Join East Coast DNA host Darcy Walsh for a chat with PEI's Kinley Dowling. We dirve into her musical history, her time with Hey Rosetta!, and her latest single, Marrying Me, produced by Corey LeRue. KINLEY is a skilled and sought-after collaborator at her core, sharing countless stages and recording credits with some of Canada’s best-known artists on over 550 tracks. PEI indie pop powerhouse KINLEY has adapted that approach into her solo work – and is delivering the most compelling material of h...
Aug 14, 2024•38 min
Mia Kelly joins East Coast DNA for a chat about her new singles, album, how she got to this point and where she is headed next. The episode opens with a clip from the recent 'français' single release "Rideau tombe" and plays out with "Lone Dog", two new songs from her forthcoming sophomore album, To Be Clear, due October 4th. “This double single outlines abusive characters, partially fictional and also inspired by lived experience,” shares Mia. “They depict violent and manipulative patterns that...
Aug 08, 2024•25 min
Ty MacEachern is an up and coming, Nova Scotian, musician with an appetite for a little behind the scenes action. Taking a contract position at the Marigold Cultural Centre, in Truro, Ty has been instrumental in producing "Office Hours" live music series. Join East Coast DNA host, Darcy Walsh, for a chat with Ty about Office Hours, his bands, session work, and future plans. SUBSCRIBE to East Coast DNA for music + arts coverage year round. @eastcoastdna...
Jul 31, 2024•23 min
Rowan Altmann is a 14 year old, independent comic creator with their first publication already in print through their own company People of the Chaos. Join East Coast DNA for a chat with People of the Chaos' Rowan Altmann on the self publication of their graphic novel Graveyard Gift Shop. Shoutout to Ignite Atlantic and their annual entrepreneurship youth camp. East Coast DNA was present for the reveal of the New Glasgow projects and met Rowan on site. Special thanks to our local shop Henry's Hu...
Jul 24, 2024•9 min
Brandon McShad of Yester Daze joins East Coast DNA for a chat about his band, it's foundations, and their new EP, "Nothing, Perfectly" YESTER DAZE satisfies hungry rock audiences across the globe with their deadly combination of hard-hitting stadium rock and underground punk. Whether they are playing in clubs, bars, near or far, Yester Daze delivers larger-than-life performances, pouring their hearts out and leaving it all on stage with electrifying energy and honest lyricism. Soaring choruses a...
Jul 04, 2024•39 min
Ben Murphy of WhiteCap Entertainment joins East Coast DNA host Darcy Walsh for a chat about Cavendish Beach Music Festival 2024. CAVENDISH BEACH MUSIC FESTIVAL is Atlantic Canada’s largest outdoor concert, held at the Cavendish Beach Events Centre in Prince Edward Island, July 5-7, 2024. Come on down to the festival grounds on Thursday, July 4 for the annual kick-off party! Starting at 5pm, enjoy performances by Owen Riegling, Hailey Benedict, and Kylie Fox on the Colliding Tides Kitchen Stage. ...
Jul 02, 2024•13 min
Join East Coast DNA host Darcy Walsh for a chat with one of the key people behind the annual Halifax Jazz Festival, Andrew Jackson. We talk about the event's history, this year's lineup and end with a special treat, a tune from Andrew's discography, Jackson\Wilson Duo's Saturday Sun. About TD Halifax Jazz Festival Since 1987 the TD Halifax Jazz Festival, originally JazzEast Rising, has been a non-profit organization promoting music and education. Organizing the oldest and largest summer festival...
Jun 27, 2024•18 min
Join East Coast DNA host Darcy Walsh for a chat with singer/songwriter Chloé Caroline. Born and raised in Manhattan Beach, California, Chloé Caroline’s music radiates a warm, authentic, SoCal vibe with a subliminal message for people to live their truth and spread their light. Her ultimate goal: for nobody to ever feel alone. After experiencing a life threatening illness at age 11 that left her isolated, she taught herself guitar on YouTube using songwriting as her outlet, and friend. Her sound ...
Jun 25, 2024•32 min
(New Glasgow, NS) The Jubilee is an annual three-day event featuring the best in Canadian and East Coast music, bringing top musical acts to our beautiful outdoor amphitheater on the New Glasgow waterfront. Join East Coast DNA for a chat with Kristi, from The Jubilee organizing committee , as we dive into this year's stacked lineup, the return of a Battle of the Bands and the afternoon all ages event, Carlton's Community Bash. thejubilee.ca intro music "Music in the Background" by Alert the Medi...
Jun 13, 2024•23 min
Dan Cochrane chats with East Coast DNA about the Antigonish Highland Games, to be held July 7-14, 2024 The Antigonish Highland Society was founded in 1861, about 75 years after the Gaels first began arriving on nearby shores. At its first meeting, the new Society elected Dr. Alexander MacDonald as its president and approved the Society’s objectives of perpetuating the language, music and traditions of the Highland Scot and assisting their fellow Gaels in times of need. The Society celebrated St....
