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Sled Island 2023: Music from Siksika to Montreal, and everywhere else

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Double Rider’s drummer, Lennon the Loomer (because he’s 6 foot something) finds me at the Palomino Smokehouse bar during Sled Island’s annual closing day Pig Roast.
I’m not at the bar because I’m weeping into my beer, but in fact I’m celebrating the cornucopia that is Sled Island’s week-long sensory romp … Continue Reading >Sled Island 2023: Music from Siksika to Montreal, and everywhere else

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Sled Island returns to Calgary: A cornucopia of musical flavours!

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Really, it’s not “Sled Island in Calgary” so much as “Calgary at Sled Island”. Because we are, finally (at Sled Island again), and there are (Calgarians listening and performing here), ecstatically! We’re happy to be talking to new Calgary musical adventures, as further proof of the fertility of the local musical garden; not just a reaction to our pandemic isolation, but a result of the cross-fertilization that we’ve somehow achieved out here on the prairies. … Continue Reading >Sled Island returns to Calgary: A cornucopia of musical flavours!

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A ‘Femme Wave’ brings art & music awareness in Festival form

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When MUSICAlive! first hears about the 2019 Femm Wave Festival, it’s only a few days away! But it sounds too cool to miss, and fortunately both our photographer and the Board Member manning the front desk are willing to help us put it together for our fearless readers: we made it to Calgary’s Feminist Music & Arts Festival! … Continue Reading >A ‘Femme Wave’ brings art & music awareness in Festival form