Jean-Michel Blais w/Paper Beat Scissors Saturday, April 6, 7pm St. Matthew’s Church, 1479 Barrington Street $33 adv/$38 doors, sonicconcerts.com It’s early on a weekend morning and Jean-Michel Blais is already buzzing with energy. When Blais first picks up the phone, he’s in the middle of packing up boxes of merch for a jaunt from Montreal […]
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Afraaz Mulji: Piano prodigy
Worlds Apart: Afraaz Mulji Saturday, June 17 at 7pm Maritime Conservatory of Performing Arts, 6199 Chebucto Road $25 ceciliaconcerts.ca If it makes noise, chances are Afraaz Mulji can play it. Now 18, the Tanzanian-born musician took up the tabla (a type of Indian drum) at age three. These days, he focuses on percussion as well […]
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Marc-André Hamelin is on an emotional rescue mission
Celebrated pianist and composer Marc-André Hamelin isn’t worried you think classical music is dead. The Order of Canada recipient, who’s performing with Symphony Nova Scotia at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on Thursday and Friday nights, says the often-misunderstood genre is as alive as ever: “There are many, many immortal masterpieces that will never die,” he […]
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Tickled ivory: piano bar round up
While Halifax is a great city for weekly live music shows, sometimes it’s nice to simply sit down and have a drink with a performance that isn’t taking centre stage. Ragtime, anyone? Press Gang The Gang’s piano’s played weekly from Thursday to Saturday, 7:30-11pm, with a new time slot Thursdays and Fridays from 4:30-5:30pm. Musician […]
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Friends of note
Halifax pianist Dinuk Wijeratne is welcoming an old friend and artistic ally, clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, to town. Sri Lankan-born and Dubai-raised Wijeratne and Syrian Azmeh met at Juilliard’s International House. “It was this international residence in the heart of New York. It was a huge mansion-looking building,” says Wijeratne, with “people from about 100 different […]