I love holiday music. As soon as November 12th strikes, my parents put on the holiday music, and keep it on as late into the New Year as possible. Over the years we have gathered quite the collection of Holiday CDs (94 and counting to be exact). Holiday music just makes me feel warm, cozy, […]
We are in an era of reboots. This is not news to anyone, but it still boggles my mind to think about the number of sequels, reboots, and “live action” remakes of beloved media we have seen made in the past five to ten years. There are probably all kinds of philosophical reasons as to […]
Just before November, Sam Smith and Ariana Grande blessed us with new music. Both Smith and Grande released new albums on October 30, 2020, but despite this seeming too coincidental to be an accident, it turns out that Smith and Grande’s joint album release dates were actually just a coincidence. In a music industry full […]
Montreal- based musician Backxwash has been in the news for a while now, thanks to her album God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It making big waves on Bandcamp and earning the album a nomination for the 2020 Polaris Music Prize. The shortlist of nominees for the 15th annual Polaris […]
A project about healing and reconciliation. Back in 2017, associate professor of music at Mt. A Dr. Linda Pearse brought together a literary scholar, a historian, a composer and performer of jazz music, a group of early music performers, and Indigenous performers and drummers to make music together. At some point during these rehearsals, […]
It is not news to anyone at this point that musicians, especially singers, have been hit hard by the restrictions put in place thanks to COVID-19. In her first year of teaching at Mount Allison University, Dr. Galway was given the difficult task facing all choral directors this year: how to safely, yet meaningfully, continue […]
Students at Mount Allison University and members of the Sackville community are very lucky to be in a place where we are usually treated to fantastic performances nearly every week of the school year in Brunton auditorium. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has severely cut down this semester’s concert season. For a while, it looked as […]