The Vinyl Cafe with Stuart McLean

Stuart on stage in Portland, Maine

He is very enthusiastic.

Musical guest Matt Andersen

...and Meaghan Smith

Here's one of Meaghan and Stuart singing together

Bass player Dennis Pendrith

Pianist John Sheard

We bought this cheesy snack down in Maine. We didn't think we'd make it through the bin, but shamefully we did

MPBN Program Director Charles Beck, Vinyl Cafe producer Jess Milton, Stuart McLean and MPBN President and CEO Jim Dowe.

Stuart at Dr. Disc in Orono, Maine

Dr. Disc had a great Vinyl section and we all walked out with some good stuff to add to our collections

We went for dinner in Bangor, to Sea Dog - a great restaurant and brewery. John and Ted order the beer sampler

The longest covered bridge in the world is in Hartland, NB

yeah, it's pretty long

we ran into some bad weather in New Brunswick

so we ended up staying an extra night in Miramichi

This is the snow piled up outside lighting guy Brad Scrutton's hotel window

This is the side of the hotel

We didn't have to cancel any shows...

...even though it looked like we might have to (you can barely see our bus!)

Luckily our bus driver Mark Wight was there to shovel us out

Here is Stuart at the Imperial Theatre in Saint John, NB. It is one of his favourite theatres in the country

Here's the Imperial from the outside

We always look forward to visiting Saint John because it means we get to visit the Saint John City Market

We love the smoked salmon strips at Lord's Seafood in the Market

...and of course the octopus!

You can also buy bags of dulce (seaweed) there.

Saint John is also home to one of our favourite record stores - Backstreet Records

Stuart browsing in Backstreet

We loved this little cafe just outside Antigonish, NS - the Dragonfly Cafe. Awesome lattes and really good homemade oatmeal

We had a show in Moncton, NB the night of the East Coast Music Awards. Matt won two awards that night: Male Solo Recording of the Year and Blues Recording of the year.

He was playing with us that night, so he couldn't be at the ECMAs. So when we heard he had won - we decided to present him with his awards onstage. We didn't have the real awards...so we had to make do with industrial fire extinguishers

Stuart and Arthur Award Winner Jaime Hawkins