We are excited to announce the return of Garden City Grooves 2023! Running February 23-25, 2023, Garden City Grooves XI is set to deliver one of its most expansive, impressive lineups yet, gathering up one of the most unique festival rosters on the west coast. Garden City Grooves will once again be hosted at beautiful White Eagle Polish Hall (90 Dock St.) in James Bay, with three nights of all-age
s programming (and adult beverages for those 19+). Coming up the coast from Oakland, CA, Balkan Bump returns to Victoria for their first-ever headline show in the city and their Garden City Grooves debut. Combining live instrumentation with big, heavy bass, Balkan Bump is one of the most engaging, unique acts in music today – and they'll be landing at Garden City Grooves as a trio, bringing something wholly new to Victoria. One of Vancouver's most talented party-rockers, Australian-transplant, Slynk will be returning to the city for the first time since before the pandemic. Slynk's yearly appearance at Shambhala's legendary Fractal Forest have become a sort of pilgrimage for funk lovers around Canada and we are so excited to have this master of the party at Garden City Grooves for the first time. Rounding out our headliners this year is Victoria's reigning funk monsters, The New Groovement. Armed with some of the best musicians in the city and a
renewed, infectious energy, The New Groovement has been on an absolute tear lately, lighting up dancefloors around the city. They were on the very first Garden City Grooves and we're so excited to close out this years festival with their headlining performance on Saturday, February 25. The rest of this years Garden City Grooves is packed to brim with some of the coolest, grooviest acts we could find including Winnipeg's 9-piece psychedelic jazz-rock outfit Apollo Suns, the jazz-rap fusion of Jonnie 5 Brass Band feat Kia Kadiri, the world beat bass of Adham Shaikh and Buckman Coe's MonkeyDragon and the Ruze Records Crew. Doyle and
Canadian DMC-champion DJ All Good to our stage to add even more flavour to our groovy gravy. If you like groove, in any of its many guises, Garden City Grooves is once again the festival for you! See you on the dance floor!
