Fredericton’s dearly missed Share is back for the weekend. After a four year hiatus, the band will reunite for the first time at the Shivering Songs festival.
The band will hit the stage twice, first at The Cedar Tree Cafe for a quieter more personal acoustic show and then again at The Capital Bar where you can hear Share rock out one last time.
Back in 2005, Share flourished into the Maritime music scene. After a short time they performed all across Canada and Europe, while releasing multiple albums before going their separate ways.
The soft indie rock band began when frontman Andrew Sisk met guitarist Nick Cobham while attending St. Thomas. The two bonded over their strong passion for music and the arts.
“He introduced me to a lot of music and art I had never been exposed to in my small town upbringings. He got me into Canadian poetry and I started writing poetry seriously and devouring the modern masters which lead into more serious songwriting,” said Sisk.
Sisk and Cobham recorded their first album in 2005 called Ukulele Tragic, along with bass player Kyle Cunjak. Under the Forward Music Group label, Share released three more albums, while adding Zach Atkinson and Dennis Goodwin who appeared on the last album Slumping in Your Murals, released in 2009. This was the only “real band” album which captured their live sound.
“My favourite part of being in a band is writing and recording, the other parts I am not crazy about, but I was so lucky to be able to make as many albums as we did in such a short period of time,” said Sisk. “Looking back I feel like we made of the most of the opportunities we were given.”
After Sisk moved to Montreal in 2010 because of his love for the city, the band slowly parted ways.
“I am a father now and have lost my love for the road so I work as a teacher and an entrepreneur here while enjoying the good life and writing and recording songs in my spare time,” said Sisk, who later went on to release a solo album called Treelines in 2012, and three more albums under the band name Coco et Co.
The rest of the band are also not dwelling in the past and have moved on to other projects. Today, Share’s bassist Cunjak lives in Halifax and plays with Fredericton’s David Myles, while Cobham and Atkinson are still around being busy running festivals, working at Picaroons, and having families of their own.
“I can’t imagine it getting any easier to get this band together to play shows so these might very well be the last time we ever play them, I would be okay with that except I miss those guys a lot. Who knows what will happen?”
Share will hit the stage twice on Jan. 24, first at The Cedar Tree Cafe at 7 p.m. and later at the Capital at 12:45 a.m.
