Click to share this via email Click to share this on Twitter Click to share this on Facebook Some of music’s hottest acts are touching down in Montreal this summer. The full lineup for the 2019 Osheaga Festival Musique et Arts has been released. The event features four headliners a day and takes place between August 2 to 4 at Parc-Jean Drapeau. RELATED: Cardi B And Skrillex Among Toronto’s Veld 2019 Headliners The August 2 lineup is headlined by The Lumineers, Flume, J Balvin and Interpol. Other notable Day One acts include Canada’s own Jessie Reyez and Gucci Mane. Day Two boasts headliners The Chemical Brothers, Logic, City and Colour and eight-time Grammy nominee Janelle Monae. Beach House, A Boogie with the Hoodie and J. Cole collaborator Bas will also perform. RELATED: Drake Confirmed As Headliner Of Rock In Rio 2019 Osheaga Osheaga 2019 wraps up with a killer day three lineup. Coachella 2019 leads Childish Gambino and Tame Impala top the billing alongside Hozier and Kaytranada. British Columbia’s Mac DeMarco, Normani and Hayley Kiyoko are also scheduled. The 14th edition of the festival returns to its newly renovated original location for this year’s event.<doc-sep>Share this Story: 'Anything is possible': Osheaga announces genre-spanning 2019 lineup 'Anything is possible': Osheaga announces genre-spanning 2019 lineup Childish Gambino, J Balvin, Sharon Van Etten, Janelle Monae and Tame Impala are among the names set to appear at this summer's festival. Photo by Adrienne Battistella / AP Article content Osheaga founder Nick Farkas says the lineup for the 2019 edition is all about staying true to your roots. That means going for big-ticket headliners The Lumineers, The Chemical Brothers and Childish Gambino but also making sure that the names in smaller print on the official poster are just as exciting. And they are. So Canada’s leading music festival will also be shining the spotlight this summer on Janelle Monae, Tame Impala, Dean Lewis, Jessie Reyez, Sharon Van Etten, Gucci Mane, Mitski, Interpol, Kurt Vile, City and Colour, Kaytranada, Beach House, Hozier, Metric, and Mac DeMarco, among many others. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or 'Anything is possible': Osheaga announces genre-spanning 2019 lineup Back to video “For us we’ve always tried to be true to what we want to be, which is a music festival first,” said Farkas, vice-president of concerts at Evenko, in a phone interview Tuesday morning. “We’ve wanted to appeal to as many different people as possible and never really get pigeon-holed in one direction or another. You look at what’s been coming out this year … Ariane Grande at Coachella and Lollapalooza. There’s more of a pop sensibility to what a lot of the (festivals) are doing. We try to play to what we think our core audience is going to be. When you start with Ben Harper and Sonic Youth as your two extremes in your very first year, we continually want to play (with the idea) that anything is possible. Like adding a J Balvin this year. Latin music is a huge thing so we want to try that. See how it flies with our audience. From the start, we’ve never wanted to only be about headliners. We wanted to be about the strength of the lineup from top to bottom and look at what artists are out there that we’re getting excited by, not just necessarily the most popular artists in the market at that time.” Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content The 14th annual Osheaga festival runs Aug. 2-4 at Parc Jean Drapeau and it is returning to its original site on Île-Ste-Hélène after two summers on Île-Notre-Dame while the other site was undergoing massive renovations. The biggest change to the original site is that the main field in front of the two main stages — the River and Mountain stages — can hold 65,000 people, up from a capacity of 45,000. Farkas said they don’t plan to go to capacity the first year in the newly renovated site. The Lumineers will headline Friday, Aug. 2, The Chemical Brothers take the honours Saturday, Aug. 3, and the fest winds down with Childish Gambino (Donald Glover) Sunday, Aug. 4. Both The Lumineers and Childish Gambino have previously played the festival in non-headline slots while The Chemical Brothers have never performed at Osheaga. It is The Chemical Brothers’ first performance in Montreal in 17 years. It is a diverse group of headliners, ranging from the folk-based pop of The Lumineers to the psychedelic visuals and electronic dance sounds of The Chemical Brothers to the chart-topping hip-hop/R&B of Childish Gambino. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Others acts include Rosalía, Flume, Koffee, Bob Moses, Logic, Young the Giant, Braids, The Franklin Electric, and Sam Fender. The para-municipal organization that oversees Jean-Drapeau Park is in the midst of a year-long consultation process designed to come up with a plan to decide what to do with the two islands and last fall a senior city bureaucrat told The Gazette they wanted to give the islands back to the citizens rather than have them dominated by big events like Osheaga and the Grand Prix. The organization is considering scaling back the site size of Osheaga, allowing it to only operate in the space around the two main stages. That would eliminate secondary stages like the Tree, Green and Valley stages. Evenko has a five-year deal with Jean-Drapeau Park that runs till 2020, so it is guaranteed to be able to use all the space at least until then. Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content “Where Green, Valley, Tree are, all of that stuff is the same,” said Farkas. “Everything outside the main field is the same. A lot of what people love — going to the different zones — that’s going to be similar. The new site is bigger, more spacious. You’re not standing on gravelly rocks any more. There’s a softer surface. They’ve done a lot of smart things technologically. Also the hill is different, it’s not as steep a slope so it’s more comfortable to sit on. I don’t think we’d go to 65,000 (people) the first year because we need to make sure the experience is good. We want to be careful and that it works. I think we’d definitely try, if we sell the tickets, to go to 50,000. The key is this: that people can still move around comfortably. The beauty of the new site is there’s more space. Things won’t be as crowded.” Three-day festival passes for Osheaga are on sale now and cost $325, including taxes and service fees. They are available at osheaga.com. Single-day passes will go on sale at a later date. bkelly@postmedia.com twitter.com/brendanshowbiz Related Share this article in your social network Latest National Stories Advertisement Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Montreal Gazette Headline News Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Montreal Gazette, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. Email Address There was an error, please provide a valid email address. By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc. | 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4 | 416-383-2300 Thanks for signing up! A welcome email is on its way. 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Send this page to someone via email Winter is officially over and Osheaga has just released its annual lineup to celebrate. The highly anticipated bill dropped on Tuesday, revealing some of the biggest names in music. The Lumineers, The Chemical Brothers and Childish Gambino have been confirmed as headliners for the Quebec-based festival. This year, Osheaga will return to Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau. The summer music festival takes place between Aug. 2 and 4. A plethora of popular artists was also revealed to be joining the iconic trio of headliners, including Interpol, City and Colour, Janelle Monae, Tame Impala, Flume, Logic and Hozier among many more. Story continues below advertisement READ MORE: Justin Bieber to take break from music to focus on ‘deep rooted issues’ Osheaga has been known for its constant rotation of solid lineups since its inception in 2006. Welcoming many of the biggest artists across the globe, both old and new, Osheaga has successfully enticed tens of thousands of music-lovers to attend the festival for a dozen years. From Arctic Monkeys, Coldplay and The Killers, to Lana Del Ray, Radiohead and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Osheaga’s lineups have made it one of the most popular, if not the most popular festival in Canada. However, it seems this year’s incarnation has left many avid festival-goers in disappointment. wow my buzz is so killed after seeing that osheaga line-up. — Bon Morrison (@BonMorrison) March 26, 2019 Osheaga posting their lineup this year pic.twitter.com/irqIxK8pwF — GABRIELLE (@gabby2gucci) March 26, 2019 lowkey not that stoked off the osheaga lineup — 𝓠𝓾𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓑 👑 (@beccthompp) March 26, 2019 Osheaga 2019…….the worst lineup of any major North American festival that I’ve ever seen…… pic.twitter.com/E3LZTAR61c — Justin (@jubtrumpo) March 26, 2019 #osheaga lineup gets a solid 3.5/10 this year — •kayla• (@kayla__danis) March 26, 2019 Looking at that Osheaga lineup like pic.twitter.com/F3sCEWEOLK — jordan (@JRDN902) March 26, 2019 osheaga, u trash. — Kelsey A (@KelsAdams) March 26, 2019 so far the osheaga lineup is so tragic pic.twitter.com/gbhptZ3vI9 — a. (@vividlyqueen) March 24, 2019 i don’t want to aggressively add to the #osheaga line up negativity but man… i am beyond disappointed. so many great alt and rock acts touring this summer that are missing. — Shannon 🚀 (@shantalks) March 26, 2019 While it offers a great variety of musical acts from different genres, it seems people are confused as to what kind of audience the festival hopes to attract. Story continues below advertisement View image in full screen General atmosphere at the Osheaga Music and Art Festival at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Aug. 3, 2018 in Montreal. Mark Horton/Getty Images READ MORE: Myspace accidentally deletes 12 years of music in server migration Tickets and VIP passes are now on sale and can be found on the official Osheaga website. General admission weekend passes start at $325. As of this writing, the lineup schedule has not yet been revealed.