Vision 2020 New Year’s Party feat. Kenni G, Aquasocks and more Halifax Music Co-op, 2170 Barrington Street, Tue, Dec 31, 9pm-2am, $20 When Kennedy Crossland went to a music festival for the first time—at Evolve, the club kid destination for an EDM slant on the festival experience—she expected to fall deeper in love with electronic […]
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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 […]
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OBEY X marks the spot
At the beginning of last year’s OBEY Convention, current OBEY creative director Andrew Patterson stood in front of a crowd gathered in the Halifax Central Library to deliver a set of opening remarks. Among punks, seniors, library babies and intrigued onlookers, Patterson shared a few words about his experience teaching poetry workshops to high school […]
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Mayworks paints a picture of worker’s rights
Mayworks Festival of Working People & The Arts various locations April 28-May 10 free-$25 (festival pass $50) Over 130 years after workers protested for an eight-hour workday at Chicago’s Haymarket Riot, the Mayworks Festival of Working People & The Arts is using art instead of picket signs to push for fair working conditions. While Mayworks […]
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Too stoked for TU Processed
TU Processed December 9-10, 8pm The Halifax Music Co-op 2164 Barrington Street $15/$20 TU Processed—a contemporary circus piece by performers Dawn Shepherd, Ryan Gray, and Aiyana Graham—strays from classic circus mainstays, so don’t expect animals, ring leaders, clowns and big-top tents. Shepherd describes contemporary circus in contrast to other forms of circus arts by its integration […]
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Best Rehearsal Space
Gold Winner Rockopolis Rehearsal Studios Silver Winner Radstorm Bronze Winner Halifax Music Co-op It’s such a great jam spot, you would never know it’s there unless you asked. Rockopolis is tucked under the Olympic Community Hall, sound-proofed and fool-proofed for maximum jam potential. The rates are some of the most affordable in the city, and […]
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Upstream Music veers in new directions
Rivers and streams can change their course with time, and after 25 years, it’s time for Upstream Music to flow away from its source a little. Director and founding member Paul Cram is stepping down after 19 years at the helm of the experimental music association, and Diving For Pearls will celebrate those achievements and […]
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Gift From God are on a journey
Tasseomancy, Gift From God Sunday, May 24, 2pm Halifax Music Co-op 2107 Brunswick Street $10 Born from an intuitive sense of harmony between its members, Gift from God is a collaboration rooted in improvisation. At their OBEY show, Lindsay Dobbin (drums), Kira Daube (vocals) and Elizabeth Johnson (keyboards) will feed off of both a shared musical […]
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HMC’s something borrowed
For more info on how to contribute to the library, visit thehmc.ca. In 1872, Irish conductor Patrick Gilmore led a mammoth ensemble of 2000 instrumentalists to commemorate the end of the Franco-Prussian war, a spectacle that was at that time the largest gathering of musicians in recorded history. In a cavernous basketball court-turned-concert hall on […]