The Aquinian

Everybody and their Hungry Hearts

Hungry Hearts stacked up. Their next show will be on the STU campus as part of Welcome Week. (Submitted)

“1, 2, 3… 4,” says Adam Guidry before tossing a tiny egg shaker in the air, leaping off a chair to catch it, and flailing across the ground. It’s his third miss in a row, and his band, the Hungry Hearts, have started to grow weary with his coordination incompetence. “Did you forget how to [...]


A Summer in Fredericton

Intiar practicing in her room. (Mami Osanai/AQ)

Khairunnisa Intiar spends a summer away from her home in Indonesia When you think of Fredericton you don’t really think about summer, so the prospect of spending the summer there was scary at first. When April came rolling in, and all my friends started telling me their awesome summer plans, I started to worry that [...]


The Aquinian Back-2-Skool Mix

Set your alarms! Sharpen your pencils! Chug the rest of your Dooryard! Pull out your pullovers! It’s the first week of September! AHHHHH. Some of you are celebrating your last year here. Others are gearing up for a victory lap. And some of you are kickin’ it on campus for the very first time. Welcome [...]


Harvest Winter Blues ends on a high note

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Corey Harris, a former Harvest Jazz and Blues headliner, will be at Dolan’s on April 8th to wrap up Harvest Winter Blues.


STU Jazz celebrates centenary with second CD

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“Fast Forward” recorded on campus in the Kinsella Auditorium Jacob Hodgin fell in love with me at a STU Jazz concert in our first year. It was late November and we arrived at the auditorium late. We waited outside of the doors until we heard applause then made our way inside. The audience became silent [...]


Meaning and the medium in music

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From vinyl records to mp3s, music has changed. But does how we listen to music effect what we get from it? Elizabeth Sullivan – The Aquinian – What does music mean to you? Don’t just think about the individual artist or the genres. What does having music on your computer, having CD’s, and having digital [...]


Harrington Hall releases debut album

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Danie Pitre – The Aquinian – Forget Guitar Hero, STU’s got more talent than you can shake a Wii remote at. George Martin Hall was the scene of last Friday night’s open mic night and release party for “Motion Parallax” a CD put together by various musicians from Harrington with proceeds going to Camp Triumph. [...]


Our Lady Peace (theAQ.net exclusive)

Diane Cole at the meet and greet with Our Lady Peace (Diane Cole/AQ)

Diane Cole – Aquinian – I first discovered Our Lady Peace when I was 12. Their music was unlike anything I was listening to at that time. Granted, I was slightly obsessed with the Spice Girls, so anything was a departure. Nonetheless, I knew there was something special about these guys. Eleven years later, I [...]


Band dances to the beat of several different drums

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Ontario’s Pick a Piper bring unique drum styling to The Capital on March 12.


Musician stresses importance of arts through residency

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Tara Chislett – The Aquinian One of the last things Olivia Brayley Quackenbush ever thought she would do was play French horn in a Finnish Orchestra. The only Canadian, Quackenbush didn’t speak Finnish and couldn’t understand what the instructor was saying when they weren’t playing. But when the conductor lifted his hands and the musicians [...]


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