Transfiguration Day at King’s Chapel Sunday, August 6, 7:30pm King’s College Chapel, 6350 Coburg Road free This coming weekend, the members of Transfiguration Day mark their first anniversary of performing together as a musical group. The name comes from the Feast of the Transfiguration: A Christian festival celebrated on August 6, commemorating the transfiguration of […]
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Kirsten Olivia goes her own way
Kirsten Olivia Thursday, July 13, 11:15pm, $15 The Carleton Music Bar & Grill 1685 Argyle Street Kirsten Olivia is forging her own path, focusing on living her truth and being honest and creative. The powerful R&B force is embarking on a year: Festival showcases, like this weekend’s double set at the Carleton; an opening slot […]
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The transcendence of Anderson .Paak
Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals w/Reeny Smith Saturday, July 15, 8:30pm Jazz Fest Main Stage Lower Water and Salter Streets $60+fees “It’s like eating a Ferrero Rocher,” I say when my mother asks what Anderson .Paak‘s music is like. “It’s beautifully packaged; once you unwrap it, you quickly get to its core and then […]
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Lucky number 13: Gypsophilia ends on a high note after 13 years
Gypsophilia w/The Mellotones Sunday, July 16, 8:30pm Jazz Fest Main Stage Lower Water and Salter Streets free The year is 2004. Those involved in the music scene will remember this year as the moment stars aligned to form the jazz band Gypsophilia. A gig at the Halifax Jazz Festival brought together the group of musicians, […]
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Sam Wilson’s Evergreen story
The Evergreen Project Saturday, July 15 at 11am Dartmouth Peace Pavilion, 88 Alderney Drive Free “My music teacher in high school sat me down and asked if I’d ever thought about pursuing music in university and I said ‘um no,’” says jazz guitarist Sam Wilson, who thankfully changed her tune. “My parents are very career […]
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Joe Sealy’s Africville Stories inspires
Joe Sealy’s Africville Stories Saturday, July 15, 7pm St. Matthew’s Church, 1479 Barrington Street $35 Joe Sealy‘s father was born in Africville, living there for almost a decade before moving to Montreal, where he lived until the end of his life in 1992. Sealy wrote an eight-minute song called “Africville” in his honour and recorded […]
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Head to the Lake
Lady of the Lake album release Tuesday, July 11, 6:30pm Board Room Game Cafe Bedford 936 Bedford Highway Wednesday, July 12, 3:30-5pm Press Gang Restaurant & Oyster Bar 5218 Prince Street Maureen Batt and Jeremy VanSlyke had a vision to do something that hadn’t been done before in classical music—record the entire song cycle of […]
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The roots of punk
[Editor’s note: As of June 2020, a pamphlet version of Chris Murdoch’s talk, titled Black Dots: An Afropunk Primer, can be purchased via Pentagon Black. Buy your copy here.] Two thousand one was a very important year for me. After discovering punk rock in elementary school, and attending my first local show in the spring […]
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A Canadian, through and through
Founded in 1967, the Halifax All-City Music program provides free music education for public school students throughout HRM. In addition to string, choral, and band instruction, the program boasts three jazz ensembles that challenge students to “learn the art of spontaneous creation,” the HACM website notes. So I was stunned to discover during a recent exchange […]
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Listen to this year’s New Music
Update: Apparently there’s so much new music happening in Halifax, it broke the internet. Or at least the massive list of bands and embedded songs is so info-packed, it’s really good at breaking web browsers. Phone-based browsers especially. So we’ve added some options to get you into our annual New Music Issue as smoothly as […]
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Whoa, that’s a lot of music: New Music 2017 mapped out
What are music genres, anyway? Well in this instance, they’re a handy way to lump together the more-than-100 artists from the 2017 New Music Issue into a beautiful A Beautiful Mind-style map. Related Stories
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Find your new favourite musician: 101 new local acts to see and hear
Let’s make a promise. Let’s promise to see one/35/all 101 of the new projects from this epic new music list this year. Want to see these new acts mapped out by genre? Check it. You’ve got lots of time—365 days, and at least some of those days are weekends. After all, the sheer creativity and […]
