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ECO helps promote musicians from the Atlantic Provinces while helping the writers who listen to their music. More info please!

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All articles on East Coast Overture are Šopyright East Coast Overture and are owned by the site and the original author unless stated otherwise. All photography on ECO is owned by the original photographer. ECO is not responsible for the contents of any off-site pages or any other sites linked from ECO. Linking to the site or any of its pages is permitted and encouraged. This website does not permit direct linking of images, as that is bandwidth theft. East Coast Overture is not affiliated with any artist, recording label, management company, etc. ECO is an independently-produced project, headed by Jillianne Hamilton.

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STAFF


JILLIANNE HAMILTON
Position: Creator, designer, editor, writer and big cheese
Contact: Email
Website: Jillianne-Hamilton.com
Location: Nowhereville, NS / Charlottetown, PEI
Hobbies/Interests: writing, blogging, music, movies, TV, photography, swimming, English history, painting, scrapbooking, pointless trivia
Favorite East Coast music: Joel Plaskett, The Superfantastics, Carmen Townsend, Two Hours Traffic, Dog Day, The Got To Get Got, The First Aid Kit, Milks and Rectangles, The Sidewalks, Daniel Ledwell, The Danks, Jill Barber, Drea Macdonald, Rebekah Higgs, Boxer The Horse, The Marvel Stove
Favorite non-East Coast music: Death Cab For Cutie, (old school) No Doubt, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Metric, Garbage, Dresden Dolls, Feist, Coldplay, Bright Eyes, Sufjan Stevens, Broken Social Scene, Norah Jones, Matthew Good



JUSTEN ANDREWS
Position: Ontarian ambassador
Contact: Email
Website: myspace.com/teawithtreesmusic
Location: Thunder Bay, ON
Hobbies/Interests: Music, art, biking in treacherous downpours
Favorite East Coast Music: Wintersleep
Favorite non-East Coast music: Sigur Ros, Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens



JARRETT ARSENAULT
Position: Contributus Maximus
Contact: Email
Location: Charlottetown, PEI
Hobbies/Interests: Long walks on the beach, packing boxes full of bunnies and shipping them to Congo, jamming or recording with my guitar/sax/drums/bass/non-existant singing voice, writing, driving, going on ridiculous adventures, creativeity-ish-ness-isms
Favorite East Coast Music: The Tom Fun Orchestra, Two Hours Traffic, The Neil Forbes, Count Spatula, More to come I'm sure...
Favorite non-East Coast music: King Crimson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Mars Volta, Supertramp, Parliament Funkadelic, Tool, Primus, Bach, Buckethead, Crystal Method, John Frusciante, Iggy Pop, Liquid Tension Experiment, Led Zeppelin, Muse, Portishead, Rage Against the Machine, Wolfmother



JOSHUA BIGGLEY
Position: Contributus Maximus
Contact: Email
Location: Charlottetown, PE
Hobbies/Interests: good food, urban agriculture, writing, public speaking, reading- and the occasional Sunday afternoon nap
Favorite East Coast Music: Great Big Sea and other rabbelrousers of that sort
Favorite non-East Coast music: Symphony, classical and Motown



AMANDA BLAKENEY
Position: Contributus Maximus
Contact: Email
Website: abeautifulanswer.wordpress.com
Location: Charlottetown, PE
Hobbies/Interests: writing, music, peace, puppies, travel, impossibly complex storylines, international development, grammar
Favorite East Coast Music: Wintersleep, Joel Plaskett, Two Hours Traffic, Matt Mayes, Slowcoaster, The Danks, Smothered in Hugs
Favorite non-East Coast music: The Dave Matthews Band, Basia Bulat, Feist, Bright Eyes



RYAN CONWAY
Position: New-school nerd gangsta
Contact: Email
Website: ryanjconway.wordpress.com
Location: Cape Breton, NS
Hobbies/Interests: Writing (both blogs and creatively), film, politics, animation, gaming, music, professional wrestling (I am lame.)
Favorite East Coast Music: Matt Mayes, Sloan, Ashley MacIsacc, Slowcoaster, and The Trews, Windom Earle
Favorite non-East Coast music: Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Daft Punk, The Beatles, The Band, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Interpol, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Ramones, Incubus, The Gorillaz



JACLYN CRAWFORD
Position: Writer, Jill's best friend and inventor of great site names
Contact: Email
Website: jaclyncrawfordpei.wordpress.com
Location: Charlottetown(ish), PEI
Hobbies/Interests: music, beards, being read to, driving, gaming, laughing until it hurts, drinking
Favorite East Coast Music: Two Hours Traffic, The Danks, The Superfantastics, Hey Rosetta!, Boxer The Horse, The Gypsies, Daniel Ledwell, Buck 65, String Theory, Smothered In Hugs, Joel Plaskett, Windom Earl
Favorite non-East Coast music: Sebastien Grainger, The Beatles, Tokyo Police Club, Metric The White Stripes, The Unicorns, The Wombats, The Strokes, Arcade Fire, The Hives, The Clash, Ramones, Flight of the Conchords, The Fratellis, Bright Eyes, Beck, Queen, Klaxons, Adam Green, Radiohead, Death from Above 1979, The Wooden Sky



CHRIS DOWBIGGIN
Position: The Kid
Contact: Email
Location: Cornwall, PEI
Hobbies/Interests: guitar, good movies, attending shows, community bingo competitions
Favorite East Coast Music: Matt Mays & El Torpedo
Favorite non-East Coast music: Radiohead, Matthew Good



SARAH HENDERSON
Position: Photographer, Contributus Maximus
Contact: Email
Location: Truro(ish), NS / Sackville, NB
Hobbies/Interests: Lobbying for the arts, Ancient History, Smoking cigarettes on summer days, art, and of course, music, CBC Radio 3
Favorite East Coast Music: North Of America, Shotgun Jimmie, Joel Plaskett, Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees, Broken Social Scene, Dog Day, Eric's Trip, The Got To Get Got
Favorite non-East Coast music: Of Montreal, Woodhands, The Bicycles, New Order, Plants and Animals, Snailhouse, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists



ALEX MAINE
Position: Contributor
Contact: Email
Websites: AlexMaine.com, Twitter
Location: Musquodoboit Harbour, NS
Hobbies/Interests: Computers, Photography, Piano, Japanese Culture & Language
Favorite East Coast Music: The currently the work of Joe Buck
Favorite non-East Coast music: All time fav would be Coldplay



CHRIS WEAVER
Position: Music lover and reviewer extraordinaire
Contact: weaver.chris.b @ gmail.com / cbweaver @ mta.ca
Website: thephoneticelephant.blogspot.com
Location: Sackville, NB
Hobbies/Interests: Campus/Community radio, live music; a good single malt scotch
Favorite East Coast Music: The Tom Fun Orchestra, Julie Doiron, Old Man Luedecke
Favorite non-East Coast Music: Laura Barrett, Woodhands, The Rural Alberta Advantage