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Fredericton’s Harvest Music Festival today announced that Canadian indie rocker Matt Mays of Dartmouth has been added to the Saturday Blues Tent schedule on September 17. Mays and his band will join The Record Company, who move into the closing spot following the withdrawal of JJ Grey & Mofro from the festival this week.

“Matt Mays is the act to match the onstage energy and audience connection that the Record Company is famous for delivering,” said Brent Staeben, Harvest Music Programmer. “Every time Matt has played Harvest, he’s delivered a rip-roaring and memorable performance.  My memories of his shows are as much about the wild crowd response as they are about the band’s performance. There’s a special connection there between Matt and his audiences and that makes him a perfect fit for a show with The Record Company.”

Mays fills in on the Saturday schedule vacated by JJ Grey & Mofro, who due to unforeseen circumstances are unable to attend this year’s festival.

“We’re sad for all of us fans of JJ Grey who were looking forward to another great Mofro show,” said Staeben. “But we know that Matt Mays has exactly what we need to keep the party going on Harvest Saturday night.”

Mays and his band will take to the Blues Tent stage Saturday September 17th for a full 90 minute show at 8pm, with The Record Company closing the night at 10pm. Tickets are $65.00 plus fees and HST, and will be on sale today as of 10:00am Atlantic, available here or by calling 1-888-311-9090. Ultimate Passholders and Saturday Passholders can also access this show. While Ultimate Passes have sold out, a limited number of Saturday Passes remain on sale.

For those already holding JJ Grey tickets or Saturday Passes, nothing has changed and those tickets and passes will be honored at the door. For those interested in a refund, they are available upon request up until Friday August 12th. To request a refund, please contact Ticketpro at info@ticketpro.ca.

The 2022 Harvest Music Festival takes place this September 13-18, featuring The War On Drugs, Blue Rodeo, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, William Prince, The Record Company, Kathleen Edwards, Andy Frasco & The U.N., and more. 

We’ve moved!

We’re excited to have relocated to a new office space on Queen Street. Moving forward, our business and mailing address is:

Harvest Music Festival

346 Queen Street, Unit 105

Fredericton, NB E3B 1B2

Please update your records with our new address. Our email addresses and phone number remain the same. That said, as we make this transition, our phone line will not be monitored as frequently and may be temporarily disrupted. The best way to contact us is via email. For general inquiries, we can be reached at info@harvestmusicfest.ca.

Please note that ticket and pass pick-up will begin mid-August at our Harvest retail store, with details to come.

We look forward to continuing to work together from our new location!

Tickets to the Sheepdogs presented by PLATO Testing have now sold out!

Fredericton’s Harvest Music Festival today shared details around its 2022 Blues in the Schools (BITS) Program, presented by the University of New Brunswick. An educational program created to promote, preserve, and perpetuate the art, culture, and heritage of the blues through clinics in local schools and investment in local school music programs, Harvest’s BITS Program has reached tens of thousands of New Brunswick students since its inception in 2003.

Delivering the program virtually in 2022, Harvest has this week distributed pre-recorded clinics hosted by award-winning Canadian musician Rick Fines to the roughly 70 public schools in the Anglophone-West District, along with 142 additional public schools throughout New Brunswick. A longtime Harvest favorite and one of the country’s hardest working performers, Fines has taught Blues In The Schools programs in New Brunswick, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories.

As part of the 2022 Program, Harvest will additionally provide roughly $15,000 fundraised from bar tips and patron donations to Fredericton area schools that currently have, or plan to have, a band program as of Fall 2022.

“Before COVID-19, a typical year of Blues in the Schools would include 2-3 clinicians covering roughly 20 schools in the Greater Fredericton area,” said Harvest Music Festival General Manager, Jeff Richardson. “By moving online, we’ve expanded the program across the province and grown the audience of students learning about the power, importance, and history of the blues tenfold. We’re really pleased to partner with UNB on this tremendous initiative.”

The 2022 Harvest Music Festival takes place this September 13-18, featuring The War On Drugs, Blue Rodeo, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, William Prince, JJ Grey & Mofro, The Record Company, Kathleen Edwards, Andy Frasco & The U.N., and more. 

We’re thrilled to share that Joe Russo will join The SLIP for their performance at Harvest 2022! The phenomenal Brooklyn-based drummer was enlisted by The SLIP’s Andrew Barr, after Barr was called to go on tour with Feist in September. Russo returns to Harvest, after Joe Russo’s Almost Dead’s buzzworthy performance to close the Festival’s 25th Anniversary edition in 2015. Formed in Boston in 1995, The SLIP have earned a legacy as one of the most daring and dynamic improvisational rock trios to come out of the Northeast. Catch this incredible act alongside grand theft bus on September 15 in The Ginger Agency Barracks, presented by Trius Truck Centre! Tickets & Passes are on sale now – grab an Atlantic Lottery / Loto Atlantique Big Fun pass to take in the whole series: https://harvestmusicfest.ticketpro.ca/en/pages/HARVESTPASSES2022

Tickets to The War On Drugs presented by Delta Hotels by Marriott Fredericton have now sold out!

TD Ultimate Passes have now sold out!

Tickets to Blue Rodeo presented by Volvo New Brunswick have now sold out!