With great events comes great responsibility. Festival organizers and sponsors alike are familiar with the Field Of Dreams business model: if you build it, they will come, and once you have them there you can sell them whatever you want, provided it’s beer. It’s an opportunity for events to secure sponsorship and for sponsors to take advantage of a captive audience. Too often, that means a monopoly being purchased by the company with the deepest pockets, selling their disappointing fizzy rice water at inflated prices to people with no other options. Halifax Pop Explosion Music Festival and Conference (HPX) has found that there’s a better way. Continue reading Halifax Pop Explosion Goes Local With Beer Sponsorship
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The Errand: Saint John Writer Gets Publishing Deal For Graphic Novel
In what can only be interpreted as an effort to earn all the merit badges, Leo LaFleur, the Saint John songwriter who put out an album based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in 2015, followed it in short succession with a second EP, topped it all off by penning ‘The Errand’, a fairy-tale graphic novel. Continue reading The Errand: Saint John Writer Gets Publishing Deal For Graphic Novel
Exclusive: High Tide Comedy Festival Announce Their Gaggle Of Comedians
New Brunswick’s long-awaited High Tide Comedy Festival is finally happening this month and at last we know who will be administering the tickles to our collective funny bones. Today, the Quispamsis-based festival has announced their full comedic line-up. Continue reading Exclusive: High Tide Comedy Festival Announce Their Gaggle Of Comedians
Single: Kylie Fox Double-Header ‘Alberta’ & ‘Stephen’
Saint John-based Kylie Fox is going to be debuting with her first album BalconyEP (pronounced balcon-yep) on November 1st. In the meantime, she’s put out an introductory teaser of two singles: ‘Alberta’ and ‘Stephen’. Continue reading Single: Kylie Fox Double-Header ‘Alberta’ & ‘Stephen’
New Music: Mo Kenney’s Future Award Winning Album ‘The Details’
Talk about hooks. Mo Kenney’s third album, The Details, grabs us with the tragic tale of woe and heartbreak and the impending doom of a cat. “I know you’ll try/ to take the bigger side/ but a cat’s not a cake.” Inside the first 35 seconds of the album we’re taken through this whirlwind of emotion, across what is essentially a sweet song, subjected to atrocities, and left in tears by our own tragic appreciation of dark humour. Just like that, we are hooked for whatever Mo Kenney wants us to hear for the next half hour. Continue reading New Music: Mo Kenney’s Future Award Winning Album ‘The Details’