Carmelo Torres y Su Cumbia Sabanera at Enmax Stage 6, 12:50 p.m. Torres is a master of the Colombian dance music cumbia. He was born and raised in birthplace of cumbia music, San Jacinto, and taught by the king of cumbia, Andres Landero. Mipso at Lumina Stage 1, 4:45 p.m. Though the song ..read more

Hannah Epperson at Field Law Stage 3, 11:55 a.m. The B.C.-raised, New York-based Epperson draws inspiration from Bjork for her looping experimental folk. “She’s been the most significant single artist in a long list of really important influential artists,” Epperson tells NBHAP . She’s particularly inspired by “her f—-you attitude to the soul-ob ..read more

Sudan Archives at National Stage 4, 6:15 p.m. There’s layers to Brittney Parks, the 23-year-old violinist/vocalist behind the Sudan Archives. Her style is layered: the Cincinatti-born, L.A.-based Parks blends Sudanese fiddling with R&B and experimental electronic music. And then she builds her music on stage by layering her singing overtop of looped rhythmic violin plucking and melodic bowing. Rhye at Ma ..read more

Get your Folk feet wet with a two-stage schedule of music. The War & Treaty at Mainstage, 5:30 p.m. The husband-wife duo of Tanya Blount Trotter and Michael Trotter Jr. have quite the story: she performed a duet with Lauryn Hill in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit; he learned the piano on an abandoned upright in Saddam Hussein’s palace while he was serving in Iraq ..read more

Alvvays The double-V band (pronounced “always”) brings their surf indie pop back to Calgary after playing to sold-out crowds across Europe last year. Thursday, July 26 at Mainstage, 9:10-10:20 p.m. Joe Jackson ..read more

Canada Day has come and gone, but that’s no reason to stop showing your patriotism. Upgrading your red-and-white gear—and ditching the face paint—might be a good idea, however. A Weighty Decision If the thought of sewing a Canada flag to your backpack or jacket is just too redolent of the 1980s, these enamel pins from Calgary’s Boldfaced are a great alternative. $11 each at Twisted Goods, Market ..read more

The encrypted text arrived at 4:20 p.m. on the day of the weed dinner. Of course it did. Once I’d decrypted it, using an app that the private medical marijuana collective behind the event had told me to install, I learned the location of the dinner. Being invited to an exclusive, clandestine, semi-legal/illegal party gave me a high all of its own. I’m guilty of being an experience junkie. That evening I crossed quadrants, Ubering from the southwest to, as it turned out, Raw Eatery & Market in the northwest. By sheer coinci ..read more

The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth doubles as the city’s biggest music festival; here are five acts to see. Tuesday, July 10: Whitney Rose Rose’s latest, Rule 62, is filled with breakup songs despite there not being a breakup in sight. “It’s certainly not reflective of my personal life,” she told the Calgary Herald in February ..read more

This six-panelled solar flower was commissioned by Telus and, late last year, installed adjacent to its Hillhurst Exchange building, where it powers the internal lighting. Cute, right? But it’s also a symbol of the increasing solarization of Calgary. It’s been a long time coming. Daniel Armstrong saw his first roof panel as a kid growing up in Nova Scotia. “Our neighbours put one on their camp out in the sticks where we had no electricity,” he says. “My dad was a science teacher so he explained it to me—I just thought it was t ..read more

Pancakes are loose all over town. We’ll help you wrangle ’em. Updated Friday, July 6. fri july 6 Calgary West Rotary Club Your ticket includes reserved bleacher seating along the parade route, gourmet Stampede breakfast, live music and more. All proceeds are donated to various Rotary world and community humanitarian projects ..read more