In the midst of a special social distanced edition of this year’s Credit Union Music PEI Week, 31 awards were awarded in celebration of Prince Edward Island’s top musicians and industry professionals of 2021. Catherine MacLellan and Dylan Menzie both topped that list of winners by taking home three awards each. Continue reading Catherine MacLellan and Dylan Menzie Top Winners at 2021 Music PEI Awards
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Atlantic Canadians See Uptick in 2021 JUNO Award Nominations
Contrary to popular belief, The Weeknd has not made a clean sweep of the 2021 JUNO Awards just yet. For their annual celebration of Canada’s vast cornucopia of recording talents, the JUNO Awards announced 225 nominations—six of which did, in fact, go to The Weeknd. More to the point, we saw a slight uptick in nods going to Atlantic Canadians. Continue reading Atlantic Canadians See Uptick in 2021 JUNO Award Nominations
Neptune Theatre Makes Plan to Reopen With Fundraising Performances
Neptune Theatre are taking steps to reopen their doors for their 2021-2022 season, beginning a series of small concerts and play readings.
Neptune Theatre has, notably, been closed for the last 11 months of the pandemic. It’s understandable that some momentum may have been lost. While they’re eager to welcome audiences back for live performances, they’re going to need help to get the ball rolling on a new season. Continue reading Neptune Theatre Makes Plan to Reopen With Fundraising Performances
Monthly Roundup: January 2021
Admittedly, 2021 looks conspicuously a lot like 2020 with just a few alterations. Festivals have begun laying out their plans for the years… and quickly retracting them. Musicians continue to release music from their bedrooms. Theatres have announced productions that sound curiously like novellas or community television, depending on which approach they’ve taken.
Long story short, we’ve either mastered the skills at entertaining ourselves indoors or we’re doomed to go stir-crazy this time around.
Here is everything we covered in January of 2021. Continue reading Monthly Roundup: January 2021
Our Top Stories of 2020
When we said that 2019 was leaving us well prepared for whatever 2020 might bring, we might have been just a touch over-confident. We were looking at a year when festivals were making slight adjustments in the wake of Shambala shifting its dates. Instead, we saw a year without live music and… well, everything else.
In a year of big news from around the world, here are our top stories from 2020.