SLACKER CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK 20112: THE TEMPER TRAP, TREBLE CHARGER, THE INBREDS, DRAGONETTE, NNEKA, AND ANDY C:ALIVE ADDED TO FEST LINE-UP

~ Plus another 150+ artists announced ~

TORONTO – With just fie weeks to go, Slacker Canadian Music Fest is pleased to announce another round of headline performances from The Temper Trap, Treble Charger, The Inbreds, Dragonette, Nneka, and Andy C:Alive along with an additional 150+ showcasing acts.

Running March 21-25, 2012 throughout 60 venues in downtown Toronto, the five day festival will feature each of these acts in a headline performance open to all wristband holders and available for individual ticket purchase through all Ticketmaster outlets, Rotate This and Soundscapes, as well as online at www.ticketmaster.ca, www.canadianmusicfest.com, or call 1.855.985.5000 to charge by phone.  Tickets are on sale now.
On Sunday, March 25 at The Phoenix Concert Theatre, Australian export The Temper Trap will preview tracks from their forthcoming sophomore album while their first album Conditions continues its momentum with the hit “Sweet Disposition” still heard across radio, television shows and commercials throughout the country.
Fans of 90’s Canadian indie pop/rock will have a chance to catch rare reunion performances by Treble Charger and The Inbreds. Together for the first time in almost a decade, Treble Charger will return to the stage on Wednesday, March 21 at The Phoenix Concert Theatre with originating members Greig Nori and Bill Priddle to bring back their hits “American Psycho” and “Red”, while The Inbreds take over Lee’s Palace on Saturday, March 24 to deliver their original brand of bass and drums along with college favourite “Any Sense of Time”.
Five-time 2012 Canadian Radio Music Awards nominees Dragonette will headline the ProudFM showcase at The Hoxton on Friday, March 23 after wrapping up a successful year at radio with their hit song “Hello” with Martin Solveig. The band will touch down in Toronto to perform for Slacker Canadian Music Fest audiences before making their way to California for the Coachella stage.
Bassweek comes to town with acts Andy C:Alive at the Guvernment on Friday, March 23 and Hospitality featuring Netsky, High Contrast, and Camo & Crooked at Kool Haus on Saturday, March 24.  Created by Destiny Events and Embrace Presents in 2011, Bassweek is now part of Slacker Canadian Music Fest and is a week-long celebration of Drum&Bass, Dubstep and Breakbeat culture.
Award-winning Nigerian singer/songwriter Nneka will settle in at Virgin Mobile Mod Club on Friday, March 23, premiering tracks from her newest album Soul is Heavy. Known for her politically aware lyrics and intense live shows, Nneka already counts among her fans and collaborators the likes of Damien Marley, Nas, Lenny Kravitz, Lauryn Hill, Gnarls Barkley, Sean Paul and Erykah Badu.
Additional acts and performances for the weeklong run of the festival include:
3 Inches of Blood – CANADA
3rd Line Butterfly – SOUTH KOREA
A-Game – CANADA
Agridoce – BRAZIL
Alejandra Ribera – CANADA
Alex Bien Band – CANADA
Alie Hughes – CANADA
Alyssa Reid – CANADA
Andy C – UNITED KINGDOM
Andy Clockwise – USA
Ashley Fayth – UNITED KINGDOM
Audio Rocketry – CANADA
Autumns Canon – CANADA
Bad Bad Not Good – USA
BBoss – CANADA
Bear Hands – USA
Bigott – SPAIN
Blackie and The Rodeo Kings – CANADA
Brad James – CANADA
Brendan Distefano – CANADA
British Columbians – CANADA
Brocade – CANADA
Cab – CANADA
Camo & Krooked – AUSTRIA
Capsula – SPAIN
Caspian – CANADA
Caveman – USA
Chad Price – CANADA
CHASING AMEE – CANADA
Chinatown – CANADA
Chloe Charles – CANADA
Christie DuPree – USA
Cloud Nothings – USA
Crazy Strings – CANADA
Crying Nut – SOUTH KOREA
Current Swell – CANADA
D-Pryde – CANADA
Daithi – IRELAND
Dallas Smith – CANADA
Dangerband – CANADA
Dani J – CANADA
Danielle Duval – CANADA
Danny Brown – USA
Darko – PORTUGAL
Dead Combo – PORTUGAL
Del Barber – CANADA
Devildriver – USA
Devin Therriault – USA
Diemonds – CANADA
Diesel – AUSTRALIA
Dinosaur Bones – CANADA
Djevon Earle && T-Witty – CANADA
Dragonette – CANADA
Dudley Perkins – USA
Dying Fetus – USA
Eisley – USA
Ferguson – SPAIN
Floor Thirteen – CANADA
Francelle Maria – CANADA
Frankie Chavez – PORTUGAL
Fred – IRELAND
Free City Collective – CANADA
Freedom or Death – CANADA
Georgia Anne Muldrow – USA
Glass Ampp – CANADA
Hacienda – USA
Hard Honey – CANADA
Hartford – CANADA
Head of the Herd – CANADA
High Contrast – UNITED KINGDOM
His Majesty the King – SPAIN
Hollowick – CANADA
Housse De Racket – FRANCE
Huddle – CANADA
Hue – CANADA
I Am Oak – DENMARK
Il Abanico -  USA
Impending Doom – USA
INIRE – CANADA
Inlet Sound – CANADA
