All posts by Jenna Albert

Shivering Songs Announce 2017 Line-Up

Shivering Songs has been a mainstay of Fredericton winters for the last seven years now. It’s an ember in an otherwise useless month, meant to melt away the midwinter frost that keeps us paralyzed with seasonal affective disorder, and combats January blues with a celebration of song writing and storytelling. The festival is still more than two months away, but today the Fredericton-based Festival have announced their initial 2017 line-up. Continue reading Shivering Songs Announce 2017 Line-Up

Poetry Weekend: Fredericton’s Low-Key, But-Seriously-Why-Haven’t-You-Heard-About-This Poetry Festival

Despite Gord Downie’s insistence that I not, here I am telling you exactly what the poets are doing.  Frankly, if you aren’t immersed in Fredericton’s poetry scene or don’t happen to be a poet yourself, you most likely haven’t heard about the University of New Brunswick’s Poetry Weekend. Continue reading Poetry Weekend: Fredericton’s Low-Key, But-Seriously-Why-Haven’t-You-Heard-About-This Poetry Festival

Black & Blues: A First Time Harvester’s Confessional

The Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival: six days of music and buskers in the streets, of boozy Frederictonians stumbling home after performances that seem too good to have happened in not-so-small-town New Brunswick. Despite ‘be[ing] in this place’ all my life, it was my first time taking in Harvest. Continue reading Black & Blues: A First Time Harvester’s Confessional