DCMF is Hiring Executive Director – Apply Now!
Will you be DCMF's next Executive Director? Apply by April 11, 2023! The Executive Director is responsible for all aspects of the Dawson City Music Festival Association, including strategic leadership, creative direction, and operations management. This includes daily administration, financial management,
News: 2023 Artist Submissions
DCMF will not be accepting submissions for the 2023 festival. We look forward to presenting music under the midnight sun July 21 - 23, 2023! As our small organization works hard to rebuild capacity, we are scaling up our music
2020 Songwriter in Residence Owen Steel shares stop-motion video of song recorded in Dawson
“I was in Dawson City, January 2020, right before the pandemic, as the Dawson City Music Festival songwriter-in-residence,” said Steel. “The festival, in partnership with the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Parks Canada and the North Klondike Highway Music
Riley Elliot Awarded MusiCounts Amplify Scholarship
We are so proud to see Dawson City resident (and Girls Rock Camp alumni!) Riley Elliott not only pursuing a career in music, but starting off with a bang in the industry! Riley is one of eleven Canadian youth nominated
2023 Songwriter-in-Residence Program – Apply Now!
We are now accepting applications for the 2023 Songwriter in Residence program - join us for the month of January in Dawson City, Yukon with studio and living space in a historic Gold Rush era Macaulay House. Travel, professional fee,
Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting for the 2021 fiscal year will take place Wednesday, August 31, 2022 virtually on Zoom. Please register on this page.
More Tickets Available!
You asked, we heard. A limited number of tickets have been added to our summer 2022 programming. Check it out!
SOLD OUT!
Wow! You guys are amazing! Tickets to both Begonia & Mariel Buckley and The Burning Hell & Jeffrey Lewis went on sale Friday night and were sold out by Sunday morning. We are not surprised, these four artists will be
DAWSON CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2022 STATEMENT
THE SHOW MUST GO ON, AS THEY SAY. The Yukon's oldest music festival, which normally brings together over a thousand attendees and hosts performers from across the globe every year, is going to look a little different in 2022. Mariel Buckley Live
A Bittersweet Farewell
We are starting this week off with an important announcement - a bittersweet farewell to our Executive Director, Andrea Vincent. We are excited about her upcoming transition to Creative Director at SappyFest in Sackville, NB - but today, we are
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – 2022 SONGWRITER IN RESIDENCE
ATTN SONGWRITERS & SONG CREATORS: We are accepting submissions for our 2022 Songwriter in Residence Program. The residency brings a musician to Dawson City for the month of January, where they receive studio and living space at the
LINEUP LEAKS BEGIN!
We are so excited to begin leaking artists for the fall 2021 Dawson City Music Festival! Welcome Hip Hop duo extraordinaire LOCAL BOY and the soulful folk-punk sounds of Calhoun (both making their DCMF debut), veteran Yukon singer-songwriter Drea Naysayer,