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• All-female songwriters’ circle happening this weekend
  Some of St. John’s most esteemed young folk singers are working together to carve their own niche in the city’s music scene.The recent growth in ...
• Cowboy Junkies to make island debut
  It took longer than the span of most bands’ careers, but after 27 years together the Cowboy Junkies will finally perform in Newfoundland. The ...
• Through the lens of happenstance
  It’s been a while, but The Hidden Cameras are returning to St. John’s.In 2007 the popular Toronto-based indie pop band, which features St. John’s ...
• Oregon band returns for island gig
  It was no surprise when Jesse Marshall and Ian Cook didn’t answer their phones.Together they are one third of Oregon punk-bluegrass outfit Larry ...
• Inheriting a choice: to sing or not to sing?
  He’s played to festival-size crowds before, but this one’s going to be big in another way.Matthew Byrne’s Thursday show at the LSPU Hall in St. ...
• Artists discuss impact of local CBC cuts
  Leaders of major arts organizations throughout the province — along with a number of musicians and members of the public — gathered in St. John’s ...
• Accordion in hand
  If you caught one of Ingrid Gatin’s St. John’s performances last spring you’ll be happy as a clam to know Manitoba’s accordion-wielding ...
• Modern Grass to mow over province
  Sometimes when you least expect it, things just seem to fall into place.Just ask Tom Terrell, who is tagging along with Newfoundland songwriter ...
• Live music broadcasts fall victim to federal cuts
  No one was more shocked than Glen Tilley by the federal government’s recent announcement it would cut funding to the CBC and what that would mean ...
• Making art more accessible
  “Doing the work is rewarding enough, but you do have to live and it’s a business, and … you learn as you go along,” says Bill Rose, the ...
• Lawnya darts
  For five days this week some of Canada’s best indie music acts will fill downtown venues during the city’s second Lawnya Vawnya music and art ...
• Yukon Blonde rolls into town with new album, new energy
  Jeff Innes and his bandmates are pulled over somewhere along a stretch of Saskatchewan highway to find cellphone reception so they can do some ...
• Old music and new meaning
  You may not have heard of Nick Ryan yet. The 26-year-old finger pickin’ poet is the next in a string of young songwriters from Grand ...
• Engine Productions stages ‘The Shape of Things’
  If the relationship from one of the most famous creation stories ever told were played out today — that of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden — ...
• Peterborough band The Avenues roll into town for a...
  With all the prefixes and hybrid titles country music has earned over the past decade or two it's refreshing to hear solid ventures toward the ...
• Experimenting with sound
  When it comes to fitting band names, it doesn’t get any more appropriate than this.Craig Mercer and Aaron Collier are Scientists of Sound, and ...
• The integrity of songwriting
  “There it is!” Joanna Barker is excited as she points to the old apple tree she was talking about on the ferry, the one that marks the ...
• No such thing as a non-musician
  Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “The woods would be very silent if only the birds that sang were those that sang best.”Of course, like our ...
• Makkovik boy remembered at vigil
  An aunt of Burton Winters, the 14-year-old boy from Makkovik who was found dead on the sea ice off the coast of northern Labrador last week, ...
• Lawnya Vawnya fundraisers in the works
  Once you’ve played enough music festivals you might start to get an idea of what it would take to pull one off in your own town.That’s what ...
• The inseparability of life and music
  There's no way around it, his songs and stories concede. ... Life happens. At the turn of the millennium, songwriter Sean Panting found ...
• Three chords and a conscience
  They didn’t expect their record to be so timely. But less than two weeks after millions of British public sector workers took to the ...
• Movin’ on with a rekindled love
  Ain’t nothin’ can stop Sherry Ryan. When the 40-year-old St. John’s songwriter injured her shoulder a few years ago, she had just taken home her ...
• Navigating a stage between worlds
  Contemporary performance art and digital media Metaverse diva Liz Solo is returning to the local stage with a multidimensional play that she says ...
• Film series to explore social and economic problems
  It didn’t take a lot of planning, just some strong interest and a felt need to generate important discussion within the community.An idea that ...
• Local man witnessed raid of New York protest camp
  When Iain McCurdy travelled to New York for a friend’s wedding last weekend, he had no idea he’d be caught up in the police raid that evicted ...
• Collapsing time into song
  If there's a trad record fierce enough to make a splash this year and send waves up the island's shores, over the Strait and, who knows, even ...
• Memorial student to attend global climate talks in...
  When world leaders and government delegates meet in Durban, South Africa, for the Conference of Parties 17 (COP17), a Memorial University student ...
• Culture an invaluable asset for dealing with big...
  Wade Davis has the kind of knowledge you can’t glean from books.At 58, the B.C. native plays many roles, including husband, father, ...
• ‘The Corporation’
  When documentary film producer and director Bart Simpson joined forces with writer Joel Bakan and directors Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott 12 ...