WayHome Music & Arts Festival

WayHome Music & Arts
WayHome Music & Arts
Genre	Music festival,
Dates	July 28–30, 2017
Location(s)	Burl's Creek Event Grounds, Oro-Medonte, Ontario
Years active	2015–Present
Founded by	Stan and Eva Dunford
Website
Official website

WayHome Music & Arts, produced by Republic Live, is a three-day music and arts festival held at the custom-designed camping festival grounds, Burl’s Creek. The festival offers multiple stages, a variety of late-night spectacles and experiences, international and local cuisine, an on-site locally produced farmers market, original art installations - past artists include internally acclaimed artists such as; DoLab and Angus Watt, and more to 40,000+ fans over the course of the weekend. WayHome Music & Arts was recently awarded the New Kid on the Block (Best New Festival) award and was nominated for Major Festival of the Year at the 2016 Canadian Music Awards with a repeat nomination in 2017. The 2017 edition of WayHome Music & Arts will be taking place from July 28 – 30, 2017.

Founded by Stan and Eva Dunford, WayHome Music & Arts was first held in 2015 at Burl’s Creek Event Grounds. In it’s inaugural year, WayHome featured headliners Neil Young, Sam Smith, Kendrick Lamar, along with Alt-J, Modest Mouse, Hozier and many more. In it’s second year, WayHome Music and Arts 2016 featured LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire and The Killers, in addition to performances by Major Lazer, M83, HAIM, Metric, Chvrches, Ray LaMontagne, and 60+ more artists.

WayHome Music & Arts is held at the custom-designed festival grounds, Burl’s Creek Event Grounds in Oro-Medonte, Ontario. The grounds provide a one-of-a-kind on-site camping experience for fans. The festival offers a range of different camping offerings from tent camping, RV, hydro RV, and quiet camping. The campgrounds come equipped with toilets, showers and feature a general store.

WayHome Music & Arts takes pride in expanding their immersive festival experience beyond music and incorporate different aspects of food and art. Each year, visual and creative artists are selected to create pieces for the festivals. Past artists incluse Do LaB, Angus Watt, Aaron Li-Hill, Charles Bierk, Trevor Wheatley and Cosmo Dean, Nathan Whitford, Puncture, Balloon Chain, Lady AIKO, Diana Lynn VanderMeulen, and many more. WayHome Music & Arts offers a variety of local and international food vendors over the course of the weekend in both the main entertainment area and campgrounds. Food and libations include gluten-free and vegan options.

Neil Young, Alt-J, Hozier, The Decemberists, Girl Talk, Future Islands, The Gaslight Anthem, Hey Rosetta!, G-Eazy, Courtney Barnett, Fucked Up, Thousand Foot Krutch, Delta Spirit, Rhiannon Giddens, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Viet Cong, Com Truise, Dwayne Gretzky, Slow Magic, Bear Mountain, Lowell, For Esmé, Saxsyndrum, The Huaraches, Cross Dog, MacArthur Clark