Reup on the 2019 East Coast Music Award nominations ahead of tonight’s big Jonathan Torrens-hosted awards show in Charlottetown, where the event is parked until Sunday. Classified‘s big 2018 has rolled into 2019, with the rapper racking up seven nods. Other multiple nominees include Fortunate Ones, Hillsburn, Neon Dreams and Ben Caplan. If you can’t […]
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Pause your life and listen to three new local songs!
Two comebacks and an alt version to tell you about on this sweet frosty Friday: In 2012, a ginger-haired dream named Jennah Barry dropped an instant classic called Young Men, entrancing full cities with her deft songwriting, incredible voice and aspirational stage banter. She played and played, and then she stopped. There was vocal surgery, […]
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Hillsburn’s wilder heart
The town of Hillsburn is a tiny dot on the Bay of Fundy, outside Annapolis Royal, between two coves, Parkers and Delaps. Paul Aarntzen calls it “a little stretch of road” and it’s where he lived, “by myself with my dog for three years with no furniture,” after a wandering stretch in the US, living […]
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Video premiere: Hillsburn’s “Sun Ought To Shine”
Hillsburn’s envious momentum hasn’t slowed much since its formation in 2014. In 2016 Hillsburn won a Canadian Folk Music Award for New/Emerging Artist of the Year, and started work on a new album—its sophomore offering after 2016’s In The Battle Years—which will be released this year. Recently a Kickstarter raising money for that same album […]
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Best Artist / Band To Be Blown Away By
Gold Winner Hillsburn Silver Winner Ben Caplan Bronze Winner Jessie Brown & The Black Divine “Are you kidding? We didn’t even—that’s nuts!” says Rosanna Burill in shock. She’s a singer-songwriter in rookie folk outfit Hillsburn. For a new band, they’re already swinging like pros, and Burill can’t believe both Best of Halifax awards. “This year […]
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Best Folk Artist / Band
Gold Winner Hillsburn Silver Winner David Myles Bronze Winner Willie Stratton “Are you kidding? We didn’t even—that’s nuts!” says Rosanna Burill in shock. She’s a singer-songwriter in rookie folk outfit Hillsburn. For a new band, they’re already swinging like pros, and Burill can’t believe both Best of Halifax awards. “This year has been a dream,” […]
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Best New Artist / Band
Gold Winner Hillsburn Silver Winner Mauno Bronze Winner Port Cities More on the Best new kids on the block, on page TK.
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Hillsburn on fire
Still riding high in the wake of a well-received self-titled EP released last October, folk-pop group Hillsburn is, like many of us, looking forward to a spring and summer of festivals. Plus a full-length album in the fall. Made up of brother and sister Clayton and Rosanna Burrill, Jackson Fairfax-Perry and main songwriter Paul Aarntzen, […]
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Video: Hillsburn, “Farther In The Fire”
Folk-pop Hillsburn bring it in a new video for “Farther In The Fire”, a track off its 2014 self-titled EP. Shot by Mat Barkley at BADFUN Media, “Farther In The Fire” is intense and goosebump-inducing. But you can see for yourself with one click. Hillsburn (self-titled EP) by Hillsburn Related Stories