Something in the Water

On the 5th of February, 2011, photographer Anna Karpinski gathered the musicians of Charlottetown, PEI, Canada together for a historic photo shoot (ala. Art Kane’s 1958 photo ‘A Great Day in Harlem’.)

This video installation by Millefiore Clarkes onethousandflowers.tv documents the occasion.

This video, the photograph, and other related artworks were exhibited at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in the show Warming Up. confederationcentre.com/​en/​exhibitions-archive-read-more.php?exhibition=21

Featuring music by Racoon Bandit myspace.com/​racoonbandit
and Milks and Rectangles milksandrectangles.bandcamp.com

small town sessions online

two songs.one take.

a new session every wednesday

watch them here

“Small Town Sessions is a project aimed
to celebrate the incredible artistic
energy that is fostered by a small place,
like Charlottetown. It isn’t always natural
talent that creates
wonderful artwork but the community
and environment that nurtures it,”
-Becka Viau

for more info visit here

this town is small would like to acknowledge the support of:  
PEI Community Cultural Partnership Program   of the Tourism,
Culture and Libraries Division of the P.E.I. Government, 
and the Island Media Arts Coop for their support towards this project.

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written by Adam Gallant

A strong sense of community is fundamental to me when it comes to arts development.  When artists bring their work together, along with a pile of brilliance, competitiveness and critical comparison surface.  This is one of the many reasons I was, and will continue doing, compilation albums of some nature.  The project I currently have on my brain is an all-locals covers album.  The concept is for a handful of bands/artists to draw each other’s name from a hat and record a cover of one song from that group or artist’s catalog.  I feel the participants should have creative freedom to shape the piece in anyway they see fit and to have a pile of fun in the process.

The great sense of community we share in Charlottetown is reinforced by these types of projects.  Last year I had the benefit of putting together a ramshackle Christmas album with some of our favorite locals.  A few dozen emails and a dozen quick and dirty recording sessions brought to life the 13 Days of Xmas.  This year, I’ve decided to release it online - http://adamgallant.ca/.  I hope this distribution method will lend itself to more of a listening experience rather than a gift giving one.