Talking Bands
by Darcy Cudmore

Charlottetown’s Jenni Roberge is a talented musician who seems to win over the audience wherever she plays.

Her unique voice can be strong and in-charge one minute, before switching to soft and sensitive in the next.

Her live versions of classics with her own spin on them, mixed with new singer-songwriter covers provides something for everyone to enjoy.

Roberge
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The Cove Journal
by JoDee Samuelson

We had a big discussion at our community meeting this month about when to hold the Perennial Sale. Our Cove beekeeper insists that spring (i.e. warm weather) will arrive three weeks earlier this year than last, and we’re all willing to fall in line with this idea. Accordingly, the Perennial Sale will be held the third week in May instead of early June.

Now the
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There is no excuse for not eating healthy

Chow
by Ann Thurlow

We North Americans have gotten very hard on ourselves. There is the relentless quest to succeed, to be our very best selves, to keep up with the Joneses, to get the kids to soccer.

And, on top of that, we are reminded (quite rightly) to have healthy meals that we can sit down and peacefully enjoy.

It’s a tall order—one that is often
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Looking after Florence Simmons’ piano

by Tyrrell Pearson

A short while ago I tuned the piano that Florence Simmons donated to the new Performance Hall which bears her name at Charlottetown Centre campus of Holland College.

I first tuned a piano for Florence in the winter of 1969, shortly after moving to PEI. At the time she had an older upright. A year later she purchased a new Mason & Risch
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Ten Strings And A Goat Skin make a global musical living 

by Jerry Laird

Brothers Rowen and Caleb Gallant, and Jesse Periard (Ten Strings And A Goat Skin) are barely out of their teens, touring the world and making a living doing it. They just returned from their first European tour, including a show for more than 14,000 at a Festival in Denmark.

The trio has won a number of Music PEI awards,
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Review by Ivy Wigmore

On April 10th, the PEISO celebrated the end of this season with “A walk with Brahms” under the direction of Mark Shapiro. A member of the orchestra said to me back in 2013 when he took the helm that it was “a bit of a miracle.” We’ve recently learned that Shapiro has signed on for a further five years as the orchestra’s musical director.

You may or may not have noticed
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Review by Ann Thurlow

The second time I went to The Little Kitchen, after I had ordered, I saw owner Danny Shum writing something in Chinese on a white board. I asked him what it was and he told me it was a menu item for his Chinese customers—North Americans wouldn’t like it. I persisted and he finally told me it was pork belly.

“Danny, my friend,” I said, “we’ve got to talk.” And I told him about
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Nudie

Nudie’ first album, released in 2008, was Looking For A Good Time by Nudie and the Turks, a band he formed in his new residence of Charlottetown, PEI, following musical experiences in Toronto, Montreal, Phoenix, Austin and New York City.

Why so much traveling? “That’s what the world’s for,” quips Nudie. The love of singing and playing superseded any desire to chase a recording career, but
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