Watch the latest episode of Bandwagon, the local video series featuring intimate performances from excellent bands. Today, Bandwagon comes live from Toronto’s Holy Trinity Church with Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear.
Watch the latest episode of Bandwagon, the local video series featuring intimate performances from excellent bands. Today, Bandwagon comes live from the Peterborough Folk Fest with local musicians Melissa Payne and James McKenty.
Bandwagon is back! Season Five premieres today exclusively on Electric City Live. The local video series features intimate performances from excellent bands. Today, Bandwagon comes live from the Red Dog for a soundcheck session, with Bright Light Social Hour playing “Ghost Dance.”
Local musician Kelly McMichael is back with a new single, a new project, and a whole new sound. “I Am Gone” is the latest from RENDERS, a chill, 80s influenced jam about love lost and the strength within.
I am thrilled (and terrified) to announce that, starting in January 2016, Electric City Live is expanding, mutating, and changing its name. Electric City Magazine will be a magazine of Peterborough life and culture, updated regularly online, and, for the first time, published monthly in print, distributed across Peterborough for free! Electric City Magazine will […]
Séan McCann is back. One of the founding members of Great Big Sea, Séan left the group in 2013, saying the band’s booze-heavy, party-heavy lifestyle was taking its toll. Now, he’s releasing You Know I Love You, his second solo effort, and touring the country in his first ever solo tour. Before he stops at the […]
We talk a lot on this site about Peterborough’s amazing, diverse music community – but what does that actually look like?
This Thursday, August 27, gravel-voiced Ottawa singer-songwriter Brock Zeman is in town releasing Pulling Your Sword Out Of The Devil’s Back, his eleventh album. I recently spoke to Zeman about recording, playing live, and why songwriting can hurt so much.
This weekend is the 26th Peterborough Folk Festival (see full schedule). It’s also the 15th year for the festival’s Emerging Artist Award, which each year recognizes one young local artist with great potential. This year, the honour goes to folk singer-songwriter Evangeline Gentle. We take a look at Evangeline, and interview her about music, her background, and […]
Local singer-songwriter Sean Conway has been a familiar face on the Peterborough scene for some years, playing solo and with a number of groups (Evangeline Gentle, Nick Ferrio, The Avenues). In 2014, Conway spent much of the year in his bedroom recording studio, putting together a series of four EPs. Now, as Conway heads out on […]