FestivalSeeker Stories

August is a busy month for festival lovers in Alberta and we’ve hand selected a few great ones that you won’t want to miss this month.

It's that sweet spot, halfway through summer and BC festivals and events for August are sizzling with live music, fresh food, local art and all kinds of great creative experiences.

Check out some of the highlights and memories from summer 2024 festivals, and get ready to make your own memories as the biggest weekends of the summer light it up.

Beating the heat at summer festivals in Alberta and BC is all about your pre-game. With a little advance prep you can be free to indulge in all the spontaneous fun of the festival scene. 

From the summit of SilverStar Mountain, BC, looking out onto the Okanagan valley, you can see a mountain village teeming with trail runners, mountain bikers, live music and a vibrant arts scene.

Check out the awesome festival lineup Alberta has to look forward to this July

Explore some of the countless exciting events that will be happening in British Columbia in July.

Alberta's big summer music festivals fill a big landscape with joyous sound! Here are 20 to get you dancing and grooving.

Check out over 20 music festivals in BC for summer 2023, bringing some of the biggest international artists as well as homegrown musical talent to the BC stage!

With all the over the top festival experiences these days, do you think you would have been fooled by these posts?

Edmonton Blues Fest keeps bringing joy to audiences as it celebrates 25 years, delivering the blues the way it was meant to be experienced: raw, live and intimate.

Get your party hats, noisemakers and dancing shoes ready! Putting on festivals through the winter in Western Canada means adapting to snow and cooler temperatures.

As if you needed a reason to start lining up your tickets and passes for the 2024 festival season, here's another: it’s good for your health. 

Lights, music, feasts and fun spectacles, don't miss out—put these BC and Alberta festivals on your radar for 2024.

It's hard to capture in a single freeze-frame, but as we look back on the festival season that was in summer 2023, we can see how truly special it was.