Halifax-based friends and fans of local singer/songwriter/man-about-the-arts Don Brownrigg may feel a little nervous when they hear the seventh track of his newest record, It Takes All Kinds (to make it in this world, I find). Entitled “I Think I’m Leaving Halifax,” the song plays out a goodbye letter that’s all-too familiar: “This will happen […]
Elaine Corden
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Geoff Berner’s Festival circuit
Any attempt to describe Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Geoff Berner invariably ends up sounding like it was composed using a fridge-magnet poetry set made up of discarded Canada Council grant applications. Political Klezmer-punk troubadour? Jewish-Canadian firebrand poet? Incendiary accordion-toting folkie? Oh dear. This October, the task became even more difficult, with the release of Festival Man, Berner’s […]