After visiting Halifax Pop Explosion last year to sit on a Blogger panel at the conference element of the festival and to cover it for TLOBF, this year I will be returning to present an Oh! Canada showcase featuring Snailhouse, The Provincial Archive, Giant Hand and Paper Beat Scissors at The Bus Stop Theatre, Halifax on Friday October 21st.

Find out more about all of the acts at The Line of Best Fit. The Screenprint has been produced by Nick Rhodes of Switchopen

The latest edition of Oh! Canada, the series of compilations showcasing the best in new Canadian music went live today at TLOBF. Once again my thanks to all those involved in making it possible. I hope you enjoy it, and please share it around!

Go to The Line of Best Fit to download it now for FREE

I covered Incubate Festival in Tilburg for The Line of Best Fit. You can read all about it here

End of the Road always means the end of Summer for me, and the culmination of a years worth of listening to new bands as part of my role as the head of the ‘Play End of the Road’ stream of the festival. I was also there with Camera in hand, and had images published in both Stoolpigeon and The Line of Best Fit (Friday , Saturday, and Sunday)

For a full gallery of images from End of The Road see FLICKR

CBC Radio 2 broadcast Sarah McDougall’s set from Dawson City Music Festival was broadcast as part of their Concerts on Demand Series. The post about the show included a gallery of my images from the show. You can listen on demand and view the gallery over at CBC Radio 2′s On Demand Homepage

You can view more images from Dawson City Music Festival on FLICKR

I am delighted to announce Nick Rhodes of Switchopen has produced a limited edition poster for Josh T Pearson’s End of the Road Festival appearance in 2011 using one of my images.

The image is also being used as the frontcover of “The King is Dead”, a 1000 only official vinyl bootleg of Josh’s Union Chapel Show.

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I attended Dawson City Music Festival in the Yukon for The Line of Best Fit and Exclaim. You can read about the adventure here as Oh! Canada’s road trip hits part 6

My image of Rich Aucoin emerging from the crowd (above) was also used as the lead image in Exclaim’s live section both in print and online

I also embarked on an adventure with the guys from Shout Out Out Out Out and Lisa Christiansen. The SOOOO boys were good enough to record it as part of their tour video. You can see our Klondike adventure by following this link to Shout Out Out Out Out’s website (Part 4)

One of my images was subsequently used for the frontcover of the Klondike Sun (Click to read PDF)

A full set of images from Dawson City can be seen on FLICKR

On July 8,9,10, Stanley Park hosted the Summer Live series with shows from the likes of Dan Mangan, The New Pornographers and Neko Case amongst others. I was there shooting and writing the latest in the Oh! Canada roadtrip series, which can be read at The Line of Best Fit

The lead image from this set is included in the handwritten lyric booklet that comes with the limited edition version of Dan Mangan’s new album Oh! Fortune
Dan also posted a gallery of photos from the event on his website.

More photos from Vancouver 125 Summer Live are available on Flickr, with full photo sets from The New Pornographers and Dan Mangan

I will be in the CBC Radio 3 studios with Tariq on July 8th (12.30pm PST/ 8.30pm GMT) discussing Oh! Canada, my work with CIMA and Canadian Blast in Europe and the poll question of the day: “What Do You Do To Recharge Your Batteries?”

You can listen live at CBC RADIO 3 ONLINE

A gallery of my images were used on Canada’s CBC Radio 3 posting about Canada Day in Berlin