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2022 George Street Festival Lineup Announced

Posted on May 25, 2022
By Dillon Collins
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

The lineup has been unveiled for the 2022 edition of the George Street Festival.

Thursday, July 28 – soon to be revealed!
Friday, July 29 – The Tea Party and Sam Roberts Band w/ Women of Rock
Saturday, July 30 – Family-friendly matinee and Kitchen Party with The Masterless

Tags: Alan Doyle, Arkells, Brett Kissel, concert, George Street Festival, Kellie Loder, music, Shanneyganock, The Masterless Men, The Tea Party

Trails Tales Tunes 2022

Posted on May 23, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Art, Arts & Culture, Business, Entertainment, Events, Food & Drink, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Made Right Here, Music, Staff Blog, Theatre, Travel & Leisure, Web Exclusives

A ten day festival celebrating culture and community utilizing a creative blend of walks, culinary adventures and entertainment is kicking off in Norris Point
Marina Sexton loves to show off her hometown of Norris Point and Trails, Tales and Tunes, a ten day festival showcasing and highlighting the best the

Tags: culture, music, Newfoundland and Labrador, storytelling, Trails Tales Tunes Festival

MUSIC SPOTLIGHT | Rugged Shores

Posted on May 19, 2022
By Dillon Collins
on Arts & Culture, Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

From the Emerald Isle to the rocky coastline of Newfoundland, the b’ys in the band Rugged Shores aim to entertain on their new album Wild River
Oh these rugged shores of ours. It doesn’t take a scholar or world traveler to understand the appreciation for our rarefied beauty here in

Tags: fun, Ireland, Jackie Sullivan, Karla Pilgrim, music, Newfoundland and Labrador, O'Reilly's Pub, Rowan Sherlock, Rugged Shores, trad music, traditional music

Jing Xia | The Numinous Journey

Posted on May 17, 2022
By Dillon Collins
on Arts & Culture, Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

From China to Newfoundland and Labrador, Jing Xia’s thirst for knowledge and mastery of the zheng continue to blossom in the wake of her debut album
She is perhaps one of the foremost masters of the zheng in North America. Jing Xia, born in Hunan, China, has been studying and

Tags: China, Jing Xia, Memorial University, MUN, music, Shanneyganock, St. John's, zheng

A Majestic Reopening

Posted on May 11, 2022
By Herald Staff
on Arts & Culture, Business, Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Theatre, Web Exclusives

By: Russell Bowers
It’s one of the few flat-iron style buildings in the world and yet, there it sits, unused, on the corner of Duckworth and New Gower streets in downtown St. John’s
The place known as the Majestic Theatre was built in 1919 and found prominence as a political

Tags: Bob Hollett, Great Big Sea, music, No Change in the Weather, Russell Bowers, St. John's, Terra Bruce Productions, The Majestic Theatre, theatre, venue

Flip Side | For the Love of Vinyl

Posted on May 5, 2022
By Dillon Collins
on Arts & Culture, Business, Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

Doug and Melisa Jones, operators of Flip Side Music + More and Record Fair NL, dive-in to their longtime passion & love of vinyl
Nostalgia is a powerful thing. It has the innate ability to transport through time and space and to conjure up feelings we scarcely recall we had

Tags: Business, Flip Side Music + More, local, music, Newfoundland and Labrador, nostalgia, Record Fair NL, records, vinyl

Colleen, Where Ya Been?

Posted on April 19, 2022
By Herald Staff
on Arts & Culture, Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

From Happy Girlfriend to happy wanderer, songwriter Colleen Power was given the chance of a lifetime to see new places and write new songs for a new TV show
By Russell Bowers
Over a career spanning three decades, most of Colleen Power’s songwriting has been personal with tunes inspired by

Tags: Colleen Power, island, music, Newfoundland and Labrador, singer-songwriter, television

James Taylor: American Standard

Posted on April 18, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Entertainment, From The Archives, Inspirational, Local, Music, Staff Blog, Web Exclusives

As the legendary James Taylor – along with special guest Jackson Browne – prepares to return to St. John’s to perform at the Mary Brown’s Centre on April 21st, he takes a moment to chat with The Herald about a previous visit, his next more extended stay, and, of course,

Tags: American Standard, bands, Fire and Rain, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Mary Brown's Centre, music, Newfoundland, Sweet Baby James

25 Years of O’Reilly’s Pub Part II

Posted on March 17, 2022
By Pam Pardy-Ghent
on Business, Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music

O’Reilly’s Irish eyes are smiling even more brightly than the lights above the bar as Brenda O’Reilly opened up about the last 25 years and her love of all things Irish ahead of St. Patrick’s Day
Brenda O’Reilly, who has owned and operated O’Reilly’s Irish Newfoundland Pub on George Street

Tags: Alan Doyle, Brenda O'Reilly, Danielle Butt, Jigs & Reels, music, Newfoundland and Labrador, O'Reilly's Pub, ozfm, Ron Hynes, The Fables, The Masterless Men, The Navigators, traditional music

NL Music | Kitchinparti

Posted on March 16, 2022
By Dillon Collins
on Arts & Culture, Entertainment, From The Archives, Local, Music, Web Exclusives

Rising trad trio and the all around impossibly entertaining Kitchinparti talk new album plans and a return to entertaining the hungry masses
There’s nothing that can stop the power of music and a good ol’ fashioned party, not even a worldwide pandemic.
Timing, as they say, is everything. Until it

Tags: Fred Jorgensen, Justin Hickey, Kitchinparti, music, Newfoundland and Labrador, Shanneyganock, Terry Lynn Hickey, The Navigators, trad, Tyler Humber