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Confederation Centre

Dear Johnny Deere - A Musical

DearJohnnyDeere.jpgStruggles keeping the farm, urban expansion into rural areas, and a plan to build a highway through the countryside. Sound familiar? Dear Johnny Deere is making it's east coast debut at The Mack. Cam MacDuffee and director Wade Lynch explain.


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Catherine Miller - Changing Environment

CatherineMiller2013.jpgWhen it comes to issues around land use and environmental protection on PEI we're accustomed to government studies, maybe lawsuits or debates and even music. Now a textile artist offers her interpretation of what's happening to our landscape. The show called Catherine Miller: Changing Environs features textile sculptures and installations is on display on the way into the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. Karen met with Catherine Miller.

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Sloan in Charlottetown - Chris Murphy

ChrisMurphySloan2013.jpgHard to believe it was more than 20 years ago that the band Sloan brought the Halifax music scene to national and even global attention. Within just a few years of a couple of the principals meeting at NASCAD, the group established itself as one of the most popular in the country. Sloan is on tour performing in Charlottetown Saturday night at the Confederation Centre and we caught up with frontman Chris Murphy on the road.

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