Jack Rollin’ Dandies – CANADA
Jen Lane – CANADA
Job For A Cowboy – USA
Jordan Cook – CANADA
Joy Phillips – CANADA
Kaila Picard – CANADA
Kate Morgan – CANADA
KIZ & LEGIN – CANADA
Kobra and the Lotus – CANADA
L.A – SPAIN
Lake Forest – CANADA
Lake of Stew – CANADA
Last of the Bandits – CANADA
Last Year’s Men – USA
Life Blown Open – CANADA
Lifestory: Monologue – CANADA
Live How You Live – CANADA
Long Story Short – CANADA
Loom – CANADA
Machines – CANADA
Madison Violet – CANADA
Maolain – CANADA
Marksmen – USA
Martha Meredith – CANADA
Maurice – CANADA
Melvin Lee Davis – USA
Michael Rault -  CANADA
MiMi Cry – CANADA
Minus The Tiger – NETHERLANDS
MNDR – USA
Mo Kenney – CANADA
Molly Thomason – CANADA
Morning Thieves -  CANADA
Nanna Larsen – DENMARK
Netsky – BELGIUM
Nneka – NIGERIA
Nova Heart – CHINA
October Flight – PORTUGAL
Old World Vulture – CANADA
OPOPO – CANADA
Oscar Penas – USA
Oscar Tango – CANADA
Paper Lions – CANADA
Party Cat – CANADA
Peace Be Still – CANADA
Peachcake – USA
Pedro Menendez Crossover Guitar – ARGENTINA
Petty Victories – CANADA
Poor Young Things – CANADA
Quartered – CANADA
Quique Gonzalez – SPAIN
Raz Fresco – CANADA
Redgy Blackout – CANADA
Rikers – CANADA
River Tiber – CANADA
Robyn Dell’Unto – CANADA
ROCKYARD – CANADA
Rosedale – CANADA
Rouge – CANADA
Run Romeo Run – CANADA
Ryan McAllister – CANADA
Ryan Nolan – CANADA
Salsa Con Jazz – USA
Samantha Savage Smith – CANADA
Saul Williams – USA
Scenic Route to Alaska – CANADA
Shanren – CHINA
Sheezer – CANADA
Shotgun Jimmie – CANADA
Slash – USA
Sparrows – CANADA
Stacey Kaniuk – CANADA
Street Pharmacy – CANADA
Sunny Daze – USA
TEA – CANADA
Teenage Kicks – CANADA
Teeth & Tongue – AUSTRALIA
The 6th Letter – CANADA
The Apache Relay – USA
The Autumn Portrait – CANADA
The Blue Stones – CANADA
The Danger Bees feat. Kid Twist – CANADA
The Dirty Mags – CANADA
The Dirty Nil – CANADA
The Draymin – SCOTLAND
The Faceless – USA
The Hippy Mafia – CANADA
The Mighty One – CANADA
The Modern Superstitions – CANADA
The Morals – CANADA
The Oh Wells – CANADA
The Playdates – CANADA
The Postelles – USA
The Swamp Yankees – CANADA
The Swaying Tuesdays – CANADA
The Washboard Union – CANADA
These Electric Lives – CANADA
Tiffany Shea – USA
Tinpan Orange – AUSTRALIA
TNG – CANADA
Topanga – CANADA
Trailhead – GERMANY
Treble Charger – CANADA
Vetusta Moria – SPAIN
Via Audio – USA
Waterbodies – CANADA
Whitebrow – CANADA
Wildlife – CANADA
Will Currie And The Country French – CANADA
X-Wife – PORTUGAL
Yuichiro Tokuda’s RALYZZ DIG – JAPAN
Zachary Lucky – CANADA
Zoo Legacy – CANADA
Zoo Lion – CANADA
Along with previously announced shows by:
Slash featuring Myles Kennedy | Friday, March 23 | The Phoenix Concert Theatre | 9 p.m.
*Childish Gambino w/ Danny Brown | Saturday, March 24 | Sound Academy | 9 p.m.
The Cat Empire w/ Tinpan Orange | Saturday, March 24 | Phoenix Concert Theatre | 9 p.m.
*Fanfarlo w/Avalanche City | Saturday, March 24 | Virgin Mobile Mod Club | 7:30 p.m.
Saul Williams w/ Spoek Mathambo | Friday, March 23 | The Great Hall | 9 p.m.
*The Trews  w/ Poor Young Things | Friday, March 23 | Queen Elizabeth Theatre | 8 p.m.
John K. Samson & The Provincial Band | Thursday, March 22 | The Great Hall | 9 p.m.
*Kings & Queens: Blackie & The Rodeo Kings w/ special guest appearances by Amy Helm, Holly Cole, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Serena Ryder and more Queens to be announced | Wednesday March 21 | Massey Hall | 8 p.m.
*The Saw Doctors | Tuesday, March 20 | Virgin Mobile Mod Club | All Ages | 8 p.m.
*(in association with Live Nation)
For a complete list of acts, visit www.canadianmusicfest.com. All Slacker Canadian Music Fest performances are accessible to holders with a festival wristband. Certain restrictions on some shows may apply. Entry to all shows is subject to capacity. All shows are 19 and over unless stated all ages.
The schedule is subject to change. The schedule will be updated frequently – so check the site often for up-to-the-minute information and announcements.
Stay tuned for more shows and announcements as they develop.
About Slacker Canadian Music Week
Celebrating 30 years, Canadian Music Week is Canada’s leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country’s music, media and entertainment industries.  Combining four information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; a film festival; a comedy festival; four awards shows and the nation’s largest New Music Festival – Canadian Music Fest – CMW spans a five-day period from March 21 to March 25, 2012 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel and over 60 various downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe.  For more information, visit www.cmw.net.