Jun 11, 2024•21 min
Between writing his debut Clever Hopes album, Artefact, and the songs that comprise New Kind of Familiar, Andrew Shaver experienced his fair share of significant events—falling in love, moving to Nova Scotia, becoming a father. These are the things occupying his mind on the new record, and yet, they don't exist in a vacuum; Shaver rejects tidy narratives and time's linear arrow, and instead lets the album take shape with the same flow and verve of real life, bouncing back and forth in his lyrics...
Jun 06, 2024•41 min
Art Ross (they/them) and Aaron Green (he/him) come from disparate backgrounds and musical forms, meeting in the middle to comprise a band that’s tender and fierce, exuberant and gentle. Green—a veteran of the Halifax rock scene, the guitar anchor of Floodland and Hello Delaware—and Ross—a trans songwriter with an acoustic guitar—started writing songs together over text, by accident. Pillow Fite emerged publicly at the start of 2021 with its non-binary gender-subverting aesthetics already firmly ...
Jun 04, 2024•39 min
Singer/songwriter Petra Moriarty joins East Coast DNA for a chat about song writing, high school, future prospects., and she brought her guitar to treat us all with a performance of a couple original tunes. 00:16 Petra Moriarty interview Part 1 10:47 Ms. Evil live off the floor performance with Petra Moriarty 13:44 Use Me For Good live off the floor performance with Petra Moriarty 16:18 Petra Moriarty interview Part 2 Catch Petra Moriarty live June 8th in the Battle of the Bands show at Glasgow ...
Jun 02, 2024•24 min
Amy Linders (aka Amy MJ) joins East Coast DNA to chat about her first music festival as organizer., in conjunction with Hosstech Promotions/Hosstech Sound. Listen in while she gives us the details behind Lionessfest Volume One 2o24 (June 21-22, 2024) This is an event designed to highlight women in music and music production. All acts are female led and supported by female sound and light technicians. Lionessfest Volume One 2o24 Tickets available now: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/musicmoun...
May 30, 2024•19 min
The Stan Rogers Folk Festival is a celebration of songwriters honouring one of Canada’s most prolific songwriters, Stan Rogers. The weekend-long musical adventure features a variety of genres, including folk, country, blues, soul, gospel, pop, rock, bluegrass, and world music. Join East Coast DNA host, Darcy Walsh, for a chat with StanFest's executive director, Troy Greencorn, and artistic director, Steve MacIntyre. This year promises some exciting new additions and they've brought the news to u...
May 28, 2024•30 min
The Second annual INGObeach Pride will be held June 28-30 in Ingonish Beach, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and is organized by Ingonish Pride Society in partnership with INGObeach Events and The Youth Group. Festival passes are now on sale at ingobeach.com INGObeach Pride is back to Ingonish in The Cape Breton Highlands National Park with Rêve, Ria Mae and Lemon from Canada’s Drag Race headlining this year’s festival, Tracy & Martina hosting The Main Stage on Friday and performances by Ralph, Mo ...
May 24, 2024•28 min
May 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of Andy Kim’s “Rock Me Gently,” a song absolutely nobody wanted to sign, produce, or play on the radio in the beginning, but here we are, being in top-rated shows, millions of spins around the world, and no stopping all these years later. The record was a massive hit in 1974, going all the way to Number 1 in the U.S. and Number 2 in the U.K. as part of its staggering four-month run on the charts. Even if you weren’t alive back then to experience the song’s ine...
May 17, 2024•41 min
With faces only a mother could love, Darcy and Jesse decided to make the "Jost" of the day and took a Sunday drive to Jost Vineyards. Join East Coast DNA on the road with Jesse Patrick and get a sneak peak into what he has coming up next. With the Mom Market Collective set-up on site, it was the perfect opportunity for Jesse Patrick to share a few tunes while the audience shopped for the perfect Mother's Day gift. The Mom Market Collective hosts year-round events across Canada. Stayed tuned to t...
May 12, 2024•45 min
The East Coast Music Association is excited to introduce this year's ECMAle for the 2024 East Coast Music Awards in Charlottetown, PE. Brewed on the island by Upstreet Craft Brewing in collaboration with other breweries, this special edition beer celebrates the 4th anniversary of the ECMAs Craft Beer Collective partnership.The label for this year, created by ECMA Nominee Jud Haynes, captures the essence of Prince Edward Island. Featuring iconic landmarks like the Confederation Bridge, the design...
May 10, 2024•30 min
Sommo Festival is entering it's second year and East Coast DNA was so eager to get the skinny on this year's Sandbar stage lineup, we stopped to get the update from Taylor Jack directly. Special thanks to PEI Brewing Company for hosting our interview.Intro music Andre Pettipas & the Giants - Definition of a Dweeb; Outro music Andre Pettipas & the Giants - Sin City Already the most anticipated event of the summer, Sommo Festival just became an even hotter ticket with the announcement of t...
