Tonight at Gus’ Pub, European jet setter Paper Beat Scissors jumps out from behind a curtain and surprises everyone with a secret show featuring a lot of cool instruments. “It’s gonna be a very special show with a seven-piece (bassoon, euphonium, violin, guitar, bass, drums) PBS lineup in preparation for NSMW,” PBS’ Tim Crabtree says. […]
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Music Nova Scotia Award Winners
Ms. Townsend Well, that was fun. List of award winners below. Biggies include Carmen Townsend, who won four awards, Three Sheet and David Myles. Meanwhile, the “Best Sandwich,” “Vodka vs. Ouzo,” “No-Pants” and “Best Elevator Trauma” awards were given out during a secret ceremony on Saturday night at around 4am. Music Awards Bell Aliant Entertainer […]
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NSMW: Part 3
Our own Alison Lang was up for an award for Media Professional of the Year at the Music Nova Scotia Music and Industry Awards brunch, so we headed to the Grand Ballroom in our nice shirts. It was sponsored by Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey so there was a bottle on every table. It wasn’t so bad […]
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NSMW: Part 2
Saturday morning brought a craving for pancakes the likes of which I have never experience thus far in life. Instead, Waye Mason took Team Coast to the Old World Bakery and Deli (AKA “Brickface”) for smoked turkey sandwiches, and it was a good compromise. I had planned on seeing Harold and Kumar be funny that […]
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Nova Scotia Music Week: Part 1
Nova Scotia Music Week, we are at you! After a three and a half hour drive through some undeniably pretty parts of Nova Scotia—and one stretch of what Tara Thorne was calling “a human centipede of traffic”—we arrived at the Rodd Grand Hotel feeling a little ill from reading on our phones while in the […]
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There’s A Party In Yarmouth and Everyone’s Invited
party like the donnas, ladies Starting today, the Coast Girl Team (Tara Thorne, Stephanie Johns, Allison Saunders and myself) will be posted up in scenic Yarmouth celebrating Nova Scotia Music Week, along with a sizeable chunk of Halifax’s musicians and music-lovers. I’m fairly sure that the majority of our coterie has never attended this fine […]
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NSMW: Third Time’s the Yarm
let’s throw some furniture in that shit, mess it up a little Today Music Nova Scotia announced today that Nova Scotia Music Week will once again be happening in Yarmouth. This is the third time the town has hosted the awards week. In a release, executive director Scott Long said “Of the bids received for […]