Stevie Connor

By Stevie Connor | The Sound Cafe Journal Photo Credit: Anne Connor. The Space Between the Songs: James Keelaghan and the Art of Festival Curation How one conversation backstage in New Brunswick led to more than a decade of Summerfolk, lasting friendships, extraordinary music and a front-row seat to the often invisible art of bringing the right artists together. There are moments in life that don't necessarily feel important when they happen. A conversation. A chance meeting. An invitation.

By Stevie Connor | The Sound Cafe Journal There are moments when a project you've been working on for years suddenly becomes something you can actually hold in your hands. For us at The Sound Cafe Journal, that moment arrived this week in the form of T-shirts, hoodies and business cards. And, appropriately enough, it happened right here in Port Credit. A few months ago, we made a pretty significant change to The Sound Cafe. The name stayed. The heart stayed. The commitment to music stayed.

Stevie Connor 36 minutes ago 8 min read By Stevie Connor | The Sound Cafe Journal Cape Breton has never been particularly interested in letting its music sit quietly in the past. The fiddle tunes may have travelled across oceans. The stories may have been carried from Scotland, France and elsewhere to the shores of Nova Scotia. Families have passed melodies from one generation to the next, often without anyone thinking of themselves as preserving anything at all. They were simply playing.