at the Guelph Lake Conservation Area when the annual summer festival runs July 19 to 21.

Kate Johnston is the festival's executive director and said in an interview on CBC Kitchener-Waterloo's The Morning Edition on Wednesday that artistic director Samir Baijal "has really outdone himself" with this year's lineup.

"We are so excited," Baijal said. "It's going to be a wonderful time and we can't wait to welcome people this summer."

LISTEN | Hillside Festival's Kate Johnston on this summer's lineup:

The Morning Edition - K-W9:26Hillside Festival set to reveal lineup
The 41st instalment of Guelph's Hillside Festival is ready to roll for this coming July. Kate Johnston is the executive director of Hillside Festival...this will be her first summer in that role. She gives a sneak peak at some of the singer-songwriters set to hit the Hillside stage this summer.
A man holds two golden Juno awards.
Aysanabee poses with the Juno Awards for Songwriter of the Year and Alternative Album of the Year during the Juno Awards in Halifax on March 23. (Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press)

Below is the full lineup in alphabetical order:

  • Alias.
  • Altered by Mom.
  • Aquakultre.
  • Ashley MacIsaac.
  • Aysanabee.
  • Bab L'Bluz from Morocco and France.
  • BCUC Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness from South Africa.
  • Beings — Zoh Amba / Steve Gunn / Shahzad Ismaily / Jim White from U.S.
  • Benin International Musical.
  • Blackie And The Rodeo Kings with Daniel Lanois and Terra Lightfoot.
  • Blue Moon Marquee.
  • Bombino from Niger.
  • Bronwen Olson.
  • Bry Webb.
  • Chris Brown and Kate Fenner.
  • Chris Pierce from the U.S.
  • Christina Hutt.
  • Dom Louis.
  • Dwayne Gretzky.
  • Espanola.
  • Five Alarm Funk.
  • Geordie Gordon.
  • Golden Feather.
  • Jaffa Road.
  • Katie Tupper.
  • Kim Churchill from Australia.
  • Kirk Diamond.
  • Land of Talk.
  • Lëk Sèn from Senegal.
  • Leon Timbo from the U.S.
  • Medicine Singers with Yonatan Gat and Lee Ranaldo from the U.S.
  • Meredith Moon.
  • The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis from the U.S.
  • Minuscule.
  • Moonbeam.
  • Monnriivr.
  • Moskitto Bar.
  • NOBRO.
  • Patrick Watson.
  • Peter Dreams.
  • Rich Aucoin.
  • Richard Thompson from the U.K.
  • Shauit.
  • Shebad.
  • Stephen Lewis And The Big Band of Fun.
  • Tragedy Ann.
  • Tray Wellington from the U.S.
  • Valérie Ékoumè from Cameroon and France.
  • The Vaudevillian.
  • Windborne from the U.S.
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