The organizers at Cavendish Beach Music Festival are maintaining a level of optimism for 2022 that might just pull it off through a sheer manifestation of willpower. Atlantic Canada’s largest multi-day outdoor music festival has just announced its second and third headliners of 2022. Maybe if we all quietly tiptoe through New Year’s Eve without any bold declaration of 2022 finally being “our year” and continue to obsessively wash our hands, this might just happen. Continue reading Cavendish Beach Music Festival Continues Rolling out 2022 Headliners
Symphony New Brunswick Celebrates Beethoven’s Birthday with ‘My Dear Ludwig’
Ludwig van Beethoven is celebrating a rather special birthday this Friday, or rather the musically-enriched world that he left behind will be celebrating on his behalf. On December 17, 2021, LVB will be turning a very distinguished 250 years old. To mark the occasion, Symphony New Brunswick presents Camerata NB in concert with “My Dear Ludwig”, an evening (or three) of all-Beethoven programming. Continue reading Symphony New Brunswick Celebrates Beethoven’s Birthday with ‘My Dear Ludwig’
Peer Review: The Best Music of 2021
Each year, our staff spend hours and hours going through the absolutely massive number of songs that hit our inbox. While we do our best to thoroughly digest each and every one of them, sometimes you need to experience them out in the wild. That’s why we like to ask some experts from the community what’s tickled their fancy; musicians who have their own educated opinions on the matter, or perhaps listened to these songs performed again and again while on the road, or even watch them develop in the studio.
Here is our annual Peer Review of the Best Music from 2021. Continue reading Peer Review: The Best Music of 2021
Thirty Artists Contributing Talents to Cross-Country Event in Support of Canadian Flood Victims
After severe flooding in three Canadian provinces this season, a group of over thirty musicians have come together to organize a benefit concert for the flood victims who have lost their homes and properties. Among the performing artists are Juno Award winners, a Latin Grammy winner and a Grammy nominee, and that’s just to start. Continue reading Thirty Artists Contributing Talents to Cross-Country Event in Support of Canadian Flood Victims
Mitch Currie Plays the Hand He’s Been Dealt on ‘Good Enough for Now’
Mitch Currie. Twenty-six years old. Ageing rock star.
It’s a precarious position to find oneself in; the tail-end of a burgeoning music career as the window of possibilities grows increasingly narrow. Whether that holds true or not is an entirely different matter—with countless examples to the contrary—and what truly matters is that the near-side of thirty has lit a fire under Currie’s butt.
Good Enough For Now, Currie’s debut solo EP, is the result: a lesson that something is almost always better than nothing. Good Enough For Now even skews a bit humble in that regard. Continue reading Mitch Currie Plays the Hand He’s Been Dealt on ‘Good Enough for Now’