Heartwarming and brilliant.

Formed in 2022, the NL Latin Band is a music ensemble that has captivated audiences with their vibrant and energetic performances. Led by their skillful music and artistic
director, Persio Domínguez, the band specializes in performing Latin American genres such as Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Cumbia, Samba, and more. Their performances are
known for the unique blend of traditional Latin rhythms and modern elements, tight musicianship, and the ability to engage and connect with the audience. The NL Latin Band
has a flexible format (5 to 14-piece band) of Canadian and Latin American musicians residing in St. John’s, NL, which has succeeded on stage for festivals, fundraising, family
shows, and private social events.

Nico Paulo is a Portuguese/Canadian songwriter, performer, and visual artist. She moved to Canada in 2014 to pursue her career, originally setting down roots in the vibrant Toronto arts community, and eventually moved east to become an essential part of Newfoundland’s celebrated music scene. Paulo’s highly anticipated, self-titled debut LP, which arrived in spring 2023, is a melodically dynamic, heart-baring collection that finds her exploring the interconnected nature of relationships and the flow of time in lush, sophisticated pop arrangements. The album’s textures come courtesy of production by Joshua Van Tassel (Villages, Fortunate Ones) and Tim Baker (Hey Rosetta!). 

Paulo released her debut single, the wistful “Please Don’t Forget,” in 2019. Her debut EP, Wave Call, arrived in 2020, featuring contributions from musicians Bravo Kilo, Evan J Cartwright, Kwame Appiah-Kubi, and Tim Baker, with production and engineering handled by David Gavan Baxter. She toured the EP in Europe in 2020, making stops in Portugal, the UK, Ireland, France, and Germany. Her latest releases—the Live at First Light EP recorded for the Lawnya Vawnya Artist Residency and a cover of José Afonso’s Portuguese folk song “O Cavaleiro e o Anjo”—were both recorded in Paulo’s adopted hometown of St. John’s, and include appearances by local musicians Tim Baker, Adam Hogan, Steve Maloney, and Mary B. Waldram. 

“Your new favorite vocalist lives in Newfoundland” – MTV 

“Nico Paulo has a knack for transmuting the mundane motions of daily life into grand, wistful reveries.” – The FADER 

“‘Now Or Never’ is heavenly, a stark yet gorgeous piece of songwriting that puts us in mind of Jessica Pratt in its emotional honesty.” – Clash 

“Wave Call moves with steady gestures… hypnotic and soothing.” – Exclaim! Magazine “Nico Paulo’s gently forceful folk… took on a newfound Fleet Foxesian lushness.” – NOW Magazine 

Nico Paulo est un auteur-compositeur, interprète et artiste visuel portugais/canadien. Elle a déménagé au Canada en 2014 pour poursuivre sa carrière, initialement dans la communauté artistique dynamique de Toronto, et a finalement déménagé vers l’est pour devenir un élément essentiel de la célèbre scène musicale de Terre-Neuve. 

Le premier album de Paulo, sorti au printemps 2023, est une collection mélodieuse et dynamique qui la trouve explorant la nature interconnectée des relations et l’écoulement du temps dans des arrangements pop luxuriants et sophistiqués.

Nick Earle has been entertaining audiences all over North America for over a decade. Starting as a Blues Player in one half of the nationally recognized duo “Earle & Coffin,” Nick has since worked with an array of artists ranging over multiple genres. Through this work and his first two solo releases, Nick has been the recipient of 7 MusicNL Awards, and 2 Canadian Folk Music Awards. Over the course of the last 2 years, Nick began writing what would become his 2022 release, “No More Hiding.” Influenced by the party culture in his hometown of St. John’s, this record shows more lyrical depth and a true focus on the song than any of his previous releases. With the second single from this album “Born to Lose” garnering over 4.8 Million plays on TikTok, Nick Earle is using this record as a launch pad to deliver an abundance of East Coast Rock to anyone willing to listen.

Newfound Sound is the only women’s barbershop chorus in Newfoundland and Labrador. Established in 1985, our chorus has been sharing friendship and song for over 30 years. We are grateful to have been involved in many wonderful fundraisers – raising money for cancer support programs such as Pink Days in Bloom, Daffodil Place and Sing for Care. We have entertained for the Children’s Wish Foundation and the Eating Disorder Foundation Annual Gala. Each year, we look forward to singing carols at the Commissariat House old fashioned Christmas. We have shared our song with the Lieutenant Governor at Government House and even entertained the Queen during one of her visits to our province.

