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→
Kings Landing is an interesting place. As New Brunswick’s chief live action museum and heritage preserve it’s a great space for the casual tourist to spend a day wandering about soaking up some old timeyness. For those willing to dig though, there’s plenty of stories, peculiar connections ,and apparently some closely guarded secrets.
For the last year CövenHöven Distillery have secretly been aging their rum on site for the last year. Now, before the product is officially available anywhere else, the distillery are offering tastings at Kings Landing all season long. Continue reading CövenHöven: Distillery Secretly Ages Rum At Kings Landing→
Well kids, it’s been another year and Folly Fest has come and gone. Hippy Christmas celebrated in June. It’s been five days and still the smell a patchouli and glitter linger in our clothes, our tents, our cars, and basically everything we’ve come into contact with. It’s the festival that keeps on giving. Continue reading Video: Folly Fest 2017→
In the category of simple songs that we find endlessly amusing Partner has been a clear winner. They possess the rare gift of eliciting chuckles with their bizarre songs without losing face as a quasi-serious post-class rock band. They’ve been teasing us with singles for the last year, with their much anticipated album In Search Of Lost Time, finally hitting our eardrums in September. In the meantime here is the second single: ‘Sex Object’.Continue reading Single: Partner Releases ‘Sex Object’→
