One of the highlights of Hillside Festival, was The Franklin Electric. Montreal based band The Franklin Electric is pop-alternative meets classical. Touring constantly since winning a Nashville songwriting competition against 8000 other artists, they have travelled  from Canada to Australia. These lads have a pop singer songwriter sound, with the trumpet, as a ‘secret weapon’…

Canadian Mexican Musician Boogat added a Latin Hip-Hop vibe to Hillside. Winning both the ‘Felix Award’, for ‘World Music Album of the Year’ 2016, and a Juno, it’s clear to see and hear how his Paraguayan and Mexican music roots fuse together, to create the Boogat sound. Born in Quebec City, originally singing in French, then moving…