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EDITOR Lee Ann Atwater
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We officially kick off Summer for 2025 with our Napier Outdoors Destination Series and continue our Sounds of Summer Series with our Sun, Songs & Sociables project, spotlighting some of the best music festivals in the Maritimes this summer. Two of those festivals are happening on the Saint John’s Waterfront. We had the opportunity to connect with Ray Gracewood, President, and Darcy LeBlanc, Operations Director of the Boxcar Country Music Festival and AREA 506 Festival. We discuss the AREA 506 Festival’s decade of music and culture in Saint John and what is in store for Uptown this summer’s celebration. Halfiax-born, genre-blending artist, Maggie Andrew, will be performing this year at AREA 506, so we thought it was the perfect opportunity to continue our conversation with Maggie, which began last year at the Sommo Festival for this issue’s Emerging Artist Spotlight Series segment. Maggie schools us on how to sing for money and mean every word. We also reconnect with Peter “Pete” Cole, President, and Krystle Ford, General Manager of the Big Axe Brewery in Nackawic, New Brunswick, to chat about the major changes over the past five years, but more importantly, what’s stayed consistent: a love for craft beer, community, and creating a destination that feels as familiar as your favourite pint. Then we were off to the Miramichi to sit down with Natasha Fulton of Down East Comfort Bed and Breatfest to talk about leaving her corporate life behind to open a bed and breakfast in New Brunswick and how she wasn’t just chasing a dream - she was creating a home in the region that had always pulled at her heart. Next, we head to the middle of Placentia Bay, where a former outport now offers one of Newfoundland’s most distinctive tourism experiences. We spoke with Brian Seward, the current owner, along with the founder and original owner, Loyola Pomroy, of Woody Island Resort, about the past, present, and future of this off-grid island retreat. From Atlantic Canada’s largest province to its smallest, for a Q&A session with Mark Rodd, President of Rodd Hotels & Resorts. Mark talks about the company’s remarkable milestone this year, celebrating 90 years as a family-owned business, with seven properties across Atlantic Canada and headquarters in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and how the company continues to build on its legacy of Rodd hospitality My team and I want to thank everyone who made this issue possible. We look forward to sharing more stories about growing industries, successful businesses, brands, events, and the entrepreneurs making it all happen.
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