On Thursday, October 1, Jenny Jobbins, founder of Tay Creek Folk Festival, passed away. The festival’s organizers report that her passing was both sudden and unexpected, and it was without suffering. For many, she represented the heart and soul of the festival, a well-read bon vivant, and nothing short of a legend. Continue reading Tay Creek Mourns the Passing of Festival Founder Jenny Jobbins
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New Music: Ananas Get Groovy with ‘Fausse réalité’
Here to bring us some serious grooves during these bleak times is Bathurst, New Brunswick’s Francophone four-piece Ananas with their debut, 6-track release, Fausse réalité.
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New Music: Braden Lam Speaks His Mind on ‘Inside Four Walls’
From graduating college, to getting married, and even fighting off oil companies in the Yukon; Braden Lam has a lot to say about the life he’s lived since his last full-length release Driftwood People dropped in 2018. Inside Four Walls takes us outside of the four bedroom walls in which Driftwood People was recorded, and out into the real world. The result is a record that finds a comfortable balance between it’s fuller, catchier sound and its message. Continue reading New Music: Braden Lam Speaks His Mind on ‘Inside Four Walls’
Music Video: Caribou Run Duke It Out Over Dinner on ‘Highway Home’
Caribou Run’s new single, “Highway Home”, frames a relatable theme – relationship troubles – in an engaging way. As Moores belts out the song’s chorus – “It’s a long dark highway home” – the words are simultaneously foreboding and optimistic, matching our outlook for the video’s protagonists. Continue reading Music Video: Caribou Run Duke It Out Over Dinner on ‘Highway Home’
Music Video: Colin, Can You Hear Me? The Trews Cover The Who’s ‘1921’
Every band has got that one cover song hiding in their back pocket; the one that they’ve got polished up for special occasions and when they do bring it out it’s almost better than the original. For The Trews, apparently, that song is The Who’s classic “1921” and they’ve been holding onto it for the last two decades. Continue reading Music Video: Colin, Can You Hear Me? The Trews Cover The Who’s ‘1921’