PREPARE THE GROUND, Toronto’s heavy arts & music festival, returns for its 2025 edition.

Performances will include BARONESS playing a set of songs exclusively from the Red & Blue albums, the reunion / final show of BURNING LOVE, silent movie scores by PYGMY LUSH & PLANNING FOR BURIAL, KYLESA (reunion), KHANATA (reunion), HAVE A NICE LIFE, YOB (performing ATMA & a second set) and many more.

Prepare the Ground is a three day arts and music festival taking over two full blocks of downtown Toronto. Containing an outdoor arts market, four music venues (Trinity St. Pauls, Lee’s Palace, 918 Bathurst, The Cave) and significant side programming, the second year of PtG is shaping up to be the blueprint for years to come.

cost: $90 for single day pass / $195 for three day pass at DICE

more info: Prepare The Ground