Mike Carver keeps busy as a player, producer and promoter

MoeTown
by Moe

Mike Carver seems to be a man of half a million hats. He’s in: Milks & Rectangles (although, they’re on hiatus while Christian is in England, working together mostly via e-mail); The drummer for North Lakes, who will be going to NxNE and also S.C.E.N.E Festival in St. Catherines; Fox & the Hound with Emilee Sorrey (which is

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Notes from the Road
by Catherine MacLellan

Back in 1998, I was home from a year in Australia and trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I had studied one semester at Dalhousie but I wasn’t even sure why I was there, so I came back to PEI. I made a few friends who persuaded me to sneak into Baba’s every week (I was only 18) for open mic or to see Rhythm Rules every Thursday night with Jon

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Country Prose
by Charlie Hansen

Well we finally ended our winter stay in Florida and arrived home to less than friendly weather. I have no idea why we expect better but we always do.

The last musical event that we attended was the Sertoma Youth Ranch spring festival. This festival isn’t their best festival of the year but we were pleasantly surprised by the lineup that they had.

We went up on Friday

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Talking Bands
by Luke Arbuckle

The Count and the Cuban Cocktail is a nine piece, Cuban influenced band led by the count, Latin rhythms composer, Eduardo Mendoza. A professional musician originally from Cuba, Eduardo moved to Charlottetown almost a decade ago. With him he brought a passion for music and a deep understanding of Latin rhythms. “In the beginning, we started as a trio, but soon added to t

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Profile: Teresa Doyle

by Jane Ledwell

In 1980, when an adventurous, just-out-of-school Teresa Doyle played the Winnipeg Folk Festival, less than a handful of folk musicians were touring out of the East Coast.

At the 2013 East Coast Music Awards in Halifax, the Island singing legend and 12 other of those pioneers received a 25th Anniversary Award. “It was a really nostalgic night,” she says, not only bec

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Talking Bands
by Luke Arbuckle

Pop-punk is defined as a fusion of genres, (to varying degrees). A yin of clean pop rock to a yang of grungy punk. Local band Banner Year has embarked to embody these qualities and make people dance while doing it.

Despite an already devout local following and like many good ideas, Banner Year was born from humble beginnings. “I got chicken pox and wrote four songs while I

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Country Prose
by Charlie Hansen

This has been a fairly eventful month for us here in the sunny south. We made a trip up to Palatka to attend their spring festival. We decided that Friday would be the best day so that we could see Seldom Scene and Dry Branch Fire Squad. The Show got under way with The Marksmen at 12:00 noon. They put on a great show with a lot of good gospel music and some comedy that

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MoeTown
by Moe

Matt Steele mixes live sound for more and more Island shows

Matt Steele’s first love is making music with his band, Bad Mountie. But there’s already been a Buzz article about them so I decided to sit down with Matt to chat about his second passion: doing sound for live events. He simply calls it “making other people sound good,” and make them sound good he does.

He almost became a lawyer

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Notes from the Road
by Catherine MacLellan

Last month Chris and I attended the Folk Alliance conference in Toronto, five days of music performed by hundreds of musicians and bands in one hotel. As expected, it was madness but the kind you adjust to after a while. By our second day we were in full swing, running the hallways, slinging guitars, going from showcase to showcase. Among the throngs of musicians

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Bad Habits get their thrills at ECMA Week

by Liam Kearney

Do you remember entering the gates of the Bill Lynch exhibition as a child? The experiences, thrills and excitement that awaited you were worth all of those weeks of anticipation. With that almighty, all access bracelet on your wrist the largest question was which ride to experience first? Well that same excitement was what I felt driving into

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