More Bands Added to Virgin Festival: BC

Tuesday, 07 July 2009
Virgin Festival is bringing the heat back to BC. Canada’s hottest summer music festival announced today that it will take over DEER LAKE PARK on JULY
25 & 26, 2009, to an expected throng of more than 20,000 music lovers. The excitement kicks off with the announcement that Canadian rockers OUR
LADY PEACE will perform on day one and Grammy Award-winning songwriter and guitar legend BEN HARPER AND RELNTLESS7 will headline day two.
Joining the already sizzling Saturday line-up are day one headliners and Grammy Award winners THE ROOTS, Juno Award winners BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE and
singer-songwriter CHRIS VELAN. Artists already announced for day one of Virgin Festival BC are Canadian rockers OUR LADY PEACE, Grammy Award-winning
electrorockers MUTEMATH, Canadian hip hop artist K-OS, punk rockers SPINNERETTE and Montréal based indie rockers PLANTS AND ANIMALS.
For the Sunday line-up new additions are new wave rockers METRIC, songstress CARLY RAE JEPSEN and soulful up-and-comers EDWARD SHARPE &
THE MAGNETIC ZEROS. Artists already announced for the Sunday are day two headliner and Grammy Award-winning guitar legend BEN HARPER AND
RELENTLESS7, legendary alt-rockers SONIC YOUTH, JARVIS COCKER of Britpop group Pulp fame, hip-hop trio DE LA SOUL, English indie rockers GOMEZ, garage
rockers AWESOME COLOR and Welsh alt-rockers FUTURE OF THE LEFT.
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