Summertime is music festival time, and Hillside is one of the coolest, most easy-going, friendliest, and most socially and environmentally conscious festivals I've ever had the pleasure of attending. It always brings a hugely diverse set of performers from different genres, locales and cultures together, yet it somehow manages to deliver a consistent vibe that echoes, "Happy Hillside!"
Please enjoy some photos from around the festival and click the links that go to each individual post on each individual act that we covered this year. Sorry we couldn't see everyone! We tried!
Day 1
Day 2
Steve Earle and The Dukes
Neon Dreams
Busby Marou
Ellis
Fast Romantics
Songhoy Blues
Chippy Nonstop
Alysha Brilla and the Brilltones
Front Country
Systema Solar
Hymns 57
The Burning Hell
Jeremie Albino
Yonatan Gat and The Eastern Medicine Singers
Richard Reed Parry's Quiet River of Dust
Carmanah
Birds of Chicago
Joyful Joyful
&More
Quantum Tangle
Bird City
The Mastersons
Anna Wiebe
El Coyote
Neon Dreams
Busby Marou
Ellis
Fast Romantics
Songhoy Blues
Chippy Nonstop
Alysha Brilla and the Brilltones
Front Country
Systema Solar
Hymns 57
The Burning Hell
Jeremie Albino
Yonatan Gat and The Eastern Medicine Singers
Richard Reed Parry's Quiet River of Dust
Carmanah
Birds of Chicago
Joyful Joyful
&More
Quantum Tangle
Bird City
The Mastersons
Anna Wiebe
El Coyote
Day 3
Ian Blurton's Future Now
This year's Hillside coverage includes photos made by Sarah Ordean. Check out more of her work on Instagram.
I've also covered Hillside in 2018 and 2016. You can find my posts from those years here and here.
Until next year, "Happy Hillside!"