Harrison Festival of the Arts
Harrison Festival Society
World Music & Art. Small Town Roots.
The 46th Annual Harrison Festival of the Arts is coming July 11th-20th, 2025
Our Festival Lineup Full of International Flare!
An Artist for Every Audience. Here’s a taste of who’s coming to Town! Click here for the Festival full artist lineup for the free Beach Stage and ticketed Hall Performances!
Our Season of Performing Arts
From World Stage to Local Artists, there’s something for everyone during our Season of the Performing Arts!
For 35 years, the Harrison Festival Society has presented a lively Season of Performing Arts between September and May. The Season consists of eight to ten shows featuring local, national and international performers at the Harrison Memorial Hall in our beautiful lakeside community.
More artists will be added in time!
Did Someone Say Sponsorship?
Learn how we can partner in bringing the arts to Harrison.
With world-class music and art like this of course we need Sponsors. Every donation we receive helps us put on a great show! We also want to spread the word about Music & Art as we support the next Gen of artists. We value all levels of sponsorship, from the spare change you have in your back pocket, to our higher levels of community sponsors. The Harrison Festival of the Arts thanks all of its partners and the community of Harrison, for letting us take over your beautiful village as we bring the best international Art & Music to your tranquil river shores!
A big bucketful of thanks to all our sponsors and community partners. You ARE the Fest! You help bring the best of the arts to BC!
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Five Alarm Funk
Five Alarm Funk are returning to the Memorial Hall hot on the heels of their latest album, “Force Majeure”. The band metaphorically lit the hall on fire three years ago, being the first festival act to play there following the pandemic closures. It was a memorable evening of funky, sweaty fun! This Vancouver musical powerhouse is a festival favourite across Canada, with their intensity, humour, and grooves that don’t stop. With a drummer as a frontman, a high octane horn section, psych rock guitar, percussion, and a style that evokes the greatest funk from James Brown to Parliament Funkadelic, this band will be sure to fill the dance floor and make it a Saturday night to remember.
Kobo Town
Named after the historic Port-of-Spain neighborhood in Trinidad where calypso was born, Kobo Town has been described as “an intoxicating mix of licked calypsonian spirit, dancehall reggae and trombone-heavy horns” (Guardian). Since its inception in 2005, the band, based in Toronto, has brought its calypso sound and ska inspiration to audiences around the world. Kobo Town is led by Drew Gonsalves, a songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist whose music has been covered by many other artists, including Carlos Santana, Manu Chao and Calypso Rose. At once disturbing and joyous, intensely poetic and highly danceable, the group’s songs are rooted in the rich tradition of Caribbean musical storytelling and are delivered with an indomitable energy that has thrilled audiences from Montreal to Malaysia and from Havana to Berlin.
African Chamber Music Ensemble
Join us for the 46th Annual Harrison Festival of the Arts. We are excited to welcome everyone back to Harrison this year for a thrilling Festival! For full details on the festival such as Schedule, Artist Lineup, workshops, Children’s Day, the Artisan Market and more… continue on to the Homepage. African Chamber Music Ensemble Location:…
Mama’s Broke
Mama’s Broke is a unique and powerful folk duo that both honours and defies tradition with their original compositions. Two strong voices blend to create haunting harmonies, while they artfully juggle fiddle, banjo, guitar and mandolin, and incorporate traditional dance and foot percussion as part of their performance. Drawing from old-time, Quebecois, blues, punk, Celtic, Balkan and doom metal, they create a soundscape that is both familiar and new. For a group defined by constant touring, it’s not surprising that the two artists that make up Mama’s Broke, Lisa Maria and Amy Lou Keeler, met on the road. As Lisa remembers it, “Amy was driving her old Mercedes from Montreal to Nova Scotia and I was looking for a ride. We spent the 17 hours in the car talking almost exclusively about music. By the time we reached Halifax we started playing together, and within a week or two became a band.”
