Well Halifax, if you’re looking for the true source of this scorching summer heatwave, we have a theory: It’s the white-hot lineup Jazz Fest continues to serve as the seasonal staple rolls on. This humidity, though? We’ll blame god/the sky/our horoscope for that. Below we’re breaking down the must-see events of the festival’s second week—all […]
Kim Harris
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Must-watch music video: A deer in the spotlight
The resilience you feel lighting a fire in your belly when you hear a Kim Harris song? It’s the singer-songwriter’s signature, and the reason (alongside her classically trained singing voice) that she’s sick of fielding comparisons to Adele. When Harris dropped her long-awaited sophomore album last year, it proved to be packed with the sort […]
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Best Artist / Band To Enjoy Quietly
Gold Winner Rose Cousins Silver Winner Kim Harris Bronze Winner Quiet Parade “Maybe you can feel all the feelings in the songs when it’s quieter, you can feel them to the fullest—my songs have a lot of feelings,” Cousins muses about her second-year-in-a-row gold win for Best Artist To Enjoy Quietly. She’s “avoiding packing for […]
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The year in music
Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals at Halifax Jazz Festival Watching Anderson .Paak, one of the hottest current R&B artists, alternate between jumping around the stage to hyping the crowd from behind a drum kit seemed too good to actually be happening in Halifax. The crowd ate it up, singing along with every word and […]
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Playing somebody else’s songs
In whole acts of love and admiration, here are the tribute shows I have personally produced, played and sung in: Tori Amos, Under the Pink (May 9, 2014); Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill (June 12, 2015, two shows); Tori Amos, Boys for Pele (January 20, 2016). These are three of the most important albums of […]
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Review: Kim Harris, Stewart Legere, Tyler Messick at HUFF
Tyler Messick and Virgil Muir were a great start to the third night of HUFF. Stewart Legere was the next to take the stage and his set was comprised of beautiful songs and excellent anecdotes. He played songs from his latest release, Quiet the Station (recorded at Village Sound), which he describes as “a great […]
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Songs to celebrate the life and music of Jay Smith
While on tour with Matt Mays in Edmonton, struggling with depression and addictions, Cape Breton songwriter and legendary Rock Ranger James ‘Jay’ Smith took his own life on March 27, 2013. Musical communities across Canada collectively mourned the loss of one of Nova Scotia’s greatest rock musicians, known as the lead of Sydney’s Rock Ranger, as […]
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Best Artist / Band To Enjoy Quietly
Gold Winner Jenn Grant Silver Winner Quiet Parade Bronze Winner Kim Harris “Thanks for this special treat award,” says Jenn Grant. “You are correct! I’m not a super-loud singer, I like my monitors loud to hear myself, but I like my rehearsals to be really, really quiet, and this is a rare delicacy, like tiramisu […]
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Best Female Solo Artist
Gold Winner Mo Kenney Silver Winner Kim Harris Bronze Winner Ria Mae The last few years have been good to Mo Kenney. Her latest album, In Dreams, is taking her all over Europe and she’s into it. “I like touring in the fall,” she says, “it saves me money on my heat bill.” When she […]
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Best Songwriter
Gold Winner Joel Plaskett Silver Winner Kim Harris Bronze Winner Mo Kenney
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Watch: Shannon Webb-Campbell’s “Harvest Your Heart”
Though EGALE Canada Human Rights Trust Out In Print Literary Award Winning poet (and Coast contributor!) Shannon Webb-Campbell’s Still No Word (Breakwater Books) book launch was rescheduled, you can catch a glimpse of some of the lines within with this video. Made by Krista Davis, Webb-Campbell’s words are linked up with the music of Kim […]