Sled Island will take place on June 19-23 at several venues

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Calgary's Sled Island Music and Arts Festival has announced its “first wave” of hip-hop, death metal, indie rock, free jazz and hardcore punk acts for the five-day festival. world.

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Show Me The Body, a hardcore punk trio based in New York, headlines the festival, which runs June 19-23 at various venues in downtown Calgary. The acts announced Tuesday include Chicago rapper Mick Jenkins, death-metal act Tomb Mold, Los Angeles garage rockers Cherry Glazer, British electronic producer Forest Swords, Montreal hip-hop trio Planet Giza, Kentucky indie rockers Wombo and Chicago free jazz collective included. Confusions.

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Other acts announced include influential Zamrock veterans WITCH, a Zambian group formed in the 1970s and reunited in 2012; and Malcolm Mooney and Planet Eleven, the latest project by Can, the former singer of German krautrock icons who now lives in Calgary.

Avant-garde composer and Calgary native Sarah Davachi will also perform, as will local acts Brain Bent, Tea Fannie & The Collective, Ginger Beef, Kue Varo and The Only Hopes, and Edmonton's Stem Champ.

More than 200 performances are planned to be played on Shana Island this year. The full lineup will be announced in the coming months. For more information, visit SledIsland.com.

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