Bernadette Armstrong is on a mission. Recognizing the impact the pandemic was having on small theater, the playwright put her creative and problem-solving efforts into finding a way to get her play out into the public.
WITH the majority of the country sunning themselves in the embers of the summer holidays in a council field somewhere this week, Ireland’s artists have made sure that there's plenty of new music to add to the playlists. Rather than get bogged down in festival lines-ups this week, Northern Winds curates your perfect end-of-summer playlist with new records and tracks from some of the best independent homegrown artists that we have on the scene. ROE: Cut My TeethThe newest single from her debut album due out this September, Derry’s ROE has been introspective on her last few records. This track follows the formula but adds a new twist, with beautiful string arrangements paired with a raw vocal/piano performance. Always a songwriter who could make the personal universal, ROE’s latest has some throwback elements to the ballad dominance of pop in the mid-2000s and is the strongest yet from her burgeoning album campaign.
For Brooklyn-based photographer Nadia Sablin, many of her childhood memories took place in Russia. In the small village of Alekhovshchina, which lies five hours north of St. Petersburg where Sablin was born and raised before she moved to the States, reside her two aunties who still maintain the house that was originally built by their father (Sablin’s grandfather) in the early 1900's. Over seven consecutive summers, Sablin stayed with her aunties and began a project chronicling the lives and rituals of these two elderly, unmarried sisters with her lens. What unfolds in her photographs is a touching tale of sisterly love, familial bonds, and land as a means of survival.