Riot Fest won’t return to Toronto in 2016

By: Curtis Sindrey –

Riot Fest, which has hosted an annual festival in Toronto since 2012, has confirmed that it won’t be returning to Downsview Park this year.

The festival cited complications in terms of timing and resources as the main reason why only their Denver and Chicago festivals will go ahead as planned in 2016.

In a post to their Facebook page, the festival said:

“With recent local changes in Riot Fest’s partnership in Toronto, the planning process and resources required in staging a fest in Ontario was no longer compatible because of the available timeline. While Riot Fest has fallen in love with Toronto and the province of Ontario because of all of the great music fans who have welcomed and supported us in these last few years, Riot Fest 2016 will only take place in Denver and Chicago. We have every hope that we’ll be back in Toronto in the near future, and, in the meantime, we’ll begin announcing the lineups for Denver (Sept. 2-4) and Chicago (Sept. 16-18) shortly.”

Last year’s Riot Fest Toronto included performances by Alexisonfire, The Prodigy, Weezer, Wu-Tang Clan, Motorhead, Rancid, All Time Low, and more.