Ashley Condon

Ashley Condon wept through an entire David Francey concert, realizing she had discovered the kind of simple honest, folk music she herself wanted to make. A decade later, she was an award-winning East Coast singer-songwriter, praised for her powerful voice and emotional range as a writer and singer—and Francey’s manager was on the phone offering to sign her to Francey’s record label. The r

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Got Blues and guests

Got Blues have launched their first CD Vol 1. The collective of PEI musicians is well known to Islanders for hosting Saturday afternoon blues jams at Globe World Flavours. The main members are Reg Ballagh on drums,  Mike Robicheau on guitar, and Chris Roumbanis on bass/guitar. Every week they have a different guest. Most of these guests have become band members.

So when they

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Al Tuck

Island songwriter Al Tuck has released Stranger at the Wake on Cameron House Records.

 “I feel like we have our own living legend. And he’s alive, he’s out on tour… everyone in their right mind should just go sit and listen. He weaves slow stories from the infinite wide range of things that usually stick in the rest of our throats. We’re lucky he’s got the words and he’s sharing them.”—Feist

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Ten Strings and a Goat Skin

PEI trad-fusion group Ten Strings And A Goat Skin have signed distribution deals with Maritime-Acadian distributor Distribution Plages and international digital distributor Believe Digital. The partnerships have emerged in coordination with the release of the band’s highly anticipated first studio album, Corbeau, which is set to hit stores in early June.

“It’s a big step, and

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Trinity Bradshaw

PEI singer-songwriter Trinity Bradshaw has released her self-titled debut EP, Trinity Bradshaw (Opening Day Records). Her first single, “Big Town,” is currently in rotation at Canadian Country radio. This new comes hot on the heels of Trinity winning $200,000 from 90.3 AMP Radio’s AMP Radio Rock Star contest in January 2013, voted on by top music executives and critics across the count

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Brian Dunn

Brian J. Dunn will launch his debut CD, Death Do Us Part, at the Trailside Cafe in Mount Stewart June 29.

PEI singer-songwriter Brian J. Dunn played in the Celtic-folk band Life of Reilly with Michael Pendergast. They travelled across Atlantic Canada entertaining their audiences with a blend of music and humour. After leaving the band to go to school in Mississippi, Brian took his Maritime

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Death Valley Driver

Death Valley Driver have released a video for “Bloodfeud” off their upcoming album Graveyard Dead (Diminished Fifth Records). The video was filmed last month by James Arsenian (youtu.be/n93DE6mBJ6U). The group will promote the new album June 8 at Hunters Ale House, Charlottetown, with O’Leary.

Graveyard Dead was recorded at Lukas Raine Recordings by Dave Skinner and mixed and mastered

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Nudie

Persistence, a weird name and musical exuberance have won Prince Edward Island’s Nudie a few high profile file supporters and a growing legion of fans.

Upon his return from shows in New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario, he will release his first solo album, Remember This on May 31 at the Trailside Cafe in Mount Stewart, PEI.

Remember This is made up of 12 songs with themes of romantic uncertainty,

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Gina Dunn

Gina Dunn will launch her new CD, All In A Dream, June 1 at 7:30 pm at The Poor House above the Old Triangle in Charlottetown.

All In A Dream is a collection of Gina’s original songs. Her debut album was started at Third Ear Music in Texas and the overdubbing, mixing and mastering were done by Paul Milner at Shell Lane Studio in Malpeque, PEI.

Gina is an Island singer-songwriter from Hunter

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Ten Strings And A Goat Skin

The folk/trad/fusion bilingual group Ten Strings And A Goat Skin, who have over the past two years been making waves throughout Atlantic Canada, have finally wrapped up their new album Corbeau. Produced by award winning singer-songwriter Lennie Gallant at Sonic Temple Studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the group’s first studio album captures their wild energy.

Guitarist Jesse

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