Yesterday’s gone, you’re hung over and in need of a refuel before the last Pop Explosion night—all signs point to the Just Friends brunch, which’ll fill you up with food prepared and served by the multi-talented musicians. Laura Peek & The Winning Hearts, Hymm and Brent Randall will all be doing their own sets, as […]
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Food Fight for Feed Nova Scotia
Warm up that food-fighting arm for Feed Nova Scotia today: A coast-to-coast food fight starts at 6pm, where Halifax competes against both Regina and Victoria to see which city can collect and weigh the most food in 48 hours. It’s Halifax’s first year participating—Regina and Victoria did a day-long challenge last year, and Regina won […]
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Soaring across The Wooden Sky
Gavin Gardiner’s having a rough phone call. A few minutes in, The Wooden Sky’s harmonica player disappears from the other end of the line in Quebec City and there’s a scuffle. When he gets back, he breathlessly explains: “I just got accosted by a pedestrian! By a man in a wheelchair—he pushed my suitcase along.” […]
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Hot Hot Heat turn it up
For a little more than a decade, Hot Hot Heat’s been radiating its energy all the way from Vancouver. But with the release of the album Future Breeds earlier this year, band members Luke Paquin, Steve Bays, Louis Hearn and Paul Hawley discovered a new temperature. “Musically, for lack of a better word, it’s a […]
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Carbon copying the Morris building
Walking by the boarded up and relocated Morris building the past few weeks, you may have noticed artists Sarah Haydon Roy and Charley Young tacking sheer white fabric onto its sides and frottaging the building’s facade; the two have been working on their Nocturne project, Carbon Copy: The Charles Morris Building. “Both Charley and I […]
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Kate Reid tells it like it is
If you had asked Kate Reid 10 years ago if she’d be a full-time musician in 2010, she may have laughed at you. “Music wasn’t even on my radar,” Reid says, explaining that she finished her teaching degree in 2000 despite knowing the first day she stepped into teacher’s college that she didn’t want to […]
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Slowcoaster turns inward
Five albums into its decade-long career, Slowcoaster has found its way back to the beginning with the newest album, The Darkest of Discos. “It sounds like our early stuff,” says Steven MacDougall, the band’s lead man. “A band is like being in a marriage: things change over time, relationships change, perspectives change. This record is […]
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DaPoPo moves in
DaPoPo Theatre settled into Theatre Nova Scotia’s Living Room for a month last year, and member Andrew Chandler says it went so well that they’re doing it again. Chandler explains the Live-In as “a month-long event, with play readings, workshops and performances” with work from DaPoPo and the larger theatre community, adding that the inspiration […]
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Start your pumpkins!
“Ladies and gentlemen, start your pumpkins!” If you haven’t heard those six words that begin the Windsor-West Hants Pumpkin Regatta every year, it’s time to get out there. Vanessa Roberts, one of the event coordinators, tells us that the carved-out and decorated pumpkin boats are actually called “PVCs”—personal vegetable crafts—and each person who enters (it’s […]
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Opening the curtain on Prismatic
“Prismatic is about bringing aboriginal and culturally diverse artists to the attention of the ‘mainstream,’” says Maggie Stewart, managing director of Onelight Theatre, the company that brings Prismatic Festival to Halifax every other year. This year, Onelight partnered with Debajehmujig Storytellers to get the message out. “It has been [Onelight’s] experience that culturally diverse artists/organizations […]
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Flamenco plays it local with Con Brio and Compania Azul
Six-piece ensemble Con Brio, headed by flamenco jazz artist Daniel MacNeil, fuses both flamenco and jazz on the Stayner’s stage tonight, with local flamenco company Compania Azul sharing the night’s bill. Compania Azul brings the talents of founding dancer Megan Matheson, guitarist Bob Sutherby, singer Sean Harris and percussionist Tony Tucker, making for an evening […]
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Photographing oddities
Geri Nolan’s summer Alternative Process Photography workshop at NSCAD was unconventional. “This class exemplified most of what would constitute bare-bones photography,” says photography student Veronica Horsman. “It was all about mistakes. It was all about breaking photo rules. It was all about experimentation. We were doing everything from 200-year-old processes to digital negatives. How often […]