Hey remember last week’s chat with Meaghan Smith in which she mentioned a kd lang tour? Well here are the dates: April 11 — KitchenerApril 13 — BarrieApril 14 — KingstonApril 16 — HalifaxApril 17 — MonctonApril 18 — Glace BayApril 20 — St. John’s Also if you missed this week’s One Tree Hill ep, […]
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This week’s live gig snap
photo Scott Blackburn Ryan MacGrathFriday March 6, 9:45pm, Argyle Fine Art.
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Death Cab will possess Dalhousie’s heart
So there was this national contest put on by a cell phone company and Dalhousie University won it. The prize? Oh, no big — just an April 3 McInnis Room show with DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE. Full, wonderful story here. One time we met Ben Gibbard through a fence in Providence, Rhode Island and he […]
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Supper time
Kev Corbett, host of Sing for Your Supper. “I felt a little bit bad because there were one or two people who showed up who were like, ‘Where do I sign up?'” says Kev Corbett, host of the new songwriters’ circle at The Carleton. “I had to play bad cop there.” Sing for Your Supper is *not* an open mic—more like an invite mic—but its goals are similar, in that emerging musicians get to play their songs for a dedicated audience. But it’s more organized than the traditional anything-goes, sign-up sheet line-up of the open mic (the title refers to
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Your weekend primer
Becky Siamon ain’t afraid of no orchestra. It’s 15 degrees in Toronto as we type, and the rumour is we’ll hit double digits ourselves tomorrow, furthering heightening the eau de poo coming off the Common. Which is better than The River Citadel, around which we have been portaging for weeks with nothing but gig posters […]
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This is what they mean by Share
photo Scott Blackburn Share Friday, February 27 in Corner Brook
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Animal instincts
When journalists Suzanne Chisholm and Michael Parfit arrived in Nootka Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, in June of 2004, they expected to spend three weeks reporting on an attempt to reunite a young orca with his pod. Three years later, they left with a movie. “We thought it was going to be […]
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Meaghan and the Bee
One of the women Jill Barber shouted out in her ECMA acceptance speech on Sunday night was Meaghan Smith, who’s out with Stuart MacLean’s Vinyl Cafe Tour, along with ECMA winner Matt Andersen. She phoned us from a parking lot in Port Hawkesbury. “It’s one of the funnest shows, I think, if I was going […]
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ECMA ferry dispatches: Mardeen
From singer-guitarist Travis Ellis: “It was a wild weekend for sure. Arrived in Corner Brook on Wednesday. Played four shows in total. Got to see a lot of friends and attended many parties. In our hotel we had good friends Smothered in Hugs and In-Flight Safety so the partying didn’t really end. Attended the awards […]
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ECMA ferry dispatches: Ruth Minnikin + Don Brownrigg
Ruth Minnikin, whose highly anticipated third album Depend on This will be out in mere weeks, checked in with reports from ECMA and, as a bonus, the Memphis Folk Alliance, which occurred the week before. “I played three shows and saw wicked bands like Pat Deighan and the Orb Weavers, Carmen Townsend and Ryan Cook […]
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ECMA ferry dispatches: Share
Rest assured there were no short-shorts in Newfoundland. (photo courtesy Kyle Cunjak) “Dear Tara,” writes Andrew Sisk of Share, “I don’t know if people who have never attended one of these industry conferences knows what it’s like, but it’s a mixture of Weekend at Bernie’s and Wayne’s World 2. We stayed in Hotel Cornerbrook with many other bands which meant that the halls were filled with laughter and antics until 6am every night. Some of the venues were a little far away and the shuttle system was not running smoothly which made it hard to attend some of the events.
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East Coast Music Awards results
Jill Barber took Danny Williams’ advice to “Go wild!” (Jacques Boissinot / CP) Hometown heroes hey rosetta and Halifax ex-pat Jill Barber were the big winners at last night’s East Coast Music Awards in Corner Brook, making each of their suitcases three and two pewter music notes heavier, respectively. Outside of lifetime achievement winner Dick […]