Sean Doyle has done what many artists dream of (and fear)!
He quit his day job to follow his passion – to operate a small scale craft brewery. Sean is the owner and operator, the one-man driver behind Rothesay’s newest beer emporium: Long Bay Brewery. Continue reading Diving Deep Into Long Bay Brewery
The internet is a big place. Sometimes things get lost on it, and sometimes they get found again in the strangest of places. That happened this week for New Brunswick funky folk band Earthbound whose band photo turned up as a viral meme on a random Facebook page. Continue reading Earthbound: Band Photo Goes Viral After Becoming A Meme
Moncton-based alternative hard rockers Melonvine recently headed back into the studio – but not for new material. Instead they’ve gone back to polish up some tracks, and this week they’ve re-released the first of those with ‘Stuck In Place’. Continue reading Single: Melonvine Re-Releases ‘Stuck In Place’
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.
Quality Block Party – the festival that aimed to bring the independent music of New Brunswick to the forefront, as well as hold its own, during the chaos that was the East Coast Music Awards – is rolling back onto the streets of Uptown Saint John with version 1.2 from August 10th to 13th ! This iteration of Quality Block will have the city to itself, the ECMA’s having come and gone, allowing for the festival to have a bit of room to breathe and further develop its character. Continue reading Quality Block Party v1.2: Saint John Gets Permanent Music Festival
