POP Montréal 2023! The second wave of artists!

POP Montreal 2023 22nd edition Sept 27 - Oct 1, 2023 The second wave of artists!

POP Montreal 2023 – Sept 27th  to October 1st DING DING DING! ROUND II – POP Montreal keeps coming with more good news in anticipation of our 22nd-anniversary festival this fall!  Joining the excellent line-up of festival headliners (which includes Candi Staton, presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West, Bahamadia and Bonnie "Prince" Billy) we are happy to announce 35 more artists including; the return of Montreal avant-garde instrumental supergroup Bell Orchestre; the witty, riveting and best new music Belgian duo Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul; Jamaican dancehall innovator and Equiknoxx producer Gavsborg; the surrealist pop dancefloor experimentalist Kate NV; Montréal's hottest new band La Securité, perhaps the greatest band in all of Canada Bernice, and the original Montreal pop provocateurs Islands, plus more, lot's more. Check out the list below, stay tuned for more artists later this summer and Godspeed. Daniel Seligman, Creative Director - POP Montreal   POP Montreal Playlist 2023 here

Discover our programming with these notes from our programming team: Candi Staton - Dance and soul music icon Dr. Cornel West  - Public intellectual, activist, jazzman in the world of ideas Bonnie "Prince" Billy - One of the most influential and beloved songsmiths. Islands -  Original pop Montreal provocateur Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul - Electro dance with TEETH Men I Trust - Québec's dream pop sensations Leith Ross - Emo folk hitmaker Junglepussy - Revolutionary, futuristic rap rainbow Bahamadia  - One of the all-time great emcees, she is hip hop. Shabazz Palaces - Rap pioneer Ishmael Butler's future shizz Tangerine Dream - German Electronic music pioneers Bell Orchestre - Avant-garde instrumental masters Loraine James - Hyperdub experimental techno producer Kate NV - Bizarro pop dance floor masterpieces Lila Iké - Next dancehall reggae Queen Hand Habits - Intimate, warm, mysterious folk singer-songwriter Skullcrusher - Spellbinding ambient folk Annahastasia - Breath-taking power folk Mali Obomsawin Sextet  - Spiritual folk, melodic free jazz. Beyries - Captivating empathetic folk music ANJIMILE - Experimental afro-jazz and folk Water From Your Eyes - Raw experimental hipster pop Bernice - Alt-pop jokesters, rec room funk Charlotte Cornfield - Dream-folk songstress Laurence-Anne - Feisty pop artiste Georgia - UK pop maverick, Micachu accomplice Frankie and the Witch Fingers - High octane psych heavy rock & roll Nuovo Testamento - L.A based cold wave italo disco Becca Mancari - Indie pop with a Nashville filter Pypy - Superdope thrashing psych punk lunatics! La Sécurité - Fresh new wave art punk maestros Tommy Lefroy - Soft rock Juno nominees Gavsborg - Experimental Jamaican producer behind Equiknoxx Alanna Stuart - Femme dance hall vibes Groundsound - Afrofuturistic Jamaican broken beat TS Ellise aka Elle Barbara - Transgender legend, underground icon James Oscar - Montreal-born writer, art critic, and anthropological researcher of Trinidadian descent Beatrice Deer - Inu-indie folk-pop star Ratboys - Happy birthday folk Ellis - Dream pop from Hammer town Dizzy - Juno award-winning alt-pop TENGGER - Family band pan-Asian ambient psych folk Mauvey - Unabashed pop artist Kimmortal - High concept genre mutating rap music Nyssa - Ritualistic weirdo pop priestess Activity - Hazy, synth-based noise rock Madelline - Viral pop princess, TikTok star N NAO - Romantic experimental folk core Karma Glider - Hot frontman shoegazey punk Mother Tongues   - Cyper-psychy shoegaze Iguana Death Cult - Harmony laden, chant core psych rock Hot Garbage - Post-punk and motorik kraut rock Marker Starling  - Melancholy pop hitmaker since the days of Mantler Ashley Shadow - Lush melancholic folk rock Niia - Sophisticated spacy R&B Blonde Diamond - Dreamy nu-pop disco M.I. Blue - Icy neo-soul musings NADUH - 5-piece femme-powered hip hop group Alix Fernz - Hypnagogic pop, dissonant post-punk All reservations, concert info, tickets and passes on www.popmontreal.com.