Fredericton’s Springtime Music and Art Festival is kicking off the season this year with a very full line-up. Flourish Festival has pulled out the stops to bring you the bands you know and love, along with a lot of fresh faces that you will also come to know, and to love. Today we have the official announcement of who that’s going to be. Continue reading Fredericton’s Flourish Festival Announces Line-Up
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Headliners Announced For Fredericton’s Harvest Jazz & Blues 2017
It was just four months ago that we were taking in the sights and sounds of Fredericton’s annual Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival, but news is already rolling out as to who will be gracing the bill for the 2017 show. Today the festival made its first announcement on two of its major headliners. Continue reading Headliners Announced For Fredericton’s Harvest Jazz & Blues 2017
The Unnoticed Batman, Suburban Pearls and Divine Muppet Dolls: The Art of Glenn Priestley
Glenn Priestley is a Fredericton, New Brunswick artist whose drawings, pastels and oil paintings can elevate aspects of daily life, even the mundane, to classical opulence. The intuitive play he creates is a confluence in the interacting figures, everyday places, and a rediscovery of forgotten kitsch treasures. It’s a balance that can only be struck by an artist who has achieved a mastery of skill in the language of painting, colour and form. Continue reading The Unnoticed Batman, Suburban Pearls and Divine Muppet Dolls: The Art of Glenn Priestley
In Review: TNB’s ‘The Snow Queen’
Just in time for Christmas, Theatre New Brunswick’s production of ‘The Snow Queen’ premiered this Thursday, with such apt timing that the recent cold snap is starting to seem like a conveniently-timed marketing campaign. A faithful adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson’s classic fairy tale by the same name with a script by TNB Artistic Director Thomas Morgan Jones, ‘The Snow Queen’ is a light-hearted, enjoyable seasonal tale that’s fun for the whole family. Continue reading In Review: TNB’s ‘The Snow Queen’
New Music: Saint-Jack’s ‘Birmingham’
Prolific artists are intriguing, especially those who can operate across a wide variety of genres. When that artist is also a music journalist/label stakeholder/media figure, things get real interesting. Saint-Jack is the solo personna of Fredericton based singer songwriter JE Sheehy and one of many musical projects for the 28 year old (his other bands include Beard Springsteen, The Trick, and Deep Fryer). His debut 3 song EP ‘Birmingham’ was released on Nov. 28th on Bored Coast Records and is a nice addition to Sheehy’s growing catalogue of genre and discipline spanning creative work. Continue reading New Music: Saint-Jack’s ‘Birmingham’