Multiple award winning, Grammy-nominated R&B/hip hop artist, drummer and producer Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals play the Halifax Jazz Festival Waterfront Main Stage Saturday, July 15, 2017. Festival passes are available for purchase beginning today, May 16. Tickets for individual shows go on sale this Thursday, May 18 at 10am AST. Shows at St. […]
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ICYMI: last night was dynamite
Scenes from the opening night at Halifax Jazz Festival 2016, with performances from Cyndi Cain and Ms. Lauryn Hill.
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Lauryn Hill goes electric
Tuesday night at the 30th Halifax Jazz Fest’s big opening show, a thunder and lightning storm erupted over Ms. Lauryn Hill and her band. As the musicians were ushered off the stage, the light show over the harbour kicked up in dreamy purples and hazy greys, then the skies opened up and rain fell like […]
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Halifax Jazz Festival 2016 lineup announced
The TD Halifax Jazz Festival dropped its 2016 (and 30th anniversary) lineup this morning and it’s a doozy. In addition to the already-announced City and Colour, Metric and–swoon–Ms. Lauryn Hill main stage shows, the festival promises acts for die-hard jazz fans and newbies alike. Visitings acts include Kendrick Lamar collaborator/ex-Suicidal Tendencies bassist Thundercat, Polaris Prize […]
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Lauryn Hill playing 30th anniversary Halifax Jazz Festival
The Jazz Festival turns the big three-oh this summer, so it’s fitting a big act is headlining: Lauryn Hill will play the festival’s opening night. The official announcement just happened, and the $68 tickets go on sale this Thursday for the Tuesday, July 12 concert. (Check the fest’s site to get tix and/or festival passes […]
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Halifax Jazz Festival 2015 lineup announced
The Halifax Jazz Festival released their lineup today and it’s way worth checking out, even if—scratch that—especially if you’re not a typical jazz fan. There are plenty of off-beat acts coming to town that don’t fit into the typical “jazz” category and we’ve rounded up a small sampling of some of the more unusual acts. […]
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St. Vincent awes Jazz Fest
Ten minutes before St. Vincent’s wildly anticipated Halifax Jazz Festival appearance on Monday night, announcements encouraging fans to clear the venue’s aisles to satisfy fire code went essentially unheard (to the apparent chagrin of the fire marshal). Not surprising. When St. Vincent is in town, safety regulations be damned—Annie Clark brought her effervescent mind-bend of […]
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It’s Tales of a Charlie Brown Christmas, Halifax!
For their 10th annual holiday fundraiser JazzEast will be bringing the 48-year-old Charlie Brown holiday classic to Halifax. “This year we are trying out a completely different model—usually we do a gala with four course meal, concert and silent auction at a $125 ticket price.” Says JazzEast artistic director Laura “Lulu” Healy. “This year we’re […]
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JazzEast’s 30k in 30 days halfway point
JazzEast’s 30k in 30 days Indiegogo campaign has an altruistic goal—to make the ever-popular evening Festival Tent Mainstage concerts during the Halifax Jazz Festival free to the public. “In 2012 we hosted two free evening concerts; in 2013 that number grew to three. Droves of people came out to these concerts. We don’t want to […]
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Halifax Jazz Festival 2013 line-up
Oh yes, it’s back. The Halifax Jazz Festival line-up has been announced for this summer and we can promise you, it’s absolutely incredible. With more than 90 acts for just over a week of shows, this is as good as it gets. Never an event to hold back, opening night starts out with the world […]
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Soul Rebels show review
I stopped by the Halifax Jazz Festival tent at the foot of Salter Street to hear New Orleans’ brass band Soul Rebels. For me, this was the most eagerly anticipated show of the festival—having seen the band play a few free outdoor shows at the Montreal Jazz Festival; the first of those was with fellow […]
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Digable Planets, Alex Pangman
Halifax made some noise with 90s throwback Digable Planets‘ closing show. Hip hop infused with samples of Art Blakey and Freddie Hubbard, Digable Planets are a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Whether their rapping about Jean-Paul Sartre or sunshine, Digable Planets are cool like dat. They had the entire place off […]
