I'm off to a major festival in Ontario this Saturday. This is the second year for the Greenbelt Harvest Picnic, being held at the Christie Lake Conservation Area in Dundas, which is about 15 minutes from Hamilton. It's an initiative... more »

Let us examine the word zwerg. It seems to have no true English definition. In German however, it means dwarf, and all the words we associate with little people. There's a kind of computer spam some post as well, a... more »

Bruce Springsteen brought the E Street Band to Atlantic Canada for the first time, and seemed pretty pleased to do so. Playing to around 30,000 people at Moncton's Magnetic Hill venue, The Boss mentioned several times he was happy to... more »

You gotta love Stompin' Tom. Still doing it, still making new albums, and you can tell his heart is in it. Plus, it gives me great delight to see him still credit himself as producer as Dr. Stompin' Tom, the... more »

Oh, where will I be this weekend? Honestly, I'm getting a little overwhelmed and confused, thanks to the grand number of music events happening in the province this summer, and stretching into the fall. There are a lot of kilometers... more »

You know I loves me a good house concert, and here's a twist on the format, which promises to work just as well. Gallery 78 in Fredericton is a high-end art gallery in one of those old, classic Victorian houses... more »

My spies at Moncton's Plan B tell me this band played an excellent show last night (Sunday), and have a couple more in the Maritimes, Monday night at The Carleton in Halifax, and Tuesday at The Bistro in Woodstock. Coming... more »

Off we go around the province from one festival to another, on this busiest of music weeks, with events happening all over. Acadians are continuing to celebrate Quinze-Aout, and probably will until Trente-Aout. The Hullabalooers are starting to Hullabaloo in... more »

A question I hear a lot around this time of the year is, What's a hullabaloo? Well, according to the dictionary, it means an uproar, or a very noisy and confused situation. Also, it can mean a kerfuffle, hubbub, hoopla,... more »

Wednesday, August 15th, will be a noisy one, depending on where you live in the Maritimes. It is, of course, Quinze-Août, the Acadian holiday, and that means lots of music, celebration and the usual parades, the Tintamarre. Hot spots can... more »

A wide-ranging first album from a long-time East Coast fixture, and certainly one of the best bass players and all-round musicians of the area. Brian Bourne's been at it since the 70's, and is best-known for his long-time duties as... more »

As I wrote yesterday, the province is crazy with music festivals these days, and this weekend is one of the busiest. I featured Woodstock's Dooryard Arts Festival yesterday, but there is a lot more music happening outdoors around the province... more »

If you can believe Facebook (well, gosh, of course you can!), Woodstock's Dooryard Arts Festival is off to a rousing start. I saw some excellent show reports from last night's Rose Cousins gig, as she headlined the opening night of... more »

It really amazes me how much live music has become a part of our summer here in the Maritimes. Sure, there have always been concerts and clubs, but there's been a real shift in how we plan our vacations, our... more »

Folk singer-songwriter Amanda Rheaume had a mission when she was putting together the songs for her debut disc, Light Of Another Day. The mainstay of the Ottawa scene is touring the Maritimes right now, and on a glowing Charlottetown morning... more »

I don't know of any other boxed set of an Acadian artist. Perhaps there's some obscure collection of Cayouche videos out there, but this is a first as far as I can tell. Fittingly so as well, as 1755 still... more »

Coming up on August 26th at Magnetic Hill, we have something I never thought I'd see in my days, a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert in the Maritimes. Just a few short years ago, the idea of... more »