SonReal presents No Warm Up Tour w/Clairmont The Second Friday, March 10, 9pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street $25/$30 Nineteen-year-old Clairmont Humphrey II, AKA Clairmont The Second, grew up listening to different types of songs that now inspire his creative sound. “First music I ever heard in my life was gospel music, and like […]
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Chicago Producer RP Boo’s dancing drive
RP Boo w/Thrillah, EDDY/BUDI, DJ Goldilocks Friday, March 3, 10pm Menz & Mollyz Bar, 2182 Gottingen Street $20 OBEY Convention has been at the forefront of presenting underground music and art in Halifax for years, as each spring its namesake festival lines up artists that cross genre lines and push the boundaries of sound and […]
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Let Freedom Singer ring
Freedom Singer Friday, February 24, 8pm The Music Room, 6181 Lady Hammond Road $20/$25 Soul, gospel and contemporary musician Khari Wendell McClelland says he became increasingly interested in his heritage after getting off stage one day at a folk festival in Lunenburg and receiving a book by author Karolyn Smardz Frost. The narrative examined Black […]
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African Nova Scotia Music Association celebrates Portia White
19th Annual African Nova Scotian Music Awards Show February 25, 7pm Spatz Theatre As African Heritage Month is coming to a close, the African Nova Scotia Music Association (ANSMA) is honouring one of the province’s most iconic musicians. ANSMA’s Annual Music Award Show Celebration—now in its 19th year—is paying tribute to Portia White, who overcame […]
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Loveland spreads the love
Loveland album release Friday, February 17, 10pm The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $5 before 11pm, $10 after Loveland’s new album explores sounds not present in the band’s first record. Chill for You, released on Valentine’s Day, features guitarist Michael Fong and bass player Andrew Mawko, whose instruments help channel an expressive tone. “This album […]
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Keonté Beals’ music experiment
Keonté Beals Friday, February 10, 12pm Alderney Gate Public Library, 60 Alderney Drive Free R&B and pop artist, singer-songwriter and piano player Keonté Beals is releasing a single from his debut EP, Keonté Beals, titled “4 Ever” on February 7, after a two-and-a-half-year creation process. “I’m hoping that I can finally put my print out there and just […]
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Where I practice: Dammien Alexander
Dammien Alexander w/Brothers, JB and the Bizness Friday, February 3, 10pm Bearly’s House of Blues and Ribs, 1269 Barrington Street $8/$20 includes album WHO ARE YOU? Dammien Alexander is a well-traveled musician and shoe designer who refuses to be penned in by a genre. His latest record, Love + Infinity, will be released on California […]
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The Barrowdowns gonna make you move
The Barrowdowns w/Nick Everett, Loveland, The Wooden Sky Friday, January 20, TKpm The Seahorse Tavern $23/$25 If you make a word cloud with all of The Barrowdowns’ social media posts, the word “dancing” stands out above the rest. As the live show developed while playing the festival circuit over the past two years, dancing became […]
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It takes a Villages
Villages w/Laurenn Marchand, Sarah Jane Scouten, Justin Rutledge Thursday, January 19, 7:30pm Timber Lounge, 2712 Agricola Street $20 “We didn’t want anything to do with it,” says Matt Ellis, who sings and plays guitar in Villages and grew up in Cape Breton. “Our siblings played the fiddle or the pipe—we wanted to play something loud. […]
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Murder, Jean wrote
The Attempted Murder of Laura Jean w/Kurt Inder, LUKA, Jennifer Castle Thursday, January 19, 9pm Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $23/$25 It’s fitting The Attempted Murder of Laura Jean plays a festival called In the Dead of Winter. Images of skulls, typically of human and horse variety, frequent the artwork of her album covers and […]
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Yoga with Julie Doiron
Julie Doiron Thursday, January 19, 7:30pm w/Megan Nash, Dan Misha Goldman, Jim Bryson Timber Lounge, 2712 Agricola Street $25 Friday, January 20, 8:30pm w/Daniel Walker Good Robot, 2736 Robie Street $15 Julie Doiron is best known for making broken hearts feel better through song, but she wants to relate to the whole self. “I’m always […]
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Jennifer Castle’s solo call
Jennifer Castle w/The Attempted Murder of Laura Jean, Kurt Inder, LUKA Thursday, January 19, 9pm Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street $23/$25 Two years removed from her gorgeous, Polaris Prize-shortlisted album Pink City, Jennifer Castle continues to call out with incisive lyrics and a sharp, effervescent voice. While both Pink City and the new music that […]