The Osheaga Music and Arts Festival
is a two-day rock festival in Montreal, Quebec, that is held annually at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène every summer. The 2006 festival attracted a crowd of around 25,000 people. The second edition was held on September 8 and 9, 2007. The 2009 edition is scheduled for July 30 - August 2 with Coldplay headlining as part of their Viva la Vida Tour. It will be their second stop in the city, as the Bell Centre was featured on their first North American leg. Montreal will be Coldplay's final Canadian stop.
Artists who played at the inaugural Osheaga Festival include Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Sonic Youth, The Flaming Lips, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Dinosaur Jr., k-os, Metric, Damian Marley, G. Love and Special Sauce, Wolf Parade, Bedouin Soundclash, Joseph Arthur, Malajube, Lady Sovereign, Kid Koala, Starsailor, Islands, Amon Tobin, Bell Orchestre, Think About Life, Duchess Says, Final Fantasy, The Hidden Cameras, Tokyo Police Club, The Stills, Ben Lee, James Chance and the Contortions, Brazilian Girls, Percy Farm, Patrick Watson, We Are Wolves and Land of Talk.
The 2007 lineup included The Smashing Pumpkins, Bloc Party, Interpol, Damien Rice, Arctic Monkeys, Gotan Project, Leslie Feist, Stars, Amy Winehouse, M.I.A., Paolo Nutini, Xavier Caféine and Sam Roberts but Placebo as well as Amy Winehouse and Peter Bjorn & John had to cancel.
The Beastie Boys, who were initially scheduled to perform as the headline performance for August 2nd, 2009 had to cancel their performance to allow band member Adam "MCA" Yauch's recovery from cancer surgery.
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