The festival is taking a break in 2025! This is our performer lineup for the 2024 festival, check out our past performers list for previous lineups.

Watch live performance videos of some of the 2024 Campbell Bay Music Festival performers, Or take a listen!

ARC IRIS Los Angeles, US Friday 23:00 Forest Stage

Los Angeles art-pop trio Arc Iris fuses story-based songs with dense electronic and orchestral arrangements. The group, which began as the solo project of Jocie Adams, formerly of The Low Anthem, includes keyboardist Zach Tenorio and drummer Ray Belli. Since their inception in 2013, the band has released five studio albums and toured with artists such as St. Vincent, Jeff Tweedy, and Kimbra. In 2020, just days before the Covid-19 shutdown, the band premiered their most ambitious project to date, iTMRW: A Sci-Fi Ballet which featured six dancers from Providence, RI's HDC Dance Ensemble. In 2023, the band released their fifth record, "We Found Home".

BALKAN SHMALKAN Vancouver, BC Saturday 13:00 Market Stage

Balkan Shmalkan is East Vancouver’s sweet dance party orchestra; think global music with local attitude. Their funky brass dance beats are rooted in the aural traditions of the Roma and Klezmorim of Eastern Europe and blended with a mixture of pop and jazz. Members of the group sing in 5 languages including Serbian, Romani, and Italian. The group contains six to twelve musicians playing reed, brass and percussion instruments of both eastern and western origin. Balkan Shmalkan is the brain child of a group of musicians with a long history of collaboration in traditional South Serbian Trubaci music. This project is a way of blending that music with other vibrant traditions and bringing it to the general population of Greater Vancouver.

CHIQUITAMAGIC Toronto, ON Friday 22:00 Forest Stage

chiquitamagic is a Colombian born producer & artist. Her music can be described as electronic dance music with elements of jazz, funk, choral music, & synthpop. She recently released her sixth album CURSI. Her collaborators include Louis Cole, Genevieve Artadi, KNOWER, Justin Brown, Ambrose Akinmusire, MonoNeon, Jake Sherman, Bernice, Anaïs Maviel, David Binney, John Hollenbeck.

GEORGE Various Saturday 19:00 Forest Stage

John Hollenbeck formed GEORGE during the Covid pandemic. ANNA WEBBER - flute/tenor sax, is a composer whose interests and work live in the aesthetic overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. SARRY ROSSY - voice/keys, is composer/producer based in Montreal. CHIQUITA MAGIC - keys/voice, is a latinx artist/producer hailing from Colombia and based in Canada. JOHN HOLLENBECK - drums/composition, is the driving force behind the Claudia Quintet and the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble. He has earned six GRAMMY nominations and has worked extensively with his two mentors, Bob Brookmeyer and Meredith Monk. GEORGE released "Letters to George" in January 2023 on Out of Your Head Records.

J’SIṈTEN Dr John Elliott W̱JOȽEȽP First Nation Saturday 10:00 Market Stage

J’SIṈTEN Dr John Elliott is a respected Elder from the W̱JOȽEȽP / Tsartlip First Nation who has played a pivotal role in the preservation and revitalization of the SENĆOŦEN language. He is a historian, mentor, language warrior, traditional knowledge keeper and a gifted teacher. For over 40 years he has taught language and culture courses at the WSÁNEĆ Tribal School, the University of Victoria and Camosun College, and is Chair of the First Peoples’ Cultural Foundation. He co-founded FirstVoices.com, a web-based archive of over 70 Indigenous languages. J’SIṈTEN has been honouring our festival for many years through his generosity in sharing opening words, ceremonial blessings and WSÁNEĆ stories about this place.

MADAME B MUSIQUE Pirate Party Victoria, BC Saturday 14:30 Forest Stage

Ahoy me hearties! Madame B Musique is back for a second year at CBMF and this time she meets a rowdy group of BILINGUAL PIRATES that will have the whole family dancing and singing along! This all-star band of buccaneers features trombone, trumpet, bass, ukulele, viola, voices and drums. Come walk the plank and enjoy a show full of surprises, dance moves, monsters and sunshine. Arrrr you ready to rock and roll mateys?!

MADELEINE ROGER Winnipeg, MB Friday 20:00 Forest Stage

Madeleine Roger is a folk singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Canada. While skillfully accompanying herself on acoustic guitar, it is her artistry as a songwriter and storyteller that can silence a room, uniting her lyrical prowess with breathtaking melodies that linger long after they are sung. Her critically-acclaimed debut album Cottonwood is a collection of songs that reflect on femininity and equality, the majesty of the wilderness, and the beautiful awkwardness of trying to love another person.

Her sophomore album "Nerve", coming August 2024, is a deeply personal body of work examining every nook and cranny of love and loss, and touches the exposed nerve left over from a breakup with a long-term lover and musical collaborator, the death of a soul-friend, a prolonged illness, unrequited love, months of caring for a dying grandparent, and finding peace in spite of it.

MEDUSA Toronto, ON Friday 21:00 Forest Stage

Wielding a sound that would turn classical music scholars to stone, these four folk musicians are reimagining the Western string quartet. By inviting back voices previously regarded as too ugly for “polite society,” Medusa tempts us to redefine what is beautiful.

Medusa is Georgia Hathaway, Lea Kirstein, Marta Sołek, and Saskia Tomkins. For these four seasoned string players, whose collective experience as side players in successful bands spans decades, Medusa is a refuge for natural creation. Their immediate and electrifying connection is transmuted through a common string language, a love of enigmatic and obscure folk fiddles, and their personal stories of navigating society’s liminal spaces. Instead of a snake-haired Gorgon, they see Medusa as a symbol of vision, power, and inclusivity, and a source of inspiration for anyone who has been denied their true self.

