Cover (without wristband ) by donation

FULL PROVIDENCE PASS – only $60! (+service charges) 18+
The “Providence Pass” is our full feature festival pass, and is an absolute steal!
For 2016 this includes:
    •    1 Limited edition copy of our 2015 Live Compilation (Tape+DL Card)
    •    1 $10 Gift Card to Andrew Hilton Wine + Spirits
    •    1 $10 Gift Card to Plum Fine Dining
    •    1 $10 Gift Card to Encore Barber
    •    1 $5  Gift Card to Drunken Sailor
    •    1 Gift Flyer to Catwalk Salon
    •    Entry to all events Wednesday to Sunday (Subject to Capacity)
    •    Entry to win two passes to Sled Island!
    •    includes deals at our Community Partners!

Slow Hell Meltdown is a pre-national drone day show presented by Weird Canada and Electric Eye Music Festival, and will be taking place Sunday May 15th (2:00pm to 5:15pm) at Attainable Records.

Slow Hell Meltdown will feature: Valiska, #YankeeYankee, Pyramid // Indigo, An Ant And An Atom and Zone.

Complete schedule of events, description and tickets can be found at EEMusicFest.com

Weird Canada's National Drone Day 2016 will be taking place across Canada Saturday May 28th and more information can be found here at droneday.org

Drone Music is a democratic genre, an inherently collaborative genre. Drone music encapsulates and includes all kinds of sounds: bagpipes, chanting, tandura, the diverse landscape of electronic musicians who orchestrate knobs and pedals into otherworldly soundscapes.

Drone music, with its extended or repeating tones, is a re-imagining, a redefining of the ears’ relationship to silence, to ground, to negative space. Drone is easy to understand but broad enough to encapsulate a wide variety of experimental streams. It’s a fixed-point singleton for the avant-garde; challenging, yet accessible to the layperson, with a creative path stretching onto infinite horizons.

And community celebrations, holidays are important. They are a way for us to celebrate a moment, to stake out a moment in the passage of our lives and give it meaning. Most holidays slowly harden into consumeristic celebrations that bear little resemblance to their community roots, and end up making us feel more alienated from each other.

Drone Day is a reclamation of the idea of a holiday, of a community celebration with no purpose beyond a shared interest in drone music, a community, and a marked moment in time.

- Marie LeBlanc Flanagan , Founder of Wyrd Arts Initiatives

4:15 An Ant and an Atom http://www.anantandanatom.com/

Sean Warkentin

5 p.m. Yankee Yankee https://yankeeyankee1.bandcamp.com/album/ecstatic-dreamer

drone free-improvised psych Calgary

Art began as some crude sketches on rock walls. History brought in countless techniques to improve upon these sketches culminating in the most realistic portrayal of perspective, depth, color, shading, and ultimate photorealism. Upon the perfection of realism in art, what direction was there to go? A breakdown of the perfection. Back to the basics. Similarly, the dawn of the synthesizer brought a newness to the musical tone. One could modulate these sounds in countless directions to create wildly unusual new sounds. With the addition of decades of technology, these have become ultimately realistic. Sometimes, however, the most interesting new musical direction comes from simplification. Yankee Yankee breaks these down to synthesized loops in basic form. Sounds being immediately recognizable as synthesized tones, does nothing to hinder the spectacle of visionary experimental electronic minimalism.

5:45 Valiska http://www.valiska.com/

Sedate bowed strings. Out-of-tune piano plunks. A brisk clarinet reed. These are the potential makings of a great honky-tonk jazz band. Compellingly, these potentially also make up just some of the synthetic sonic palette of Valiska, who blurs musical distinction. In fact, the solo-act smears those lines, literally streaking them across his sets of noisy neo-classicism and has, as a result, put himself among some of the top experimental artists in the country. Close your eyes and drift in and out of these soundscapes.