The Overcast’s Big Townie Tunes series is a sampler of all albums longlisted each year for the Borealis Music Prize. By featuring one song off all the longlisted albums, Big Townie Tunes acts as an archive for every year in local (Newfoundland) music.
The 5-album shortlist for the 2016 Borealis Music Prize will be revealed tomorrow, in December’s print issue, and online here tomorrow night.
For now, sample 25 local favourite releases from Nov. 2015- Nov. 2016. (Note: Only albums with 6 songs or more are eligible for the award, and compilation)
Hi Stan. Born and raised in Carbonear and loved the Land and Sea show. I have an old ringer washer…
We were confronted by a corner brook man in our own mainlander home in ontario recently. I was told by…
Had to write 1000 times we did. "I will not play Tidley in the school yard." Window got broke.
I had Mrs Brophy for music I grade 8 at Our Lady of Mercy in St John’s. I, along with…
I went to to St. John’s this September and tried Adelaide’s kimchi……. Ummm since then I have searched high and…