Instrumental News

Halifax singer/songwriter Joel Plaskett led a big night for East Coast musicians at the fifth annual Canadian Folk Music Awards on Saturday.

The dedication of the $31 million Craven County Judicial Center at Clarks is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, with public tours following official remarks.

Ironhorse Music Group LLC producer/recording artist DougSimpson's EP Sketches - The Instrumentals is available now as a free download via IHMG website.

Talk to Mark O'Connor, fiddler extraordinaire and sometime collaborator with Yo Yo Ma, and you glimpse not only where music has been but where it's going.

Disney Precious Collections, the fine-jewelry line for children, will be featured in a new exhibition featuring 600 original artworks instrumental in the development of some of Disney's most beloved animated features.

A high school baseball coach who broke a freshman player's hand with a pitch during batting practice has been found guilty of negligence.

The David Teetzel Literacy Award honours the memory of a respected and beloved former York Region Media Group editor and writer.

Carnatic instrumental music attracts a larger audience, if the artists adopt a vocalist approach.

The NAACP will hold its Freedom Fund Banquet/100th Year Celebration at Halifax County Senior High School on Saturday at 6 p.m. Featured speaker will be the Rev.

Some of this year's holiday releases seem like deja vu all over again, either because of the talent involved or themes that evoke the ghosts of crowd-pleasers past.

Ah, stick season, that wonderful time of year when the ground is as bare as the trees, the temperature begins to drop precipitously, and the only excited people around these parts are anxious hunters champing at the bit.

Glenwood School fifth grade students vote in the annual Let's Vote program sponsored by the PTO Conference and the Social Studies department of the Millburn Public Schools.

POP star and reality TV show winner Matt Willis will switch on the Christmas lights in Basildon this year.

This week's big show is Saturday's Halloween spectacular music/variety edition of "Radio From Downtown" at the historic Avalon Theatre in Easton .

Tested in animal models, the system could dramatically advance scientists' understanding of the relationship between metabolic disorders and heart rhythm disturbances in humans that can lead to cardiac arrest and death, and provide a platform for testing new treatments to prevent or stop potentially fatal irregular heartbeats, known as arrhythmias.

Al Caiola is a guitarist who initially made his reputation as a session musician, playing on records made by Percy Faith and Andre Kostelanetz, among others.

An unknown number of Atlantic salmon have escaped from a fish farm in the Broughton Archipelago, said Marine Harvest Canada.

Can you believe that it is already time to start thinking about Christmas 2009 shopping? The little ones in the one year to two-year group can be quite a challenge.

When "Mastodon" and "Megan Fox" are used in the same sentence, it's usually because a chemically-enhanced dude is describing the imaginary bounties of metalhead heaven.

A SWANSEA fashion show has helped a homelessness charity add more than 10,000 to its funds.