Today the East Coast Music Association announced their list of nominees for their 2019 Music Awards. At the very top of the list is Classified with seven nominations, Ben Caplan with six and, unsurprisingly, 2018 Polar Music Prize winner Jeremy Dutcher with five nominations. Fortunate Ones, Hillsburn, Paper Lions, and Neon Dreams follow, with four nominations each. Continue reading Classified, Ben Caplan, Jeremy Dutcher Top List of 2019 East Coast Music Awards Nominees
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Music PEI: Vishtèn and The East Pointers Top 2019 Award Winners
In what Executive Director Rob Oakie describes as a “party-like atmosphere” rather than your typical ballroom gala, Music PEI gathered the island’s music community at the Rodd Charlottetown Hotel to honour the year’s best musicians with the 2019 Music PEI Awards at the Awards Party. Continue reading Music PEI: Vishtèn and The East Pointers Top 2019 Award Winners
Exclusive: Living Roots Announce First Volley of Performers for 2019 Festival
Four years ago, Eddie Young set out with a vision. A vision which would see Fredericton come together in a grassroots movement combining folk bands with unlikely venues and building from the ground up. And now we have the first volley of performers being announced for the Living Roots Music Festival 2019 lineup. Continue reading Exclusive: Living Roots Announce First Volley of Performers for 2019 Festival
Monthly Roundup: December 2018
Well, it’s been a crazy year for us, full of milestones, discoveries, and soo many music festivals. It’s a lot to reflect on, but fortunately we wrote most of it down. Here’s everything we covered in December of 2018.
The Best Music of 2018
Good Lord, what have we done? We didn’t want to torture ourselves by shaving the Best Music of 2018 down to just 40 songs, so instead we’re torturing ourselves by trying to sort it into a list of the top 100! Have at it and if you’d care to engage us in fisticuffs please reserve it for the end of the list. Continue reading The Best Music of 2018