In 2020, the COVID-19 Pandemic forced us - like all our friends - to postpone and cancel 18-months of touring to support our third album, Yours To Break. 

In response, we decided to make one of our long-cherished dreams a reality. 

What if we could invite the friends we’d met at festivals around the world back to PEI in one of the Island’s most beautiful seasons? What if we could show off our friends to our community - with its cast of characters, abundance of fresh, local, harvest-time food and collaborative, cooperative craft beer scene, beautiful beaches and romantic Fall landscapes - to our friends?

In October 2020, we launched the first annual Harvest Home Festival at the Rollo Bay Fiddle Grounds near Souris, Prince Edward Island. It was a four-day, 100-capacity, socially distanced music festival and we played, along with special guest, award-winning English singer-songwriter Lucy Farrell. We’d wanted to showcase people we love from away, and as well as being a sensational artist, Lucy and Jake met on tour in England - and are now married. So there’s something to this whole travelling, meeting people, and bringing them home thing.

So, 2020’s series was a beautiful, dreamy step toward the big plan.

In 2021, we took a leap, inviting a plethora of artists from out of province - two days of bop, pop, folk, trad, dance, soul and rock’n’roll - to join us all down at the Field.

And the biggest change - we headed outdoors. Food trucks, an artisan village, bonfires, picnic blankets and sweaty dancing in equal measure - we’re all about it! Unfortunately, with the ongoing pandemic we weren’t able to go through with the festival.

Then in 2022, we lost Koady, suddenly.

Then, there was a Hurricane. We cancelled, again.

So, we made some changes.

In 2023, we were #SuperPumped to bring our festival dream to life with GOOLAHOLLA! - a two-day boutique music, art and camping festival in Eastern Epekwitk (PEI) - which SOLD OUT!

It felt like a party, like we were all in together - it felt exactly how we wanted it to and we can’t wait to do it again next year.

It’s still the three of us, we’re just not all here physically.

Goolaholla means GOOD TIMES.

We’re looking forward to celebrating again with our friends and families from here and away and we hope to see you this year!

- The East Pointers