Saturday APRIL 18th
7:30pm Dunn Theatre
Huntsman Marine Science Centre
JOHN PRINE TRIBUTE SHOW
Brent Mason and friends bring a great show to the stage featuring the songs and stories of revered American songwriter John Prine. He was active as a composer, recording artist, live performer, and occasional actor from the early 1970s until his death. He was known for an often humorous style of original music that has elements of protest and social commentary.
Thursday APRIL 27th
7:30pm The Gallery
Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre
Juno Nominee
JOEL FAFARD
Joel Fafard is a Juno nominated Canadian Folk Music Award winner who has been criss-crossing the globe sharing his finger style and slide guitar work for close to 30 years. He has just returned from a 5 week tour of New Zealand and spends a week here in the Maritimes before heading to Europe. Wicked roots and blues music accompanied by a gravelly voice and great stories
Friday May 19th
5:00pm Ministers Island
Paddlefest 2023
Festival Favourite
OWEN STEEL
Grid City Magazine reflects that, “his work has always carried with it a definitive experimental element that’s helped keep it ever so unclassifiable, yet familiar and undeniably something all his own. A fan of low-fi sounds, Steel’s music has always maintained a certain degree of quirk...” CBC radio recently noted that his presence on the regional music scene has been sorely missed!
Sunday May 21st
7:30pm Huntsman Theatre
Paddlefest 2023
Grammy Nominee
ROSE COUSINS
with guest CARLENE
A native of Prince Edward Island, Rose Cousins lives in Halifax. She deeply values being part of multiple music communities, and is constantly fueled by collaboration. Cousins’ 2012 album "We Have Made A Spark" celebrated her Boston community and featured a cast of musicians Cousins had known and played music with for a decade. It won a JUNO Award, 3 East Coast Music Awards, a Canadian Folk Music Award, was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize, and made picks/best of lists in USA Today, NPR Music and Oprah Magazine. Her music has found its way into several TV shows including Grey’s Anatomy.
CARLENE is a rising folk-musician stationed on the lonely shores of Grand Manan Island, NB. A defiant recluse out of necessity more so than choice, her milling thoughts are transformed into melancholic tunes of observation, tragedy and self-reflection.
