Don Brownrigg is a busy man. Over the last five years, the Halifax-based musician travelled around Asia as a puppeteer with Mermaid Theatre, worked as a festival presenter and pursued a degree in osteopathy. Not to mention he’s also an accomplished musician on tour for his much-anticipated newly released album. While the last five years […]
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Pause your life and listen to three new local songs!
Two comebacks and an alt version to tell you about on this sweet frosty Friday: In 2012, a ginger-haired dream named Jennah Barry dropped an instant classic called Young Men, entrancing full cities with her deft songwriting, incredible voice and aspirational stage banter. She played and played, and then she stopped. There was vocal surgery, […]
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Festival Express IDOW Round Up
All good things must come to an end. The closing evening of In the Dead of Winter is always a touch bittersweet. After many late nights spent listening on minimal sleep, socializing, eating sporadic meals and perhaps drinking a little too much to drink for a Wednesday, everyone seems burnt out from festival exhaustion. With […]
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Good Lovelies and Rose Cousins warm hearts at IDOW
Natasha Peach In the Dead of Winter may be in its fifth year, but it hasn’t strayed far from the original vision once held in the legendary Khyber Club. As a Halifax-based festival, IDOW’s mission is to showcase up and coming local artists. Natasha Peach is merely one of the many songwriters featured this year. […]
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In the Dead of Winter Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
Musical matrimony Luke and Melissa As I wandered down the balmy streets of Halifax this afternoon to I bumped into Tim Crabtree, mastermind behind Paper Beat Scissors, who was heading home for a bite to eat before his show later at the Bus Stop Theatre. We stopped and chatted, noting the unusually warm winter’s day […]
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Kev Corbett gives a sneak peek at his new album
Don’t drop it! Kev Corbett’s new album, Son of a Rudderless Boat, was released informally at the Lunenburg Folk Fest on August 6, but if you weren’t one of the 1000 people present, you may be chomping at the bit to get your copy. Corbett is leaking the album “through Taz, CKDU, and outta-the-guitar case sales,” he says, before the official release sometime in late September, so you can get one now and feel like a super fan singing along at the release show. The album features cameo appearances from Old Man Luedecke, Don Brownrigg, Thom Swift, Christina Martin, Meaghan