June 2019

Coastal Vibes

Charlottetown Canada Day Celebrations

Maritime pop band, Port Cities, will headline the City of Charlottetown’s 2019 Capital City Canada Day celebrations taking place Monday, July 1 in V...

Rollo Bay Fiddle Festival 

2019 lineup announced

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

PEI Jazz & Blues

The TD PEI Jazz & Blues Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary with a 5-day celebration of music, culture and art beginning June 26, featuring 1...

Inn Echo

Inn Echo’s music is a vibrant instrumentally-fueled road-trip through genres, echoing songs of days bygone as well as the sounds of today, where you...

Small Halls #11

Island-wide rural festival runs June 9–23

The PEI Mutual Festival of Small Halls, a traditional music, dance and storytelling festival, returns for its eleventh season to rural communities acr...

The ECMA Big Blue

The City of Charlottetown commissioned local artist Ashley Anne Clark to add a touch of PEI to Big Blue, the East Coast Music Awards guitar that is sy...

Beach Bocce

Tacky Fish

PEI summer music act Tacky Fish releases his latest single, Beach Bocce, on June 1. Tacky Fish celebrates all things summer with fun and funny songs. ...

Inn Echo

Inn Echo

Inn Echo will launch their Inn Echo recording in The Pourhouse June 29 at 8 pm. Inn Echo’s album launch is part of the first annual Traditional Iris...

New Music faculty at UPEI

Magdalena von Eccher and Dale Sorensen

The UPEI Department of Music has announced two new appointments to its faculty beginning this fall: Magdalena von Eccher as Assistant Professor of Pia...

PEI Bluegrass Festival sets up in new location

Welcome to Dundas

The PEI Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival is on the move. After twenty- three years at the Rollo Bay Festival Grounds the festival has moved to th...

Bell Stage at Cavendish Beach Music Festival

Cavendish Beach Music Festival, presented by Bell, has announced that CTV’s The Launch Season 2 artists Cassiøpeia, T. Thomason, Saveria, Olivia Lu...

Cloggeroo

2019 line-up announced

Cloggeroo—The Island Folk Music Festival has announced its 2019 lineup. The 6th annual three-day outdoor festival takes place in Georgetown August 9...

Heaven to Me

Songs & Stories of Prince Edward Island

Catherine MacLellan, Meaghan Blanchard and Gordie MacKeeman will be bringing their brand-new show Heaven to Me—Songs & Stories of Prince Edward ...

Rendez-vous Rustico #25

Rendez-vous Rustico is celebrating its 25th anniversary all day on July 27 and 28. This edition of the festival will be marked by a partnership with t...

This summer at The Guild

Highlights include the mainstay production of Anne & Gilbert: The Musical; Meanwhile In Ward 16, a new sketch comedy show by Islander Rob MacDonal...

Indian River Festival

Special events planned

Not only does this year’s Indian River Festival 24th season lineup include folk, jazz, blues, roots, classical, choral, traditional and contemporary...

Summerside Arts Festival concerts

The Summerside Arts Festival, presented by Wyatt Heritage Properties Inc., has announced the performance line-up for the concert component of the July...

Easy Money

Old Man Leudecke releases new LP

Old Man Luedecke shares the title track from his upcoming LP, Easy Money, out on June 14 via True North Records. Easy Money picks up where Old Man Lue...

2019 East Coast Music Award Winners

MUSIC AWARDS Album of the Year: Classified - Tomorrow Could Be The Day Things Change (Producer: Luke Boyd) Blues Recording of the Year: Myles...

Talking to Them

PEI’s Sorrey has released a new single, “Talking to Them,” about making the call to move on. It’s the dial tone equivalent to the final moment...

Peter’s Dream in Hall of Fame

The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (CSHF) is partnering with the 31st annual East Coast Music Awards (ECMA) for the induction of musical storytelle...

New Alicia Toner video

Dangerous Home

PEI singer-songwriter Alicia Toner is presenting a larger project about struggle, reflection and truth. The video for her latest single “Dangerous H...

Review: PEI Symphony Orchestra

Climb every mountain

The PEI Symphony Orchestra brought its 51st season to conclusion spectacularly on April 14, presenting “The World of Mahler 3” under the direction...

A Radical Departure

Greg Bungay

Greg Bungay has recently released an album of mostly his original songs, written over the years as a long-time musician. Though Greg Bungay has been...

Love, Inevitable

Jenn Grant

Jenn Grant will release her new album, Love, Inevitable May 31. She has shared a sneak peak of the album by way of a video for the  first single, Rav...

Little Bones

Irish Mythen

International touring artist Irish Mythen has released a new album, Little Bones, on Myth Records. She has also signed with UK live music booking agen...

Deeper

Tara MacLean

Canadian singer-songwriter Tara MacLean, releases her highly anticipated solo album, Deeper, on June 23 at The Trailside Music Cafe. Deeper was reco...

Dark & Amber Rosin

Courtney Hogan & Keelin Wedge

Courtney Hogan & Keelin Wedge are no strangers to the PEI music scene. Having competed together at fiddle competitions throughout their childhood,...

Dreamland

Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys

Dreamland is an album that showcases everything Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys have to offer. From the Cajun rocker “Sittin’ In A Bar,” to...

Comfort Decade

With music reminiscent of late ’90s and early 2000s alt-rock, Comfort Decade is bringing their up-tempo energy along with a unique and engaging soun...

Josh Ellis

A passion for it

“I always am thinking about putting on a musical performance or hosting a party or entertaining folks,” says Josh Ellis, the executive director of...

Canadian Folk Music Awards in Charlottetown in 2020

The 2019 edition of the The Canadian Folk Music Awards (CFMA) will take place the weekend of April 3 to 4, 2020, in Charlottetown, PEI. Responding t...

Looking for a new director

Island A Cappella puts out the call

Island A Cappella is recruiting its next Chorus Director in preparation for the singing season beginning in September. This performing and competing...

PEI Jazz & Blues Fest

15th annual event scheduled for end of June

The TD PEI Jazz and Blues Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary with a 5 day celebration of music, culture and art, featuring 140 musicians in mult...

PEI nominees for 2019 East Coast Music Awards

Paper Lions Nominated for Album of the Year for At Long Creek II; (producer Colin Buchanan); Group Recording of the Year for At Long Creek II; Pop Re...

First single release for King Ing

Linkletter Music School student King Ing has released his first single, “Someone Find Me,” to all platforms—iTunes, Spotify, Apple Music, etc. S...