October 2019

Luminos Ensemble season three

Luminos Ensemble, PEI’s professional chamber choir, has announced its 2019-2020 Season, which includes three eclectic concerts. “Following a secon...

The Basement Sessions: What I’ve Learned So Far

Alli Walker

PEI country singer-songwriter Alli Walker has released her debut album, The Basement Sessions: What I’ve Learned So Far. To celebrate the release of...

Then and Now

Gerry Edge

It is the culmination of a lot of work over a long period of time, shared and solitary, that makes an album release always exciting according to music...

The Long And The Short

Dave Woodside

The Long And The Short is David Woodside’s labour of love and debut EP. Calling on influences from folk, rock and blues, Island musician David Woods...

Common Senseless

Dennis Ellsworth

Common Senseless (Pyramid Scheme Records) is the name of Dennis Ellsworth’s new album. The album was recorded at The Hill Sound in Charlottetown by ...

The Bayfield Sessions

Atlantic String Machine

The members of the Atlantic String Machine will celebrate the release of their second album, The Bayfield Sessions, with a concert at The Mack Theatre...

Yours To Break

The East Pointers

JUNO Award-winners The East Pointers will release their new album Yours To Break on October 25 via all streaming services. Catch their performance on ...

Stay Together

Paper Lions

Paper Lions’ new album Stay Together includes nine new semi-autobiographical songs that tap into their story as a band and their own romantic relati...

Coyote

Catherine MacLellan

Catherine MacLellan will release her seventh album, Coyote, on October 11 with a launch concert at College of Piping, Summerside. Coyote contains 1...

My new guitar

Charlotte Lloyd gets a cool gift from Island Rock Camp

“Is this a joke?,” said Charlotte Lloyd. She was on stage at the Florence Simmons Performance Hall and Island Rock Camp founder Andrew Waite had j...

Rose Cousins shares Prince song

JUNO Award-winning PEI songwriter Rose Cousins has shared her version of Prince’s classic, I Would Die 4 U, recorded together with Bear’s Den and ...

PEI Symphony Orchestra: 52nd season

“The Gathering Storm” with guest Paul Merkelo

The PEI Symphony’s 52nd season launches this month with the opening concert entitled “The Gathering Storm.” This concert features Jean Sibelius...

Sirens season

Album recording and other events

PEI’s women’s choral ensemble Sirens recently announced its 2019-20 season. The ensemble is heading into the recording studio to produce its first...

Stay together

Paper Lions launch album with Super Show at Confed Centre

To celebrate their latest recording, Stay Together, the 2019 ECMA Award-winning group, Paper Lions, are presenting a Super Show on October 19 at 7:30 ...

Trading Post

After nearly a six-year hiatus, Charlottetown-based band Trading Post is back in action and they’re ready to take things to the next level, but at t...

Music PEI

Showcase PEI 2019 & Artist Exchange Program

Music PEI will present the 12th annual Showcase PEI, the flagship business development event for PEI’s music industry. Since 2008, Showcase PEI has ...

Living their dream

Ron Holley and Sandra McLure are “Timeless Tunes”

With a passion for music, a shared commitment to their communities, and personalities that come together like a pair of folded hands, Ron Holley and S...

In A Dark Room

Hailey MacIsaac, Bray Schurman

Charlottetown artist Hailey MacIsaac joins Halifax based producer and collaborator Bray Schurman in the release of their debut digital album In A Dark...

Sirène & Matelot

Sirène & Matelot

Lennie Gallant and Patricia Richard, two Acadian artists from Prince Edward Island who form the duo Sirène & Matelot, have released their debut a...

a beautiful island

Bruce MacDougall

“Everybody needs a hobby…My hobby is music. I have always had a love of music whether it was playing drums in local bands, listening to the radio,...

Sorrey releases new single

Signs

Sorrey previews "Signs," a brand new single from their long-awaited forthcoming full-length. Set against the backdrop of an enduring hazy pulse, shi...

Review: Ebb & Flow

Tides of Settlement on Prince Edward Island

Ebb and Flow: Tides of Settlement on Prince Edward Island is a multi-faceted multimedia multicultural presentation put together by Laurie Murphy and A...

Deeply Rooted

Evangeline Area Agricultural Exhibition and Acadian Festival

The major Acadian celebrations of 2019 will continue until the end of the summer—from August 28 to September 1—when the 117th edition of the Evang...

Review: Atlantic Blue

The shortest journey home is always through the heart. For it is there that we store everything of real value in our lives. And it is there we go to f...

Will Allen Band

Life’s short. Make the most of it and do what you’re passionate about. In many instances, there’s nothing holding you back. These are the types ...

Cloggeroo

The Island Folk Festival

Cloggeroo, the Island Folk Festival is back August 9 to 11, and will be bringing music, energy and fun to the Eastern PEI town of Three Rivers. All m...

44th Contact East

Charlottetown hosts Atlantic Presenters event in September

The Atlantic Presenters Association (APA) has announced the lineup of acts who will take part in its flagship event, Contact East, taking place Septem...

Review: Highland Storm

College of Piping July 8 – August 15 Performed by House Band: Peter Gallant, Christine Gallant, Max Gallant, and Gilbert Arsenault. Pipe Band: ...

Review: Heaven to Me

Songs & Stories of Prince Edward Island

If you’re looking for one more reason to love summer in Prince Edward Island, I have one for you. The P.E.I. Brewing Company is playing host to thre...

Review: Searching for Abegweit

The Island Songs and Stories of Lennie Gallant

Harbourfront Theatre July 9, 10, 23 & 24; August 13, 14, 27 & 28 Performed by Lennie Gallant (lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, bodhran), Jer...

Takako

Borrow a banjo

Sun Life sponsors Instrument Lending Library

Residents in PEI will now be able to borrow musical instruments from their public libraries, free of charge. Similar to taking out a book, the Sun Lif...

Atlantic Blue

Tara MacLean brings her show to The Mack

PEI’s Tara MacLean, a JUNO-nominated songwriter and mother of three, has a new album and is preparing to launch the new version of her song-and-stor...

PEI country star Alli Walker at CBMF

PEI singer-songwriter Alli Walker is the newest voice in Canadian country music with the release of her first single “Fight Till the End.” Telling...

All fiddle all day

The Rollo Bay Fiddle Festival is in its 43rd year

The 43rd annual Rollo Bay Fiddle Festival has announced their 2019 lineup, featuring 2019 ECMA winners The Barra MacNeils, 2019 ECMA winners and 2017 ...

The Big Picture

Jeff Squires and the Cavendish Beach Music Festival

It has now become the tradition, a given in fact, that every summer some of America’s (and Canada’s) top country music stars will be dropping in t...