Thank You!

Thank you everyone so much for coming out and making this such an amazing ALL CAPS! Island Festival weekend. Despite some wind and rain and last minute rejigging, the outcome was more than we could have expected. There was a freaking double rainbow! There are so many people that pulled together to make this weekend something really special, through a lot of hard work and patience, and I just can't not try to thank them all.

Thank you so much to all the musicians, Triple Gangers, Esther Grey, Wet Hair, Tyvek, Choir! Choir! Choir!, Maylee Todd, YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN, Ivy Mairi, Young Mother, Canadian Winter, Absolutely Free, OG Melody, Lioness, and A Place To Bury Strangers.

Thank you to contributing AGP residents Aimee Dawn Robinson, Cadine Navarro, Johnny Nawracaj, Stacey Croucher & Paul Molerio, Pat Jeffries, Melissa Fisher, Dana Jo Cooley, Alistair Dickinson and Sara A. Tremblay for all they work they put into such amazing performances and works, and to all the residents of Artscape Gibraltar Point and the whole wide Toronto Island for letting us into their neighbourhood and their home and trusting us to respect them and it.

Thank you to our artistic curator Jessica Vallentin and the artists she presented, Vanessa Rieger, Cameron Lee, Lisa Neighbour, Heather Nicol, Jessie Currell & Courtney Park, Adriana Disman, Mary Porter, and Terrearea (Olia Mischenko/Janis Demkiw/Emily Hogg). And thank to to Wavelength's curated artists, VSVSVS for creating the most ambitious stage covering and all the amazing set decorations, the always amazing Felix Kalmensen, and Wavelengthers General Chaos and Adam Bradley.

Thank you to all our food vendors, Katie Mathieu, SkyBlueSky Sandwiches, and the Island Cafe.

Also: we have the best volunteers. They were the grease that made it all run so smoothly. Please volunteer again!

A giant bear hug thanks to Lisa Cristinzo at Artscape Gibraltar Point who is always amazing and an absolute pleasure to work with, and without whom this festival couldn't happen. In kind, abig thanks our festival co-presenter Artscape and the rest of the Artscape staff.

Thank you to everyone SO MUCH for donating to our IndieGoGo campaign to help us pull this thing off, Kelly Bergeron, Barbara A. Bunce, Rachel Butler, Ian Danzig & Atsuko Kobasigawa, Aaron Dawson, Dustin Freeman, Niall Fynes, Adam Gareau, Adam Glover, Elisabeth Kohn, Steph Malek, Claire Nolan, Rachel Nolan, Julie Penner, Michael Rancyr, Peter Sherratt, Evan Sue-Ping, and Lisa Tran!

And to our sponsors: Scion SessionsAutoShareSteam WhistleBullfrogblogTOExclaimShowGopher, Open Roof FestivalImages Festival, and our funders Ontario Arts Council and SOCAN Foundation. (Special props to Mike from ShowGopher for stepping up to help make sandwiches when SkyBlueSky's hired help fell through at the last minute.)

Thank you to Rebecca Webster and Kat Stewart of Webster Media Consulting for getting the word out, Derek Ma for his amazing poster/diorama, button, t-shirt, and festival guide designs, Adam Bradley for the frisbees, our intrepid emcee Doc Pickles, and our brilliant sound tech Dwayne Slack.

Thank you to Joe Strutt at Mechanical Forest Sound for creating the best catalogue of contemporary live music in Toronto at Mechanical Forest Sound, and for recording many of the performances this weekend.

And we sincerely send a shout out to such a friendly, outgoing, respectful and fun audience. This festival is nothing without you, and you were all awesome. I hope you enjoyed this weekend as much as we did.