Summer festival season photos
Festival season is coming to an end, but the Calgary Journal summer editors made sure to attend as many as possible and are sharing photos of it with you.
Photos by Amber McLinden, Nathan Woolridge and Rosemary De Souza.
Published September 6, 2017.
Basia Bulat on the main stage on July 28 during the Calgary Folk Music Festival.
Photo by Amber McLinden
Country Thunder, which took place Aug. 18 to Aug. 19, featured performances by country greats Old Dominion, Brad Paisley, Thomas Rhett and Blake Shelton at Prairie Winds Park in northeast Calgary.
Photo by Nathan Woolridge
Anderson Paak performs at Max Bell Festival Ground on Aug. 4 during the One Love Music Festival.
Photo by Amber McLinden
Left: Leather Jacuzzi at Sloth Records on June 22 during the Sled Island festival.
Center: Montréal band Blue Odeur performs at Local 510 on June 22 during Sled Island.
Right: The One Love Festival featured RZA as Bobby Digital at Max Bell Festival Grounds on Aug. 4.
Photos by Amber McLinden
Birds of Chicago performs on the main stage at Prince’s Island Park on July 28, for the Calgary Folk Music Festival.
Photo by Amber McLinden
Blues musician Sugar Brown demonstrates a song to a room filled with blues fans, as well as sharing the stage with fellow blues musician and historian John Rutherford at the King Eddy on Aug. 2.
Photo by Rosemary De Souza
A variety of different foods and goods were being sold from different cultures around the world at GlobalFest 2017.
Photo by Nathan Woolridge
The Prairies’ fireworks on display at GlobalFest on Aug. 17. This year, instead of countries, provinces and other parts of Canada put on fireworks displays as part of a Canada 150 celebration.
Photo by Nathan Woolridge
