Saturday’s Family Day returns with free family-friendly programming in Memorial Park and all around Downtown Sudbury. Presented by Downtown Sudbury in partnership with the Greater Sudbury Public Library. ACTIVITIES FOR ALL We're bringing tons of great kids activities to Memorial Park. We'll be announcing more details over the coming days. - Free concerts by Random Recipe, Debbie Tebbs, White Hot, Ocean City Defender - Downtown Sudbury Art Crawl - Mini-mural making and cardboard dome building for kids - Robots en Route in collaboration with Science North - Story Mob (Interactive story) - Splash Pad Story Time - Button Making - Fun Drums with Kylie Klim - Painting with Julie-Anne Bolduc - Giant Bubbles - Giant Memory Flash Cards - Guided mural tours at 12 (noon) and 3 pm (meet at the Dome on Durham) - Slack Lining with Kristen Lavallee - Coding For Kids - and more! Taking the stage on Family Day: RANDOM RECIPE Formed by Frannie Holder (who’s back after her performance with Dear Criminals last year), Fab, Vincent Legault, and Liu-Kong Ha, this band has seen the world thanks to extensive touring. Random Recipe is a journey from folk-hip-hop to groovy pop that hits all the right notes. They’ve come a long way since their start jamming in Montreal’s metro stations. After 10 years as a band, they’ve just released Distractions, a new album with such collaborators as Prince’s bassist Rhonda Smith, and Up Here alumni Foxtrott and Marie-Pierre Arthur. DEBBIE TEBBS Looking for a fun party time? Look no further: Debbie Tebb’s electro-pop will transport you to the dancefloor, if not into the 22nd century. Half retro, half futurist, Debbie is ahead of her time, or a blast from the past, one of the two, or two of the one. Her multi-instrumental production blends synth with...

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The RBC Northern Series presents some of the best acts from Northern Ontario in intimate settings between 5 and 7 pm. FREDERICK SQUIRE Frederick Squire is a singer, songwriter and guitarist who channels old folk music. His quiet, warmly atmospheric, experimental and meandering rock vignettes are personal, poetic and often open-ended. It’s sometimes spooky and ghostly. Originally from Ajax, Ontario, he is based in Sudbury following a number of years living in Sackville, New Brunswick. FREE! Thanks RBC! UP HERE Up Here is an urban art & emerging music festival in weird and wonderful downtown Sudbury that takes place from August 17-19. Follow Up Here festival, RSVP Up Here 4 🔺🔺🔺 FREDERICK SQUIRE Frederick Squire est un auteur-compositeur-interprète qui évoque la vieille musique folk. Ses vignettes rock atmosphériques, expérimentales et chaleureuses sont personnelles, poétiques et ouvertes, parfois un peu troublantes. Originalement d'Ajax, en Ontario, il est maintenant basé à Sudbury après un bon nombre d'années à Sackville, au Nouveau-Brunswick GRATUIT! Merci RBC UP HERE Up Here est un festival d'art public et de musique émergente dans l'étrange ville de Sudbury, Ontario qui a lieu du 17-19 août. Suivez: Up Here festival et RSVP: Up Here 4.

A night of weirdo punk with New York's no-wave legend Chandra and the post-punk of Montréal's Bleu Nuit. Presented by Stack Brewing. CHANDRA A child of the NYC underground art scene, Chandra Oppenheim showed musical promise at 7, and recorded music from 1980’s cult no-wave Transportation EP that same year when she was just 12. Completely in step with the Dadaist/minimalist impulses of the New York no wave scene of the day, this album launched the post-punk pre-teen’s career which continues today. Transportation was reissued in 2014 and Chandra now revisits the music she wrote as a child, reworking it for her growing audience, with the help of a who’s who of Toronto musicians. Commanding vocals lead bouncy bass lines, resonant organs, and deep echoes that all lead the listener to new territories. BLEU NUIT Bleu Nuit crafts french post-punk that blends spectral sounds with tension-packed lyrics for a truly haunting experience. Strong, fuzzy melodies back chant-like vocals that hearken back to the ‘80s. TV FREAKS TV Freaks are a four-piece from the post-industrial rust bed of Hamilton, ON. What began rather modestly as a group writing spastic, guitar-heavy, garage-punk songs has evolved into something with a significantly more wide-ranging sonic palette, disregarding any notion of genre purism. Traces of the Seeds, Velvets, Rick White, and Nick Cave can be heard, all while sounding like a coherent band, that is still inevitably punk (even if it’s a label they scoff at). TICKETS $15 advance / $20 at the door UP HERE Up Here is an urban art & emerging music festival in weird and wonderful downtown Sudbury that takes place from August 17-19. Follow Up Here festival, RSVP Up Here 4 🔺🔺🔺 BILLETS 15$ avance, 20$ à la porte UP HERE Up Here est un festival d'art public et de...

