ARCTIC performance at NewMusicWest 2007
ARCTIC performed a full band show as part of the NewMusicWest festival at the Backstage Lounge on Thursday, May 3.
ARCTIC performed a full band show as part of the NewMusicWest festival at the Backstage Lounge on Thursday, May 3.
This May/June, ARCTIC will hit the road for a month-long cross-country Band Expedition. Confirmed dates are: May 10: Wired Monk, Vancouver, BC May 13: The Gaslight, Regina, SK May 14: Mondragon, Winnipeg, MB May 15: The Apollo, Thunder Bay, ON May 16: Loplop’s, Sault Ste Marie, ON May 17: Tranzac, Toronto, ON (Marcus Martin solo)…
Marcus sitting in with local favorites The Compassion Pills for a string of hometown gigs. These performances are serving as warm-ups for an exciting adventure: a tour of Hungary this August. Blues From Beyond the Yukon – Hungary 2025 The band will be bringing their northern blues sound to four venues across Hungary: augusztus 1. – Ördögkatlan…
On Saturday, September 22, 2007 Punchface Propaganda Machine presents Make the Lion, ARCTIC, and Orchid Highway at Hoko’s (362 Powell Street, Vancouver). Doors open at 8pm, cover is $5. All ages! Make the Lion: “Make the Lion’s versatile and engaging mix of post Radiohead prog-psychadelia and the raw energy of bands such as nirvana and…
VANCOUVER, BC – May 25, 2006 – Last year, Yellowknife native Marcus Martin performed an intimate ARCTIC solo show at Toronto’s Art Bar for North by Northeast, after which Being There magazine declared, “you would think you were in a venue at least four times the size”. This year, ARCTIC returns to North by Northeast,…
Kirsten Starcher, ARCTIC’s bassist and keyboard player, recently accompanied Bird to Prey at Toronto’s annual North by Northeast music festival. The showcase was held at Cameron House, and was filled to capacity. Bird To Prey is singer/songwriter Sarah Turk from the remote town of Fremantle, Western Australia, who mixes “folk, a little bit of blues…
Marcus Martin will be sitting in with The Compassion Pills, opening for the Snotty Nose Rez Kids at a powerful protest concert in Carmacks, Yukon. The event, organized by Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation, brought artists and community members together to raise awareness about the Eagle Gold Mine disaster and call for stronger environmental protections following the recent cyanide leak.