second annual A mid-winter festival celebrating music & community in the heart of Guelph 1–11 pm Sleeman Centre Downtown Guelph • ADMISSION • Grandstand/floor: $60 schedule • 200 level tickets: $70 • Discounted tickets 1:00 pm · Main Stage for seniors (65+) and AboRIGINAL OPENING children (6-12): $55 CEREMONY (limited quantities) • Service charge extra. 1:05 pm · Island Stage GST included. Cash, THe d’URBERVILLES Visa, MC and debit. • Any remaining tickets 1:40 pm · Main Stage will be available at Gate GREAT LAKE #1. SWIMMERS • All tickets have access to the general admission 2:40 pm · Island Stage standing areas on the THE MAGIC floor, based on capacity. • No exchanges or 3:15 pm · Main Stage refunds. Hillside is not k’NAAN responsible for lost, 4:20 pm · Island Stage stolen, misplaced or unused tickets. JAY MALINOWSKI 4:55 pm · Main Stage • IMPORTANT BELL ORCHESTRE • Your wristband is your event pass. Do not 5:55 pm · Island Stage remove it! THUNDERHEIST • You will need both your ticket stub and your 6:40 pm · Main Stage wristband to get into the BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH event. • Patrons are allowed 7:45 pm · Island Stage to come and go up to THAT 1 GUY 10:45 pm. No admission after 10:45 pm. 8:20 pm · Main Stage • No pets are allowed, SAM ROBERTS BAND with the exception of service dogs. 9:35 pm · Break • There are no facilities 10:00 pm · Main Stage or programming specifically for children. STARS Subject to change. Sleeman Centre event staff (yellow shirts) (yellow staff event Centre Sleeman (blackshirts) Hillside Insidevolunteers 1 2 3 4 5 WOOLWICH ST SMOKING AREA FAMILY sleeman centre GATE 2 WASHROOM WASHROOMS EXIT ONLY EXIT EXIT WASHROOMS LEVEL 4 Access to FOOD FOOD GATE 4 EAST PARKADE Suites 1-13 downtown guelph ELEVATOR SALSATERIA INFO BOOTH GUELPH’S CARIBBEAN CUISINE FOOD FOOD FRIES 119 120 101 102 103 WOOLWICH ST 104 PIZZA PIZZA 118 VOLUNTEER ACCESSIBLE SEATING ENTRANCE GATE 3 GATE 2 EXIT ONLY FLOOR 5 FLOOR 3 FLOOR 1 105 GATE 1 117 MACDONELL ST MACDONELL ACCESS TICKET SALES < SUPPORT & PICK-UP MERCH FLOOR FIRST 116 ACCESS ISLAND 106 AID POINTS STAGE MAIN > STAGE NO PUBLIC Access to FLOOR 6 FLOOR 4 FLOOR 2 Suites 14-31 115 107 ACCESS FOOD PLANET BEAN 114 108 COFFEE 113 112 111 110 109 FREE DRINKING FAMILY FENG’S DUMPLINGS WATER WASHROOM FOOD OLD QUEBEC ST. FOOD WASHROOMS ENTRANCE GATE 5 DISHWASHING GATE 6 DRAUGHT PICK’S RESTAURANT– OPEN NOON–9 AREA VOLUNTEER, VIP & MEDIA CHECK-IN COMMUNITY LEVEL 0 LEVEL 1 BOOTHS CRAFT COAT CHECK VENDORS LOST & FOUND > to WyNDHAM ST performers improvisations played alongside contemporary dancers. When the band parted ways with the dancers, the music continued to evolve. Their mostly instrumental BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH compositions tap into the They forge their own musical acoustic delicacy of chamber path, creating music music, the urgency and embodying each member’s volume of post-punk and personal and diverse musical rock, and the intricacy and preferences. With a seductive sonic range of contemporary combination of lead singer electronic music. Jay Malinowski’s soulful wail bellorchestre.com and hypnotic rhythmic guitar grooves and Eon Sinclair’s deep dubbing bass, Bedouin Soundclash creates an innovative fusion of reggae, rock, punk and soul. bedouinsoundclash.com GREAT LaKE SWIMMERS Great Lake Swimmers explore the worlds of indie folk, roots music and alt-country, with a focus on lyrics and song writing. Known for haunting, somber ballads, their sound BELL ORCHESTRE blends natural reverb with Born in an old dance studio folkie arrangements and in central Montreal, their inspirational lyrics. music grew out of collective greatlakeswimmers.com K’NaaN JAY MALINOWSKI K’naan brings an enormous Founding member and front dose of reality and urgency to man of Bedouin Soundclash, josh gabriel the hip-hop world in a time Malinowski’s solo project when people are desperate evolved during a rare break for it. From a personal and between tours, when he cultural history rooted found himself writing music in poetry, K’naan widens that was more personal and the traditional hip-hop introspective than anything perspective from 9 mm and he had put out with his band. eagle 440s to AKs and rocket In his solo work, Malinowski propelled grenades. draws from influences knaanmusic.ning.com of Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, while maintaining his own distinctive sound. bedouinsoundclash.com THE MAGIC It hasn’t taken long, but The Magic is the sexiest, most exciting young pop band to come out of Guelph in years. SaM ROBERTS BAND Restless to get people moving Canadian singer-songwriter/ instead of standing and bandleader Sam Roberts staring, The Magic creates has returned with his third immensely infectious electro- full-length, Love at the End of rock songs that are as overtly the World. Critics and fans are fun as they are slyly heavy. equally in love with Roberts myspace.com/themagiclove in his native Canada. The Sam Roberts Band has earned its reputation live as well as on record. samrobertsband.com STARS THUNDERHEIST