December 1, 2017—The Shivering Songs festival is extremely pleased to add an impressive slew of artists to its 2018 line-up: Timber Timbre, Reeny Smith, Fiver, Laurie Brown‘s Pondercast taping with Joshua Van Tassel, and Motherhood, as well as Bob Mersereau, Mike Trask, Julie Aubé, Camille Delean, Loic April, and The Montgomery Street Band. Now celebrating its eighth edition, Shivering Songs runs January…
November 22, 2017—Beauty in the Tension, the fifth studio album from New Brunswick songwriting quartet The Olympic Symphonium, will be released in February 2018. It is the result of rural isolation, small comforts, and inspiration in the form of two pairs of ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ pajama pants. For six days last winter, the band holed up in the legendary Old…
November 21, 2017—Artist, musician, producer, and sound explorer Jay Crocker has won an Emerging Artist Recognition Award from Arts Nova Scotia for his BIBELOT instrument/installation piece. The award was handed out this weekend as part of the Creative Nova Scotia Awards Gala in Halifax, NS. “Part instrument, part installation, BIBELOT is a self-composing set of sixteen ceiling mounted music boxes with custom-built drives, loops, lights, and amps. Creating a sanctuary…