For media information and to arrange interviews, please contact:
Planet3 Communications Ltd. • Jennyfer Sanchez/Joanne Smale
T: 647.346.4101 E: info@planet3com.net
Bessie Bullard – Communications Director
T: 905.858.4747 E: bessie@cmw.net

MULTI-PLATINUM SINGER/SONGWRITER JOHNNY REID CELEBRATES THE RELEASE OF “FIRE IT UP” AND OFFICIALLY KICKS OFF SLACKER CANADIAN MUSIC FEST ACTIVITIES WITH A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE – WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21st

TORONTO – February 23, 2012 – Slacker Canadian Music Fest gets under way Wednesday, March 21st with a special performance by two-time JUNO Award winner and acclaimed multi-platinum singer/songwriter Johnny Reid. The Scottish born and Canadian raised artist will take the stage at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club at 9:00pm on March 21st to rock the official opening party with an intimate concert open exclusively to a limited number of Slacker Canadian Music Week delegates and wristband holders.
Nominated for a 2012 JUNO Award for Single of the Year, Reid will release his brand new album Fire It Up on Monday, March 12th.  The follow-up to 2010′s certified double-platinum album A Place Called Love which debuted at No. 1 on the Soundscan Top 200 Album Chart and spent 4 weeks as the best selling album in Canada, Fire It Up finds Reid in the producer’s chair of an album filled with rock, pop, soul, country and everything in between.
Over the course of the past 6 years, Reid has been recognized with several awards and nominations, multiple Top 5 radio singles and No. 1 videos.  His past three albums and DVDs have all been certified platinum (or higher) in Canada, bringing his total of units scanned to more than one million.  In 2011, he was honoured with the Slaight Music Humanitarian Award due to his outstanding efforts on behalf of organizations such as the World Vision Foundation, Children’s Aid Foundation and the Make A Wish Foundation of Canada, among many.
To see Johnny Reid in this rare club appearance before he embarks on a cross-Canada tour in April, purchase a Slacker Canadian Music Fest wristband at www.canadianmusicfest.com.
About Slacker Canadian Music Week
Celebrating 30 years, Canadian Music Week is Canada’s leading annual entertainment event dedicated to the expression and growth of the country’s music, media and entertainment industries.  Combining four information-intensive conferences; a trade exposition; a film festival; a comedy festival; four awards shows and the nationís largest New Music Festival – Canadian Music Fest – CMW spans a five-day period from March 21 to March 25, 2012 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel and over 60 various downtown Toronto venues, attracting participants from across the globe.  For more information, visit www.cmw.net.


For media information and to arrange interviews, please contact:
Planet3 Communications Ltd. – Jennyfer Sanchez/Joanne Smale
T: 647.346.4101 E: info@planet3com.net
Bessie Bullard – Communications Director
T: 905.858.4747 E: bessie@cmw.net
For more information or to arrange interviews with Johnny Reid, please contact:
Charlotte Thompson – EMI Music Canada – 416.583.5019 / Charlotte.Thompson@emimusic.ca
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