With three nights (and one afternoon) of gentle shows to ease the pain of a 5pm sunset, the ninth annual In the Dead of Winter Festival comes when you need it most. Get your tickets while you can and read our features on Alana Yorke, Owen Pallett and musician’s picks of the festival. CLICK HERE […]
In the Dead of Winter Festival
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In the Dead of Winter 2013
Cold hands, full hearts, can’t lose. Forgive us for paraphrasing, but it’s true—nothing warms the soul quite like shaking off a snow-covered toque, stamping the slush off your boots, settling into a cozy seat and being serenaded. In the Dead of Winter, Halifax’s annual acoustic festival, provides a tonic (more like a hot toddy, really) […]
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Icy cool Steven Bowers “Migration” video
Steven Bowers, in town next week for the In The Dead of Winter Festival (Thursday, January 26 at Eyelevel Gallery w/Kev Corbett and Mary Milne, 8pm, $10), was kind enough to share this sweet homemade video with us. “I just wanted to share a homemade music video I put together with my wife. We were […]
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Shawn Colvin Plays In the Dead of Winter
Shawn Colvin In the Dead of Winter, the yearly festival celebrating acoustic musicians, has announced its first performer: the Grammy-award winning Shawn Colvin. If you came of age in the ’90s, chances are you probably know her song “Sunny Came Home.” During a recent Larry Sanders binge, I realized that Colvin is also pretty funny. […]
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In the Dead of Winter line-up announced
i crave avery Another reason to look forward to 2011: the ever-intriguing In the Dead of Winter lineup, now in its sixth year. I have missed C.R. Avery the last few times he’s been in Halifax but luckily he’s being brought back for another round. The festival also features Rae Spoon, Oh Susanna, Mary Gauthier, Snailhouse, Paper Beat Scissors, The Once and many others. Jenn Grant will be closing off the fest with a release show for her upcoming album Honeymoon Punch. For a complete list of artists, go to thecoast.ca. The festival runs January 26-29th. 2011 Performers: Jenn GrantMary
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John K. Samson loves his Winnipeg
A< relationship to a city is complicated, a matter of love and hate. This, John K. Samson knows well. Examining his own city, Winnipeg—and with that lens, the archetypal Canadian city—has been a career-spanning project of The Weakerthans founder and singer and now solo artist, releasing late last year his first in a suite of […]
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Jenny Omnichord on tour with her toddler
The 2008 In the Dead of Winter was a memorable one for Jenny Mitchell, AKA Jenny Omnichord. “I thought I’d broken my foot, and people kept giving me whiskey for it.” So Mitchell went to the hospital where she got a pregnancy test prior to x-rays, and “I found out I was pregnant.” Two years […]
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Pedal to the mellow
Gus’ Pub & Grill “Whenever we have big metal shows, we order extra Olands,” says Jake Cuming, a bartender at Gus’. He stresses Olands, Olands, and more Olands. Plus cheap draughts. And whiskey shots—“The hard stuff.” 2605 Agricola Street, 423-7786 The Company House CoHo owner Mary Ann Daye suggests a bit of the hard stuff […]
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Four winter stars
Gianna Lauren Gianna Lauren is made for winter, or so she says. “Months’ worth of armchair time, reading and drinking tea,” she says. “The winter season forces you to relax and get creative with yourself.” On her album Fist Through a Heart, Lauren is a bit of a mystery. She’s part wallflower, part rocker, all […]
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Video: Michael Jackson’s Thriller shuts down Gottingen
Not the first time the undead have taken over Gottingen, but we’ll never see this again. In the Dead of Winter’s annual fundraiser, For the Dead, is a musical exorcism, bringing the Carter Cashes, Patsy Cline, Dusty Springfield, Roy Orbison and more back to life for just one awesome night. It’s close to midnight and […]
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Jolie wanderer
Jolie Holland is in Brooklyn, New York, at her apartment south of Prospect Park, when she answers the phone, turns off some tinny-sounding music in the background and says hello. She sounds tired, and explains she is getting over a cold. Her speaking voice, with just a hint of a southern accent, is surprisingly quiet […]
