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Exclusive: Folly Fest Announces 2016 Lineup

Folly Fest is three days of ‘getting down and dirty dancin’ in the dust’ alongside the Saint John River in beautiful little Gagetown. Well known for being the friendliest festival in the Maritimes, it’s unsurprisingly also one of the most popular with performers and festival-goers alike. Today we have the official announcement of who you can expect to find on stage. Continue reading Exclusive: Folly Fest Announces 2016 Lineup

Shivering Songs And The Pursuit Of Winter Happiness

Mid-winter in the downtown core of Fredericton has a capricious disposition: the windchill flickers between pacific and caustic, the sidewalks are littered with icy pitfalls, and and our doses of heavy snowstorm seem wildly irregular. In spite of all this, the weather held at a moderate breeze over the weekend, and the temperature seemed to rise a few degrees for those of us who took in this year’s Shivering Songs festival. Continue reading Shivering Songs And The Pursuit Of Winter Happiness

The Grand Ole Wilser’s: A Tribute To Classic Country

“Ever heard of cowpunk?” Josh Bravener is a born and bred Frederictonian who plays with a local rockabilly/’cowpunk’ band called The Hypochondriacs. He also, consequently, has a love for country music, the kind your parents grew up with: Hank Williams, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and Johnny Cash, but with a punk-y twist. That love of twang has brought him to organizing a tribute show to the Grand Ole Opry called Grand Ole Wilsers. Continue reading The Grand Ole Wilser’s: A Tribute To Classic Country