Just the info we needed as the wind chill dips to minus 10 degrees today: Summer 2023 is shaping up to be a hot one in Halifax, thanks to Jazz Fest’s latest announcement.
The summertime fest—which runs July 11 to 16—is returning to its longtime home base, the open-air lot where Salter Street meets the Halifax waterfront. As for who will grace the stage on the event’s closing day? Today’s release also named the 2023 event’s first headliners: indie folk titans Fleet Foxes. The Sub Pop-signed band was one of the key players in the folk revival of the early 2000s, before launching the solo career of Father John Misty. Back after its circa-2016 hiatus with a career-best album in 2020 (which won a Grammy and four-star reviews from Pitchfork and Rolling Stone), the band’s 1960s-soaked sound remains as groovy as ever.
Opening the Fleet Foxes show is Newfoundland’s The Fortunate Ones, a harmony-fuelled folk duo that has been Juno-nominated.
Tickets for the show go on sale Feb 10 at noon via Sonic Concerts and
are $81.92 in advance and $87.25 day of show.
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This article appears in Feb 1-28, 2023.
