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New Music: The Barrowdowns’ EP

The Barrowdowns have become familiar faces around the East Coast festival circuit. The Halifax-based alt folk quintet have worked hard, building a solid presence by putting in that stage time, making regular auditory deposits at your local sound bank. Now they’re making themselves available as a constant presence to your earholes with the release of their self-titled first EP just in time for this summer’s shindigs.  Continue reading New Music: The Barrowdowns’ EP

In Review: Theatre Free Radical’s ‘Lac/Athabasca’

Timing is everything. Theatre Free Radical’s production of Lac/Athabasca, written and directed by Len Falkenstein, is strikingly prevalent in today’s climate, both politically and environmentally. Drawing inspiration from the 2013 disaster at Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, the play is a fictionalized retelling of the events that led to the deaths of 47 people after an unattended train loaded with oil rolled down a hill, derailed, and exploded, destroying half the downtown core. Continue reading In Review: Theatre Free Radical’s ‘Lac/Athabasca’

Paddlefest: Come For The Music, Stay For A Lifetime

St. Andrews-By-The-Sea is predominantly a tourist town. The Winters can be long and much less exciting than the boom of the Summer season. The seaside town stays fairly quiet well into Spring, until Paddlefest weekend when the town of a couple thousand is flooded with with an extra five hundred people, ready to partake in music, hiking, and paddling. Continue reading Paddlefest: Come For The Music, Stay For A Lifetime