Coyote

In 2009, a band called Solid Gold Workout emerged in the Charlottetown music scene. They released a single, played some shows, and changed their name to Coyote. Coyote is Josh Carter, Evan McCosham, Bradford Rooney, Bruce Rooney, and Mike Andy King. Their music leans in the indie pop-rock direction. It’s always melodic, catchy, and thoughtfully assembled.  

In 2012, they released their first album called Tracks. They started touring and playing shows around the East Coast of Canada. They were focused and things were going well and feeling good.

In 2014, the Proof of Life EP was released. The band self-booked a 22-date Canadian tour that began in British Columbia and ended in Newfoundland. It was the quintessential independent band tour scenario. They crashed with friends, found efficient sustenance, spent a lot of time in a van, and at night they dropped into local music scenes to zap the crowds with their explosive live energy. They learned so much from that tour and grew musically, and though it was filled with ups and downs, the band returned with momentum. 

In 2015, Coyote won an East Coast Music Award for Pop Recording of the Year, as well as Pop Recording and Group of the Year at the 2015 Music PEI Awards. They harnessed this and started thinking about their next moves. During their peak, they made appearances at Rifflandia (BC), Harvest Jazz & Blues (NB), Evolve (NS), Canadian Music Week and NXNE (ON), and Halifax Pop Explosion. 

In 2016, they started working on new music. Oddly, things felt skewed. There seemed to be a collective lack of engagement, and what had propelled them in the past was losing its lustre. Despite this, the band did carry on with writing new songs, more shows, and recording sessions with Colin Buchanan. 

In 2017, the song “Freak Out” was released as a single, and following that release, the band decided to put the sessions on hold and eventually decided to split on pleasant terms. Their friendships never wavered.

Between 2017 and 2021, they all found other projects or settled into domestic lifestyles. 

During Covid, the band reconnected and re-emerged with a show at Trailside Music Hall in Charlottetown. The energy felt renewed for the band and their audience. The pressure was off and the band settled into the joy of making music together again. Since 2021, the band has been selective but steady in their appearances. Their live shows focus on the full scope of the band’s output, including the unreleased songs they were working on when they went on hiatus. They rewound and revisited the abandoned 2016 recording sessions and to their surprise, discovered that there were some great recordings. In February 2025, the band spent a few weeks updating and fine tuning some of the abandoned tracks and the outcome is a brand new EP titled, Hope You Feel It. 

This past summer, Coyote played The East Pointers’ led Goolaholla Festival. They have just been nominated for the 2026 Music PEI Rock Recording of the Year Award and they are scheduled to play at Shivering Songs Festival in Fredericton, NB, this coming January. 

Coyote is back on new terms. This time, they’ll be letting the joy of it all lead the way.