It was Halifax’s JunoFest that planted the seed. When The Carleton owner Mike Campbell helped program the live music events attached to the Junos in 2006, he thought the mini festival would be great to host annually. “I thought what would be nice to do is get some of these people who are here for […]
Holly Gordon
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The Stanfields rip it up
They won Best Local Band, Most Likely to Make it Big and Best Band to Get Trashed To in this year’s Best of Music, and Saturday sees Celtic rock band The Stanfields playing Halifax for the first time since January. “It’s gonna be bonkers, I guarantee that,” says vocalist and guitarist Jon Landry over the […]
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Watershed Music Festival marries music and food
Did someone say hay fields? “This is probably the only festival in the province where you’re going to see Windom Earle and The Hupman Brothers on the same stage,” says musician Jonathan Biro, organizer of the first Watershed Music Festival on the south shore. The Pollination Project is hosting the festival on its land, where […]
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Cancer Bats fly
The first time Cancer Bats played The Pavilion, it was 2005 and the Toronto punk band only had 11 minutes of demo tape recorded. “We did Misfits covers to fill out our set,” laughs lead screamer Liam Cormier, over the phone from Ottawa. That trip was Cancer Bats’ first set of shows outside of Toronto, […]
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New Art Records’ End of Summer Blowout Festival
Malachy Kazi can’t find enough opportunities for young artists to play in the city, so he’s making them. “I was thinking this could be the start of an annual, all-ages festival,” says the general manager of New Art Records, a label that focuses on young and emerging artists. Kazi’s talking about this weekend’s Summer Blowout […]
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Radio Radio tunes in
Acadian hip-hop group Radio Radio is tuning into Halifax as part of the Seahorse’s monthly French Kiss show this Wednesday. Alexandre Arthur Bilodeau, Gabriel Louis Bernard Malenfant and Jacques Alphonse Doucet make up the trio, which is currently on the Polaris Prize 2010 shortlist with the likes of The Besnard Lakes, Caribou and plenty of […]
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Tracks: Visual Arts Nova Scotia Mentorship Program
Eyelevel Gallery has two giant papier mache fists resting on their pink knuckles, with forearms reaching up to where elbows don’t exist. They’re part of artist Chantal Tardiff’s work (pictured above) for Visual Arts Nova Scotia’s mentorship program exhibition, Tracks, and are coupled with shots of Tardiff wearing the giant fists and playing with positions […]
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Style hopping
Fashion designer Akshay Tyagi trims Halifax street style down to three easy-to-spot looks on page 12: the “north ender,” the “nouveau retired” and the “straight off the lookbook.” But if these styles weren’t on the street, where would you find them? We came up with a few bars where you might catch that DIY clothing […]
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The Halifax Alternative Arts, Craft and Fashion Show debuts
Stacy Lepage has never sold anything at a craft show, nor has she ever organized one. But the Saint Mary’s student is set at full steam ahead for Halifax’s first Alternative Arts, Craft and Fashion Show, which she has nurtured from idea to fully formed event. “It was kind of just a whim and it […]
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White Rabbit Multimedia Festival
Take a trip down the rabbit hole this Saturday to see what 12 artists have been cooking up all week in Upper Economy. It’s the second year that the White Rabbit Festival has run, where artist Tom Young invites other artists to create installations on his land for the week leading up to Saturday’s unveiling. […]
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Swing battah battah!
Gallery tensions are running high this week as artist-run centres Eyelevel and the Khyber suit up for Sunday’s softball game. “Eyelevel hasn’t won a game all year and our Khyber team hasn’t either,” says Mat Dunlap, psyching himself up for this final game of the season. “One of us gets to snap our losing streak.” […]
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Full Lecture Series: Michael Jackson
Don’t hide it. We know there’s a photo of you, somewhere, dressed in that red leather jacket and shoulder-shrugging to Thriller on the way to a Halloween party. Unleash that inner zombie this week at the Fuller Terrace Lecture Series’ final summer lecture, which has local folks getting up and talking about Michael Jackson’s influence […]