What makes our chorus unique is the singing style. We are proud members of Harmony Incorporated since 1988, whose mission is empowerment for all women through education, friendship and a cappella singing. We have competed in Atlantic and international women’s barbershop contests. Under the energetic and creative direction of Dr. Phil Roberts, we are 25 women who come together every week to blend song with friendship and create a wonderful space for learning and fine tuning our performance craft. Our repertoire covers many genres such as traditional, pop and inspirational.

Sharing friendship and song in this province since 1985. Harmony Incorporated members since 1988.

Songwriter and entertainer, Neil Conway, is based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A compulsive lyricist, he takes on a wide range of genres and can always be found with a notebook and pen in his left pocket. His work touches on timeless and modern themes in a way that is provocative, thoughtful and often funny. With a knack for eyebrow raising commentary, his songs cover a broad range of topics and styles. Neil Conway moved to St. John’s in 1998 and still can’t get enough of the place. Since then he has had his fingers in many pies. He has been main song writer/band leader for live hip-hop act, The Discounts; reggae/ska band, Skank; fringe folk freaks, The Somethin’ Family; as well as appearing solo with a mixture of all his songs. He has toured Canada extensively and has made frequent trips to St. Pierre et Miquelon. Between 2008-present he has toured China, South Korea, Japan, The Phillipines, India, Europe and Australia; often reforming The Discounts with local musicians. He has been commissioned to write topical songs for CBC radio and television and awarded recording grants from MusicNL, The Newfoundland Labrador Arts Council and The City of St. John’s. He also once wrote a song with Ron Hynes for CBC radio’s songwriting circle. Through independent promotions he has received positive reviews and considerable play on CBC as well as charting regularly on community radio across Canada. His 2004 debut, The Somethin’ Family Album, featured a large cast of gifted Newfoundland musicians and was warmly received across Canada. His 2006 release, “Roadblock,” followed the same political comedy direction with a raw solo and folk trio sound. In 2008 he released a collection of his reggae and Hip-Hop songs as The Discounts – Part One. His third solo album, Songs For Topical Use came out in October of 2013. In 2015 he worked with Andy Jones to write a musical comedy about the uprising of Santa’s elves titled “Made in The North Pole.” He is currently working on a new album.

For 50 years Morgan Davis has been playing the blues, travelling across Canada, the U.S. and Europe. His performances draw from a lifelong study of the rich tradition of country blues, re-interpreting songs of the 1920s and 30s on electric instruments. His original compositions are infused with wit and a good dose of humor.

Originally from Detroit MI, Morgan Davis grew up listening to a rich variety of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and the emergence of the Motown sound. The music of Jimmy Reed, Ike and Tina Turner, Chuck Berry and Fats Domino was in the air, emanating from car radios and jukeboxes. In 1962 his family relocated to southern California, where Davis found the preponderance of surf music unappealing. He discovered Bob Dylan, whose music introduced him to Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger and Blind Lemon Jefferson. The psychedelic era ushered in bands like Jimi Hendrix and Cream, he attended concerts by the Doors, Grateful Dead, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Buffalo Springfield, Mothers of Invention and the Electric Flag. Davis began to play guitar at 16 years of age.
Graduating from high school in 1965, Davis enrolled in Long Beach State College, where he became active in the campus anti-war movement as well as SDS. Being of draft age and refusing his 2-S student deferment, he made the choice to remove himself from the U.S. war machine and move to Canada. He settled in Toronto, which he happily found to be a city on the circuit of the great Chicago blues bands, and a rich musical education began by watching Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. Davis also had the opportunity to see and meet many great country blues players – John Hammond, Son House, Booker White, and Johnny Shines.

After a brief stint teaching junior high school, Davis began his musical career while residing at Rochdale College, Toronto’s high rise mecca for artists . Opportunities to jam with other players were frequent, and Davis happily immersed himself in music until he began to get the occaisional gig, and he soon found himself in a band called the Rhythm Rockets, which played a variety of vintage rock and roll, country and blues. He began touring, eventually forming his own blues band, the Knights of the Mystic Sea.

Over his five decade career Davis has opened the show for Willie Dixon, Albert King, John Hammond, John Lee Hooker and Albert Collins. He has jammed with Muddy Waters, James Cotton and Johnny Shines. He has backed up Sunnyland Slim, Snooky Pryor, Hubert Sumlin, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith and Dr. John.

Davis has released two 45 RPM records, two LPs, and nine CDs. His songwriting talent received wide recognition when Colin James covered his searing ballad, “Why’d You Lie?”

For the past 20 years he has made his home in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. Davis performs solo, playing traditional and original blues on electric guitars and his three string cigar-box guitar. Still a road-addicted touring musician, Davis averaged 200 days a year on the road…..until the sudden intrusion of the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic.

