Editor’s Spotlight
MANAGING DIRECTOR Rod Gregg EDITOR Lee Ann Atwater ACCOUNTS & ADMIN Calli Gregg COMMUNICATION, RESEARCH & ADMIN Tristyn Gaudette Jill McGuire EDITORIAL & PROJECT MANAGER
Most of our readers recently experienced the solar eclipse, which offered a spectacular total solar eclipse visible across parts of North America, from Mexico to Canada. Now we shift our focus to a rising star from Prince Edward Island, Canada with island-born and raised country music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and self-professed tomboy Alli Walker. We sat down with Alli in Nashville to chat about her incredible journey that started as a love for bagpiping before finding her passion for singing late in high school and moving to Toronto to find herself and develop as an artist before taking her pipes and big dreams to Music City and signing her first record deal. Now Alli’s single “I Like Big Trucks” is blowing up on radio stations in the US and Canada and her new single “Creek” will be hitting the airwaves and streaming sites soon. Many of our readers look to put a music festival on their to-do list every summer, so we share our annual North American Big Summer Music Festival Bucket List Finalists to spotlight the best of the best music festivals in our opinion, from Washington to Newfoundland that are bucket list-worthy for 2024. Looking for entertainment on a smaller scale? We sat down with Ship’s Company Theatre’s Artistic Director Laura Vingoe-Cram. As the crew gets ready to celebrate 40 Years of Atlantic Canadian Theatre on board the MV Kipawo, we discuss what is on the playbill for this season of celebration and the next 40 years of this amazing rural theater in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia that has been passionate about highlighting artists, stories, and communities anchored in the Atlantic region. We sat down with the General Manager of the Old Orchard Inn, James Clouthier to chat about the inn’s historic past, what it offers its guests today, and what developments are in store for the future. We also spoke about the initiatives that the region’s premier accommodation is doing to promote tourism in the Land of Orchards, Vineyards, and Tides. For over a decade, Jason Harder honed his keen eye for detail by creating software for scheduling healthcare workers into his first business. But after a visit to Cape Breton, he became enamoured with the land, the ocean, and the people. Jason explains how his love for Cape Breton grew into his second business, Waves End RV & Campground which is a little paradise nestled between mountains and overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Our 2024 Craft Brewing and Distilling Series continues as we spotlight the recently held Revelstoke Beer Festival and Together We Brew NS Beerfest along with the upcoming TAPPED Truro Craft Beer Fest and the Calgary International Beerfest, which is one of the largest events of the year for the industry. As always, my team and I want to thank everyone who made this issue possible, and we look forward to sharing more stories about growing industries, successful businesses, and brands, and the entrepreneurs making it all happen. Lee Ann Atwater Editor
Ashley Davis Kate Lindsay CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Cortney Ellis Jody Euloth Shannon Ferguson Will Gibson Deborah Jaremko Ashley MacInnis Kris McCarthy Ryan Myson Teresa Siqueira
Elizabeth Spencer Amanda Stellisano WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT Joe Uttaro GRAPHIC & LAYOUT DESIGN Misha Mahmood Bailee Oderkirk Brittany Pickrem Aryana Shah SOCIAL MEDIA Troy Gregg PUBLISHER AIDACA Media ALLI WALKER COVER IMAGE - Lee Zavitz
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