The Up Fest music lineup is out and it looks awesome

The organizers of Up Fest have announced the new August festival's music lineup, and they say they're so stoked, “tricoloured lasers are shooting out of our ears in excitement.”

Among the entertainers are A Tribe Called Red, a Canadian electronic music group, who blend instrumental hip hop, reggae, moombahton and dubstep-influenced dance music with elements of First Nations music, particularly vocal chanting and drumming.

Tanya Tagaq, an Inuk throat singer from Nunavut, will also perform at the event, as will Suuns, a rock band from Montreal.

Other performers on the lineup include: Rich Aucoin, Mozart's Sister, Les Marinellis, Organ Mood, Beat Market, Pypy, Doldrums, Jesse Mac Cormack, The Almighty Rhombus, Doomsquad, Petra Glynt, Dories, Nick Sherman, The Weakness, Genevieve et Mathieu, Submerged Objects, Strange Attractor, Rose-Erin Stokes, The Housewives of Kagawong, Scattered Clouds, Mick Futures, Murder Murder, The Ape-Ettes and BBRTHR.

Up Fest, set to take place Aug. 13-15, is described on its Facebook page as “a public art festival that culminates in an emerging music festival & is topped off by an all-night art crawl.”

It's organized by the creators of the We Live Up Here project, which seeks to create Sudbury pride through projects such as murals and photo books featuring Sudbury scenes.

Up Fest's organizers say there's more to come, so stay tuned by searching for “Up Fest” on Facebook, and liking the page.