2025 Music 

Bloom is a 4 piece band of up and coming young artists from Pasadena, NL  founded in 2023. Bloom has a heavy focus on original pop/rock and roll music, and do a select cover or two by request. We have experience setting up our gear and sound checking as we have been doing gigs for about a year now consistently and have put our name out there pretty well. We all attended last year's festival and when we heard about the theme, we had to apply!

We are a group consisting of special needs individuals who e press music through original and cover music. This year we will be expressing the CBNuit Bloom. Group includes found keyboardist/song qriter Melanie Gosse, guitatist/songwriter Dylan Brnnett , songwriter Rebecca and featuring singers sarah flight. Isabella ward, Stephanie cassell, Colin Jarvis and Ashlee  Rogers. 

Newfoundland guitarist Ben Diamond is a dynamic performer, educator, and collaborator. A McGill graduate, he champions new music by commissioning and premiering contemporary works for guitar. Named a CBC “30 under 30” and ArtsNL Emerging Artist of the Year, Ben has earned competition placements nationally and abroad, alongside a 2025 ECMA nomination for Electronic Release of the Year.

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We are a youth band from Corner Brook. We are all in high-school. We consist of A singer/rhythm guitarist, lead guitarist, bassist, keyboardist and a drummer. We play lots of different kinds of music including rock, pop, indie and punk. We love playing music and sharing it with the community. Through our band, we have blossomed as musicians and would love to share our band with cb nuit.

A young performer/ singer/ songwriter from Corner Brook who strives to bring people together through music. Enjoys playing for anyone and everyone and wants to make audiences feel connected with the music they are hearing. I love to share my personal experiences through both my lyrics and other peoples lyrics! I will adapt to any audience.

R Sheaves is the alt folk/rock brainchild of Robert Humber (he/him), a Corner Brook-based composer, singer/songwriter and producer who writes music that is "deeply personal yet universally resonant" (Indie Spirits). He has written and performed music for concert halls, films, ballets, installations and more. 

Liz Fagan Band est un groupe rock bilingue de St John's, Terre-Neuve. Leur premier EP bilingue "Leaning In/Se pencher vers" a été épuisé en moins d'un an. They're excited to sahre their second bilingual album before embarking on a nation-wide tour in October 2025.

Not Just To Drink And Dream, based in Kippens, NL, Canada, is a post-rock band that has been shaping their unique sound since 2014. The band was founded by three Indigenous members, whose backgrounds and experiences have significantly influenced the band's musical direction and themes. Their sound is marked by complex arrangements and evocative atmospheres, taking listeners on a journey through dynamic shifts and emotional depth

Lovely Bones is the Corner Brook based musical duo of Kev Hamilton and Amrien Sun. Characterized by harmonies and a folk sensibility, the pair have been paying tribute to artists such as Neil Young, Simon and Garfunkel and Gordon Lightfoot. They are currently working on their first album.

CarlyRae Mouland is a 16 year old local performer and singer/ songwriter in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. She has performed for the public during the Summer as entertainment for tourists and locals.
Over the past year, CarlyRae has recorded two demo recordings with 62 Broadway and Sandy Morris, released a song on all streaming platforms

Valmy is a St. John’s-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Ontario who has been following the ocean and making home on the East Coast of Canada. Exploring the complexities of humanhood, relationship, grief, and healing, she uses her folk-influenced music to tell stories about loving and stumbling your way through the dark.

Cove Pond is a bilingual folk-rock trio from Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador, blending moody folk with ambient textures and evocative storytelling. Led by songwriter Laura Penney and drummer Scott Yetman, the group is completed by bassist Desmond Smith, whose smooth, groovy undertones ground their atmospheric sound. Laura’s lyrics, in Enlgish and French, explore memory, loss, and the quiet beauty of Newfoundland’s landscapes, shaped by her deep connection to place and her decades-long journey as a writer and performer.

Our band is made up of three musicians coming from Mexico, Nicaragua, and Scotland and all of us have made the West Coast of Newfoundland home (Corner Brook and Pasadena). We explore this year’s theme “Bloom” as we reflect on our experience of moving to and sinking our roots in this beautiful place. Making music for us means sharing the fiber that makes us who we are, and this is essential to our process of blooming.

Jing Xia is a professional guzheng artist and ethnomusicologist based in Newfoundland, Canada. Born and raised in Hunan, China, Xia began her musical journey at the age of six, mastering the guzheng and eventually earning degrees in Music Performance (B.A.), Arts Management (M.A.), and Ethnomusicology (Ph.D.).