LAWNYA VAWNYA 15'S LINEUP IS HERE!
Happening in St. John's, NL from June 4th - 5th, 2025
BEVERLY AND ELIZABETH GLENN-COPELAND, CARTEL MADRAS, FRAUD PERRY, JULIANNA RIOLINO, OVERLAND and many more!
Lawnya Vawnya: An Exposition of Independent Art & Culture is a non-profit music and art festival that presents some of the most innovative independent music and art from local and national stages. Lawnya Vawnya returns this year with its fifteenth installment from June 4th to 7th, 2025 in Downtown St. John’s, Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland and Labrador).
We are pleased to host performances by out-of-province festival artists:
Prolific and iconic, BEVERLY AND ELIZABETH GLENN-COPELAND, come to St. John’s from Hamilton, ON to present moments from Glenn’s career spanning from the 70s to his newest album being released this summer, ‘The Ones Ahead’. CARTEL MADRAS, sisters raised in Calgary and known for their explosive and aggressive live performance style, will bring their experimental heady mix of trap, punk, and house to the NL stage. Described as the lovechild of Doja Cat, Rico Nasty, and Azealia Banks, Montreal’s FRAUD PERRY is one to watch. Pulling from punk, pop, and electronica to create a punchy, provocative spin on hip-hop that’s entirely her own. Performing her debut LP, ‘All Blue’, Ontario-based JULIANNA RIOLINO reflects on her own past, the memories of pain, healing, and love strewn through it. And BC-based DJ, OVERLAND joins Lawnya Vawnya directly off her European Tour.
Plus more LV performances from Absolute Losers (PEI), Andy and The Dannys (QC), CELL DETH (PEI), Durex (QC), Frankie Teardrop (QC), Laughing (QC), Liftkit (PEI), Mantourage (QC), Marc McLaughlin (NB), Marleana Moore (QC), Miesha and The Spanks (AB), Penny & the Pits (NB), and Sasha Cay (QC).
LV 15 will also include incredible performances by NL artists:
Albert Dalton (NL), Andrew Smith Band (NL), Book Club (NL), Bus People (NL), CLEO LEIGH (NL), hangyourhead (NL), Life Crisis (NL), Little Fauna (NL), Liz Fagan Band (NL), NANCY MUSIC (NL), QUIN (NL), Rad Gushue (NL), Rat & Ratt (NL), snitfit (NL), Steel Toe (NL), Swimming (NL), and Topanga (NL).
And interdisciplinary offerings and performances by:
/garbagefile (NL), Elijah Janka (NL), Foreignerz (AB), Irma Gerd (NL), IWant2BeOnTV: Alex Apostolidis & Charvel Rappos (QC), Jack Etchegary (NL), Joe Fowler (NL), and Moira Demorest (ON).
LV 15 will present panel discussions, workshops, artist talks, a two-day Merch and Print Fair, a comic zine in partnership with I Don’t Do Comics, pop-up events, and a music crawl through the heart of Downtown St. John’s.
With readings and workshops in partnership with Riddle Fence.
LV 15 will also present a screening of Ever Deadly, an immersive, visceral music and cinema experience featuring Tanya Tagaq (NU), avant-garde Inuit throat singer, and created in collaboration with award-winning filmmaker Chelsea McMullan (ON). Including a panel discussion with both filmmakers moderated by Janet Cull (NL) all in partnership with St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival.
Festival Passes are available now at www.lawnyavawnya.com!
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of The Canada Council for the Arts, The Government of Canada, ArtsNL, FACTOR, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the City of St. John’s, Year of The Arts 2024, SOCAN Foundation, and Celebrate NL. We recognize our partners Alt Hotel St. John’s, Terre Restaurant, Exclaim!, Quidi Vidi Brewery, Print Three, Bannerman Brewing, Eastern Edge, Riddle Fence, SJIWFF, St. Michael's Printshop, I Don’t Do Comics, and many more community organizations and businesses whose support goes above and beyond each year.
Listen and discover LV15’s musical artists here with our Spotify Playlist:
AND Support the festival by signing up to Volunteer HERE.
or by buying a ticket to our Dance Through The Ages Fundraiser happening THIS Saturday: