The Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society presents: National Drone Day 2024

The Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society will commemorate National Drone Day with an extensive lineup of performers. Twelve artists from Edmonton and the surrounding region will perform sets varying in length from 30 minutes to an hour, performing drone music, often described as the taking the form of sustained sounds with a minimalist delivery.

The repertoire of the acts playing that day (Brick Road, Wayne DeFehr, Dinosaur Dragondrone, Jared Epp, Ghost Cars, Gray Hartley, Gary James Joynes, Matt McKenzie, Microenvironment, m.o.a.i.n., James Parrott, and K.M. Toepfer) are slated to play a wide range of sounds from melodic tones to found-sound noise, which all fall under the requisites of what is considered drone.

The show takes place ten years to the month of the first National Drone Day festivities, which first took place May 10, 2014 at various venues in Ontario and has since grown into a national and annual celebration of the genre.

Tickets are $20 for general public, $10 for Boreal Electroacoustic Music Society (BEAMS) members, and free to members of the Idylwylde Community League.