Christina Martin & Dale Murray Nov 29 The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street 7pm $17.50/$20 Sometimes Christina Martin doesn’t feel like talking about it. “And my husband’s amazing,” she says. “He’s like, ‘Why not? Yeah, we need to talk about this. We need to do this.’” It’s a difficult subject. “We lost our brother Stephane to […]
Feature
Posted inArts + Music
Ben Rogers’ Wildfire burns bright
The album art for Ben Rogers’ latest LP, Wildfire, testifies to the record’s origin story as it depicts a piano engulfed in flame. The fire gulps air, spreading out of the frame, white hot against a cool blue background. “After the last record, I just felt a natural shift, just steered away from that genre,” […]
Posted inArts + Music
The wonder of Whoop-Szo
Whoop-Szo w/Motherhood, Valerie Nov 28 The Seahorse Tavern, 2037 Gottingen Street 9pm-midnight $10 Adam Sturgeon doesn’t know, exactly, what it means to be a warrior. His grungy band Whoop-Szo—which sounds as if a folky Dave Grohl decided to make shoegaze-streaked metal—wrestles with this question throughout the 10-track effort Warrior Down, but it’s still murky: “I […]
Posted inArts + Music
Neon Dreams on
Loud Luxury w/Neon Dreams, Fama, Karate Kactus Tue, Nov 26, 7pm Cunard Centre, 961 Marginal Road $41.50-$52.50 This has been more than just a coming out year for Halifax’s Neon Dreams. After 2019 witnessed the release of the band’s debut full-length album (that’d be the long-awaited Sweet Dreams Till Sundown) hits like “High School Dropout,” […]
Posted inArts + Music
The eternal sunshine of Judee Sill
Chasin’ The Sun: A Tribute to Judee Sill Sat, Nov 23, 8pm Art Bar + Projects, 1873 Granville Street $20 O n the 40th anniversary of her death, Halifax musicians will gather at the Art Bar to celebrate the life and music of Judee Sill. Part of the class of long-haired 1970s singer-songwriters, Sill wrote […]
Posted inArts + Music
Dinuk Wijeratne stays wylin’
Dinuk Wijeratne Trio Fri Nov 22, 7:30pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road $15-$35 P ianist-conductor-composer-genre-obliterating Dinuk Wijeratne returns to Halifax this weekend for a trio concert at the Paul O’Regan Hall. Wijeratne will be joined by jazz drummer and world percussionist Nick Halley and jazz artist Tom Easley on bass. […]
Posted inArts + Music
Moonwake’s shifting tide
Moonwake w/Elise Besler at Inventions 2019 Nov 15-17, 7pm Christ Church, 61 Dundas St, Dartmouth $15 Moonwake will make your spirit rise and fall like the tide when it performs with an orchestra and a choir. The band is slated to play November 15, 16 and 17 for Inventions, the annual musician-combining event put on […]
Posted inArts + Music
Paper Beat Scissors shakes again
When Tim Crabtree—the brains and diary entries behind the vulnerable chamber folk of Paper Beat Scissors—pulled through the Cobequid Pass yesterday, “it felt like a homecoming,” he says, laughing into the phone as he talks about the feeling that swept over him as he stretched his legs at the rest-stop that marks the halfway point […]
Posted inArts + Music
Maureen Batt’s playlist is Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders: Traversía Latinoamericana Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library 5440 Spring Garden Road Oct 31, 6:30pm, free H alifax soprano Maureen Batt launches her fourth Crossing Borders recital series here at home before heading to South America on tour. On Thursday, October 31, Crossing Borders: Traversía Latinoamericana will be presented at the Halifax Central […]
Posted inArts + Music
BACKXWASH won’t back off
BACKXWASH w/Janette King Thu Oct 24, 8:30pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street free A shanti Mutinta—AKA the rapper BACKXWASH—fills the phone line with incandescent laugher, ready to soften the moment and appreciate a joke. She fills her songs with audio snippets from Mean Girls and Britney Spears samples, a cotton candy cloud foundation for infectious […]
Posted inArts + Music
Sorrey season is In Full Bloom
Sorrey w/Calm Baretta, Little Cities, Vince The Messenger Fri Oct 25, 4:30pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $10 F all may be nature’s brilliant and prolonged sendoff before winter, but this year it’s also the start of Sorrey season. “I do feel like we’re blooming. I feel like we’re taking advantage of all these opportunities […]
