This weekend, Truro lived up to its nickname as the hub of the province as hundreds of local musicians descended on the town for Nova Scotia Music Week. Forty-nine awards were given out at the celebration’s closing event, held yesterday at Truro’s Inn on Prince Hotel, for categories ranging from Musician of The Year to […]
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Show of the week: Mo Kenney’s GATE Fundraiser w/Mama’s Broke, Dani-Rae Clark
When Mo Kenney released an album of covers earlier this year—her stripped-back take on tracks from Tom Petty and Guided By Voices—the songs felt so intimately hers that, at first, I didn’t notice when the new album ended and Spotify began playing older Kenney originals. “That’s a good compliment; that’s sort of what I was […]
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Show of the week: Les Hay Babies w/Sluice at Francofest
Consider it a double dose of some of the best Acadie-rock around. Moncton’s Les Hay Babies are hitting The Derby Showbar (formerly known as The Marquee, 2037 Gottingen Street) to celebrate Francofest on October 21, and are bringing along Halifax’s own Sluice for the ride. Les Hay Babies’s most recent effort, Boîte aux Lettres, is […]
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Scene & Heard: Your record of news to note from the Halifax music scene
For all the new goings-on in the Halifax music scene this fall, we can start with the one thing that won’t be happening: The Halifax Pop Explosion appears to have shuttered, with no word yet of festival dates and no updates to the safer spaces survey it promised to deliver back in March 2021. The […]
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Fall Arts Preview: See Zamani play The Stage at St. Andrews
Zamani at The Stage at St. Andrews 6036 Coburg Road, Nov 1, 7:30pm, $16.93, tickets available via eventbrite.ca (search “The Stage Mondays”) Zamani cemented her status as a name-to-know back in 2019, when she went from making bedroom beats to playing an attention-grabbing set at OBEY Convention (now called EVERYSEEKER Festival). Since then, her star […]
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Fall Arts Preview: Sit up and Let Dreams Be Noticed
MAJE w/LDN The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street, Dec 5 In a west end backyard shed, there’s a framed photo of Drake, drinking a shot out of his upturned Grammy award. It’s lit with soft reverence, hanging above recording equipment like a cross above an altar. Adyan Brown, Cornell Reddick and Luke Berryman—a handful of […]
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Morgan Toney takes his ‘Mi’kmaltic’ tunes to Prismatic Arts Festival’s stage
When Morgan Toney first started playing the fiddle roughly three years ago, it was completely by accident. The 22-year-old Mi’kmaq musician—who hails from We’koqma’q and Wagmatcook First Nations—first found his musical rhythm by playing the drums as a child. But when he enrolled in Cape Breton University’s music program, the department chair mistakenly threw him […]
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DijahSB brings Tasty Raps to Hopscotch Festival
DijahSB at Hopscotch Festival Grand Parade, Sat, Sep 25, 6-10pm, free eventbrite.ca If quarantine was a time of cocooning, no one is emerging more of a monarch post-pandemic than DijahSB. The Toronto MC has been grinding it out in the city’s indie rap scene for about a decade now, but the rapid-fire succession of their […]
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LXVNDR’s music is a pastel punch
LXVNDR at Hopscotch Festival Grand Parade, Fri Sep 24, 6-10pm, free eventbrite.ca When Kathleen Moon arrives at a north end cafe earlier this week—in sneakers that match her oversized blazer and a perfect manicure that sets off both—she’s all smiles and calm energy, sipping a lavender tea in an oversized china cup. The choice of […]
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Hopscotch Arts Festival jump-starts this week with The Halluci Nation, DijahSB and more
Hopscotch fest is leaping to new heights. The annual celebration of hip hop in Halifax has an absolutely stacked lineup for its 2021 event, happening this Thursday through Sunday, Sep 23-26. Most shows are free, open-air affairs at Grand Parade (1770 Barrington Street). And while there’s not a bad gig in the whole weekend, here’s […]
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Hopscotch Festival 2021 just dropped its lineup and we cannot wait
Halifax’s annual celebration of hip hop—the one and only Hopscotch Festival—just announced what might actually be its best-ever lineup, featuring a host of our favourite local MCs and some of the country’s hottest names in the genre. The best part? The event, held from Sep 23-26, is almost all free, with concerts held at Grand […]
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Hear’s to you, Halifax
After a year without concerts, it’s essential to pad your playlists with the local groups you’ll chase to the pub after class. Listed below is some of the immense amount of local talent Halifax calls its own—so let your imagination go beyond the stereotype of tartan-clad Celts (though, yes, there are local acts that do […]
