Making new friends can be hard. Much harder if you’re trapped in a surreal world made of felt, or the imagination of Prince Edward Island filmmaker Laura Stewart. Stewart’s short film quickly and delightfully explores the realm of interpersonal relations and bottomless ovens. Also, there are cookies. Continue reading Welcome: Cookies and Interdimensional Ovens, Laura Stewart Releases a Fun New Short Film about Friendship
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Music PEI Sees Prolific Year – Announce 2019 Award Nominees
Music PEI is seeing a surge in productivity this year, with twice as many submissions being made for their annual awards. The music organization will be coming together in late January, 2019, for their Credit Union Music PEI Week, including the Awards Party on January 27th, to celebrate their best and brightest.
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Single: Lennie Gallant Collaborates with Zimbabwe’s Black Umfolosi for Holiday Magic on ‘Christmas Day on Planet Earth’
Somewhere between Paul Simon and an unnamed Bethlehemian innkeeper stands award-winning Prince Edward Island songwriter Lennie Gallant. For the sake of Christmas, he welcomed Zimbabwean acapella and dance group Black Umfolosi into his home, gave them shelter, and lo, unto them a song was born. Never mind that all of this happened in mid-July, or at the request of mutual friend and booking agent Bob Jensen. That’s practically Christmas Eve for musicians. Continue reading Single: Lennie Gallant Collaborates with Zimbabwe’s Black Umfolosi for Holiday Magic on ‘Christmas Day on Planet Earth’
The Burning Hell: Mathias Kom on a Decade Old Album and the Re-Release of ‘Baby’ on Vinyl
The Burning Hell are re-releasing their third album, Baby, for its ten-year anniversary – and this time on vinyl. Back when Baby first saw daylight, the world was practically a whole different place. In 2009 we were still asking “What the heck is going on?” but with far fewer expletives mixed in. It was a time of relative innocence: Barrack Obama was peddling hope and everyone was still trying to come grips with the phenomenon of sparkly vampires. Given the gross shift in perspective the last decade has brought, we thought it prudent to check in with Mathias Kom, the loquacious lyricist himself, to see where things stood for him at the time of the album’s original release.
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Music Video: Christine Campbell Spreads Her Wings With Classified Produced ‘Butterfly’
Christine Campbell has released an inspiring new video for her song ‘Butterfly’ more than a year after its initial release on the album, ‘Roller Coaster.’ The track, produced by Canadian rapper Classified, is an anthem for all who have overcome the hardships of bullying and mistreatment. Continue reading Music Video: Christine Campbell Spreads Her Wings With Classified Produced ‘Butterfly’