GroundSwell Music are changing things up as they rebrand their annual GroundSwell Music Festival as Into The Night. For the third year, the Nova Scotia-based record label will be hosting their two-day takeover of Olympic Hall in Halifax on the St. Patrick’s Day weekend. The event kicks off on March 16th, 2018 with some surprise Juno-nominee headliners. Continue reading GroundSwell Music Festival Rebrands As Into The Night — Announces 2018 Headliners
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James Mullinger Announces Biggest Comedy Show Ever
For those of you who weren’t in attendance last week, James Mullinger just beat out Jerry Seinfeld for ticket sales in an event that packed Saint John’s Harbour Station. As if that weren’t big enough, on the heels of that milestone, Mullinger has just announced what is being billed as ‘The Biggest Comedy Show Ever’. Continue reading James Mullinger Announces Biggest Comedy Show Ever
Lily Lake’s Pavilion Cup ‘Nothing Better Than Playing Hockey On The Ice’
Canada’s love for hockey is so widely accepted that many will say it borders on cultural cliché. From coast to coast and abroad, even the most uninitiated non-hockey fan has probably found themselves gathered in a pub, or huddled around a television, to watch an Olympic or World Junior final. There are also those of us who spend many years sitting in freezing rinks to watch sons, daughters, nieces, or nephews skate their way through pee-wee, to bantam, and beyond! I’d bet a nickel that many of these people found themselves overcome with so much national pride and fervor of competition that any passer-by would mistake them for a seasoned hockey expert. Continue reading Lily Lake’s Pavilion Cup ‘Nothing Better Than Playing Hockey On The Ice’
FROSTival 2015: The Winter Capital
To those of us in Fredericton, winter is nothing new. Try as we might, kicking and screaming for it to go away, it comes every year just the same. While it’s tempting to stay inside and curl up with the new season of whatever on Netflix, here’s a suggestion of something you can do instead: how about checking out Fredericton FROSTival? It’s Atlantic Canada’s largest winter celebration and saying that it has something for everyone is no exaggeration. Continue reading FROSTival 2015: The Winter Capital
The Saint John Stone Sculpture Symposium
The Saint John Stone Sculpting Symposium began with fire and brimstone, and massive flows of lava moving across great scathes of our fair province. Fortunately for everyone involved the last 390 million years has given things plenty of time to cool down; bystanders and artists alike have little more to be concerned about than the lingering clouds of Devonian by-product that have come to replace the usual harbour-front fog each morning. It was on the far side of one of these that I found Alison Gayton, a returning intern, finishing her lunch inside of the site’s many small tents. She offered me a cherry tomato, but the twenty seconds it had taken me to cross the lot had already filled my mouth my with a fine dust. Continue reading The Saint John Stone Sculpture Symposium