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Fredericton Benefit Concert Offers Strong Response To Local Tragedy

A band of Maritime musicians aided by local radio stations affiliated with Bell Media and Newcap Radio are working together to organize and promote a unity concert for four people, including two co

Fredericton Benefit Concert Offers Strong Response To Local Tragedy

By FYI Staff

A band of Maritime musicians aided by local radio stations affiliated with Bell Media and Newcap Radio are working together to organize and promote a unity concert for four people, including two constables, shot dead in Fredericton on August 10.


Fredericton Strong Benefit Concert is to be staged Oct. 6 at the 4200-capacity Aitken University Centre with an initial line-up that includes Matt Mays, Matt Andersen & The Mellotones, Classified, Neon Dreams, and Tristan Horncastle. The city’s own David Myles will MC the event.

Organizers say that additional performers are to be announced in the coming days.

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Tickets will go on sale on Wednesday, Aug. 29 at 10 am at the Aitken Centre box office

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Catherine O'Hara attends the U.K. premiere of 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' at Cineworld Leicester Square on Aug. 29, 2024, in London.
Catherine O'Hara attends the U.K. premiere of 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' at Cineworld Leicester Square on Aug. 29, 2024, in London.
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Obituaries: Canadian Comedy Queen Catherine O'Hara, Pioneering Reggae Drummer/Producer Sly Dunbar

This week we also acknowledge the passing of Canadian jazz trombonist and composer Ian McDougall, Toronto bassoonist Jeff Burke and American percussionist Mingo Lewis.

Catherine O’Hara, an award-winning Canadian comic actor and screenwriter known for her roles in acclaimed comedy series SCTV and Schitt's Creek plus such hit movies as Home Alone and Beetlejuice, died on Jan. 30, at age 71.

An obituary in Billboard reported that "O’Hara died at her home in Los Angeles 'following a brief illness,' according to a statement from her agency, CAA."

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