Cove Pond est le projet artistique de Laura Penney et Scott Yetman. Laura compose des chansons en anglais et en français depuis plus de 15 ans. Elle collabore avec Scott pour offrir un mélange de ses compositions et de chansons traditionnelles de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. Leur musique, conçue pour les moments plus calmes de la vie, contraste avec la monotonie urbaine en capturant les émotions des bois, des eaux et du brouillard qui les entourent.
Cove Pond is the artistic project of Laura Penney and Scott Yetman. Laura has been composing songs in English and French for over 15 years. She collaborates with Scott to offer a blend of her compositions and traditional songs from Newfoundland and Labrador. Their music, designed for the quieter moments of life, contrasts with urban monotony by capturing the emotions of the woods, waters, and fog that surround them.
Len O’Neill, a singer-songwriter from St. John’s, Newfoundland, began his musical journey in the local pub and bar scene, playing guitar and bass in rock bands and leading the award winning indie rock band Green & Gold through two albums and several east coast tours. Influenced by a diverse range of artists spanning classic rock legends to poetic songwriters, Len crafts introspective, lyric-driven compositions exploring themes of ambition, sorrow, and personal growth.
From a very early age, Jason was surrounded by a wide variety of music spanning the rock, traditional, classical and jazz genres. Starting with drums in his early teens, Jason developed a passion for learning to play other instruments, moving on to guitar and then focusing on mastering the bouzouki. Described by some as one of the best proponents of new style Irish bouzouki playing in Canada, Jason first embraced the instrument while living in Ireland in the 1990s, and has contributed its unique sound to numerous traditional recordings. Having made his first professional music appearance at 16, Jason has over 25 years experience performing locally, nationally and internationally. He has lived in Ireland and Bermuda and has traveled extensively. Over the years he has worked as a performer, composer, engineer and producer of recordings and live music projects. Through his studio, The Sound Solution, he has been involved in more than 60 CD projects and is often called upon as a session player for other artists. A founding member of iconic Newfoundland bands Connemara and The Punters, Jason has performed and recorded with some of Canada’s foremost musical talents like: Roger Howse, Pamela Morgan, The Plankerdown Band, The Graham Wells Band, The 7 Deadly Sons, Great Big Sea, Seamus Creagh, Pierre Schryer, and many others. Since 2016, Jason has been playing with Colleen Power as guitarist/vocalist in her band as well as Fiddle/Viola duo The Sizzle Sisters as well performing numerous solo concerts. For almost 20 years Jason has also worked in the telecommunications industry, having worked for Paragon, xwave, Aliant and Bell in Newfoundland, and Logic Communications, an ISP in Bermuda. He divides his time between his first love music, and his career in IT/Telecommunications. He holds the coveted Cisco CCIE designation, and an MBA from Memorial University of Newfoundland and works as a senior technical architect with Bell Canada where he builds enterprise data and voice networks for local and international companies. As a senior consultant, he is looked upon by many Canadian enterprise customers as a trusted adviser and subject matter expert. If he’s not plugging in a guitar cable, it’s probably a fiber optic cable!
Réunis par l’amour de la musique, ainsi que la langue française, Les Carriers y sont compris de Heather et Raymond Carrier et leur ami Jason March. Ils présenteront un mélange d’interprétations de chansons en français. Que vous préférez la musique pop, rock, country, folk ou même bluegrass, il y aura quelque chose pour vous.
United over a love of music and the French language, The Carriers bring together Heather and Raymond Carrier and their friend Jason March. They will be performing a mix of French cover songs. No matter your preference for pop, rock, country, folk or even bluegrass, there will be something for you in their set.
“If I knew what I was doing, I’d be doing it every day,” says Ottawa-based singer, songwriter and producer Jeremy Fisher. “Most of the time I’m chasing ghosts and running into walls, so when I get my hands on a song that feels right and provokes emotion in others it can feel like the first time and that’s exciting.”
It’s been over 15 years, 6 studio albums, 4 JUNO nominations and countless tours since Fisher released his debut album Goodbye Blue Monday, a scrappy collection of acoustic folk pop produced by Hawksley Workman.
In 2007, Jeremy Fisher released Goodbye Blue Monday, including tracks such as the upbeat “Scar That Never Heals,” contemplative ballad “Fall For Anything,” and “Jolene” which features his penchant for fingerpicked guitar and hushed harmonies. The homemade stop-motion video for the song “Cigarette,” featuring an anthropomorphic title character, became a viral phenomenon in the early days of YouTube. The album was nominated for two JUNO awards in 2008 (Best New Artist, Adult Alternative Album of the Year), and gave Fisher the opportunity to tour extensively throughout his native Canada, Australia and the USA, where he appeared twice on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Fisher’s most recent studio album, The Lemon Squeeze, garnered him a 2015 JUNO nomination in the Adult Alternative Album of the Year category, with two singles landing in the CBC radio 2 Top 20. He played sold-out shows and festivals all across Canada in support of the release.
In 2015, Jeremy built a small studio in his back yard called “The Sugar Shack” where he has produced albums for other artists (Great Big Sea’s Sean McCann, Adam Kagan) as well as in-episode songs and the theme for the Disney TV cartoon Billy Dilley’s Super-Duper Subterranean Summer.
He is a co-creator, songwriter and voice actor in the new CBC animated children’s series Jeremy and Jazzy, a show about how feelings become songs, songs become stories, and music, friendship, and collaboration create joy. Jeremy tours the music from the show as a duo, in concert as Jeremy and Jazzy Singalong.
For more than 40 years, Jean Hewson has collected, arranged, recorded and performed the folk music of Newfoundland and Labrador, and is grateful for the many opportunities the music has given her. She has had the good fortune to play and tour with some of the province’s best-known traditional musicians, and has spent most of her life teaching and working with organizations focused on music education and the passing on of the tradition. Her most recent projects include establishing and directing the Soundbone Folksong Choir, and playing guitar for Canadian fiddle supergroup, Portage.
A native of Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland, Jim Payne is a leading performer, collector and producer of Newfoundland traditional music. He is also one of the province’s most prolific songwriters, as well as being a singer of traditional songs, a storyteller, writer, actor, and instructor and caller of traditional Newfoundland set and square dances. He has directed, composed and performed music for some of the most popular theatre productions of the past three decades, as well as creating soundtracks for plays, documentaries and videos. He has performed extensively on radio and television in Canada and abroad, in feature films, and has toured throughout North America, Europe, Japan and Australia.
Katie Baggs is an indie-folk singer-songwriter from St. John’s who has been writing and performing as a solo artist and in groups (such as Dead Language, All the Wiles, and Pilot to Bombardier) since 2008. She has sculpted her sound over the course of two solo records, Home Again, Home Again (2012), and Wonderful Strange (2015).
