The 2018 Music PEI Week is currently in full swing. Last night, the first of the Music PEI Awards was handed out with the awarding of the SOCAN Songwriter of the Year Award during a concert at St. Paul’s Church. The night featured very special performances and interviews from all of this year’s nominees, including Ashley Condon, Alicia Toner, Dennis Ellsworth and Kinley Dowling, Liam Corcoran, and Nick Doneff. Naturally, only one of them got to take the award home. Continue reading Music PEI Announces Winner Of The 2018 SOCAN Songwriter Award
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Marshall Studios: Fredericton Musicians Team Up For New Recording Studio
Two musicians announced today that they’ll be launching a new recording studio in Fredericton. East coast music fans should have no trouble recognizing the partnership behind Marshall Studios: Jay Merrill of Earthbound/Gordon Gets Lost and Stephen Lewis of The Big Band of Fun. Continue reading Marshall Studios: Fredericton Musicians Team Up For New Recording Studio
Fredericton Playhouse Approved For Expansion
This morning the Fredericton Playhouse announced that the Fredericton City Council has approved the expansion of the existing Playhouse’s Queen Street site as a location for a new regional performing arts centre. Continue reading Fredericton Playhouse Approved For Expansion
Monthly Roundup: December 2017
It’s time to put 2017 to bed, and we haven’t decided whether we should be looking forward to 2018 or dreading it all the more. Hopefully we’ve learned a few lessons and will be all the better for it. In the meantime here’s everything we covered in December, 2017. Continue reading Monthly Roundup: December 2017
Our Top Stories Of 2017
In his song ‘As Days Go By’, Jesse Frederick immortalized the words, “It’s a rare condition, this day and age, to read any good news on the newspaper page.” That was in 1989: a time before 9/11, Twitter, and Donald Trump’s political career. If he had only know what the next few decades would bring… 2017 was, at best, a warning shot. It was a new benchmark. It was a year that should stand out in history as a lesson, a painful reminder that we can do better, because while we could do worse, we wouldn’t survive it very long.
While we’re not unaffected by the relentless barrage 2017 has offered, we’ve been fortunate to cover a lot of really great stories here on the east coast. Here are the ones that were most popular this year. Continue reading Our Top Stories Of 2017