Featured Artist Archive

Shauntay Grant is a Nova Scotian writer, spoken word performer, broadcast journalist and musician. She is Halifax's third Poet Laureate (2009/10), and has shared her vibrant blend of poetry and music internationally at festivals and events.

Shauntay regularly conducts arts workshops for youth and adults. Her original works have been broadcast nationally on CBC Radio, CBC Television and Vision Television.Read more

When you think of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the name Jon Mullane may not spring to mind. But his music may very well remind you of that event because his song “Make You Move” was featured on an NBC commercial promoting the summer Olympics.

The NBC spot also aired on The Tonight Show, Conan O’Brian and Carson Daly. After that, a lot of people knew Jon Mullane’s music.Read more

Mary Louise Martin

"In the creative process I find a quiet calm, and see my creativity as a warm fire giving soul and heart its own mind."

Mary Louise is from Millbrook First Nation, although she now makes her home on Pender Island in British Columbia.Read more

A resident of the Chapel Island Indian Reservation in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Charles works in multiple mediums, including sculpture, painting, goldsmithing, and poetry, although he is primarily known for sculpture. Charles works conceptually, with an idea determining the method and medium of the resulting piece. His work is in the collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Mount Saint Vincent University, the Indian Art Centre-Ottawa, and the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Park. Some of his works - made in situ, or from rapidly perishable materials - are not saleable.Read more

A seventh generation Mi'kmaq from the Kedgemakooge area of Nova Scotia, Todd is dedicated to nurturing his people's culture and traditions. He makes drums, baskets, rock etchings, waltes games and is a self-taught builder of birch bark canoes. Todd recently completed his first full-size birch bark canoe, for the Bear River First Nations cultural centre. This work was aided by his recent experience assisting a well-known canoe builder in Quebec. Todd and his father have worked for years to revive this almost forgotten tradition.Read more

Like the long forgotten secret ingredient of authentic rock and roll, Carmen Townsend is reanimating rock fans town by town across Canada with an intensely unforgettable live show. At once homage to canonical rock monsters of yesteryears, Carmen's music hits on something a little more raw and primal. With an eerily unique and powerful wail and a guitar sound that  resonates like a 1975 GTO, it's not unusual to find yourself shaking and soaked when the lights come on after her show.Read more