Tag Archives: New Brunswick

Handworks Gallery: Saint John’s Longest Running Commercial Gallery Gets New Owner

Having first opened in 1990, Handworks Gallery is Saint John’s longest running commercial gallery. On August 3rd, 2018, after four years of owning and operating the gallery, Lisa Oland announced to its artists that ownership would be changing hands once again. Continue reading Handworks Gallery: Saint John’s Longest Running Commercial Gallery Gets New Owner

New Music: Tampa Release New Material Ahead of Area 506

Even though it’s only August we’re confident that Tampa released one of our favourite albums of 2018 back in March. Rising from the ashes of Danger Cat, the Moncton band’s reincarnation blew us away with their debut Belated Love. But the album proved to be more fruitful than initially advertised. A pair of tracks, “Unless” and “Intro/Heartfelt,” have reappeared after temporarily displacing themselves to the cutting room floor. Continue reading New Music: Tampa Release New Material Ahead of Area 506

Tay Creek Folk Festival: Probably The Most Adorable Festival In Atlantic Canada

New Brunswick’s festival scene is shifting. In the land of a thousand festivals there is strong competition to be the biggest and the wildest, to build the most over-the-top stages or book the craziest headliners. The largest festivals vie to dominate, or at least differentiate, as they either capture or cater to audiences while competing with new festivals that seem to be popping up all the time. If every weekend was another Evolve, Future Forest, or Folly Fest we’d all be dead. Certainly, I’d be dead at the very least. So thank God there are still places like Tay Creek Folk Festival. Continue reading Tay Creek Folk Festival: Probably The Most Adorable Festival In Atlantic Canada

New Music: Harley Alexander’s ‘Woof’ is Whimsical and Delicate

Woof, the latest effort by Harley Alexander, operates with a laid-back ease that ebbs, jerks and flows through itself with all the breeze and innate topicality of a summer evening. It swings from oddball psychedelia to opaque lo-fi and stirring bedroom pop, jangling with occasional bursts of vocal exuberance and electric flourish. Continue reading New Music: Harley Alexander’s ‘Woof’ is Whimsical and Delicate