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Plenty of highlights for Wreckless Harbour

Hamilton folk and bluegrass quartet will play the Mariposa Folk Festival and will release their first vinyl record this summer. We caught up with Wreckless Harbour to chat about their debut at the Mariposa Folk Festival, the state of folk music in troubled times, and their long-awaited vinyl…
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The brothers, The Beans

Gabriel Marcelo and Paulo Leon are building on the music scene in Hamilton through their music, their venue, and their record label. Chilean-Canadian brothers Gabriel Marcelo and Paulo Leon are building on Hamilton’s music scene on multiple fronts. They are lifelong Hamiltonians, and frontmen of three-piece rock…
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HAMILTON READS

In Honest Motherhood: On Losing My Mind and Finding Myself, Hamilton writer Libby Ward has delivered an unflinching and disarmingly funny memoir about the exhaustion that comes from pursuing perfection as a parent. Honest Motherhood: On Losing My Mind and Finding Myself wasn’t supposed to be a memoir.
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New Indigenous media studio launches Festival of Stories

Indian & Cowboy Creative Media will preview five new original podcast series this weekend with live tapings in front of 50 audience members. Indian & Cowboy Creative Media, a new Indigenous-owned storytelling studio based in Hamilton, is honouring National Indigenous History Month this June with the inaugural Festival…
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REVIEW: A Grand Night for Singing delivers nostalgia, refreshing take on musical classics

The Players’ Guild of Hamilton’s revue brings the best of Rodgers and Hammerstein from The King And I, South Pacific, Allegro, Me And Juliet, Cinderella, Carousel and Oklahoma. Now in the middle of its run, The Players’ Guild of Hamilton’s production of A Grand Night for Singing is…
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Silverstein never stands still

Twenty-six years,13 albums, and a million records sold later, and the Burlington-born hardcore/punk band continues to defy the odds. Silverstein began making music during a fertile period in heavy guitar rock. The turn of the millennium saw guitar rock genres splinter into even more subgenres as bands borrowed…