On today’s show:
- It’s a summery day, so here’s menu: Hot Dogs, Mango, Crême Brulée, and Penuche Fudge, and relax on the Hammock later…
- Lots of music this week:
- Peter Hanson and Andrew Kenney will be playing at Charlotte Street Arts Centre on Thursday night at 7:30pm.
- Halifax Pier will be playing on the stage at Dolan’s Pub on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week at 10pm.
- Pallmer will be at The Tipsy Muse Café on Friday night at 7pm.
- Maniac Mansion will be streaming shows by Mangler (Friday) and Which Witch Is Which (Saturday) at 9:30pm each night.
- This Sunday, we get another Bluegrass Brunch at the Cap with The Montgomery Street Band, with treats provided by The Tipsy Muse Café, starting at 11am.
- Living Roots has announced a shorter-but-intense August Series on August 13, 14, 15 and 16.
- August 13: Shaun Ferguson // Pallmer – 7pm-9pm – The Cap
- August 14: Ewan Dobson // Not Now Madame – 7pm-9pm – The Tipsy Muse Café
- August 14: JC & Crooked Teeth // Rick Sparkes & The Enablers – 8pm-10pm – Grimross Brewing Company
- August 15: Wicked Vices // Colourful Language // Atlas – 3pm-6pm – The Cap
- August 15: The Walking Contradictions – 8pm-10pm – Grimross Brewing
- August 16: Roots & Soul Showcase – 11am-3pm – The Cap
- East Coast Amusements will be opening again for a second weekend starting on August 23. So, ride the rides!
- NotaBle Acts is set to provide you with a brand new live theatre season!
- Taking It To The Streets – Five 10-minute players – July 23, 25, 29, 31 – 7pm – Barracks Square
- Space Girl – Featured Play – July 24, 26, August 1 – 7:30pm – online
- Bluebirds – Featured Reading – July 26 – 2pm – online
- One Act Plays 1 – Myrtle // Samantics // Every Apple in the Orchard – July 26 – 2pm – Open Space Theatre
- One Act Plays 2 – Out of Water // The Kelpie – July 30 – 7:30pm – Open Space Theatre
- One Act Plays 3 – Wrack and Ruin // Everything Is Here – August 1 – 2pm – Open Space Theatre
- To celebrate the beginning of Notable Acts, I’m bringing back my chat with Len Falkenstein from earlier this month. I also went back in the archives to find a local author interview with Keith Lyons in 2015, but it wasn’t me asking the questions, but Chris Waddell (former host of The Crazy Train and Music Director).
News update:
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- New Brunswick Public health reported no new cases of COVID-19 yesterday afternoon.
- After a temporary outage across the Maritimes, cell phone and landline services have been restored.
- New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs expects New Brunswick’s Atlantic bubble to expand into two Quebec communities.
- Fredericton Police say a 45-year-old man is in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle early yesterday morning.
- A home on Albert Street suffered minor exterior damage after a mishap involving a barbeque yesterday afternoon.
- Researchers from the University of New Brunswick are working on a device to test for COVID-19 within minutes.
- Front line police officers in Saint John will be equipped with body cameras by November of this year.
- A Fredericton business owner is hoping to fill the void made by the recent closure of boom nightclub.
- And American rapper Nicki Minaj announced on social media earlier this week she is pregnant for her first child.
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