Music Festivals

Lindsay Barr
 While her smouldering green eyes and riot grrrl aesthetic may have helped land her recent video on MuchMusic, it’s her talent for writing infectious “hey, hey” party anthems that has earned Lindsay Barr her current buzz. “I think rhythmic happenings is my finest delicacy,” as she puts it. In 2006, she released her […]

Last Sunday, the CBC Radio program Vinyl Cafe played Jim Bryson’s tune “Fire Watch” from his third album, Where the Bungalows Roam. The show’s host, Stuart McLean, also read the Ken Babstock poem (from his book Days into Flatspin) of the same name that spawned the song. Babstock and Bryson are good friends and that […]

Though based in Toronto and frequently touring southern Ontario, David Celia has also taken to the road in the UK and continental Europe over the last several years to mould his musical voice. The melodic-pop singer-songwriter plays with regular rhythm partners across the Atlantic and always comes home with plenty of material and memory to […]

Hamilton’s honeyed songwriter Matthew de Zoete sorts through studying abroad, long-distance relationships, family histories of immigration and friends moving away on his album Across the Sea. Honing the skills of a farmer by day, musician by night, de Zoete is constantly evolving. “I need to work on my tractor skills,” he says. “We live beside […]

With all the live music I managed to experience in one weekend, I can see why they called it Nova Scotia Music ‘Week’. Sunday evening, before heading to the Gala Awards show, I went to the Mersey House again to see Cape Breton born, now Halifax based Silvergun perform. The Mersey House was my most […]

After the showcases wrapped up on Saturday night I gave in to some (not-so) heavy persuasion to leave Lane’s Privateer Inn where my room was conveniently located two doors down from where the entertainment was taking place to hopping into a shuttle bus and embarking on a long, slow, slippery journey out to White Point […]

Lane’s Privateer Inn was ROCKING last night! After the Songwriters Circle, I headed over to Lane’s to see one of my favorite Halifax-based groups, Ryan MacGrath and Harlow perform. The emcee of the showcase said they were “undoubtedly the best dressed performers in Liverpool” as they all matched each other dressed in different styles but […]

Let me send a big “Cheers!” out to everyone that came out and braved the first snow storm of the year last night! The slippery roads were extremely hazardous, but that didn’t keep the out of town performers from coming down to Liverpool and the music fans from coming out and filling their boots with […]

Not only did November 10, 2007 bring us the first snow fall of the year, it also brought me to Liverpool, Nova Scotia where I am enjoying Nova Scotia Music Week. This weekend is organized by Music Nova Scotia (formally known as MIANS, or Music Industry Association of Nova Scotia, which is a non-profit organization […]

Flavia and her three lovely children were on hand to sell Indy Mum zines, recycled craft items (including the best damn toque I’ll ever own) and more. You can find out more about Indy Mum through the Anchor Archive Zine Library.

After the show, Jon wanted to say hi to the Skyrider guys and to Sole, whom he’d met years before. Four of us watched as a brutal fight between drunken Dome patrons and beefy Dome security broke out and then rolled onto Grafton Street. Kind of a gross way to end the whole night, but […]

One of the workshops held during Canzine East was a do-it-yourself comix workshop presented by Shawn Granton. Shawn came all the way from Portland, Oregon, to share his tips of the craft. I’m so glad I joined in, because he answered a lot of questions I had about the craft of journal comics. Best of […]