It’s not often that a band receives unanimous praise from the likes of Halifaxlocals.com. But The Baketones managed to inspire five pages of accolades on the local message board—after their first show ever, this past February. “I wondered how we managed to dupe all these people,” says guitarist Morgan Rigby. After a quick listen at […]
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Bike Rodeo du it clean
Made up of Nigel Tinker (Joyless Streets), Mike D’Eon (The Establishment), Matt Nichols (The Stance) and Niall Skinner (Their Majesties), Bike Rodeo play a loud blend of 1960s garage rock and ’90s Brit rock. D’Eon says, “It was the first band I was in where we just jammed for a good couple months to find […]
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Bloodhouse cut it short
Alexander Mitchell (Tomcat Combat) started Bloodhouse in the winter of 2008, when he was living outside of the city and bored. “I had never composed songs before so it was nice to be able to develop a catalogue of super-short songs. I am in no way a guitar player so the simpler the song, the […]
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Ria Mae has a new job
Halifax fosters new creativity. At least that’s how Ria Mae sees it. Recently the songwriter quit her construction-management day job to take on music full-time, a bold but necessary risk. “Deep down, I know that I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing,” says Mae. “I’ve had to downsize and am living very differently, but […]
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Granelli’s children: Panos Gianoullis and Denma Peisinger
Denma Peisinger is living with master jazz percussionist and composer Jerry Granelli, doing an “old-fashioned apprenticeship.” Peisinger, who plays bass, and guitarist Panos Gianoullis met while studying with Granelli in a program teaching free jazz to young musicians at the Atlantic Jazz Festival. They have been collaborating recently, as well as playing in Granelli’s ensemble […]