Tonight Music/Musique NB celebrated their 8th annual Prix MNB Awards Show by handing out some 27 awards while kicking off Festival (506) at the Tide & Boar in Moncton. The awards celebrate notable artists and individuals within the industry from around New Brunswick. Continue reading Music/Musique NB: The Results Of The 2017 Prix MNB Awards
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Monthly Roundup: September 2017
Welcome to the end of September! Festival season is officially behind us and now we’re wading ear-deep through one of the busiest album-release seasons of the year. This isn’t even all of them, just the albums that we had time to get to. There are, in fact, only so many notes the human ear can hear in the course of an evening.
Here’s everything we’ve managed to write about in the meantime. Continue reading Monthly Roundup: September 2017
Nova Scotia Music Week: Jenn Grant Takes Seven Nominations, Port Cities And Rose Cousins Follow With Six
Nova Scotia Music Week isn’t until November but, as part of their fair and democratic process, they’ve announced their 2017 nominees, giving members two weeks to decide who they will vote for. Thankfully, but challengingly, the nominees they’ve selected are also all the nominees we would vote for. Good luck making your own picks. Continue reading Nova Scotia Music Week: Jenn Grant Takes Seven Nominations, Port Cities And Rose Cousins Follow With Six
Video: The Backroad Ball 2017
The Backroad Ball 2017 was a rainy, windy, magical weekend of female bonding, motorcycles and mind-melting entertainment. Over 175 female-identifying motorcyclists and moto-curious women gathered in the (usually) quiet town of Penobsquis, NB with engines roaring and hearts soaring from the camaraderie they found there. Continue reading Video: The Backroad Ball 2017
Monthly Roundup: August 2017
August is always a crazy month for us. We’re not entirely over festival season, but we are over the hump. It’s a time when we return to our desks and start grinding through the thousands of photos we’ve taken, work through the memories that are nearly coherent thoughts, and finally stop scratching at those mosquito bites we were told wouldn’t happen because somebody made some really amazing essential oils that could do everything from curing the common cold to ending student debt.
Here’s everything we’ve managed to write about in the meantime. Continue reading Monthly Roundup: August 2017