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Montreal’s Cécile Doo-Kingué hits the Maritimes this weekend, starting with Fredericton’s Cedar Tree Cafe tomorrow evening. Her deep, soulful vocals compliment her dazzling blues fretwork and African Folk influence. Doo-Kingué, a first generation New Yorker born to Cameroonian immigrants, has lived in France and the US before becoming a resident of Montréal. In addition to appearances at the Montreal Jazz Festival, she has accomplished an extensive amount of collaboration and production, including mixing the United Steel Workers of Montreal albums, Broken Trucks and Bottles and Kerosene & Coal. In 2008, Doo-Kingué and Gern f. of USWOM started Chick Pickin’ Mondays, a night promoting women singer-songwriters. She will be in Saint John Saturday evening at Peppers.

Montréalaise, Cécile Doo-Kingué, arrive dans les Maritimes ce weekend, commençant demain soir à Cedar Tree café, Fredericton. Sa voix sauve complimente sa guitare blues éblouissante, à la fois les rythmes afro-traditionnelles. Doo-Kingué, nés à New York des parents camerounais, a vécu en France et aux États-Unis avant de devenir résidente de Montréal. En plus de ses apparitions au Festival de Jazz de Montréal, elle a accompli nombreuses collaborations et production, y compris le mix des deux albums des United Steelworkers of Montreal: Broken Trucks and Bottles et Kerosene & Coal. En 2008, Doo-Kingué et Gern f. de USWOM a réalisé Chick Pickin’ Mondays, une soirée de promotion des femmes auteurs-compositeurs. Elle sera à Saint John samedi soir au Peppers.

May 16 mai: 7:30 – No Cover/Artist Appreciation – Cedar Tree Cafe, Fredericton, NB
May 17 mai: 11PM – 5$ – Peppers Pub, Saint John, NB

Other maritime dates:

May 18 mai: Red Herring Pub, St Andrew, NB
May 19 & 20 mai: Plan B, Moncton, NB
May 21 mai: Trailside Cafe, Mount Stewart, PEI (with Scott Parsons)
May 22 mai: Grains de folie, Caraquet, NB

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Al Tuck releases his seventh album – “Stranger at the Wake” – next Friday May 17th at Taco Pica with guest David R. Elliot. Some tracks are a departure from earlier releases; a difficult thing to say when speaking about an artist who cherry-picks from rock, funk, jazz, irish folk, gospel, and country to form his unique sound.

From the press release: Many of the lyrics occupy that sweet spot Tuck has found somewhere between Bob Dylan’s self-renewing complexities and Hank Williams’ straight-shooting minimalism. The subject matter ranges from the theological to the socio-political, through the post-marital and back again. A tale told of life on the road is followed by a postcard from home. The remarkable mingles with the mundane. Al’s method-acted role here is that of a part-time whisky-tippling, loose-cannon son of a preacher man.

“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

“Al Tuck is the real deal, a songwriter of the highest order, blessed and possessed with a double dose of the gift. Cut from the same cloth, as any of our country’s greatest: Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell. I’m fully aware of how outlandish and overwrought a statement this might seem, but I’ve felt this way for years now, and with every new record of Al’s, I’m further convinced. Hands down, he’s the greatest songwriter of my generation, an opinion shared by many of my peers.” – Jason Collett

Stranger at the Wake completes a trilogy of albums, preceded by “Under Your Shadow” and “Food for the Moon”.

Showtime is 8:30pm and cover is pay what you can. As with all Taco Pica gigs, I recommend you arrive early and expect a packed house.

Sunday, May 12 from 12-2pm, Local 107.3fm will be holding an open Orientation & Training Session for new members, and we want to invite YOU to sit in!

This is your opportunity to get the actual lowdown on best practices, community broadcasting policy, using our equipment, and essentially take the very training Local-fm DJs take when starting their own show, taking
place in our facilities in room 235 of the Thomas J Condon Student Centre on the UNBSJ campus.

