Supercrawl
| Supercrawl | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Music Festival and Arts Festival |
| Dates | Second weekend in September |
| Location(s) | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Years active | 2009-present |
| Founded by | Tim Potocic |
| Attendance | 165,000 (2014) |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
Supercrawl is an annual art and indie music festival held each September in downtown Hamilton, Ontario.
Supercrawl was founded in 2009 by Tim Potocic and the music label Sonic Unyon. It grew out of the monthly event known as Art Crawl, a tour of art galleries in Hamilton that is still active.
Supercrawl features three days of free music spread over multiple stages lining the length of James Street North. The festival attracts an average of 130,000 visitors annually to watch over 50 bands, making it one of the largest free music festivals in Ontario. The festival also showcases large-scale visual art installations, performance art, an artisan market, food trucks and fashion.
The arts festival has been cited as part of a larger, arts-based revival in Hamilton as the former industrial city becomes a regional center for the arts.
In 2015, Supercrawl was named Ontario’s Tourism Event of the Year as part of the Ontario Tourism Awards of Excellence. In 2017 Supercrawl was one of more than 300 events given extra funding as part of Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations.
Past headliners have included Broken Social Scene (2011), Owen Pallett (2012), K'naan (2012), Wintersleep (2013), Passion Pit (2013), Arkells (2014), Spoon (2014), Charles Bradley (2014), Monster Truck (2015), HEALTH (2015), Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (2015), Hayden (2015), Daniel Lanois (2015), The Trews (2016), Four Tet (2016), The Strumbellas (2016), Junior Boys (2016), and Matt Andersen (2016).
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