Inside Arts & Crafts’ Field Trip music festival: 62 photos of stylish Torontonians celebrating the city’s most loved bands

Arts Crafts Field Trip Music Festival Toronto
Photography by Phil Birnbaum
Arts Crafts Field Trip Music Festival Toronto
Photography by Phil Birnbaum

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This past Saturday, Toronto’s finest music label and 10,000 of its biggest fans turned out at the downtown Fork York and Garrison Common to celebrate ten years of Arts & Crafts goodness. The one-day concert may be considered a mini music festival in comparison to its much larger companions (Coachella boasts over 75,000 attendees per day, for one), it felt real maxi complete with a hula hoop party, Norman Wong photo exhibit and tricked out food trucks. Many of A&C’s current and formerly-repped bands returned home to play at one of two stages, including Feist, Trust, Stars and 24 members of Broken Social Scene, who thrilled the crowd with their entire landmark You Forgot it in People album from beginning to end.

While so many summer music festivals tend to promote a certain Woodstock-meets-Urban Outfitters aesthetic, Field Trip’s vibe felt appropriately Canadian, especially with its Hudson’s Bay-sponsored barbeque, pose-able moose statue photo booth and The Drake General Store pop up shop selling maple syrup jugs.

It Girl star Misty Fox brought along her adorable daughter Violet, who was street styled while blowing bubbles and wearing a floral headdress. And while florals were big for the day, the biggest kiddie accessory of all was the oversized headphones, which served to protect many an adorable eardrum from the loud sounds. Even our beauty director Lesa Hannah’s son Holden wore a pair, as he watched his pop John Crossingham play with BSS from the sidelines.

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