Sam Wilson Groundless Apprehensions release Sunday, April 7, 6:30pm 1313 Hollis, 1313 Hollis Street $10 The jazz guitarist Sam Wilson, a St. FX music grad, is just 25 but she moves through music like an old soul. Her favourite guitarists are Americans like the octogenarian Kenny Burrell and the late Michael Hedges and Jim Hall; […]
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SLUT: The Play puts a spotlight on consent
SLUT: The Play Monday, May 28, 2pm & 7:30pmNeptune Theatre Scotiabank Stage $20 (Stages passes $20-$43) neptunetheatre.com Shit goes down in SLUT: The Play: First at a house, then in a cab, then at a party, then all over school. Sixteen-year-old Joey Del Marco is sexually assaulted—or is she?—by three boys, her old friends, well-liked. […]
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Andrew MacKelvie wants you to hear the silence
Sounding Evolution: Andrew MacKelvie w/Lukas Pearse, Geordie Haley Monday, April 10, 8pm 1313 Hollis, 1313 Hollis Street $20/PWYC Silence is seemingly the opposite of music. For Andrew MacKelvie, though, there’s a certain resonance to it—and that’s what he seeks to explore in his work. “There’s certain patterns, almost, in the air that you can start […]
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Behold! Atlantic Fringe Festival’s 2014 program
Get your scrolling finger ready, the list is a doozy! Advance tickets are now available online at atlanticfringe.ca. All tickets are $10 or less. Catch a sampler show on August 28 at Neptune Studio Theatre, one minute from about every show. Whirlwind! The 24th Atlantic Fringe program is: The Adversary by Andrew Bailey. Drama • […]
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Stigma screening
“I was going to do this long-distance kayak trip with my friend, but he died while we were kayaking together,” says Zac Crouse, who was diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of the accident. Afterward, what was originally going to be a film about touring his first solo album You Plan to Do […]
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Part of the Click
In the last video they dropped on Facebook, Alex “Bueller” William is an impenetrable force. “Tell me what you want/out of this life,” he repeats hypnotically enough that you think he might be talking to you. Bright lights blur in the background and his flow is easy, throwaway, a little “take it or leave it, […]
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Ukulele? Yes!
Saturday, January 28 will be hereby known as the Night of the Ukes III. 1313 Hollis fills with little bitsy ukes and the sweet South Sea sound they make from 7:30pm on ($10 at the door). The uke-loving gang proclaims: “Night of the Uke III features jazz, surf, blues and who knows what else from […]
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Armstrong Textiles and Perl Grey open house
Lesley Armstrong of Armstrong Textiles and Adrienne Thomas of Perl Grey are hosting a joint open house this week to offer their gifty products, many of which will be “special holiday offerings.” It takes place Friday, December 16 from 12-8pm and Saturday, December 17 from 8am-1pm at 1313 Hollis Street, just north of the corner […]
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Where To Play: 1313 Hollis
Jerry Granelli 1313 Hollis is a unique space in Halifax because its identity is so fluid. “Really, we’re just a rental space,” says Susan Hunter, who founded the spot in 2008 along with Jerry Granelli and John Siemens. It was originally set up to house Granelli’s Creative Music workshops and housed other JazzEast events. (The […]
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Quiet, please
In The Coast’s recent Best of Music feature, a band with a relatively low profile swept the votes to win the “best band to listen to quietly” award. That band is Quiet Parade, a solo recording venture by Halifax music veteran Trevor Murphy (Sleepless Nights, The Establishment) who has slowly been creeping his way through […]
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Atlantic Jazz Fest announces full line-up
This morning the Atlantic Jazz Festival (July 10-18) announced their complete line-up to a packed house at 1313 Hollis. (Jazzfest also gets props for the best media packages of the year: each one came slid into a used jazz record sleeve. Hello Cleo Laine.) This is the first year programmed by new artistic director Lulu […]