Festival season might still be a big question mark this summer, but we’re very quickly coming into a little cluster of Awards shows. We’ve just come through Music PEI Week, and the East Coast Music Awards, the Canadian Folk Music Awards and the JUNO Awards are all just over the horizon. In the meantime, while we’re all waiting for Schrödinger’s Bubble to pop, there’s no shortage of great music being released.
Here is everything we covered in March of 2021.
Music News
Classified and Rose Cousins Top List of 2021 East Coast Music Award Nominees
March 2, 2021 – Alex Cook
Music PEI Reschedules Annual Awards Event After Change in Protocols
March 3, 2021 – Alex Cook
Atlantic Canadians See Uptick in 2021 JUNO Award Nominations
March 9, 2021 – The East
Cal Johnson Named First Recipient of Music·Musique NB’s Indigenous Artist Development Program
March 16, 2021 – Alex Cook
Bluesman Mike Biggar Turns Candidate in Run for Quispamsis Town Council
March 22, 2021 – Alex Cook
Catherine MacLellan and Dylan Menzie Top Winners at 2021 Music PEI Awards
March 28, 2021 – The East
Music Releases
Andrea Cormier Unlocks Pure Beauty on ‘Creatures of Illusion’
March 1, 2021 – Charlotte Simmons
Quote the Raven Sing a Blue-Collar Ode on ‘Home Is Worth the Blues’
March 1, 2021 – Alex Cook
Michael Feuerstack Releases a Song for the Weary, ‘Call of the Tired’
March 5, 2021 – Alex Cook
Dance Movie’s ‘Containment’ is a Dynamic and Pensive Drive
March 8, 2021 – Brandon Lorimer
Burry is Sunnily Pessimistic on ‘Yellow Paint’ EP
March 8, 2021 – Maggie McLean
POSTDATA Releases Love Songs for the Apocalypse, ‘Twin Flames’
March 10, 2021 – Alex Cook
Williston Irvine Sees the World in a Different Light Through ‘Moon Tones’
March 12, 2021 – Alex Cook
Virginia Fudge Balances the Frustration and Joy of Relationships on Genre-Bending Album, ‘All These Little Games’
March 12, 2021 – Alex Cook
Gabriel Minnikin Delivers Theatric Canadiana with ‘Sweet Nothings’
March 17, 2021 – Maggie McLean
Rick Sparkes + The Enablers Smoothly Saunter Through Indie Folk Gems on ‘Pleasure in the Pathless Woods’
March 18, 2021 – Charlotte Simmons
Skeleton Club Get Brilliantly Weird on ‘ONLY HUMANS’
March 18, 2021 – Alex Cook
Alicia Toner Provides an Anthem for Those Finding Their Voices with ‘Have It All’
March 19, 2021 – Alex Cook
The Backstays are Probably Hiding History Somewhere on ‘Aquarius’
March 20, 2021 – Alex Cook
Michael Feuerstack Pens a Folksy Space Opera on ‘Harmonize the Moon’
March 21, 2021 – Brett Huestis
Shane Pendergast Delivers Vibrant Storytelling on ‘Second Wind’
March 21, 2021 – Maggie McLean
Joce Reyome Sums up Their Life as an Ongoing Civil Rights Movement on ‘News’
March 21, 2021 – Alex Cook
Rachel Cousins Gets Into a Mess You Can’t Come Back From on ‘Aftermath’
March 26, 2021 – Alex Cook
After 18 Year Hiatus AA Wallace Revives Cheval Moniker for ‘Makes Me Wanna Die’
March 26, 2021 – Alex Cook
Proud Dads Goes for Live Vibes Amid Limbo on ‘Leap Year’
March 26, 2021 – Alex Cook
Good Dear Good Keep Us on Our Toes With ‘Guess Again’
March 26, 2021 – Alex Cook
Smaller Hearts Dance Through Their Troubles on ‘Double Space’
March 27, 2021 – Alex Cook
Keeper E. Prioritizes Honesty at the Center of the Climate Crisis with ‘Telling the Truth’
March 28, 2021 – Alex Cook
Logan Richard Offers an Alternative to Pulling off the Heartbreak Band-Aid on ‘Better Than a Breakup’
March 29, 2021 – Alex Cook
Video Releases
Dennis Ellsworth Shares His Gratitude for His Good Fortune on ‘Bound by Love’
March 3, 2021 – Alex Cook
Premiere: Andre Pettipas and The Giants Capture the Fun and Energy of Live Music on ‘Sympathy Card’
March 4, 2021 – Alex Cook
Emmet MacLellan is More Than ‘Fine’ on New Single
March 8, 2021 – Brandon Lorimer
Mallory Johnson and Twin Kennedy Come Together With Message of Empowerment on ‘Wise Woman’
March 8, 2021 – Micaela Cockburn
Jont Captures the Beauty of Cape Breton Through Matt Ingraham-Directed Video for ‘Birdwatching’
March 24, 2021 – Alex Cook
The Bloody Hell Stick to the Community Guidelines to Capture the Bizarre Romance of ‘When You’re Gone’
March 25, 2021 – Alex Cook
Noah Malcolm Weighs a Life in Toronto Against Returning to His Hometown on Prince Edward Island With ‘City/Country (Live at the Sound Mill)’
March 30, 2021 – Alex Cook
POSTDATA Want You to Know Which Direction the Love Flows on Joyful New Video for ‘Inside Out’
March 31, 2021 – Alex Cook
Hillsburn Capture the Moment at 10,000 Feet for ‘Get High’
March 31, 2021 – Alex Cook
Tomato/Tomato Turn Car Singalong Into a Live Cover of Buddy Holly’s ‘Everyday’
March 31, 2021 – Alex Cook
Literary News
Christy Ann Conlin Awakens a Darkness in Rural Nova Scotia with New Novel ‘The Speed of Mercy’
March 16, 2021 – Jeremy Thomas Gilmer
Moncton’s Frye Festival Goes Digital for 2021 Literary Event
March 24, 2021 – Charlotte Simmons
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