Iceberg Alley is going to rock out at Quidi Vidi for 10 days this summer

Maddie Ryan · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 24, 2025 11:50 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Festival play successful St. John's is afloat steam up arsenic Iceberg Alley joins the increasing database of organizations announcing its philharmonic lineup.

The Iceberg Alley Performance Tent volition beryllium unfastened for 10 nights successful Quidi Vidi this summer, moving from June 19-29.

Old Crow Medicine Show, the set that popularized a opus co-written by Bob Dylan's, Wagon Wheel, is kicking disconnected the festival. ZZ Top is besides hitting the stage, on with Mother Mother, Chilliwack and galore more.

Filling a ten-night docket with dozens of philharmonic acts isn't a elemental job, says festival shaper Shawn Basha.

"You can't person 5 days successful a enactment of classical rock," Basha told CBC Radio's The St. John's Morning Show.

"We get a headliner first," helium said, "we person to find 2 different bands that are going to complement that set connected that peculiar night. But past the adjacent night, we don't privation the aforesaid benignant of genre of euphony truthful we person to effort to spell get thing else."

Earlier this week the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival announced its lineup for July 11-13. Last period the Churchill Park Music Festival announced The Killers would beryllium its header act.

Iceberg Alley was nether occurrence past twelvemonth due to the fact that of a deficiency of pistillate practice connected the lineup. Basha says successful 2024 it was unintentional, but it's a akin concern this year.

British Columbia stone set Mother Mother is the lone headliner offering up immoderate sex diverseness truthful far.

Basha says festival organizers look unsocial barriers erstwhile it comes to booking performers due to the fact that Newfoundland is an island.

His squad strategically picks featured acts based connected wherever they're touring, helium says. For example, if idiosyncratic has a halt successful Europe, they tin play successful St. John's connected the mode there.

It whitethorn beryllium hard to get there, but Basha says the land inactive has a chiseled charm.

"Every set who plays present thinks this spot is magical," helium said.

Iceberg Alley besides makes definite section artists are getting their clip successful the sun, says Basha, withTim Baker, Mick Davis and Thin Love, Damian Follett and Rum Ragged acceptable to perform.

A engaged summer

Newfoundland and Labrador is heading into a summertime packed with events similar the Canada Games and different euphony festivals but Basha says that doesn't complicate his occupation booking acts.

He says helium besides works for the Churchill Park Music Festival and they co-ordinate to marque definite they spell aft antithetic performers for the abstracted festivals.

"We're trying not to measurement connected each other's toes. And Churchill Park is simply a wholly antithetic happening due to the fact that that is simply a ample outdoor venue," helium said.

"The bands that they're going aft are mode retired of our wheelhouse due to the fact that we would ne'er beryllium capable to spend them, due to the fact that we don't person the attendance."

Basha says the lineup usually isn't announced until everything is acceptable successful stone. June 26 is the lone time of the festival wherever the lineup hasn't been announced yet but Basha says it's coming soon.

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