Hello Delaware album release Dance Movie, CAMERON Friday, September 30, 7:30pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $10/$15 Dana Beeler knows a thing or two about change. Two years ago, the Halifax-based musician found herself writing songs with a broken heart and an ache to move away from the bluegrass-inflected sound with which she made […]
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Eljuri is singing for the fight on the Prismatic stage
Eljuri w/Solawa, El Jones, Diyet Friday, Sept 23, 7pm The Company House, 2202 Gottingen Street $10 Eljuri Saturday, Sept 24, 11:30am Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, 5419 Spring Garden Road free Prismatic Finale Concert w/Cris Derksen, El Jones, Reeny Smith, Rebecca Thomas, Maarja Nuut, Diyet, Eljuri Sunday, Sept 25, 7pm Kenneth C. Rowe Hall, […]
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Your guided tour of Terroir
Touring the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia with Bruce Johnson is an exhilarating, intellectual ride—as he saunters around the gallery, he invokes computing, quantum physics and industrial architecture to discuss the artworks that compose Terroir: a Nova Scotia Survey. “I think there’s a real temptation when you come into the provincial art gallery to try […]
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Thundercat’s bass progression
Stephen Bruner has had a love for the bass for as long as he can remember. He says that he always gravitated towards stringed instruments as a kid, and has countless family photos of himself as a young boy holding a bass to prove it. Bruner—who’s now 31 years old and better known as Thundercat—hasn’t […]
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Meryl McMaster turns inside out
Meryl McMaster: Collected Journeys June 28-July 9 Artist presentation: Tuesday, June 28, noon Anna Leonowens Gallery, 1891 Granville Street free Meryl McMaster’s portraits feel kinetic and layered. With light and sculpture, the Ontario-based artist brings new dimension to an often stoic art form, and questions the role of photography and depictions of the self. “There was […]
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Not your great-grandfather’s choir
Capella Regalis Men & Boys Choir Wednesday, June 29, 7pm All Saints Cathedral, 1330 Martello Street $20 A percussionist by training, Nick Halley has always had deep ties to choral music. “I sang in a mixed children’s choir down in Connecticut as a boy,” he says. “Drumming and baseball were my singular obsessions, but my […]
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One legend to another
Thom Swift is a humble workhorse. On The Legend of Roy Black—his fourth solo record, 14th including collaborations—he took inspiration from both decades of touring and conversations with the album’s namesake musician in creating a timeless collection of roots songs. Swift describes Roy Black as an old friend. “We may only talk once a year, […]
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Veda Hille is rocking again with a new album & perspective
For singer-songwriter Veda Hille, emotional forces parallel natural ones. On her new album Love Waves, feelings harden into pebbles, lyrics echo like a tide at the shore, and romance is felt with a physical strength that could topple buildings. A couple of special projects aside, it’s Hille’s first album of new songs in nearly eight […]
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A decade of independents’ days
Born from a wish to celebrate both local films and the creators behind them, the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival is entering its tenth year of decidedly independent, hyper-local programming. Originally a one or two day affair, HIFF has grown to five days of features, short films and receptions. Still, the festival aims to stay true […]
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James Ehnes wants to play for you
James Ehnes’ virtuosic talent feels like a force of nature. Making sounds that are sometimes bombastic and often impressively nuanced, he plays the violin with a confidence and an elegance that are nearly unparalleled. Now, on the occasion of his 40th birthday—celebrated in January—Ehnes has been hitting the road to play compositions both new and […]
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The road to Burning Hell
Back in 2008, In the Dead of Winter was the first festival that Mathias Kom played under his Burning Hell moniker. “In those first three or four years, The Burning Hell was primarily an outlet for songwriting,” he says. “I didn’t really expect that it was going to go anywhere in terms of touring.” Now, […]
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We’ll always have Alvvays
East coast ex-pats Alvvays are still riding a wave of increasing success and recognition for their self-titled, debut album, released this past July. Alvvays is an album that exhibits a somewhat practical view of love: singer and guitarist Molly Rankin’s lyrical narratives feel romantic and rosy—especially set against the band’s reverby rattle—but they’re told through […]