Tag Archives: Music Festival

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Shivering Songs Announce 2017 Line-Up

Shivering Songs has been a mainstay of Fredericton winters for the last seven years now. It’s an ember in an otherwise useless month, meant to melt away the midwinter frost that keeps us paralyzed with seasonal affective disorder, and combats January blues with a celebration of song writing and storytelling. The festival is still more than two months away, but today the Fredericton-based Festival have announced their initial 2017 line-up. Continue reading Shivering Songs Announce 2017 Line-Up →

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SNAP! CRACKLE! HALIFAX POP EX 2016!

It would seem that the attendees of this year’s Halifax Pop Explosion had silently taken a mail carriers vow before the festivities started on Wednesday. Through sun and rain (and wind and cold and near tropical humidity levels in the Forum and was that snow for a second there?) crowds appeared at the various stages to laugh, dance, mosh and shuffle their feet back and forth awkwardly, to the talent provided. Squadrons of coordinators, volunteers and staff flitted about the venues holding the sprawling event together, and doing it well I’ll add. Continue reading SNAP! CRACKLE! HALIFAX POP EX 2016! →

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Black & Blues: A First Time Harvester’s Confessional

The Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival: six days of music and buskers in the streets, of boozy Frederictonians stumbling home after performances that seem too good to have happened in not-so-small-town New Brunswick. Despite ‘be[ing] in this place’ all my life, it was my first time taking in Harvest. Continue reading Black & Blues: A First Time Harvester’s Confessional →