It doesn’t feel right calling the new release from Leanne Hoffman a debut album. Technically What Remains is her first solo recording, but Hoffman is a Halifax music veteran. She was part of the now-defunct duo Magnolia up until five years ago, and has kept busy providing backing vocals and keys with other musicians over […]
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Erin Costelo doc airs Saturday on CBC
Sink into winter Saturday afternoon with a look behind the scenes of one of 2018’s best local albums, Erin Costelo‘s Sweet Marie. Directed by Newfoundland songwriter/legend Amelia Curran, it covers the 10 days Costelo and her band spent in a very nice rural Nova Scotia house. “I imagine it’s what the Desperate Houseiwives of Atlanta […]
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Kaia Kater’s folk bomb
Kaia Kater w/Leanne Hoffman Sunday, November 25, 8pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $17.50 Kaia Kater picks up outside of Buffalo, New York, on a coffee stop as she and her band head back to Toronto. It’s the biggest band she’s toured with yet, four in total, after a good stretch playing as a duo […]
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Ship’s Company Theatre announces 2018 season
Ship’s Company Theatre announced its upcoming slate on Saturday in Parrsboro. “This is going to be a season with plays by two women and a young African Nova Scotian,” says Ship’s artistic director Natasha MacLellan. Kicking off the season July 4 will be Hook, Line and Sinner, the final part of the Sister Salter trilogy […]
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Erin Costelo talks about “the hardest album I’ve ever made”
“The whole process was exhausting,” says Erin Costelo. “Everything was on my shoulders, so I had a lot of pressure. It was the hardest record I’ve ever made, because it felt like so many decisions and so much work.” Insert every aphorism, saying and inspirational meme about the payoff of hard work right here, because […]
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Melissa McClelland enchants IDOW festival
Melissa McClelland “I’ve never played in a church,” says Carmen Townsend, with her bright red shaggy bangs falling in her face. The Cape Bretoner is all charm. Her vocal play is reminiscent of Rebekah Higgs meets Jenn Grant, but her sound is entirely her own. Townsend takes listeners on a journey through the tumbling acrobats […]
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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
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Benefits package
If you’re a musician in this town, then you’ve either been asked to play a benefit show or you’re about to be. Musicians and bands were contributing their talents to causes long before Bob Geldof globalized the practice in the mid-’80s. But in a city bursting with events and causes, how do musicians decide where […]