Way Up West
by Jan Cox

The women who make up the Mi’kmaq Artisans of Lennox Island are passionate about their art and their enthusiasm is infectious. Under the instruction of Cheryl Simon, apprentices Marlene Thomas, Noella Moore and Kayla Sark, are learning the fine art of classic Mi’kmaq Quill Art. When the women used the acronym for the group name, “MALI,” they realized this is a Mi’kmaq word
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World Stage
by Jerry Laird

After more than a decade of touring and playing up to 100 shows a year, there are still magical moments on stage for the band Vishtèn, says band member Pascal Miousse.

Pascal of the Magdalen Islands joined forces with PEI sisters Emmanuelle Leblanc and Pastelle Leblanc to form roots band Vishtèn 13 years ago.

“Vishtèn” is a traditional song with a blend of Acadian,
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Huffs and puffs

When I think about the Island culturally, there is so very much that fills me with admiration and pride. We have a rich and fascinating history.

We also live in a place of natural beauty, an Island of shore fields and red sandstone cliffs, of breezy sandy beaches that embrace us like a psychological shoreline. We know who we are as Islanders, and our identity keeps us here, even
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The Cove Journal
by JoDee Samuelson

There is a patch of curly dock that comes up beside the garden year after year. A proud member of the buckwheat family, curly dock is a cousin to rhubarb and burdock, and although it will never turn into a delicious pie, nor produce burrs, it will grow into a rather coarse overbearing perennial of little interest to gardeners. During the Depression, dock was an
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Talking Bands
by Darcy Cudmore

Fortune Bridge guitar player Dave Ward is describing his band quite simply to potential listeners. “If you want to hear a rocking band, listen to us.”

Fortune Bridge is a four-piece rock group currently playing covers but looking at writing originals in the future.

Rhythm guitar player John Ulvstal is behind the formation of the band and says they are eager to play
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Curated by Judy Gaudet

Swifts

How easily we enter into caves and cadences of the sublime,
rush of passion, sweeping, swirling, circling a chimney roost,
diving towards it as does the swift,
at the very last instant to reverse the body
plummet into hollow darkness,
down and down.

One incisive gesture, claws catch brick edge,
thought and momentum turn upwards to zodiacal light,
feathers and feathers
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Ten Strings And A Goat Skin

It’s late fall and early winter in Joliette, Quebec—the epicentre of traditional Quebecois music in Canada. PEI’s emerging young traditional music group Ten Strings And A Goat Skin are in the studio recording their new album with Leonard Podolak of the Grammy-nominated Duhks.

A veritable who’s who of traditional music is streaming in and out of the studio—some to play
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Dylan Menzie

Dylan Menzie has released his new album, Adolescent Nature. Produced and recorded by Daniel Ledwell (Jenn Grant, Fortunate Ones, Oh Pep!), Adolescent Nature showcases Dylan Menzie’s fervor towards big sounds, charismatic turns of phrases, and persistent pop leanings. From the cacophonous crashing album opener “Talk To Me,” to the rolling “Where Everybody Knows Your Name,” to the
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