CJLO Photo Diary <<< Hillside Music Festival 2013

Hillside Music Festival 2013 - "Memories from an all too short summer"

A CJLO photo diary by Robert Portnoff. Tune in to Brave New Jams every Saturday at 10:00 PM EST to hear music for people who like to kick back and Not Fade Away. 

 

This diary takes you on an ocular journey across time and space, back to three wonderful days in July 2013, where a diverse group of artists performed for a peace-loving crowd at the 30th annual Hillside Music Festival in Guelph, Ontario.

Hillside 2013 - One can't have a music festival without a megaphone, crates and garbage bags.

 

Poor Man's Whiskey donned their Wizard of Oz costumes when they performed a special set of their Pink Floyd inspired album Dark Side of the Moonshine.

 

Alex Edkins on guitar and Hayden Menzies from the band METZ on drums kicked off the first day of the festival. 

 

I guess not everybody likes the loud music.

 

Karl Wallinger from World Party closed out the first night of the festival.

 

The guitar player from World Party hands a lucky fan a copy of the set list.

 

Pokey LaFarge impressed with his brand of old time mix ragtime, country blues, and swing.

 

The Akron/Family crushed a few heads with their frantic show Saturday afternoon.

 

Akron/Family drummer Dana Janssen gets a little carried away.

 

What's a music festival without a little rain?

 

Linda Ortega belts out the tunes. 

 

A helping hand. The Sadies wowed the festival with their performance on the main stage Saturday night.

 

Niyaz, featuring Azam Ali on vocals, brought a world of sound too the Hillside Festival.

 

Sunday belonged to the members of Arcade Fire with Richard Reed Parry's "Quite River of Dust" to kick everything off.

 

Next up was Colin Stetson and his barrage of sonic booms.

 

Closing out the trifecta of Arcade Fire members was Sarah Neufeld performing songs from her upcoming début album Hero Brother.

 

Sarah Neufeld joined onstage with a drummer whom may or may not be Jeremy Gara of Arcade Fire (if anybody knows for sure feel free to e-mail me at bravenewjams@cjlo.com).

 

Ex Sonic Youth member Lee Ranaldo doing the Hillside strut.

 

Lee Ranaldo expressing his fondness for the photo taken during Vancouver Stanley Cup riot. 

 

Toronto punk band Fucked Up was anything but when they turned up the heat for their show Sunday afternoon.

 

Don Pyle of the Juno award winning band Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet.

 

The Sadies returned in make-up, this time teaming up with Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet for an Alice Cooper extravaganza, playing his album Love It To Death in its entirety.

 

By the light of a glow stick. Things got very moody for the closing Supersonic Jam featuring Lee Ranaldo, Richard Reed Parry, Sarah Neufeld, Colin Stetson and friends. The highlight was a very eerie version of the Velvet Underground classic, "All Tomorrows Parties".

 

Now that the tents are empty, let the roadies take the stage. And so ends the 2013 edition of the Hillside Music Festival.