Nick Farkas: The man behind Osheaga

Nick Farkas is a busy man year-round. He's vice president of concerts and events at Evenko, but on this day, he's focused on his baby: Osheaga. Nick's passion for music started long before he founded the festival. "My mother was a violin teacher and my family was very musical and I was always like, you know, I played clarinet in high school and I took violin lessons and piano lessons," he reminisces.

Nick Farkas is a busy man year-round. He's vice president of concerts and events at Evenko, but on this day, he's focused on his baby: Osheaga.

Nick's passion for music started long before he founded the festival.

"My mother was a violin teacher and my family was very musical and I was always like, you know, I played clarinet in high school and I took violin lessons and piano lessons," he reminisces.

His taste in music changed as he got older, and so did his career path.

"I was a bike messenger when I was in Concordia. For four winters. And I was also booking punk rock shows at the time. So it was the life of punk rock."

It's that love of punk rock that first got Nick into the business, booking the artists he wanted to see perform. He says the gig was far from glamorous.

"We did shows, but we also, like loaded in gear and we moved boxes and we did whatever it took to, you know, for the show must go on."