Sat 6/29 @ noon-7PM
The annual Waterloo Arts Fest is an all-afternoon affair with five stages. So that provides a lot of time slots for bands, performers, and DJs, and offers area music lovers a chance to check out a whole bunch of local talent for free.
Not only is all the music local but much of it originates right in the North Collinwood neighborhood, which is really stepping up its game as a mecca for creative types.
The schedule includes the usual singer-songwriters and indie rock bands. But you can also hear funk (We the People), klezmer (Workmen’s Circle Klezmer), reggae (Jah Messengers), polka (Polka Pirates), old-time Americana (the Spyder Stompers), steel drum music (Junior Panic Steel Band), and Dixieland (Local 4 Dixieland Band).
You can take a break from the music to check out the food, galleries, hands-on art-making, kids area, and booths from local organizations, vendors and artists.
The full music schedule is below. More info here.
WATERLOO ARTS STAGE
12:00 We the People
1:15 Workmen’s Circle Klezmer
2:30 Moko Bovo
3:45 Polka Pirates
4:30 Hoop Dancing by Amy Melnik
5:00 Thor Platter
5:45 Junior Panic Steel Band
6:15 Jah Messengers
BEACHLAND STAGE
Presented by Cellar Door and Pabst
12:00 DJ El Presidente
1:00
2:00 DJ El Presidente
2:30 Good Morning Valentine
3:30 DJ Adam Spektor
4:00 So Long Albatross
5:00 DJ Adam Spektor
5:30 Commonwealth
6:30 DJ Adam Spektor
SCUPLTURE STAGE
12:00 Tullsen Brothers
1:00 Forgotten Souls of Antiquity
2:00 Kitschy
3:00 Highland
4:00 Vanity Crash
5:00 45 Spider
6:00 Zach and the Bright Lights
MIDDLE STAGE
12:00 Spyder Stompers
1:00 Local 4 Dixieland Band
2:00 Old Boy
3:00 Mike Uva
4:00 Flow Spontaneous
5:00 Alan Madej
6:00 Maura Rogers and the Bellows
BLUE ARROW
12:30 DJ Ed of WRUW’s Chasing Infinity
2:30 DJ Katherine Koenig
4:30 DJ Charles McGaw
Photo: Goodmorning Valentine at last year’s Waterloo Arts Fest by Anastasia Pantsios