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Summer’s End Folk Festival: Grand Theft Bus, Keith Hallett, And David R. Elliott Join 2017 Line-Up

Grand Manan is a curious place. It’s the kind of spot you’d live in if you enjoy organizing your day around the tides and/or ferry schedule, have ever considered opening a care home for retired pirates, are completely indifferent to the ripeness of avocados, and don’t mind the occasional bit of vigilante justice. So logically it’s the perfect place for a music festival (except for that bit about the avocados).

Now in it’s 8th year, Summer’s End Folk Festival is the appropriately curious music festival designed to bolster the arts community in just such an equally curious place.

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CövenHöven: Distillery Secretly Ages Rum At Kings Landing

Kings Landing is an interesting place. As New Brunswick’s chief live action museum and heritage preserve it’s a great space for the casual tourist to spend a day wandering about soaking up some old timeyness. For those willing to dig though, there’s plenty of stories, peculiar connections ,and apparently some closely guarded secrets.

For the last year CövenHöven Distillery have secretly been aging their rum on site for the last year. Now, before the product is officially available anywhere else, the distillery are offering tastings at Kings Landing all season long. Continue reading CövenHöven: Distillery Secretly Ages Rum At Kings Landing