09/02/2026
The festival grounds were packed for Sloan Music’s set and nobody left disappointed. The band tore through classics and new material, and the entire crowd sang from the first chorus to the last. It felt like the kind of night people talk about long after summer fades. Pure festival energy. Pure community. Pure Atlantic Canadian music culture at its best.
Summer Nights delivered everything you want from a festival. Big crowds. Big moments. Familiar faces. New discoveries. The kind of atmosphere that makes you crave the next event before this one even ends.
📸 Photos: Darcy Walsh // East Coast DNA // CanCon Artist Services
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Live performance videos from Summer Nights will begin appearing there soon. The channel already holds five years of interviews and performances from across the East Coast of Canada, a growing archive that keeps the festival spirit alive all year.
Special thanks to Seventy3 Productions, Summer Nights, Holy Whale B**r Hall and Garden, the artists, the audience, and everyone who helped make this festival happen.
Next, East Coast DNA and the CanCon Artist Services Crew head to Giantstock in Merigomish. The festival runs from September 4 to 7 over the Labour Day long weekend, the perfect send off for summer. This year brings a full wave of newstalgic energy, a blend of new and nostalgic, with Alt Ctrl, Patrick Pentland (Sloan), Jeremy Taggart (Our Lady Peace), and local favourite Andre Pettipas, the ECMA Entertainer of the Year, leading an all star group of musicians through a set of nineties classics.
Summer Nights 2026 is wrapped.
Giantstock: Three Days Of Music, Camping and Pettipasitivity is next.
See you there.
