Hamilton’s Something Else! Festival is back for summer 2022 with a stacked lineup

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Published June 7, 2022 at 1:15 pm

A popular Hamilton music festival that celebrates exploratory music and art is back for the summer of 2022 and its latest lineup offers a diverse collection of musical styles from across the globe.

The 9th annual Something Else! Festival returns to Hamilton starting the weekend of June 16, with events will be held over the following four weeks at various venues until July 16.

Organized by Zula Music & Arts Collective Hamilton, or Zula Presents, for short, the Something Else! Festival aims to bring more experimental and adventurous music and other art forms to the city in an effort to “enrich Hamilton’s cultural fabric,” organizers said on the festival’s website.

This year’s program includes appearances from acclaimed American players such as Don Byron (a Grammy Nominee, Guggenheim Fellow and Pulitzer Prize Finalist), Dave Douglas, Michael Vatcher, Gerry Hemingway, Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz and many others.

Canadian talent such as the brilliant cellist Peggy Lee, Vancouver avant-jazz-rock band Sick Boss, delicate Halifax quartet New Hermitage, electronic outfit JOYFULTALK (Constellation Records), Thus Owls (Montréal) and clarinet innovator François Houle.

Famed Canadian trumpet player and composer Lina Allemano brings her trio, Ohrenschmaus, to the festival for the first time, while stalwarts Michael Moore and Jodi Gilbert will also visit from across the Atlantic.

The first weekend, June 16 to 19, will be the core four days of the festival with performances scheduled at The Cotton Factory on all four days, and music scheduled at Bayfront Park from Friday to Sunday. Passes for this weekend run $130 and can be purchased on the Something Else! website.

For all subsequent performances and events, many of which are free or require a donation to attend, tickets can be found on Eventbrite.

A full program of events can be found on the Something Else! website.

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