Stars are soft revolutionaries. Graham and Isis began Music is their rallying cry. Thunderheist as a project to They are young people who throw a wrench into static through their music are trying hip-hop conventions and to save us from our mundane explore their love for the and complacent fears. One dance floor. Thunderheist are music writer said the only far more than an electrorap way to describe Stars was act grounded in rap, bass, “beautiful hope.” and electro. They are also myspace.com/stars entrenched in disco, funk and R&B, altogether crafting a new definition of future pop music. thunderheist.com THAT 1 GUY As an inventor and player of The Magic Pipe, That 1 Guy’s show has to be seen to be believed. He single-handedly The D’URBERVILLES (and foot-edly) plays his Who would have guessed a amazing instrument, created few pals that started a band from miked steel pipes, with for drink tickets would end a single, thick bass string up winning over fans and wired from top to bottom – not critics from New Brunswick to mention an Appalachian to New York? The latest effort handsaw, an electric cowboy from these ex-Guelphites is boot and belching smoke. titled We Are The Hunters and that1guy.com features a heartfelt collection of seriously street-tough tunes. myspace.com/thedurbervilles emcees menu Open noon to 11 pm MICHELLE AND VISH met at All prices include GST & PST. the University of Guelph and have attended every Hillside Feng’s Dumplings Dumplings – chicken, shrimp, Festival together since 2003. tofu mushroom or ginger beef They started volunteering Plate of 6 ....................................... $5.00 at CFRU 93.3 FM in Guelph Plate of 12 ...................................... $8.50 and host The Mich Vish Hot & Sour Soup.............................. $3.00 Interracial Morning Show! every Pie (Strawberry Rhubarb or Apple) ... $3.00 Wednesday morning. Vish also Water or Soft Drinks ....................... $1.00 · Guelph Arts Council Mango Juice ................................... $3.00 works for Exclaim! Magazine and CBC Radio 3, but Michelle Guelph’s CaRIBBEAN CUISINE is much, much smarter Rotis – chicken or goat.................... $8.00 than him. veggie ................................. $6.50 Jerk chicken – with roti ................... $8.00 NICK TaYLOR has been with rice and salad ... $9.00 Doubles/Patties .............................. $2.00 spinning reggae music on Juice .............................................. $2.00 CFRU-FM 93.3 for the past 29 years. Nick has volunteered PLANET BEAN COFFEE for Hillside in many capacities, Coffee, tea, hot chocolate ................ $2.25 from wrapping cables in a neat Juice .............................................. $2.25 Muffins .......................................... $2.25 pile to a stint on the board. Cookies & other pastries ................. $2.00 Subject to change. T-shirts & coffee mugs ...................$20.00 SaLSATERIA 26TH HILLSIDE FESTIVAL Nachos with Salsa .......................... $4,00 July 24–26, 2009 Jerk chicken wrap ........................... $5.00 • Tickets on sale Saturday Roasted corn on the cob .................. $3.00 Nachos/corn combo ........................ $6.00 May 2, 2009. Sorel juice ...................................... $1.00 • This spring: volunteer sign-up and applications Sleeman Centre Concessions for the Neighbourhood PIZZA PIZZA / FRY CONCESSIONS Tent, workshops & Pizza, chicken fingers, fries, sausage, hot vendors. dogs and snack food. Please purchase a Hillside Mug for all concession drinks, $2.00 each. Hillside Office: 123 Woolwich St DRAUGHT Pick’s RESTAURANT 2nd Floor, Guelph Open noon to 9 pm – Eat in and take out 519.763.6396 Wings, chicken fingers, burgers, Philly- hillsidefestival.ca cheese steak, plus a featured buffet with Indian/Asian-style food. craft vendors Open noon to 11 pm – Located inside Gate 6. Only open to Hillside Inside attendees. AROMATIC HEALTH IN-BLOOM Handmade aromatherapy A variety of one-of-a-kind products for health and necklaces, bracelets, bangles wellness without artificial or and electric guitars from synthetic ingredients. exotic woods and semi- aromatichealth.ca precious gemstones. in-bloom.ca BELLCHAMBER RINGS Incorporating styles of knot JUST PERFECT DESIGNS work, spirals and ancient Hand-crafted sterling silver zoomorphic (animal) patterns jewellery. Each earring and from different Celtic artefacts. pendant is cut out from sheets bellchamber.net of sterling silver. Contempo- rary, wearable designs. BITchin’ BAGS AND STUFF justperfectdesigns.com Hand-knit and felted coin purses, cell phone cases, KEN DALEY purses, bags, coasters, mittens, A visual artist inspired by hats, scarves and bracelets. African-Caribbean culture and bitchinbags.etsy.com history, Ken works with oil, acrylic, ceramic tile and wood. BLUEFROG CREATIONS kendaley.ca Handmade glass beads melted from coloured glass rods with ROCK ON ACCESSORIES a torch and fired in a kiln, One-of-a-kind rock-inspired producing wearable art. jewellery and accessories. [email protected] Re-purposed beach glass, stones and found wood.