…he hopes to be playing the blues until he drops.

Monica Walsh Monica Walsh is an actor, writer and singer from St. John’s. Monica has been singing since she was a child, raised in the Newfoundland folk song tradition. In 2016, Monica began to participate in the RPM challenge, an international song writing and recording challenge that now has its roots in NL. She has created RPM records every year since then, and is currently recording her first EP. She mixes her background of folk singing with her passion for songwriting and creates sweet songs. Monica is currently collecting folk songs when she can and learning the art of audio recording and editing.

Jordan Young – aka GreyJay  – (he/him) – Producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist session musician and band leader – Jordan has performed live with over 30 groups and appeared on dozens of Canadian recordings. Young’s most recent release of original compositions, GreyJay – Homesalt, is an album of intricate fingerstyle acoustic guitar music. The collection features cowrites, “Homesalt” with Kelsey Arsenault and “Super!Pink!Moon!” with Adam Baxter. In 2022, Jordan produced Evelyn Jess’s debut album, Bare Bones and the follow-up companion live album and concert video, Bare Bones LIVE. Evelyn Jess and band went on to be 3 x nominated MusicNL Folk Artist of the Year in 2022, 2023 & 2024. In 2025, Young will begin work on a new solo record, GreyJay – There Are No Words, a full-length studio album of instrumental duets with some of Newfoundland’s favourite fiddlers, pickers and pianists.

On their fifth studio album, From Nowhere, Mo Kenney embraces the textures of ambiguity and the rich blur of being, failing, and becoming. As they shift through lush arrangements that touch on dreamy folk, sparse alt-country, and warm, hazed-out lo-fi pop, everything is up for interpretation and nothing is fixed. In their lyrics, Kenney opts instead to defy definition, making room for non-linear and fragmentary sentiments that challenge their own feelings about personal growth, acknowledge the slippery and shadowy nature of memory, and build love songs that conjure the bonds of friendship just as much as they hint at romance. 

They evade easiness right from the start in the glowing chorus of opening track “Bad Times,” admitting, over sparse piano and despite TK years of sobriety: “I know it ain’t right, but I miss the bad times sometimes.” 

“I sort of thought that getting sober was going to fix all my problems with relationships, and then I would just be fine,” Kenney laughs. “Drinking was causing all the issues I was having, but it was just the tip of the iceberg; quitting made all my problems more clear but didn’t resolve any of them.”

Kenney’s subsequent investigations into the root causes of their interpersonal dramas obscured nearly as much as they revealed, encouraging acceptance but also emphasizing the frequently frustrating uncertainty and temporality of things. From Nowhere occupies that liminal and trepidatious time when one is compelled to move but unsure where they might be headed. The driving “Evening Dream” has all the hallmarks of a post-summer come-down as Kenney reminisces about the nebulous feelings of flings: “Bathing in the pale green light, no thought of what goes on outside,” they sing. “No thought of what it all might mean, it doesn’t have to meet a thing.” On the darker sounding “Signs of Life,” they address an unbearable and obscure fissure; with the title track, they recall a loss of innocence in idyllic rural Nova Scotia, mixing sun-kissed organ with cryptic, unsettling choruses. 

With the stark and devastating pairing of “Honey Come Home” and “Self Doubt,” Kenney makes it clear that there’s no glory or revelation in sitting with your feelings. While the former distills the loneliness and alienation of a partner’s absence, the latter finds Kenney struggling with the crippling second-guessing that can accompany certain acute kinds of clarity as they barely raise their voice above a whisper in what sounds like the saddest honky-tonk on Earth. Through the hazy atmospheres of “That’s Not Me,” they conjure a slow motion crawl through a dim club and question their identity. And the similarly unhurried “With You” delivers a crushing post-mortem about a relationship that, despite its sweetness, just didn’t work. 

From Nowhere’s intimate subject matter was handled with deft hands by some of Keney’s nearest and dearest collaborators—Joel Plaskett, Rose Cousins, Victoria Cameron, Siobhan Martin, and Jordan Murphy—and recorded, mixed, and engineered by Thomas Stajcer at Plaskett’s Fang Studios in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. 

In contrast to its heavy predecessors, the airy “Love You Better” offers a featherweight finale to From Nowhere; in earthy reverie, Kenney acknowledges their past failures and that they’re not always going to get it right, but resolves to do the only thing they can: keep trying. “Staring at the ceiling, trying to find the meaning,” they sing over eddying acoustic guitar. “Put it all together; I will love you better.”