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When the bars close, we will chill the f- out with Versa. Find a comfy spot and get mesmerized by the audio-visual performance of Versa. VERSA Surreal and shimmering, VERSA’s psychedelic performance employs the physics of music, rendering low-frequency sound visible as it passes through a subwoofer into a colourful liquid basin. VERSA is an audio/visual collaboration between artist Monika Hauck and musician Alex Ricci. Sonically, VERSA is influenced by contemporary soundscape, instrumental post-rock, and ‘60s psychedelic, combining live-looping effected bass guitar layers with atmospheric synth and bombastic drums. ACCESSIBILITY The venue and bathrooms are accessible. TICKETS $10 advance / $12 at the door UP HERE Up Here is an urban art & emerging music festival in weird and wonderful downtown Sudbury that takes place from August 17-19. Follow Up Here festival, RSVP Up Here 4. 🔺🔺🔺 VERSA Surréelle et scintillante, la performance psychédélique de VERSA utilise la physique de la musique. Le son de basse fréquence devient visible en passant à travers un subwoofer, dans un bassin de liquide coloré. VERSA est une collaboration audio/visuelle entre l’artiste Monika Hauck et le musicien Alex Ricci. Sur le plan sonore, VERSA est influencée par des paysages sonores contemporains, du post-rock instrumental et de la musique psychédélique des années 60s, combinant des couches de basse en boucle avec du synthé atmosphérique et des batteries empiriques. ACCESSIBILITÉ La salle et les salles de toilettes sont accessibles. BILLETS 10$ avance, 12$ à la porte UP HERE Up Here est un festival d'art public et de musique émergente dans l'étrange ville de Sudbury, Ontario qui a lieu du 17-19 août. Suivez: Up Here festival et RSVP: Up Here 4.

The RBC Northern Series presents some of the best acts from Northern Ontario in intimate settings between 5 and 7 pm. MARTINE FORTIN Martine Fortin’s soulful, jazzy sound is refreshingly mature for such a young artist. The Sudbury-based, francophone songwriter is quickly making a name for herself thanks to her clear, rich vocals and smooth piano playing. Expect to be enchanted. FREE! Thanks RBC! UP HERE Up Here is an urban art & emerging music festival in weird and wonderful downtown Sudbury that takes place from August 17-19. Follow Up Here festival, RSVP Up Here 4. 🔺🔺🔺 MARTINE FORTIN Le son jazz éloquent de Martine Fortin est remarquablement mature pour une si jeune artiste. L'auteure-compositrice francophone de Sudbury est rapidement en train de se tailler une place avec son timbre riche et clair et son doigté au piano. Attendez-vous à être enchantés. GRATUIT! Merci RBC! UP HERE Up Here est un festival d'art public et de musique émergente dans l'étrange ville de Sudbury, Ontario qui a lieu du 17-19 août. Suivez: Up Here festival et RSVP: Up Here 4.

The RBC Northern Series presents some of the best acts from Northern Ontario in intimate settings between 5 and 7 pm. EVAN REDSKY Having spent five years on the road with Juno-nominated rock group Single Mothers, Evan Redsky has since left to create his debut rock ‘n’ roll album, Danny Wolfe EP. Redsky’s recent work marks a return to his indigenous storytelling roots, and you’ll be instantly hooked by his rugged, sandy voice and charmed by his warm, honest ballads. FREE! Thanks RBC! UP HERE Up Here is an urban art & emerging music festival in weird and wonderful downtown Sudbury that takes place from August 17-19. Follow Up Here festival, RSVP Up Here 4. 🔺🔺🔺 EVAN REDSKY T’as envie qu’Evan Redsky traduise tes chagrins en chansons. Le chanteur-compositeur folk de Blind River, a cette twist magique qui transforme le spleen en mélodies enivrantes. T’sais, celles qui gonflent le coeur d’émotions ? GRATUIT! Merci RBC! UP HERE Up Here est un festival d'art public et de musique émergente dans l'étrange ville de Sudbury, Ontario qui a lieu du 17-19 août. Suivez: Up Here festivall et RSVP: Up Here 4.

We'll close off this year's festival on Sunday night with Charlotte Day Wilson in the intimacy of Sudbury's century-old Grand Theatre. CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON Charlotte Day Wilson is a 25-year-old vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist from Toronto with roots in R&B, folk, and soul. Her singular voice and timeless sound has garnered global attention since her first EP in 2016. She's since released Stone Woman and has been streamed more than 25 million times. Her project is defined by clarity, vulnerability and strength. It is a clear statement of intent, a stirring demonstration of Charlotte’s power and poise and her certain emergence as an essential voice in 2018 and beyond. GEOFFROY Montreal-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Geoffroy has been gaining traction with his downtempo, electronica/trip-hop inspired sound. It's chill, it's smooth, it's groovy af. Geoffroy was named Apple Music’s Favourite New Artist and his collaboration with Men I Trust and Thirsty, reached the top spot on HypeMachine. Following the path of artists such as Chet Faker, SOHN or Sylvan Esso, this is one to watch and you'll get to say "I saw him here first." NYSSA Nyssa seems to inhabit some kind of enchanted forest-cum-trash palace where power-pop, punk, soul, glam, disco, and country all get doled out in equal, glitter-soaked measure. Nyssa is a singer, songwriter, producer, and performer for our age. TICKETS $25 advance / $30 at the door UP HERE Up Here is an urban art & emerging music festival in weird and wonderful downtown Sudbury that takes place from August 17-19. Follow Up Here festival, RSVP Up Here 4 🔺🔺🔺 CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON Charlotte Day Wilson est une chanteuse, productrice et multi-instrumentiste de Toronto. Avec des racines allant du R&B au folk, sa voix émouvante et singulière et son son intemporel ont attiré l'attention mondiale. Ses hymnes intimes...

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