Author: Jade Palmer
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24th Street Wailers – Concert Review (Saskatoon)
Jade unearths the past through music with the help of rockabilly revivalists, The 24th Street Wailers, at a recent concert at the Bassment in Saskatoon. It happened during the first saxophone solo. Maybe it was how passion tensed up his body, how the lively drum rhythm replaced my own heartbeat, or how everyone swayed in…
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Concert Review: Jill & Matthew Barber (Saskatoon)
Jade ponders all the different kinds of love in the world after seeing siblings Jill and Matthew Barber during their Family Album tour through Saskatoon. “Wild apple trees blooming all around/I must be in a good place now/Sunshine coming through/Rainbow coloured sky/Paints pretty pictures in my mind.” “Saw a butterfly and named it after you/Your…
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Dog Patch Music Festival Musings (and The Dead South)
Jade Palmer travels to the Dog Patch Music Festival, buried in a Northern Saskatchewan forest, to discover festival life and Regina band, The Dead South. This is no ordinary insect. In the depths of the boreal forest it waits to strike its next unassuming victim. It knows no age, no gender, only the sound of…