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Big Winter Classic
Weekend 1: March 24; Weekend 2: March 31 – April 2; Weekend 3: April 8 – 9
Music and arts festival
Multi-weekend pass: $125; Day pass: $30
Broken City Social Club, Last Best Brewing and Distilling, Inner City Brewing, The Goat Shop

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Calling all art rockers, indie kids and underground lovers: Haul your asses out of winter hibernation. There’s a party going on! The third times a charm — it’s been rescheduled twice, thanks to COVID — for this eclectic celebration of the arts in Cowtown. A vibrant lineup of musicians (and a couple of comedians) from across the Great White North and the globe are heading to the coolest breweries and dive bars to play some really good shit. In a city with patio heaters and puffer jackets aplenty, who said only summer was music festival season?

Here are three must-see acts at the Big Winter Classic:

Art D’Ecco
Sat., April 2
The spirit of Ziggy Stardust is undeniable in Art D’Ecco’s retro, dangerously danceable glam rock.

Teke::Teke
Sat., April 2
Punk attitude and psychedelic spirit colour the distorted bops from this Montreal-based, seven-piece Japanese psych-rock band.

Star Crawler
Fri., April 1
L.A. rock ’n’ roll misfits rip chaotic jams to coax out your inner freak — opening for everyone from the Foo Fighters to Spoon, they’re certified for this risky business.