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Event
Information:
North
by Northeast (or NXNE) is an annual
five-day live music and film
festival and music conference in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, held each
June. It began in 1994 and was
patterned on the South by Southwest
festival in Austin, Texas. Each
year, over 50 music venues host
hundreds of bands from Canada, the
United States and all over the
world. Most music venues hosts five
bands a night (9 p.m. onward), and
the majority of the venues are
grouped along downtown Toronto's
Queen Street West, College Street,
and the Bloor St. Annex.
The
music conference at NXNE runs for
three days at the Hyatt Regency on
King (formerly the Holiday Inn)
Hotel which serves as festival
headquarters. NXNE delegates,
panelists and bands playing the
festival are able to participate in
discussions, songwriter round
tables, keynotes, demo listening and
peer critiquing, legal clinics and
the very helpful peer mentor
sessions. The NXNE conference panels
are held Friday and Saturday, and
aim to foster a professional
environment where musicians, artists
and music industry reps can network
and share ideas within their field.
A film
festival was added in 2001 to run
concurrently with the weekend music
festival and industry conference, in
conjunction with the National Film
Board of Canada. Films are primarily
music related documentaries and
videos. NXNE also has a film
showcase at the popular Hot Docs
Film Festival. The conference also
hosted the world premiere of Bruce
McDonald's Broken Social Scene
concert film, This Movie Is Broken,
in 2010. North by Northeast is a
volunteer driven music festival. The
dedication and enthusiasm of NXNE
volunteers caught the eye of Andrew
Loog Oldham (the 2002 keynote
speaker), who remarked that NXNE
volunteers reminded him of why he
originally entered the music
business.
Lineup includes: Flaming Lips at
Yonge-Dundas Square in downtown
Toronto, Bad Religion, Raekwon &
Ghostface Killah, and Matthew Good.
Other acts include Montreal, the
Sadies & Andre Williams, Plants and
Animals, the Men, Death Grips,
Unknown Mortal Orchestra, 2:54,
Bleached, Ceremony, Bran Van 3000,
Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, Doldrums,
Odonis Odonis, Mac DeMarco, Bass
Drum of Death, Grass Widow, No Use
for a Name, Hollerado, Porcelain
Raft, Violens, Killer Mike, Eight
and a Half, Purity Ring, Good
Riddance, Action Bronson, the Black
Belles, DZ Deathrays, and more.
There will be roughly 650 bands in
all.
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