Funny how the tunes you hear each summer get burned into your memory alongside the good times. If you’ve yet to find the ultimate summer song, perhaps we can help?
The good folks at Whistler.com have thrown together their suggestions for the sounds of summer, with many artists featured in the Whistler Presents: Outdoor Concert Series, those free shindigs held through summer in Whistler Olympic Plaza. Turn it up, and better yet – pop on over to the plaza to see the acts live and have a dance.
Acts to Catch Live in Whistler
Hey Ocean
Bedouin Soundclash
Washboard Union
Dear Rouge
Too Many Zooz
Terra Lightfoot
Nick Mulvey
DJ Drez
MarchForth
Geoffroy
Orgone
Samuel J
Stars
Sea to Sky Talent
Canadian Classics and Crooners
Tom Cochrane: Life is a Highway | Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi | I love this road – Emerson Drive | The Show is Free – Doc Walker | Wake Up – Arcade Fire | Soon Enough – The Constantine’s | Not in Love (feat Robert Smith) – Crystal Castles | Red Hands – Walk of the Earth | Hideaway – Kiesza | Celine Dion: I drove all night | Shania Twain: Man I Feel like a Woman | Len – Steal my Sunshine | Summer of 69’ – Brian Adams
The Extended Playlist
Hello – Conkarah & Rosie Delmah | Free Animal – Foreign Air | Blur – Song 2 | Santana ft. Rob Thomas – Smooth | Jurassic 5 – What’s Golden | Cruise – Florida Georgia Line | Mungo Jerry – In the summer time | Echo and the Bunnyman – the Killing Moon | Michael Franti – Sound of Sunshine | Ziggy Marley – Beach in Hawaii | Will Smith – Summertime | Better Days – Graham Nash | Ophelia – The Lumineers | Midnight City – M83 | Get Free – Major Lazer | Save the World – Swedish House Mafia | Young Blood – The Naked and Famous | Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the People | Haven’t we lost enough – Crosby, Stills, & Nash | Shooting Stars – Bag Raiders | Distant Shouts – Little Children | Radioactive – Imagine Dragons | Clint Eastwood – Gorillaz | Young Folks – Peter Bjorn and John | I Need You – M83 | Helplessly Hoping – Crosby, Stills, & Nash | Sweet Disposition – The Temper Trap | Float On – Modest Mouse | Drive – Incubus | We are the People – Empire of the Sun | Take me Out – Franz Ferdinand | Breathe – Seeb | Paint the Silence – South | Milk – Kings of Leon | Tonight is the Night – Outasight | Where is my Mind – Pixies
If you like the style of this soundtrack for summer 2018, give the folks at Whistler.com a call and let them know. They can also assist you with any questions you may have about Whistler.