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Parading through the Boyce Farmers’ Market: a pack of wolves
Montreal indie rockers Wolf Parade, are actually mostly from British Columbia.Vocalist Spencer Krug attended Concordia and moved to Montreal where he met up with fellow bandmate Dan Boeckner and proceeded to form the indie rock heavy weight, Wolf Parade. Andrew Meade/ The Brunswickan Alison Clack Arts Editor The Boyce Farmers’ Market saw a busier Sunday than the Saturday market is used to. This past Sunday, one of Canada’s best kept musical secrets, Montreal indie rockers Wolf Parade, played the unusual venue for a packed audience. The venue is not a traditional stop for concerts other than the occasional show by ‘80s cover band Pretty in Pink – to whom Wolf Parade gave an unexpected shout out after seeing that they were one of the only other bands to have played there. Dan Boeckner and Spencer Krug, the
band’s founding members and creative team, commented that the band had played the Market twice as many times as they had – which they said was twice if anyone in the audience couldn’t figure that out. The crowd seemed to be a good gauge of the show. During the opening band, Contrived, the audience was engaged but it seemed that only about a third of the market’s audience seemed to be pushing to the front of the stage, with another third calmly watching and the final third milling about the back chatting and drinking with friends. The band themselves put on a good show despite the quality of the vocalist’s mic being a little off. Whether it was the market’s acous-
tics or the sound mixing, the singer could not be clearly heard over the guitar riffs and the pounding bass drum. Despite the audience’s appreciation for their music, a number of people questioned the band’s heavier ending as a lead in to headliners Wolf Parade. After a set change that seemed to take forever Wolf Parade finally took the stage. At this point it seemed like the venue’s entire crowd surged forward toward the stage. Even the crowd members who shuffled back and forth between the bar and the stage during Contrived seemed set on carving out a spot in the crowd for themselves during Wolf Parade.
great and unique opportunity for non-profits to raise much needed funds to support their programs and services, beyond the usual requests for donations,” explains Scott. At print time AIDS NB were not yet certain of how much money had been raised in the night. Wolf Parade’s set went the show was amazing. The audience was beyond excited as a band of that calibre rarely make their way through Fredericton. The excitement seemed to be felt by the band too as Boeckner referred to the audience as “sweet” near the end of their set and seemed genuinely appreciative of the audience, coming out and shaking hands after the band left the stage.
The bar was being run by AIDS NB and all funds the bar earned over the course of the night went to support the organization’s work. “AIDS NB was asked by our friends at Sonic to take care of bar sales so that they could have the Wolf Parade concert at the Market. In order to get a special events permit to sell alcohol at the Market you need to host a fundraiser,” said Nick Scott, executive director of AIDS NB. A number of other events held at the Market have had similar fundraisers supporting the Fredericton Food Bank and the Chalmers Foundation at Pretty in Pink shows. “Concerts at the Farmers’ Market are a
Science students rescued: ancillary fees frozen Hilary Paige Smith News Reporter The provincial government has decided to freeze ancillary fees for the 2010-2011 school year. Donald Arseneault, minister of postsecondary education, training and labour, confirmed the decision with UNBSU president Jon O’Kane by telephone from the provincial legislature last week and encouraged him to spread the word, O’Kane said. The decision to freeze ancillary fees came after an extensive period of lobbying by
the UNB Student Union in response to the administration’s plan to implement an ancillary fee for science and math students. The proposed fees were announced in February and would have totaled $260 for the average first year science student. The fees would also have applied to engineering and business students taking first year math. The SU passed a motion in late January to lobby at the provincial level to gain control over ancillary fees. Council agreed that ancillary fees are unfair, especially during a tuition freeze when fees are supposed to be frozen. “[After the science fees were announced]
we started having conversations with people in government talking university funding in general, but about how these ancillary fees are the sneaky way of indirectly raising tuition during a tuition freeze,” O’Kane said on Monday. He called the decision “timely,” because the board of governors will soon be meeting to finalize budget decisions. O’Kane said the province has agreed to supplement the income the ancillary fees would have brought in for the university. The province will be including the ancillary fees in the funds they’ve dedicated along with the tuition freeze and the university’s
operating grant. The SU president called the decision “fantastic news.” “This is a great example of legislators listening…We were getting a lot of positive feedback on the idea, but nothing had been confirmed…People listened, it worked and luckily we won’t see any fees go up next year,” O’Kane said. O’Kane also said members of this year’s council and council for the coming year are excited about the province’s decision. At the time of the decision, the science ancillary fees were the only fees announced. O’Kane said he was unsure if any
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other fees were planned, but that science students especially seem thrilled about the removal of the proposed fees. O’Kane was unsure about the future of ancillary fees on campus, but said a precedent has been set for future years. “It’s a victory for now, but there is still a lot of work to be done to make sure that it’s a sustained victory and that ancillary fees join the conversation regulation,” he said. The SU has put forward a proposal to different levels of government to use an Ontario university model of managing fees in which the province regulates tuition rates and ancillary fees are under student control.
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