Long Winter Announces Digital January Edition with Lydia Persaud, Poolblood

Thom Gill and Gay Hollywood will also perform

While lockdowns persist in Toronto, the city's favourite wintertime music and arts festival Long Winter has offered up some digital programming to make the cold weather feel less isolating. The fest's new "webisode" will air this Saturday (January 16) from 8 to 9 p.m. for free.

Following up last month's inaugural "Long Winter TV" edition, this weekend's event will take place virtually through Long Winter's YouTube and Facebook, with musical performances by Lydia Persaud, Poolblood, Thom Gill and Gay Hollywood, as well as visual art from Henri Fabergé, Janet Swinburne, Sarah Boo, Orange Pieces Collective, and Matt Beckett & Maria Bui.

"Our name feels a little heavier this season, but we built this thing to bring the city together in the colder months, so we've also opened up the floor to other collectives and curators to take the wheel and guest curate some of these productions," the festival's organizers wrote in a post. "Expect masked band performances, solo sets, video art, documentaries, short films, interviews, urban exploring…"

More details about this weekend's event can be found here.
 

Excited to announce the lineup for the January edition of Long Winter TV, feat: Thom Gill, Gay Hollywood, @poolbloooood, Lydia Persuad, Henri Fabergé, Sara Boo, Jan Swinburne, Orange Pieces Collective and additional art by matt Beckett & Maria Bui !! Jan 16th! #LongWinterTV pic.twitter.com/D4MGkbLiip

— Long Winter (@LongWinterTO) January 8, 2021

Watch last month's digital edition below.

• More Lydia Persaud
• More Poolblood