Staying Underground residency Friday April 13 & 20, 9pm Alteregos Cafe, 2193 Gottingen Street RHONDA, Pleasure Forever, All Black Everything with Alfalfa Brown Friday April 7, 10pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street Pop-up shop with Alfalfa Brown Tuesday April 11, 6-8pm Lost & Found, 2383 Agricola Street “The best comment I heard was that […]
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Classical Yas
Yas Quartet Sunday, March 26, 7pm Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts 6199 Chebucto Road $10-$30 ceciliaconcerts.ca Yas Quartet has been making waves. The international string group is fresh off a third-place win at the 2016 Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China. Made up of violinists John Heffernan and Artem Kolesov, cellist Titilayo Ayangade (who has […]
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SYNC or swim
SYNC x StART Festival: Century Egg, Crossed Wires & Mikaylaa States Friday, March 24, 8:30pm The Bus Stop Theatre, 2203 Gottingen Street, free The Atlantic Filmmakers’ Co-operative and Forward Music Group have connected two artistic communities via SYNC, a program matching filmmakers and musicians to produce low-budget, high-resource videos. Screening as part of this weekend’s […]
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Chronos’ tick tock
Chronos Friday, March 24 Bearly’s House of Blues and Ribs Chronos’ latest invitation to the dancefloor is upbeat, soulful and bursting with brass. The eight-piece instrumental ensemble brings a fuller, more luscious sound in its sophomore album, What It Is. Chronos’ 2013 debut, Boots the Cat, earned nominations for Jazz Album of the Year from […]
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BurgerFriesPop is a winning combo
BurgerFriesPop EP release w/Jessie Brown, FM Berlin, Bad Partys Friday, March 24 at 9pm The Local, 2037 Gottingen Street $7 “It was totally on purpose,” says guitarist and vocalist Dale Boudreau on new wave trio BurgerFriesPop’s decision to release their EP during Burger Week. With all of the online rumbling about The Coast’s ever-popular week-long […]
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Symphony Nova Scotia announces 2017/18 concert season
This afternoon Symphony Nova Scotia announced their upcoming 2017/18 season with a full orchestra preview of highlights, which include good ol’ classics like Beethoven’s Ninth and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to Halifax Pop Explosion’s Ria Mae concert and The Music of David Bowie “Our upcoming concerts include the sublime Brahms Violin Concerto and his First Piano […]
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OBEY Convention early line-up announcement
Celebrating the 10th edition of the festival, OBEY X, the OBEY Convention announced the early line-up for spring’s wildest festival, including Indonesian folk, hip-hop, thrash metal and more. Clear the ol’ calendar for May 25-28, across the city at “alternative and historic venues” (over half of the programming free and all ages) OBEY once again […]
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Plumtree’s back catalogue re-released on vinyl
Thanks to Label Obscura, you can refresh your 20 year old Plumtree collection (sorry old, scratchy CDs, you are no longer cutting it) with some freshly pressed vinyl. The label re-released Mass Teen Fainting, Plumtree Predicts The Future and This Day Won’t Last At All on March 7 with a limited edition of 300 copies. […]
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LISTEN TO THIS: Aquakultre’s “Wife Tonight”
In advance of Friday’s show at Warriors Gym (451 Windmill Road, 8pm, with Hussles Music, DJ R$ $mooth, Corey Writes, MAJE, Tandra, J Jigga and more) chill your butt and romance your special bunny with Aquakultre’s “Wife Tonight.” Aquakultre (AKA Lance Sampson) calls the song: “just a little single I was rocking with at the time.” […]
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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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Port Cities cast off with new album
Breagh Mackinnon, Carleton Stone and Dylan Guthro have released their own solo albums, but tomorrow they will debut their first self-titled folk-pop album as Port Cities. As a solo musician, Stone says the pressure to hire the most talented touring musicians can often put you in close quarters with difficult personalities. The friends eventually started […]
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Ten picks for a wild weekend
10 In Conversation With…Tonya Williams Thursday The former The Young and the Restless star hits the Alderney Landing Theatre for some real talk. Get the details here. 9 Turn The Heat Up: African Dance Saturday Brush up your moves at these classes teaching traditional African dance, dancehall and Afrobeats styles. Email admin@mcafricancamps.com to register and […]
