REVIEW: Edmonton Folk Music Festival Returns After Three Years Off
I looked out my window on the morning of Thursday, Aug. 4 with trepidation. That evening, I would be heading to the first Edmonton Folk Music Festival in three years – so of course it was pouring. Hearty Folk Fest fans share with a glowing pride their battle stories of surviving the rain, wind, mud, […]
WHAT’S GOING ON: Road Trip!
Pack your bags, load up on the liquids, and gas up your truck – it’s time for a trip out of town. Not too far, what with gas prices what they are, eh. Let’s stick to Alberta. First up is the perennial favourite Blueberry Bluegrass Festival July 29-31, in Stony Plain, Alberta, just 41 km […]
REVIEW: John Fogerty Rocks Edmonton – With His Kids
A packed lower bowl down at Turtle Island was transported through time and space to a psychedelic 1960’s influenced evening of peace and love in the presence of a surprisingly hard-rocking old man named John Fogerty. It’s hard to imagine the 77-year-old CCR founder rocking out harder than he did at Rogers Place on Wednesday […]
INTERVIEW: Bif Naked Triumphs Over Adversity – Again
Bif Naked possesses superhuman optimism to go with her hard-won success. Like that time she got breast cancer – she was a little young for it when she was diagnosed in 2008 – and thought she might die. She says, “People were like, oh, the Grim Reaper’s in the air. And I’m like, phh, hey, […]
