Gold Winner Halifax Jazz Festival Silver Winner Halifax Pop Explosion Bronze Winner Halifax International Busker Festival There’s a reason that no matter what event is happening on the corner of Salter and Lower Water streets it’s still referred to as “the Jazz Fest parking lot.” It’s because nothing really compares to the brassy, bassy, body-moving […]
Halifax International Buskers Festival
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Bend it like Em
Sydney, Australia’s Bendy Em (AKA Em Kerger) contortionist-meets-comedy show is one of the featured acts at this year’s Halifax International Busker Festival, July 30 to August 4 on the Halifax Waterfront, schedule online at buskers.ca—don’t get it twisted, it’ll be a ball. Bendy Em went from business degree to street performer after she found a […]
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Buskers’ street style
Expect a packed boardwalk, flying footballs, juggling, mimes, juggling mimes, living statues and requests for volunteers August 2-12 for the 26th Halifax International Busker Festival. Whether your memories of festivals past include being charmed by the various accents or well-defined muscles of bicycle acrobats, or not knowing where to stare while someone plays a saxophone […]
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Busking 101
Is this a busker? According to the festival, it’s not. Along with cash for its performers, the enjoyment and expectations of audiences, the Halifax International Busker Festival raises a perennial question: Who is a busker? For Kim Hendrickson, president of ESP Productions, the company that puts on the festival, a busker performs a “circle show. […]
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Hot Summer Guide: Theatre events
Dartmouth Players presents Art Until June 27 Yasmina Reza’s Tony Award-winning play is ostensibly about the perception, interpretation and value of art, but actually has more to say about the ups and downs of friendship. Serge, Marc and Yvan have been buddies for over 15 years, each with their own roles within the trio. When […]
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Best Free Event
The thing about the festival that we’ve always liked it that second word up there: international. These performers come from far and wide, and though there is something of a circus atmosphere in the family-friendly waterfront locales, at more highbrow venues these people would be considered hideously talented performance artists, expressing their fine art through […]