Organizers of the Stan Rogers Folk Festival announced today that, like many other music festival across Atlantic Canada, they would be cancelling their 2020 festival due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival was scheduled for July 23-26, 2020 in Canso, Nova Scotia. Continue reading The Stan Rogers Folk Festival Announce 2020 Cancellation
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Larlee Creek Hullabaloo Announce Cancellation of 2020 Music Festival
Larlee Creek Hullabaloo is the latest New Brunswick music festival to announced their 202 cancellation. Scheduled for August 5-9, 2020 in Perth-Andover, this would have been the festival’s 13th year. Like most festivals this summer, Larlee Creek Hullabaloo suffered their same fate in consideration of the current public health concerns surrounding Covid-19. Continue reading Larlee Creek Hullabaloo Announce Cancellation of 2020 Music Festival
Music Video: Justin Fancy Has Been a ‘Long Time Comin” Getting Where He’s To
Justin Fancy launched his career straight from the garden shed to the stage as a top 200 Canadian Idol contestant in 2008. He was immediately thrown into the music industry’s high pressure cooker, and while that process comes with its advantages, it’s not without sacrifice. Now, Justin Fancy is finally getting down to doing things own way. “Long Time Comin’,” the first single from his upcoming album, is about the journey that got him to this new era in his career. Continue reading Music Video: Justin Fancy Has Been a ‘Long Time Comin” Getting Where He’s To
Music Video: Prince Edward Island’s Musicians Celebrate Island Grown Potatoes with Stompin’ Tom’s ‘Bud the Spud’
Blessed is the humble potato, that versatile cornerstone of the food pyramid. It has been the foundation of many a fine meal, and in times of both feast and famine, it has been there for us almost without fail.
With the new challenges we’re being presented with the current pandemic, there have arisen certain questions of food certainty. Prince Edward Island’s Agricultural Industry have been working double-time during less than ideal circumstances to keep the province’s #1 foodstuff on the table, and their efforts haven’t gone unnoticed or unappreciated.
Mark Phillips, a marketing specialist at the PEI Potato Board, which represents all the potato growers on Prince Edward Island, and Peter Cann, of Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys, lead the charge. The pair reached out to some friends to help get their message across.
Music Video: Jon McKiel Gives Us the Star Trek Crossover We’ve Been Waiting for With ‘Object Permanence’
Jon McKiel was already headed down a strange path with his upcoming album, Bobby Joe hope. Collaborating with an unknown entity founding in the depths of a second-hand (third-hand? fourth?) Teac A-2340, a reel-to-reel tape recorder that he’d purchased in online in 2015. Pre-loaded with a treasure trove of samples, McKiel decided to embrace this mysterious gift and work with it. Bringing along Jay Crocker (JOYFULTALK) the pair extracted the materials from the tapes to create the an alien counterpart for McKiel to jam along with.
The video “Object Permanence”, for the album’s single, is appropriately just as alien.