Def Leppard will perform this year at the Churchill Park Music Festival in St. John’s. Special guests are Sam Roberts Band and Honeymoon Suite. The Churchill Park Music Festival takes place in July.

"There was an explosion of alternative music in Newfoundland then and Ritche was always at the forefront. Ritche didn't shrink from being different. He embraced it. And I always admired him.

"It felt like my chest was just blown apart," Rideout said in a telephone interview from his home in Newtown, a small fishing community along Newfoundland's northeast coast. Rideout has arrhythmogenic ...