Hopefully, this does not come as a shock to anyone, but sooner or later, you’re going to die. The how and why of it might leave a little wiggle room but, without exception, you and everyone you know will eventually shuffle off this mortal coil. It’s something of an inevitability. The good news: what happens next is largely up to you.
That’s not a pitch designed to entice you into whatever brand of afterlife awaits you in the hereafter, but another kind of immortality altogether.
Terra Spencer is already well known as a Nova Scotian folksinger. In certain circles, however, she’s known for an entirely different skillset: seeing people off into the sunset of their lives as a funeral director. Spencer says that those two worlds are overlapping with the increasing popularity of “legacy songs”: bespoke anthems to help the deceased and deceasing make their final exeunt while avoiding going gentle — or at least not going quietly — into that good night. Continue reading Death & Dirges: Terra Spencer on How To Avoid Going Quietly Into That Good Night→
We’re down to the crunch for festival season. The big news this month has been the (hopefully well-informed and medically approved) coin toss most festival organizers are facing as they decide whether or not to go ahead with their events. However, if you’ve already determined that you’re staying home this summer, then we recommend checking out our review of the Prince Edward Island-based film, Still the Water.
Festival season might still be a big question mark this summer, but we’re very quickly coming into a little cluster of Awards shows. We’ve just come through Music PEI Week, and the East Coast Music Awards, the Canadian Folk Music Awards and the JUNO Awards are all just over the horizon. In the meantime, while we’re all waiting for Schrödinger’s Bubble to pop, there’s no shortage of great music being released.
With the exception of some fantastic releases and exciting news of projects that will be coming to fruition later in the year, February is the shortest month for good reason. We’re already looking forward to the coming of Spring and the impending release of new albums from Virginia Fudge, Dance Movie, POSTDATA, and Michael Feuerstack.
Admittedly, 2021 looks conspicuously a lot like 2020 with just a few alterations. Festivals have begun laying out their plans for the years… and quickly retracting them. Musicians continue to release music from their bedrooms. Theatres have announced productions that sound curiously like novellas or community television, depending on which approach they’ve taken.
Long story short, we’ve either mastered the skills at entertaining ourselves indoors or we’re doomed to go stir-crazy this time around.
