First awarded in 1970, the Juno Awards are the Canadian Grammys, a marker of musical achievement based on sales, radio play and popularity in national and international markets. Usually, the Junos represent the best in Canadian music. And this year, more than in the last decade, some of the largest artists in the whole damn world […]
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4 ways to fight Tuesday’s rain
1 It’s gloomy enough that a chill electronic track from local musician Wyon will make you feel just enough like you’re in a Sofia Coppola film. We just happen to have one right here. 2 Though gloomy weather has its upsides (cinematic atmosphere) the crocheted playable sculptures of Bridgetown, Nova Scotia’s Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam will […]
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TEDxHalifax from the comfort of home
TEDxHalifax may be sold out, but quit with the rending of garments already, there will be a live stream online, dummy. Sunday, March 11, at Dalhousie University, from 12:30pm-7:30pm (yes, it’s a day-long event) you can head over to tedxhalifax.ca and watch a live stream featuring a performance from artist Ursula Johnson, spoken word from […]
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Free Luedecke
scott blackburn In celebration of his second Juno win for his fourth album My Hands Are On Fire and Other Love Songs, the perennially lovely Old Man Luedecke has offered up his first EP Mole in the Ground for free download starting May 1. Long out of print, the album was recorded in three hours and features songs about burgers and artwork by Luedecke’s wife Teresa. Cuuuuute. You can grab it at oldmanluedecke.com beginning this Sunday (also my birthday! Old Man Lang!) And you can catch him on the heels of a cross-Canada tour on May 19 at the North
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Meaghan Smith and Old Man Luedecke Win Junos
This past weekend Meaghan Smith and Old Man Luedecke both took home Juno awards. Smith took home Best New Artist, while Luedecke won Roots and Traditional album of the year for My Hands Are On Fire and Other Love Songs. GREAT JOB.
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The Coast does NXNE: A preview
This ain’t Toronto, or at least not the Toronto I remember. There’s a chain link fence cordoning off a large swath of the downtown core. Kites and radio-controlled aircraft, I’m told, are strictly forbidden. Poorly-marked CCTV cameras track every movement south of bustling Queen Street. Two-week summer condo sublets cost roughly $8,400. And there are […]
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Old Man Luedecke on Q Today
Apparently Old Man Luedecke will be bringing his banjo and charms to Q this morning. You can listen on the dial at 90.5 at 10am Atlantic time, stream online live or grab the archive episode here. Enjoy. Related Stories
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Old Man Luedecke
Chris Luedecke is the pied piper of banjo players: wherever he goes, indie kids and hipsters, folksters and their moms will follow. While there’s a universal charm in the old-timey banjo sound, it’s Luedecke’s contemporary storytelling that sets him apart and gives the Chester musician wide appeal. Poetic without flowers, truthful with bitterness, sincere without […]
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Old Man Luedecke at the Rebecca Cohn April 30
Old Man Luedecke transforms people. He has the power to unite the most diverse crowds and after his shows everyone calmly looks at each other and realizes that we aren’t so different after all, and maybe with a little love we can work it out, and so on and so forth. Experience this love of […]
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Kev Corbett gives a sneak peek at his new album
Don’t drop it! Kev Corbett’s new album, Son of a Rudderless Boat, was released informally at the Lunenburg Folk Fest on August 6, but if you weren’t one of the 1000 people present, you may be chomping at the bit to get your copy. Corbett is leaking the album “through Taz, CKDU, and outta-the-guitar case sales,” he says, before the official release sometime in late September, so you can get one now and feel like a super fan singing along at the release show. The album features cameo appearances from Old Man Luedecke, Don Brownrigg, Thom Swift, Christina Martin, Meaghan
