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Get Together Festival
Since 2013, the Get Together festival — a partnership between Vancouver, British Columbia party promoters Blueprint and Live Nation — has been giving EDM fans in Western Canada good reason to bust out of hibernation mode and shake off woes of the cold Winter season on the dance floor. The inaugural edition was held at Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum with a bill headlined by Dutch electro-house DJ Hardwell and British beatmakers Above & Beyond, and the event's success would spawn an annual local tradition held each Family Day weekend (the holiday observed in select Canadian provinces in mid-February), attracting such notable names as U.K. trance-master Gareth Emery, Aussie electro producer Will Sparks, and Dutch deity Armin van Buuren. In December 2014, an offshoot Get Together festival was introduced in Edmonton, Alberta, scheduled smack-dab in that traditional Boxing Week dead zone between Christmas and New Year's Eve; headlined by Russian EDM icon Zedd. The Edmonton iteration of Get Together is now an annual two-day blowout, with some 6,000 revelers taking over the Shaw Centre in the last week of December. The 2018 lineup is topped by American dancehall/pop polymath Diplo, who's coming off another banner year that saw him release the celeb-stacked ‘California' EP, a spiritual sequel of sorts to his moody 2004 album ‘Florida' that likewise showcased the DJ/producer's more introspective side (with the help of special guests like Santigold, DRAM, and Lil Yachty). His subsequent collaboration with Ellie Goulding and Swae Lee on the single "Close to Me" shows he can still drop a tropically tinged pop banger whenever the mood strikes. At Get Together, Diplo shares the bill with American bass bomber Illenium, British trap technician TroyBoi, and Australian DJ/singer/producer triple-threat Alison Wonderland, among others. And with a lineup like that, you'll probably need to stay in on New Year's Eve just to recover.
The stage, to the vendors, to the vip booth, was all set up nice! Had a blast at the event, although i do wish the soundstaging was a bit louder, it was still pretty crazy for how big and open the space is!
Great show, line up, stage prep, and bathroom availability. The only things i would improve would be more quanitity and better quality of the merch tables (no band specific items, just a record label), and only 2 vendors for food (hot dogs, pretzels, etc.) Very expensive drinks but that is to be expected.
We waited in massive lineups everywhere we went the first night. ID check was 35 minutes, We stood in coat check line up for FORTY FIVE minutes…. Then tickets and security was another 30 minutes. We even came early at 8 pm to mitigate the wait times but I feel like it was severely understaffed and we missed the artist we wanted to see waiting. I was so disappointed I didn’t bother the second night, I won’t be attending another one of these. We pay so much money for tickets and miss the artists at the beginning of the night due to excessive wait times.
Great light show and good location for short walk to after party the only problem was leaving and waiting for coat check
Kascade was good, and one of the warmup acts on day 2, but overall the lineup was poor. Why do all these DJs interupt the beat these days, changing it just when a person finally manages to get into (force themselves into) a groove? A good act in my book makes you feel the groove, rather than playing a chaotic bluster of noise. There was lots of bluster, but little talent - full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing.
Music great people great bass amazing beats smooth as hell everything was a good experience!!
