Squamish Valley Music Festival
The Squamish Valley Music Festival, previously LIVE at Squamish, was an annual music festival co-produced by Vancouver-based BRANDLIVE Management group and Live Nation Canada, and held in Squamish, British Columbia Canada over the second weekend in August. Widely recognized as the largest and most exciting contemporary music festival in the Pacific Northwest region, with in excess of 120,000 people attending in 2015 alone. The festival was cancelled in 2016.
History
The festival began in 2010, and has attracted headlining artists including Bad Religion, Metric, The Tragically Hip, Childish Gambino, Weezer, Matthew Good, City and Colour, Girl Talk, Vampire Weekend, Queens of the Stone Age, Eminem, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, and Pretty Lights. The Festival features some of the biggest international names in the music industry today, alongside national and emerging regional talent, in an incredible experience highlighting artistry of all genres. The 2014 line up of over 70 artists included headliners Eminem, Arcade Fire, and Bruno Mars. In 2015, the festival featured over 80 artists across four stages, led by the star-studded trio of headliners, Mumford & Sons, Drake, and Sam Smith.In 2016, the festival's organizer's, BRANDLIVE and Live Nation Canada, canceled the event, due to a falling Canadian dollar and increasing competition from other music festival offerings.
2015 Festival
| Band | Stage | Day |
| Sam Smith | Friday | |
| Drake Of Monsters and Men | Saturday | |
| Mumford and Sons | Sunday |
2014 Festival
| Band | Stage | Day |
| Strumbellas | Stawamus | Thursday |
| Sleepy Tom | Blueprint Arena | Thursday |
| The Matinee | Stawamus | Thursday |
| Kastle | Blueprint Arena | Thursday |
| A Tribe Called Red | Stawamus | Thursday |
| Herobust | Blueprint Arena | Thursday |
| Nico & Vinz | Stawamus | Friday |
| July Talk | Stawamus | Friday |
| Rising Stars Contest Winner | Meadow | Friday |
| The Zolas | Garibaldi | Friday |
| City Real | Meadow | Friday |
| Mayer Hawthorne | Garibaldi | Friday |
| The Wild Feathers | Stawamus | Friday |
| Eminem | Tantalus | Sunday |
| Bruno Mars | Tantalus | Friday |
| Arcade Fire | Tantalus | Saturday |
| Arctic Monkeys | Tantalus | Sunday |
| Danny Brown | Stawamus | Sunday |
2013 Festival
| Band | Stage | Day |
| Queens of the Stone Age | Stawamus | Saturday |
| Vampire Weekend | Stawamus | Friday |
| Band of Horses | - | - |
| Macklemore & Ryan Lewis | Stawamus | Friday |
| Childish Gambino | Garibaldi | Saturday |
| Gogol Bordello | - | - |
| Young the Giant | Garibaldi | - |
| Dan Mangan | Stawamus | - |
| Divine Fits | - | - |
| Dragonette | Stawamus | Friday |
| Fitz and The Tantrums | Garibaldi | Saturday |
| Pretty Lights | Garibaldi | Saturday |
| Jurassic 5 | Garibaldi | Friday |
| Yukon Blonde | Stawamus | Saturday |
| Matt Mays | - | - |
| Said the Whale | Stawamus | Friday |
| Diamond Rings | Garibaldi | - |
| Deapvally | - | - |
| A Tribe Called Red | - | - |
| The Matinee | Garibaldi | - |
| Reignwolf | - | - |
| Dustin Bentall and the Smokes | - | - |
| The Heavy | - | - |
| Skratch Bastid | - | - |
| Bear Mountain | - | - |
| The Funk Hunters | - | - |
| Dear Rouge | Market | Saturday |
| Basketball | - | - |
| Jordan Klassen | Market | Friday |
| Dominique Fricot | Market | Friday |
| Gang Signs | - | - |
| The Chantrelles | - | - |
| Fine Times | - | - |
| Derrival | - | - |
| The Ballantynes | Market | Saturday |
| Nightbox | - | - |
| Grandtheft | - | - |
| DJ Hebegebe | - | - |
| DJ K-Tel | - | - |
| VJ ELECTRABELLE | - | - |
| Boatman | - | - |
| Smalltown DJ's | - | - |
| Rukus Deluxe | - | - |
| Madeon | - | - |
2012 Festival
| Band | Stage | Day |
| Rich Hope | Garibaldi | Friday |
| The Matinee | Garibaldi | Friday |
| Washboard Union | Garibaldi | Friday |
| No Sinner | Garibaldi | Friday |
| Good for Grapes | Garibaldi | Friday |
| The Tragically Hip | Stawamus | Saturday |
| The Sheepdogs | Stawamus | Saturday |
| Wintersleep | Stawamus | Saturday |
| Brett Dennen | Stawamus | Saturday |
| Current Swell | Stawamus | Saturday |
| Chromeo | Garibaldi | Saturday |
| Beats Antique | Garibaldi | Saturday |
| Lights | Garibaldi | Saturday |
| LP | Garibaldi | Saturday |
| Charles Bradley | Garibaldi | Saturday |
| Gold & Youth | Garibaldi | Saturday |
| Humans | Meadow | Saturday |
| Rococode | Meadow | Saturday |
| Maurice | Meadow | Saturday |
| Facts | Meadow | Saturday |
| Young Pacific | Meadow | Saturday |
| Kevin Shiu | Woodshed | Saturday |
| Hebegebe | Woodshed | Saturday |
| City and Colour | Stawamus | Sunday |
| Mother Mother | Stawamus | Sunday |
| The Airborne Toxic Event | Stawamus | Sunday |
| Plants and Animals | Stawamus | Sunday |
| Kathleen Edwards | Stawamus | Sunday |
| Mark Farina | Garibaldi | Sunday |
| Luke McKeehan | Garibaldi | Sunday |
| The Pack A.D. | Garibaldi | Sunday |
| The Rural Alberta Advantage | Garibaldi | Sunday |
| Motown Tribute to Nickleback | Garibaldi | Sunday |
| Wake Owl | Garibaldi | Sunday |
| Maria in the Shower | Meadow | Sunday |
| CR Avery | Meadow | Sunday |
| Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer | Meadow | Sunday |
| Yes Nice | Meadow | Sunday |
| Mat the Alien | Woodshed | Sunday |
| Hedspin | Woodshed | Sunday |
| Vinyl Richie | Woodshed | Sunday |
2011 Festival
| Band | Day | Stage |
| Weezer | - | - |
| Brasstronaut | - | - |
| Bend Sinister | - | - |
| Said the Whale | - | - |
| The Zolas | - | - |
| The Dudes | - | - |
| John Butler Trio | - | - |
| Hey Ocean! | - | - |
| Sweet Thing | - | - |
| The Anix | - | - |
| Black Mountain | - | - |
| The Dudes | - | - |
| Kim Churchill | - | - |
| Donald Glaude | - | - |
| Kyprios | - | - |
| Metric | - | - |
| She Stole My Beer | - | - |
2010 Festival
| Band | Day | Stage |
| Bad Religion | - | - |
| The Decemberists | - | - |
| The Tallest Man on Earth | - | - |
| Daniel, Fred & Julie | - | - |
| Analog Bell Service | - | - |
| Aunts and Uncles | - | - |
| Triq | - | - |
| Redbird | - | - |
| Crooked Fingers | - | - |
| Devo | - | - |
| Tokyo Police Club | - | - |
| The Dudes | - | - |
| Hollerado | - | - |
| We Are the City | - | - |
| Said the Whale | - | - |
| Hey Ocean! | - | - |
| Mother Mother | - | - |
| The Dirty Heads | - | - |
| Matthew Good | - | - |
| Dirty Vegas | - | - |
| Rich Hope | - | - |
| Tom Middleton | - | - |
| DJ Z-Trip | - | - |
| The Tennessee Three | - | - |
| Civil Twilight | - | - |
| Jon and Roy | - | - |
| Micheal Bernard Fitzgerald | - | - |