April 12th was the end of the fourth annual Hi-Light Fest in Edmonton.
Hi-Light Festival is a music festival hosted in April. The festival is organized by Long & McQuade Musical Instruments, with the intent of gathering and showing off local Edmonton bands at familiar venues, who appreciate the bands just as much as the crowd.
This year, Hi-Light fest lasted 5 days from April 8th to April 12th, hosting 6 shows across 4 venues with a total of 31 bands playing.
The shows, when they played, where they played and who played at each show went as follows:
First day: April 8th – Balibar
- Draemus
- Glitter Rat
- Oklahoma The Band
- Zerchronika
Second day: April 9th – The Buckingham
- Alpine Crush
- Prisoner
- Garden of Ash
- Reign of Error
- Null/Void
Third day: April 10th – Dive Bar
- Burning Starships
- Hewson Grey
- Activemirror
- Ways in Waves
- Void Comp
- Jscope
Fourth day (2:30 P.M. – 5:45 P.M.): April 11th – The Aviary
- Mellow The Lion
- Chic Chameleon
- Rachel Gleddie, along with Esther Forseth
- Del Boy Druid
Fourth day (7:00 P.M. – 11:45 P.M.): April 11th – The Aviary
- Magpie Mill
- Vanity Hour
- Trick of The Light
- Greenwing
- Refrijerator
- Pails/Buckets
Fifth day: April 12th – The Aviary
- Pi33 Grl3
- Fishlips
- On My Side
- Per Velum
- Look Out!
- Pushing Violet
This is all thanks to Elissa Wells/Get Us Together Music and Dexter Twardzik, who founded it
in 2023.
To see their past events and info on future events, it is recommended that you check out their social media pages, such as their Instagram or Facebook.