Symphony New Brunswick is the province’s professional orchestra. Meditations is the final performance of their Bravo series.
It begins its run at Fredericton Playhouse on May 16 and features Peteris Vasks’ Epifania and an arrangement of Mahler’s Symphony no. 4. There will be 2 other performances:
An evening of Praise and Worship Music led by the Worship Team from St. Luke’s Chapel, Base Gagetown, will be held on Sunday evening, May 14th at 6:00pm at Saint Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 512 Charlotte Street in Fredericton. Music will include old classics such as “I’ll Fly Away,” older contemporary classics such as “Days of Elijah,” and newer contemporary songs such as “Lord, I Need You,” and “The Well.” Audience participation will be welcomed and words available to sing along! Light refreshments will follow the program in the Church Hall. A Free Will Offering at the Door will be designated to the Fredericton Area Food Banks. Please join us and bring your friends for a wonderful evening of music and fellowship!
A fantastic double billing of music coming to Charlotte Street Arts Centre this month!
Don Ross and Pipo Romero bring their masterful musical workings to the Centre on May 19th. Advanced tickets are on sale now through our office, but you can also snag your early tickets online
The AX Music Series is pleased to present 2023 ECMA Entertainer of the Year nominee, Robert Thomas and the sessionmen to the AX Gallery. Robert Thomas is a renowned song-writer whose credits include, but are not limited to Kenny Rogers, Joe Cocker, and Bonnie Rait. Now, after a wonderful career writing for major artists, Robert is touring the original, as written, versions of his songs with his stellar band of favourite co-writers – the sessionmen.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
Buy tickets online, in-person at 12 Maple Avenue, Sussex, or by phone at (506) 433-8351.
Tourniquet will be having its Magazine Launch at Xeroz Arcade/Bar on May 13! Bring $10 to the doors at 6 pm and get ready for a night of entertainment.
Caroline Brooks with Ben Kunder live at The Cottage
Wednesday, June 21 7PM Doors 6:30PM Tickets $30 E-transfer to davejaglove@gmail.com
Come kick off Summer with a special night of songs & music.
Caroline Brooks:
There’s a wall, in your family home. It’s next to an old stairway that leads to an attic you never go into, but the wall is alive and lined with photos. Each one a cherished memory locked in time, waiting to be brought down, dusted off and held in the hand of a storyteller intimately connected with the finer points of every detail. Caroline Marie Brooks is just such a storyteller. On Everything at the Same Time, the first solo outing from ⅓ of Canadian harmony trio Good Lovelies, Brooks walks you through a wall of stories, taking moments from her life down and carefully recounting the feeling of the sun and the wind in the trees from days past and present.
Over 11 tracks, Brooks leads a vivid journey through feelings familiar to our hearts. Gentle guitar work laying a backdrop for Brooks’ sweetly divine vocals, densely layered with wurlitzers and mandolins and steel guitars to evoke feelings of memories both lost and found. Lead single “Vitamin” evokes a sun-drenched nostalgia, albeit a nostalgia happening right in front of you, one that you can live in and hold onto. Even at the end of the record, with a cover of Roger Miller’s classic “Oo-De-Lally” (from Disney’s Robin Hood), Caroline Marie Brooks has crafted an album that feels wholly familiar and distinctly her own – an instant classic waiting to be discovered and have its stories told.
Songs like “Night Drive” draw up the feeling of a night’s journey alone, just your headlights and the sky illuminating your endless path. “I can’t always be there” is a love letter to a child growing up before your very eyes and wanting to hold on to the memories of every perfect day. Even the instrumental “Song for Fred” is evocative of a feeling, a memory. It’s a place that we draw from in the moments when the future feels insurmountable.
Everything at the Same Time is a pandemic record only in time, recorded in the midst of an age when sometimes living through our memories of easier days may be all that we have. It asks only that we live and be present in the moment and to remember that though the days are long, the years are all too short. The inevitability of change looms in the distant, and Caroline Marie Brooks challenges you to hold on to the gift of the times we are in.
Ben Kunder:
Occupying a rare but accessible musical space between folk, pop, and Cali-style Americana, Toronto singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ben Kunder chronicles the ordinary and the extraordinary in luminous detail. With three highly acclaimed studio albums (2019’s Searching For the Stranger, 2018’s Better Human, and 2015’s Golden) and multiple international tours and festival appearances achieved to date, Kunder has amassed a devoted following while establishing himself as a sought-after collaborator and electrifying live performer. A committed social justice advocate, father to two young kiddos and compassionate member of the human race, Kunder consistently yields exquisite musical insights.
Opening set with Charlotte Bartlett, and introducing yellow blue – the best band you’ve never heard of! Also featuring a ‘Trash or Treasure’ lucky dip…for $5 a bag, you could grab a real bargain, or if it’s not your ‘treasure’, trade it in for someone else’s ‘trash’.
Bar, and charcuterie plates are available.
Doors open 6.45 at Sunbury Shores Arts & Nature Centre, Water Street
