Song Circle Series: Carleton Stone, Steve MacDougall, Christine Campbell

Carleton Stone:
Stone is an award-winning artist, a songwriter with a growing list of credits, and a founding member of the hugely successful Port Cities. In 2021, he added producer to his list of accomplishments with Willie Stratton’s award-winning Drugstore Dreaming, his self-produced Papercut and in 2023, tracks on Maggie Andrew’s DAY JOB.

An outstanding writer, Carleton has written songs for and with such diverse artists as Ria Mae, Matt Andersen, The East Pointers, Quake, Maggie Andrew, Donovan Woods, Classified, Bobby Bazini, and Neon Dreams.

Carleton has three solo records to his credit, multiple awards, and has toured internationally, most recently on several tours in the US with The Crash Test Dummies.

Steven MacDougall:
The much-anticipated solo album of Slowcoaster rocker Steven MacDougall displays a side of this staunch Cape Bretoner which is seldom witnessed amid the full band’s bouncing stage. From the playful banter of “Little Miracle” to the haunting tale of “Stove Pipe” to its lilting title track, all of Spanish Bay provides a deeper sense of this talented writer and musician than we’ve heard before.

He ushers in his intrinsic, honest lyrics with gentle piano and classical guitar. MacEachern’s words have an almost Michael Stipe feel; the songs have an enigmatic tone about them — at once sardonic, hopeful, sarcastic, despondent, cheerful. And after hearing many of the songs live for so long, it’s nice to just cuddle up and fade away with them.

Christine Campbell:
Christine Campbell is one half of the award-winning blues duo Campbell & Johnson, a phenomenal guitar player, and a true student of the blues. The duo’s new album “Paisley Hearts”, released in the Spring of 24’, is already hitting the airwaves throughout Canada, the U.K. and U.S. via radio platforms like CBC. Along with making it into the #3 slot on The Roots Music Report’s Top 50 Canada Album Charts.