Four-piece disco act Boney M. is returning to Halifax this November, just in time to remind you that it’s the group responsible for one of the GOAT-est holiday albums ever: The 1984 opus Christmas with Boney M. The band is bringing along original lead singer Liz Mitchell, too, meaning this is gonna be one red-hot […]
Morgan Mullin
Morgan was the Arts & Entertainment Editor at The Coast, where she wrote about everything from what to see and do around Halifax to profiles of the city’s creative class to larger cultural pieces. She started with The Coast in 2016.
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North Preston R&B sensation Reeny Smith announces Nova Scotian tour
Just as the days have been growing oppressively short, a host of musicians have spent this week announcing upcoming shows around HRM. The latest of the pack is none other than Reeny Smith, who’ll be playing a Dartmouth show on December 15 at Monte’s Showbar as part of tour spanning the mainland portion of the […]
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Tickets for Shania Twain’s June 2023 Halifax gig go on sale today, November 4.
Let’s go girls! It’s time to bust out the credit cards and refresh Ticket Atlantic’s site in your browser, because Shania Twain’s 2023 Halifax show is going on sale today, November 4, at 10am. Part of an extensive tour stopping everywhere from Las Vegas to Moncton, Halifax’s show will be held June 12 at the […]
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The Rolling Stones: UNZIPPED comes to Halifax this December
While it won’t quite be reliving the muddy glory of the time Mick, Keith and the crew played on the Halifax Common, it’s a pretty good substitute: The Rolling Stones: UNZIPPED announced today it’s adding a third and final stop to its Canadian tour, right here in Halifax. A sweeping retrospective museum show crafted by […]
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Lisa LeBlanc will play Halifax as part of February 2023 Maritime tour
Music nerds and Acadians alike got a reason to get hyped this week when Quebec music label Bonsound announced one of its star signees, Lisa LeBlanc, will be touring the Maritimes this February. The jaunt of dates include two Moncton shows (February 8 and 9) as well as a Halifax gig at The Marquee on […]
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Joel Plaskett Emergency announces February 11 Halifax show
Ashtray Rock fans, get ready: Joel Plaskett is reuniting his never-really-broken-up band, Joel Plaskett Emergency, for a rare hometown show slated for February 11, 2023. Held at the Light House Arts Centre, the gig promises to be a mid-winter warmup, with a start time of 8pm. Plaskett is arguably Dartmouth’s most famous export, a singer-songwriter […]
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Sue Goyette’s new book Monoculture asks us to value the forest before we lose it
Sometimes, it feels like poet-author Sue Goyette has spent a lifetime parsing the forest for the trees. Long inspired by nature, wildness and humanity’s need for both, a Goyette work is never far from soil or seed—proved by almost every entry in her bibliography, from her 2015 Nova Scotia Masterwork Arts Award-winning book Ocean to […]
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Love Peace and Hairgrease is the new, original musical you need to see
When The Coast reaches Eastern Front Theatre’s executive director Kat McCormack by phone, it takes a minute for the call to settle. McCormack plugs in headphones, but the background noise is deliciously inescapable. Rooms away from where McCormack is sequestered, the cast, crew, director and live band of EFT and Charles Taylor Theatre & Media […]
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Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery extends its show JIM until December 11
When a trio of famous rock musicians combine forces, we call it a supergroup. But what about when three big-deal visual artists combine their catalogues and creative energy? Well, we don’t really have a pop culture term for that—at least not yet. But, you can still see it in action by catching the show JIM […]
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July Talk announces Halifax show for April 14, 2023
While the falling leaves might make thinking as far ahead as next spring feel impossible, Toronto rock band July Talk will help you visualize: The “Guns + Ammunition” group announced today that it’ll play a Halifax gig on April 14, 2023 at The Light House Arts Centre. Known for its duo lead vocalists who meld […]
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Finalists for the 2022 Nova Scotia Masterworks award have been announced
The Nova Scotia Masterworks Award just dropped its 2022 shortlist. The largest cultural prize in the province, the Masterworks Award sees a jury of experts select the top art works in a swath of mediums—evaluating their originality, artistic maturity, impact, and contribution to Nova Scotia. From a shortlist, one piece of art stands to win the […]
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Nocturne 2022: Little children our beings they found you – mijua’ji’jk ntininaq weji’skesnik will make you remember
Little children our beings they found you – mijua’ji’jk ntininaq weji’skesnik is one of five can’t-miss projects at this year’s Nocturne, a site-specific art festival that has things popping up all over Halifax from Oct. 13 to 15. Read more about the other Nocturne projects we’re most excited about here. “If you are a product […]