PONY GIRL Ottawa, ON Saturday 22:00 Forest Stage

Pony Girl are masters of artpop, invigorating stages with a prismatic sound that’s all their own. Hailed for their “evocative soundscapes” (CBC Radio), “ability to push the boundaries that define pop-rock” (Mixtape Magazine), and “musical depth quite astonishing to experience in person” (Exclaim!), Pony Girl is a rare gem worth uncovering.

Enny One Wil Love You (2022), the Ottawa-Hull band’s Paper Bag Records debut, holds a mirror to our negative cycles for an album that’s as alluring as self-sabotage. Laff It Off (2023), Pony Girl’s sophomore album for Paper Bag Records, casts the warm light of golden hour onto their artpop, guiding characters who are floating towards hope.

Pony Girl is a kaleidoscope of pop unlike any other, turning everyday life into mesmerizing melodies, rock and electronic production. Multi-genre and multi-faceted, Pony Girl will command your adoration.

‘q’ brooke bachand with Charlie Gannon Lekwungen Territory, BC Saturday 17:00 Forest Stage

2x Irish music award-winning nonbinary westcoast artist 'q' (they/them) is a consummate performer who is clearly at ease on stage, & they are known for their powerful fiddle & captivating vocals. Their contagious energy and love of folk and Celtic music is always at the forefront, as they bless audiences with energetic and spirited performances which showcase their propensities for fiddling as well as song & story-sharing. q will be joined by gifted guitar player Charlie Gannon. Charlie is recognized as one of the best young guitarists in Victoria, playing a wide range of styles from celtic to rock. His playing is highly technical yet sensitive; with inventive harmonies and chord voicings he has learned from many years of playing jazz, Gannon brings new life to the simplest of songs and performs even the most difficult with ease.

RICHARD GARVEY Victoria, BC sing-along host! Saturday 10:30 Forest Stage

Richard Garvey is a guitar-strumming, banjo-plucking, and sing-along-starting performer and community organizer. His award winning songs explore the highs and lows of love, injustice, and the marbled mess of the human condition. Whether he’s playing to a living room or an amphitheatre, Richard brings clever songs and a sly sense of humour to inspire solidarity, hope, and change. When you’re looking for the latest incarnation of world-changing, foot-stomping, and heart-filling folk music, see Richard Garvey.

ROSIER Montreal, QC Saturday 21:00 Forest Stage

Rosier takes an audacious approach where traditional songs become the intimate accomplice of well-crafted indie-folk-rock music. Bilingual, feminist and mostly led by women, the Montreal-based band has been performing together for over a decade and has performed in more than 15 countries world-wide. Their next album « Elle veille encore », to be released in October 2024, paints a multifaceted portrait of women in society, past and present. Through a hundred folklore archives consulted and analyzed, Rosier has focused on an omnipresent theme - that of the mother figure and the mother-child relationship (good, or bad).

The band is made up of Béatrix Méthé (vocals, fiddle and synthesizers), Sarah Marchand (vocals, piano and keyboards), Marie Savoie-Levac (bass), Éléonore Pitre (acoustic and electric guitar, backing vocals), Colin Savoie-Levac (guitar, backing vocals) and an added drummer.

STONECROP SINGERS Mayne Island, BC Saturday 10:30 Market Stage

Stonecrop Singers are Mayne Island’s resident rock, pop and folk choir. All original arrangements, joyful harmonies, delight-bringers to all who hear them.

TALEL MCBRIAR Victoria, BC Saturday 18:00 Forest Stage

BC-based singer-songwriter, Talel McBriar, merges traditional folk with alternative rock influences to produce songs that ring with thoughtful lyrics and lush melodies. Evident in her 2022 debut EP titled Flood Season, Talel's writing distills her experiences into authentic and insightful ballads. In 2018 Talel and her bandmate, Ella Korth, won a Kootenay Music Awards for Best Original Roots song. Her most recent single titled Not a Machine was released this past March 2024.

TREMBLERS OF SEVENS Victoria, BC Saturday 20:00 Forest Stage

Tremblers of Sevens is two people who sound like ten. They mine everything from traditional blues, devotional gospel, meditative Turkish delights, and klezmer nuptial nights, then plug it in, crank it up loud and hammer the material out over melodic and dynamic drums. The result is heavy, groovy songs that take you somewhere familiar that you’ve never actually been.

Y LA BAMBA Mexico City, MX Saturday 23:00 Forest Stage

“Lucha [Y La Bamba’s seventh album] is a symbol of how hard it is for me to tackle healing, live life, and be present,” Luz Elena Mendoza Ramos, lead vocalist and producer of Y La Bamba, says of the title behind the album which translates from Spanish to English as ‘fight’ and is also a nickname for Luz, which means light. The album explores multiplicity—love, queerness, Mexican American and Chicanx identity, family, intimacy, yearning, loneliness—and chronicles a period of struggle and growth for Mendoza Ramos as a person and artist. 

Lucha follows Ramos as she moved from Portland, Oregon to Mexico City, returning to her parents’ home country while revisiting a lineage marred by violence and silence, and simultaneously reaching towards deeper relationships with loved ones and herself. The album reflects “another tier of facing vulnerability,” as Mendoza Ramos explains, and is a battle cry to fight in order to be seen and to be accepted, if not celebrated, in every form—anger and compassion, externally and internally, individually and societally.