Cultural Festivals

As the night set in Man Man took the stage. A very energetic band from the USA; their keyboard player could be seen later in their set climbing the scaffolding a la Eddie Vedder circa 1993. I feel like a betterman for catching this performance.

Saturday night was my first time watching Sleepless Nights perform(I recently left the band after playing guitar/keys for 3 years). They were loud, fun and danceable. Lookin’ good, boys. Lookin’ good. This picture shows the crowd yelling for more as the band tunes-up between songs(Except for the guy with the headphones on – but he […]

Groovin’ hard or hardly groovin’ ?

I took a walk through tent city and tried not to get lost. There are about one thousand tents in a field and this picture only captures a small number of them. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) there are no roads in tent city so navigation can become quite challenging and you may find yourself tripping over […]

Pictured here is the crowd enjoying a peppy number by Two Hours Traffic.

Charlottetown’s Two Hours Traffic take the stage and the crowd starts to fill in and move and shake to some peppy Summer rock anthems. They sounded fabulous. Just ask the guy with the flamingo on a stick.

Here we have Mat Dunlap and Dave Ewenson hanging out on the grass. The pair appeared at the festival to record an on-site episode of their radio show ‘Let’s Get Baked’.

Following my set, I was greeted by a woman who introduced herself simply as ‘Yoda’. She explained that her name was short for ‘Yodamama’ due to her mothering nature and that she is not in fact a Jedi master. Either way, I’m calling her the next time my X-wing gets stuck in a swamp on […]

The first act I caught Saturday was Share, in full 5-piece band form, performing a set comprised almost entirely of new material. I was completely floored. Having only ever heard Share as a quiet trio, it was an unexpected surprise to see frontman Andrew Sisk throw his guitar to the ground and break into a […]

The whole drive up Steph and I were wondering if it would pour rain or not, hoping for the latter but preparing for the worst (Well, Steph prepared for the worst and actually brought rubber boots. My preparations for the worst included doing absolutely nothing different than if it were 25 degrees and sunny.) We […]

Hello world. I will be heading over to Antigonish early tomorrow (Saturday) morning to begin my weekend coverage of the Evolve festival. For those of you unaware, the festival looks something like this: