Supercrawl two-day music fest at Bayfront Park for fully vaccinated
Supercrawl is organizing a free two-day music festival for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 8-9, at Hamilton's Bayfront Park.
The On The Bay" festival will have a 15,000 limited capacity each day, in accordance with provincial health regulations, with all ticket holders ages 12 and up required to show proof of full vaccination against COVID-19, along with matching government-issued ID.
The Friday evening lineup will include headliner The Halluci Nation, an Ottawa-based electronic band formerly known as A Tribe Called Red, as well as Canadian pop singer Kiesza, best known for her hit Hideaway," and singer Willie Watson, founder of the American roots group Old Crow Medicine Show.
Saturday acts will include headliner Death From Above 1979, a critically acclaimed rock duo from Toronto, alternative rockers Monowhales, Newfoundland singer-songwriter Tim Baker and Hamilton's Terra Lightfoot.
Supercrawl director Tim Potocic said organizers pulled the festival together in about four weeks as health regulations loosened in the province.
We figured with the double-vaccination rules in place, that as long as we could gate it, we could put together something that is safe," Potocic told The Spectator. You can't get in if you're not double vaxxed."
Although the event is free, no walk-up admissions will be allowed and festival goers must preregister for tickets through the Supercrawl website, supercrawl.ca. No smoking of any substance is permitted within the city park.
VIP tickets will also be available at the price of $20 for a pod of six people, giving people access to a licensed seated area near the stage.
The VIP area will be premium seating and help us manage social distancing near the front of the stage," Potocic said.
Live performances start at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 8, and at noon on Saturday, Oct. 9, with music running until midnight on both days. As well, the festival will feature about a dozen food trucks and more than 25 vendors.
Potocic said the front entrance to the park will be fenced off and gated to allow for ticket taking and ID checks. He said he hoped to have the gates open about an hour before performances start and urged festivalgoers to arrive early to avoid bottlenecks.
A secondary stage will also feature jazz-oriented acts from the Something Else festival which has been staging weekly Saturday concerts at Bayfront Park throughout September.
They're bringing a couple of artists from the U.S.," Potocic said It's going to be a real eclectic group of bands between the two of us. The music is going to be going all day, back and forth between the stages."