It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Atlantic Canada has been punching well above its weight in the category of folk music. We’ve been topping nomination lists at the Canadian Folk Music Awards and now representing a whole ten percent of the performing artists at Folk Alliance International. Folk musicians fill an essential niche as documentarians to an entire subsection of our culture, but they’re also a curious lot. Colourful and naturally nomadic, they’re hard to pin down. Sometimes it takes a certain amount of wrangling to commit those songs to posterity, and like a modern-day Lomax, Dylan Jewers set out on a mission with Big Turnips: Vol 1, to capture Atlantic Canada’s folkscape. Continue reading Big Turnips: Dartmouth Compilation Aims To Preserve Local Folksongs
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Single: Don Brownrigg Flips the Script on Break Ups with ‘Bad Timing’
Just a month and a half after the release of his single “Room for Me,” Halifax-based but Newfoundland-born artist Don Brownrigg has released “Bad Timing.” Picking up the pace, his new track flips the script of of the last, bringing Brownrigg‘s overarching theme of heartbreak full circle. Continue reading Single: Don Brownrigg Flips the Script on Break Ups with ‘Bad Timing’
Music Video: Doggos and Go-Pros and The Hypochondriacs All Appear on Motherhood’s ‘Bird Chirp’
Fredericton three-piece Motherhood are back with their latest single, “Bird Chirp.” Known for their cheeky deviations from the norm, the unorthodox rockers have brought us an auditory collage of rock ‘n’ roll that could effectively create three different songs if they so chose it to. Continue reading Music Video: Doggos and Go-Pros and The Hypochondriacs All Appear on Motherhood’s ‘Bird Chirp’
Fredericton’s Living Roots Music Festival Adds Performers to 2019 Lineup
Not all festival announcements are big surprises. Some, like today’s announcement of a rather unsurprising addition to Living Roots Music Festival’s 2019 lineup, are pleasant returns and gentle reminders that some things are still right with the world… or at least this part of New Brunswick’s music festival scene. Continue reading Fredericton’s Living Roots Music Festival Adds Performers to 2019 Lineup
Messtival: Not Just Morally Bankrupt
Messtival, one of New Brunswick’s least appreciated and yet disturbingly popular music festivals, have announced that they are bankrupt. Amidst a perfect storm of scandals, mismanagement and corruption, the moral deviants behind Messtival are making a desperate last-minute effort to save both the festival and their kneecaps. Continue reading Messtival: Not Just Morally Bankrupt