Warm up with Shivering Songs
Keeping warm in winter can always be difficult, but for the second year in a row, the Shivering Songs music festival is looking forward to bringing “warm music to a cold Fredericton winter,” as described on their Facebook page. Shivering Songs is curated by Fredericton band The Olympic Symphonium, who released their third album – [...]
(Photo courtesy of Shayne Kaye via Flickr Creative Commons) KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CUP) — I’ve been able to bottle it up until now. It has been boiling in the background, but I put a lid on it and let it be. But now — now you’ve done it. You have, once again, ended up (almost) at [...]
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MONTREAL (CUP) — In the last decade or so, the way we experience music has changed drastically. Many now walk around with a miniature library of music in their back pockets, downloading music directly to their computers for a fraction of what they used to pay in stores. Still others have gone retro, touting the [...]
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Everyone has that Christmas album that embodies the holiday spirit. For some of us that album is, unfortunately, Kenny G’s Greatest Holiday Classics. Although the man can play a mean saxophone, the album is sexy for about a song and a half before you feel like you’re stuck in an elevator. For those who need [...]
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They’re called The Sheepdogs, and they certainly are shaggy. Shaggy, and taking the rock and roll music scene by storm. This week, the Canadian band will bring their old-school rock and roll to a sold-out crowd at the Capital Complex – twice. “This Canadian tour has been kind of sweet – we’ve sold out all [...]
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Sitting in the basement of Gallery Connexion, the green and grey, dimly-lit walls set the mood for an artistic evening. Every Monday night, the Overtime Improv Choir comes together to create spontaneous soundscapes. Tucked away in downtown Fredericton, this group is not your usual choral ensemble. It all began a year-and-a-half ago when Joel LeBlanc [...]
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Local band Oh No, Theodore! kicked off an East Coast tour on Nov. 10, doing shows throughout New Brunswick as well as in Halifax and Charlottetown. They’ll play at the Cedar Tree Cafe on Dec. 2 and then wrap up in Hampton. The AQ caught up with lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Jeremy McLaughlin last [...]
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Gabriel Louis Bernard Malenfant’s French accent rolls off his tongue like the metaphors he uses to describe the sound of his band Radio Radio. “The first album is like a sports car, and the second is more like a sailboat.” Radio Radio, an Acadian hip-hop trio, are playing in Fredericton at the Centre Communautaire Sainte-Anne [...]
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The pummeling riffs and heart-pounding double bass continue to struggle to keep heavy metal relevant in today’s society. Whether metalheads want to admit it or not, heavy metal is a genre that has been struggling for the last decade – and the City of Fredericton is no exception to the not-so-popular sound. The city’s metal [...]
Continue reading …The University of New Brunswick will welcome the Canadian Guitar Quartet on Thursday as part of its Music on the Hill concert series. Sheryl Pepin, the adminstrator of UNB’s Centre for Musical Arts, said student turnout for the series has been low since this year’s first show on Sept. 14. The series’ goal this year [...]
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Only a month has passed since the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival rocked Fredericton, but local music lovers already have another opportunity to take part in a full week of live shows. The Capital Complex is teaming up with Sonic Concerts and Picaroons Traditional Ales this week to present Pre-Pop(ped), a festival of travelling acts, [...]
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From the sunniest of warm summer days to the darkest of cold winter nights, Fredericton band She Roars! has managed to create a different genre by melding the two extremes together, producing an innovative and comfortable acoustic pop-punk sound. After getting together in late 2007, the band has taken the Fredericton music scene by storm. [...]
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