During tonight’s Festival 506 festivities, Music/Musique NB announced the winners for their 2019 Prix MNB Awards, and no one won tonight quite like Les Hôtesses d’Hilaire, who took home roughly a quarter of the awards. Continue reading Music/Musique NB Announces Winners For 2019 Prix MNB Awards
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Pocologan Camp Party Goes Bigger and Better for Second Year in a Row
Last year the Keleher clan decided that it was time for their little family festival to become an even bigger family festival, blowing the doors wide open to the public. But even though it has become public, the close-knit atmosphere lives on; walking onto the grounds is like immediately being welcomed with open arms into the Pocologan family and feeling like you’d be able to attend their next Thanksgiving dinner. Continue reading Pocologan Camp Party Goes Bigger and Better for Second Year in a Row
Music Video: Motherhood Get Artistically Subversive With ‘#224’
Motherhood revisits their album, Dear Bongo,, with a new video for “#224” featuring Fredericton drag queen Freeda Whales. The instrumental track provided a blank canvas for the video, and with a perfect opportunity to lean into the album’s storyline of a painter’s descent into madness, Motherhood take to some unconventional canvases and get liberal with their arts. Continue reading Music Video: Motherhood Get Artistically Subversive With ‘#224’
How Stephen Lewis Won Harvest Jazz & Blues 2019
This is a story of success, which began as a loss, or possibly even with the wedding of Jeff Healey if you want to go back far enough. This is the story of how Stephen Lewis turned one of the smallest stages at Fredericton’s 2019 Harvest Jazz & Blues into the biggest party in town. Continue reading How Stephen Lewis Won Harvest Jazz & Blues 2019
AREA 506: Locals Win Over the Crowd at Saint John’s 2019 Music Festival
Saint John hosted yet another year of their music festival AREA 506 during the New Brunswick Day long weekend in August. Each year the festival has continued to pull in big names (often cherry-picking from Osheaga all for the benefit of the port city) and it has progressively been getting more and more impressive. This year they welcomed City and Colour, Interpol, Joel Plaskett Emergency, Matthew Good and The Rural Alberta Advantage to the stage, just to name a few. Continue reading AREA 506: Locals Win Over the Crowd at Saint John’s 2019 Music Festival