SappyFest

SappyFest is a little independent music festival produced annually in partnership with the Ok.Quoi?! Arts Festival, Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre. 2011 will mark our sixth offering. The next festival will take place July 29 - 31, 2011, in Sackville, New Brunswick, the centre of our universe.

The SappyFest Mainstage site is a combination of two large tents, beer garden, merchandise market and uncovered open space with a capacity of 2000. The site is located in the heart of downtown Sackville, on Bridge Street, closing down the main commercial thorougfare while creating a vibrant, high-profile epicentre for the festival.

Side stages are all within walking distance and include a free outdoor bandstand, art deco movie house, turn of the century United church, and a Royal Canadian Legion.

Now a registered non-profit organization, SappyFest Incorporated, the festival was founded in 2006 by the good people of Sappy Records, Julie Doiron, Jon Claytor and Paul Henderson. At the time it seemed like a more feasible way to get all our friends together than a wedding, and certainly more fun than releasing records into the ether.

We still don’t know what we’re doing, but we’re fooling more and more people each year. Hope you can make it out.