It’s a good time to be a music fan in Halifax: From May 3-7, the 35th annual East Coast Music Awards and festival are setting up shop in the city, delivering a hefty dose of live music from every imaginable stage and showcase around. With everything from Halifax-based reggae to PEI art rock on offer, […]
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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Scene and heard: What’s being filmed, streamed and screened in Nova Scotia right now
When it comes to #NSFilmJobs, business is definitely booming—or at least, so says the province: “The film industry contributed about $180.8 million to Nova Scotia’s economy in 2021-22 up from about $78 million in 2019-20 and $91.6 million in 2020-21,” a release from last June stated. Now, as another banner year in the industry unfurls, […]
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Shakespeare By The Sea announces 30th summer season
When curtain time finally arrives for Shakespeare By The Sea’s opening night performance of Romeo and Juliet (one of two shows that comprise the veteran theatre company’s 2023 summer season, which is also its 30th), associate artistic director and play director Drew Douris-O’Hara will be ready, primed, equipped, toes already waiting behind the metaphorical start […]
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Adam Baldwin’s newest record is his biggest hit. Here’s why he almost didn’t write it.
To hear him tell it, there was a time when Adam Baldwin’s newest LP was just about the last sort of thing the Dartmouth singer-songwriter would ever choose to record. After three albums establishing his own vein of rock ‘n’ roll outside of his post as Matt Mays’ guitarist, Concertos & Serenades feels like a […]
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Meet Séamus Gallagher, Halifax artist and 2023 Sobey Art Award long-lister.
The day it’s announced that Séamus Gallagher has made the longlist for the Sobey Art Award—the biggest visual art prize in the country—they’re catching some Vitamin D on The Common, neon manicure and cornflower-blue leather blazer complimenting perfectly with their highlighter-yellow Telfar bag. “I mean, I take a lot of inspiration from a lot of […]
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Nova Scotian artists have a strong showing on the 2023 Sobey Art Award longlist
Consider it proof-positive that Nova Scotia has one of the richest visual arts scenes in Canada: On Tuesday, the Sobey Award—the country’s top prize for visual art—named not one but three local artists to its annual long list. Alan Syliboy, Aislinn Thomas and Séamus Gallagher are among the 25 artists named in the national long […]
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Everything you need to know about the 2023 ECMAs
The biggest music awards east of Montreal, the ECMAs are more than just a regional version of the Junos. (Though, for those who live for the red carpet, it’s worth noting that the awards ceremony itself will be held May 4 at the Scotiabank Centre, with 22 Minutes‘ Trent McClellan hosting the fun.) Instead, think […]
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The Book of Mormon adds four shows to its upcoming Halifax run
Halifax, you’re really, really excited about the two Broadway performances coming to the city in 2023: Enough, in fact, to warrant an extension to The Book of Mormon‘s run this July at the Scotiabank Centre. Yup, that’s right: A press release from the show producers sent this morning says that four extra shows are being […]
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Everything you need to know about the 2023 Mayworks Festival
A festival celebrating the lives and realities of working people, Mayworks is a multi-disciplinary feast of performance art and local history, told from the people’s perspective. A solace and spectacle for any non-nepo baby, the roughly month-long festival celebrates its 15th anniversary this year with a return to in-person programming. What is the official name? It’s […]
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Is it aliens or is it art?
There’s a new outlier in Point Pleasant Park, something that doesn’t fit in with the usual panorama of trees, brush, slate-coloured sea and shale-rocked paths. It appeared yesterday afternoon (April 13), on the park road that goes along the Northwest Arm, and looks as if it dropped from the sky: A reflective cube, about a […]
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Here’s all the local movies nominated for a 2023 Screen Nova Scotia award
After a record-setting year in Nova Scotia films–with more productions than ever calling “action” across the province—the latest Screen Nova Scotia nominees have been announced. The potential winners for the May 13 awards shows off just how many great stories are being made here, from Floyd Kane’s hit legal drama Diggstown (which netted four nominations) […]
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Halifax Jazz Festival announces more 2023 headliners
The 2023 Halifax Jazz Festival announced a handful of headliners today, showing that this year’s festival will be a sonic smorgasbord. Alongside earlier headliners Feist and Fleet Foxes, today’s announcement features elder statesmen of hip hop, a reggae hitmaker supreme, one of indie R&B’s buzziest new names and a stalwart singer-songwriter. Let’s get into it: […]