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Levee on the Lake prepares for summer festival after winning second East Coast Music Award

Stacey Read (left) and Shelley Chase, organizers of the Levee on the Lake, were honoured with the East Coast Music Award for Event of the Year on Sunday, May 18, 2022. Photo: Screenshot: facebook.com/leveeonthelake.

A Sackville festival has been honoured with an East Coast Music Award for the second consecutive year.

On May 8, Levee on the Lake was named Event of the Year at the awards event in Fredericton. 

The festival is happening in Sackville again this summer from August 18 to 21. 

It began in 2020, after the COVID-19 crisis wiped out the live music scene.

For that event, music lovers were physically-distanced in boats, with a paddle-up stage at Silver Lake. Last year, the festival moved onto dry land at Lillas Fawcett Park. 

For more on the festival, CHMA spoke to organizers Shelley Chase and Stacey Read. 

This report includes music performed by some of the artists on this year’s festival lineup, including the Barra MacNeils, Ivan Hicks, the Sacred Wolf Singer and Jud Gunning, whose version of Deep River Blues wraps up the show. 

You can see the festival’s full line up at leveeonthelake.com.

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July 10: Students concerned about rising costs at Mount A

Mount Allison Student Union president Jon Ferguson is concerned about the combined challenge of rising residence and tuition costs for students. Photo: Facebook.

On today’s CHMA daily news:

  • Students concerned about rising costs in residence fees and tuition;
  • Sackville town council to consider support for two summer events;
  • Chiefs disappointed in Premier after meeting on systemic racism inquiry;
  • New Brunswick’s border form is now online;
  • Assault at the border weigh scale;
  • and the COVID numbers update.

Click to listen:

CHMA Daily News, July 10, 2020

COVID numbers

New Brunswick Public Health reported one new case of COVID-19 on Wednesday.

A man in his forties from Zone 3, the large region surrounding Fredericton, has tested positive.

Officials say it is a travel-related case, and the man is self-isolating.

Just over 1900 test results were reported in the province in the past week, about 400 short of the threshold recommended by Chief Medical Officer of Health Jennifer Russell in May.

Prince Edward Island officials also reported one new case of COVID-19 yesterday.

Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Heather Morrison says the latest case is a close contact of someone in the cluster of cases discovered last weekend.

A man in his 20’s originally tested negative, but then developed mild symptoms Wednesday and was tested again.

PEI now has six active cases of COVID-19.

Nova Scotia announced no new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday.

The province has four active cases.

Worldwide, daily new cases are still on the rise, with the US reporting the most—over 60,000—new cases yesterday.… Continue