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Mind Your Own Business // Show Booking Best Practices

Finding the right venue to play can be hard, even for the most seasoned touring band. How do you contact the venue? Should you call? Just email? They’ll be able to fit you in a prime slot in two weeks, right? Wrong.

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Lindsay Foote LIVE at Grimross – A Review From Colin Fowlie

I’m not an authority on folk music. Most of my recreational listening consists of Americana and blues rock drenched in sludge, but there are a few universal truths in music that get me every time. Tight melody&harmony, honest songwriting, and a compelling live presentation. As such, the intent of this missive is to briefly review both

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Bondo chats with Logan Colter – JR and The Hippies!

June 23, 2017 – Logan Colter popped by the CHSR studios to chat about 2 upcoming shows June 30th for Canada Day 150. Late night you’ll find Mrs. Hippie rocking out at The Capital with Kill Chicago, but earlier in the evening in Officer’s Square Mrs. Hippie will be backing Fredericton singer/songwriter Jaclyn Reinhart while

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The Lunchbox Interview: Lori Quick, Nicholas Gibeault, John Doucette (Heavy Metal Art Zone)

We throw out too much stuff. Technology is a wonderful thing, and the pace of invention is incredible, but it has a dark side: waste. A phone bought brand new today may only have a useable lifetime of a few years. A desktop computer might be obsolete in 5 years, and your TV is reinvented every year.

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The Lunchbox: Improvisational Music with Sarah Beth Shiplett

There’s “making stuff up as you go”, and then there is improvisation… The first doesn’t take talent, necessarily, and the results are often just random; the latter, however, can take a lot of talent and practice to make something so spontaneously beautiful.. My guest today is Sarah Beth Shiplett of Music UNB and Music on the Hill.

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The Lunchbox: Interview with Cedric Noel of NB Summer Music Festival

The NB Summer Music Festival is an opportunity to discover and celebrate classical music (and modern classical!) in a classic environment. Cedric Noel has been working with the NBSMF all summer to set up this festival, and he dropped by to give us details about the festival and about the experience of classic music. Podcast:

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The Lunchbox: Greg and Alex of FUZE (NBSMF)

Most think of classical music as stuck in the past, but several artists want to show you just how contemporary it is. I spoke with Greg and Alex, two of the performers for the alternative classical music festival-within-a-festival, FUZE. FUZE is contained within the umbrella of the NB Summer Music Festival. We talked composition and

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Shake N Bake 4 is coming!

CHSR is hosting their 4th annual benefit concert in the Shake n Bake series. This year’s concert will be held in the Cellar Pub in the student union building on campus. Featuring: Wooden Wives: R&B/Punk Lords from Port City https://www.facebook.com/woodenwives http://woodenwives.bandcamp.com/ Maiden Names: Blues Rock Supergroup from Fredericton https://www.facebook.com/maidennames http://maidennamesmusic.bandcamp.com/ Shorty Tubbs: Indie Pop Punk

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FunDrive Concert At the Wilsler’s Room

Saturday we had an event to raise money for CHSR’s FunDrive at the Wilsler’s room.  That’s a nice spot in the Capital Complex.  It’s a cozy room with really nice acoustics, decent bar prices, and a nice layout for performers and spectators.  I think the only odd part is that the entrance is on the

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