Category Archives: Events

Into The Night: Groundswell Music Throws St Paddy’s Day Rager

For its third year running, the newly rebranded Into The Night Festival, returned for a two-day St. Patrick’s rager changed up its formula to stray away from its original Celtic style roots.  This time around, they brought in some JUNO and ECMA award winners and nominees, mixed in some local heavy hitters, and delivered a weekend packed with punk rock and indie grooves. Continue reading Into The Night: Groundswell Music Throws St Paddy’s Day Rager

Living Roots Announces Full 2018 Line-Up

Fredericton’s Living Roots Music Festival have announced the line-up for their third installment today. The festival, with its panache for unorthodox venues and its focus on maintaining a strong balance of local talent and imported gems, has expanded to ten venues. This year’s lineup promises three days packed with diverse talent. Continue reading Living Roots Announces Full 2018 Line-Up

Into The Night Announces Their Full 2018 Festival Lineup

Into The Night have announced one hell of a way to spend your St. Patrick’s Day weekend. Formerly reserved a solemn two days of hangover recovery, Groundswell Music have decided you might put those days to better use during their takeover of Olympic Hall in Halifax. Today they’ve provided justification with the announcement of the festival’s full lineup. Continue reading Into The Night Announces Their Full 2018 Festival Lineup

Saint John’s Area 506 Music Festival Announces Special Winter Concert Featuring The Sheepdogs

Area 506—Saint John’s massively successful festival, known for bringing big acts like July Talk, Wintersleep, Bahamas, Stars and Tegan & Sara to the city’s waterfront—made a special announcement today. The festival said that they’ll be interrupting their usual summer programming to bring you a break from the winter doldrums with a concert from Saskatchewan rockers The Sheepdogs. Continue reading Saint John’s Area 506 Music Festival Announces Special Winter Concert Featuring The Sheepdogs

Music PEI Announces 2018 Award Winners — The East Pointers Leads With Four

Music PEI Week 2018 is coming to a close today after five days of performances and events celebrating Prince Edward Island’s musical talent. Today’s activities included the much anticipated Music PEI Award show at the Rodd Charlottetown Hotel, along with performances from many of the award winners and nominees at the Festival Finale at the Florence Simmons Performance Hall. Of course, as was foretold in the great announcing of the Music PEI Award nominees, The East Pointers collected a haul of hardware at today’s award show.  Continue reading Music PEI Announces 2018 Award Winners — The East Pointers Leads With Four