May 08, 2024•15 min
The East Coast Music Association (ECMA) appointed its new Chief Executive Officer, Blanche Israël, a Moroccan French Canadian cultural strategist and professional musician who has called Dartmouth, Nova Scotia home since 2019. She began her new role on Friday, March 1, 2024. Join East Coast DNA host Darcy Walsh for a chat with Blanche Israël as we approach ECMA 2024. Israël has had various roles in the arts sector and brings a unique blend of experience to the position. As a consultant for the G...
May 01, 2024•22 min
Join East Coast DNA host Darcy Walsh for a chat with Dyson Knight, Baha Men lead singer, as he releases a solo single through NSCC’s Music Business Program. At Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), everyone in the Music Department is aware of a Bahamian student who has achieved international fame in the music industry. Dyson Knight, integral member of Grammy award-winning group Baha Men (memorable for their international hit single Who Let the Dogs Out?), is enrolled in the college’s Music Produ...
Apr 29, 2024•29 min
NOVAFest 2024: Back and Bold! Join East Coast DNA host Darcy Walsh for a chat with Kelsey and Willum on this year's events. NOVAFest is a month-long music festival celebrating local acts, held at venues across Halifax and Dartmouth, running April 23 to May 23 in 2024. This event is organized by the NSCC Music Arts, Production & Engineering and Music Business students. https://www.eventbrite.ca/cc/novafest-2024-3260249 00:00 Intro featuring Origami Workshop 00:15 Interview with Kelsey and Wil...
Apr 27, 2024•28 min
Halifax indie pop-singer Psiren played a special live show with a full band at Radstorm on Thursday, April 18th, to celebrate the release of his new single "Anhedonia"! Psiren (he/him) is a queer, independent singer, rapper, & producer, presenting thoughtful, passionate, jazz-infused pop and hip-hop vocals over dreamy synths, smooth electric keys, grooving basslines, and funky, hard-hitting drum breaks. His lyrics are emotionally honest, and open about sensitive personal and political topics...
Apr 23, 2024•13 min
After last year's appearance on the Cavendish Beach Music Festival side stage, Nice Horse are coming back to PEI for a main stage performance in 2024. East Coast DNA's host Darcy Walsh sat for a chat with Katie Rox of the country duo. Join in and listen as our conversation ranges from a 90's fueled immortality to her successes with Brandi Sidoryk in Nice Horse, and their upcoming trek back East to visit us all again for CBMF. Nice Horse is a wild, fresh, and fierce pair that has established them...
Apr 18, 2024•35 min
New Brunswick based Dillon Ryan & The Dream Romantic are back with a new album release planned for April 26th. 2024 Dillon Ryan & the Dream Romantic are an infectiously talented and refreshingly distinctive new wave band from the East Coast of Canada. The band is authentically breathing new life into the underexplored genres of new wave, goth and post punk. Their inspiration from the Smiths, Echo & Bunnymen and the Cure is marvelously palpable in their material yet their work remains...
Apr 12, 2024•34 min
Ethan Chitty, a teen from Truro, Nova Scotia is hosting an all ages fundraiser concert on April 6th at the Truro Best Western Glengarry called Food For The Ears. Teen run, all ages, food bank fundraising, independent music concert!?! Sign us up! East Coast DNA slows down to chat with Ethan Chitty ,as his second annual Food For The Ears concert is about to take place, April 6th, 2024 at the Glengarry Best Western (Truro, NS). Join us as we discuss the upcoming event, Ethan's band Still Guys Are, ...
Apr 03, 2024•18 min
Subscribe to @eastcoastdna for more features and bonus music coverage throughout the year. Katelyn Danielle is a singer/songwriter from Pictou County, NS. Influenced by Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers, and Noah Kahan, Katelyn writes intelligently-overthought indie-folk inspired songs with unabashed lyrics and acoustic vibes (with the occasional synth and slide). Katelyn started her journey into music in early 2023 when she started playing at open mic nights under mentorship from local musician Cor...
Mar 22, 2024•34 min
Subscribe to @eastcoastdna for more features and bonus music coverage throughout the year. FM Berlin is a four- piece Alternative Rock band from Moncton, New Brunswick that sounds like The Police and The Strokes made a baby….in space. A bold claim which they own with sing-along indie rock swagger. Recipients of the 2019 Music New Brunswick Artist In Rotation award, FM Berlin were also nominated for two East Coast Music Awards in 2019: Rock Recording and Rising Star Recording of the Year. In 2018...
Mar 15, 2024•33 min
Subscribe to @eastcoastdna for more features and bonus music coverage throughout the year. Alex Coley & Afterlove came to be in a sad song shared between friends at a party, eventually leading to a musical exploration that developed into their six-person sound. Since recording at Conquerall Music, Alex Coley & Afterlove have celebrated a handful of sold out shows including their debut at the Duckworth Barn in March of 2023 and a sold out show at the Carleton in Halifax, Nova Scotia in No...
Mar 08, 2024•30 min