You learn about Local-fm and how we work, and take a Programming Application home to put pen to paper and brainstorm your own radio program if you are interested in staying on.

And if you like in the meantime, you can even download and play with one of our Programming Applications beforehand and bring it in – you can find it here: http://localfm.ca/get-involved/

You can also find our current Programming Schedule here, to get a look at the landscape of community radio in Saint John: http://localfm.ca/programming-schedule/

So please join us, Sunday, May 12 from 12-2pm, for an open orientation session and your ground floor entrance to community broadcasting!

Gather ’round children, for a super special story of punk rock and fundraising: I Love Livin’ In The Port City III, to be held this March 30, 2013 at Peppers Pub…

Sometimes, on a very magical April Fools or Hallowed Eve, the grubby stardust of community radio swirls into being great counterculture and underground voices of days gone by, to play for our fair Port City at ridiculously low ticket prices and in unbelievably small venues for artists of their stature (or sometimes mortality), all to raise fund$ for your campus & community voice, Local 107.3fm (CFMH-FM).

So far we have hosted the sounds and styles of Billy Bragg, X, The Smiths, The Cramps, Pixies, The Stooges, Allen Ginsberg and Chuck Bukowski. Who will take the stage this year!?

We are happy to announce that The Clash, The B-52s, and Husker Du will be bringing their fine classic sounds to Saint John in just a few weeks’ time for the small sum of $8.

It’s been quite some time since the beautiful Jenn Grant has visited the fog city. She flits into the Sanctuary Theatre March 21 with Cuff the Duke, touring in support of her latest album “The Beautiful Wild”, released on Six Shooter Records last September. 

The album is an all-grown-up departure from the girly charm of her Juno nominated sophomore record “Honeymoon Punch”. Join her in the deep, dark woods,  in pursuit of the elusive human heart. From JennGrant.com:

“The new record is about finding the courage to lose oneself in the wilderness, in all of its savage and sublime experiences.”

This PEI songbird once held a well deserved spot on the Polaris long list, besides having  been featured across Canada in newspapers, magazines, and television. Grant has also toured heavily across North America and Europe, sharing stages with the likes of Fesit, Josh Ritter and Ron Sexsmith.

Tickets are $26 (taxes and surcharges included). Physical tickets went on sale Friday February 15th at the Sanctuary Theatre and Backstreet Records SJ, while online tickets are available here.

Jenn Grant [http://www.jenngrant.com]
& Cuff The Duke [http://www.cufftheduke.ca]

The Sanctuary Theatre, 228 Germain St.
Doors open 7PM, show is at 8. 

Saint John Giraffecycler and writer, Jordan Stewart, released a nifty book of short stories entitled, “Greetings! From Gumdrop Mountain” way back in 2010. You can catch the play by the same name at the Saint Thomas University Black Box Theatre (Sir James Dunn Hall) in Fredericton, February 21st-23rd.

This is an authentic New Brunswick production, presented by the Next Folding Theatre Company. Eighteen local actors, including Caleb Marshall, Len Falkenstein, and Sam Kamras, bring this harrowing tale to life with help from eye popping special effects and live, locally composed music.

The facts are these: When a train derails outside of the normally peaceful town of Gumdrop Mountain, the local inhabitants rally to rescue survivors of the crash. A boxcar containing hazardous materials explodes and kills many of the rescuers and passengers involved, and the town is forced to deal with the aftermath of the event. In the two years following the disaster, the tragedy and grief of the community manifests itself in strange and uncontrollable ways, forcing the Gumdrop Mountain Police Department to respond with brutally unorthodox tactics.

Surreal and at times disturbing, “Greetings! From Gumdrop Mountain” is a collection of stories I’ve revisited again and again. I can’t wait to see it in live action.

Each show begins at 8PM. Tickets are $15 for general admission, and $10 for Students/Seniors. Tickets will be available at the door.

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