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Filed under: Between the Notes , Canada Polaris Prize -winning violin wizard Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett) delivered a literally electrifying main stage performance at Hillside, closing out the Guelph, ON, festival amidst a torrential thunderstorm. A few songs into his bravura one-man baroque-pop set, the skies filled with thunder and lightning as rain began drenching Pallett, who continued shredding his bow fiercely across his violin. As stagehands covered equipment with plastic, and organizers frantically tried to cut him off, Pallett kept playing [...]