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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John Mulaney is coming to Halifax on Nov. 4
John Mulaney will perform his newest hour of standup at the Scotiabank Centre in downtown Halifax on Friday, Nov. 4 as part of his From Scratch tour. After a highly publicized and eventful past year, the comedian’s latest title suggests he is embarking on something entirely new. So, in the spirit of looking forward, The […]
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Curtain call at Neptune Theatre as general manager bids adieu
Atlantic Canada’s largest theatre company is changing its cast. After six years at Neptune Theatre, general manager Lisa Bugden is stepping down from her post, the performing arts company shared in a release this week. In her place, longtime marketing executive Catherine Bagnell Styles will assume an interim general manager role as Neptune seeks a […]
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Jimmy Rankin has a Christmas present for you
With two months to go until Christmas, Sonic Concerts is marking the occasion by announcing a Jimmy Rankin concert in Halifax on November 25, one month before the big Christian holiday. Called Warming Up For Winter, the show will have plenty of seasonal songs from Rankin’s repertoire—his Christmas-themed album Tinsel Town came out in 2012—as […]
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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 […]
