Kaia Kater w/Meaghan Blanchard, Camille Delean, Leanne Hoffman Friday, January 19 The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street, 7:30pm $15 adv/$25 door w/Rose Cousins Good Robot Brewing Co., 2736 Robie Street Saturday, January 20, 7-8pm Sold Out When Kaia Kater plays a pair of shows at In the Dead of Winter this weekend, one will be next […]
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Fiver’s audible history
Fiver w/Stewart Legere, Lydia Persaud, Brooklyn Doran Thursday, January 18, 7:30pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $20 adv/$25 door Simone Schmidt’s fascination with history began, like so many do, with a newspaper. Schmidt, who fronts the band The Highest Order and makes rootsy folk music under the name Fiver, says she had always found herself […]
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The Carleton Music Bar & Grill closes this week for renovations
The Carleton Music Bar & Grill (1685 Argyle Street) is temporarily closing its doors for renovations. According to a press release, the Carleton will shut down on December 22. It will briefly re-open for its In The Dead of Winter Festival shows from January 18-20, but the official re-opening won’t take place until February 8. […]
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The Weather Station’s different state of grace
The Weather Station w/Bernice Friday December 8, 7pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $20 Near the beginning of “You and I (On the Other Side of the World),” from her self-titled, fourth album as The Weather Station, Tamara Lindeman sings what could be taken as a distillation of her music: “I love because I see.” […]
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Iskwé’s fight for the greater good
Iskwé w/Rococode and Arsoniste Friday, November 10, 9pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $8/$12 Iskwé, a genre-bending artist based in Hamilton, concerns herself less with how to describe her music and more with the kind of change her music can create. Pulling from trip hop, R&B and traditional folk music, her new album The Fight […]
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Best Live Music Venue
Gold Winner The Seahorse Tavern Silver Winner The Carleton Music Bar & Grill Bronze Winner The Marquee Ballroom “We try and cater to everyone and because of that, it’s very open as to what I can book. It’s almost like the wild wild west of booking,” says Jeff Pineau, the man responsible for everything you […]
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Ali Hassan’s cultural comedy
Ali Hassan: Muslim, Interrupted Tuesday, October 24, 7:30pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $20 Comedian Ali Hassan was taken by surprise when his children came to him with questions about Islam. Those questions inspired Hassan’s current solo show Muslim, Interrupted, which is on its way to The Carleton on Tuesday. While Hassan’s main goal is […]
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All the stars in the HUFF sky
Halifax Urban Folk Festival August 27-September 3 multiple venues halifaxurbanfolkfestival.com The Halifax Urban Folk Festival began in The Carleton back in 2009, expanding to multiple venues over the years—nine of them this round, including The Anchor, Timber Lounge, the Marquee and Tempo. The Carleton’s flagship shows have come to feature the festival’s biggest names backed […]
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Changing Three Sheet
Three Sheet w/Know Issue Friday, December 9, 10pm The Carleton, 1685 Argyle Street $10 After nearly a decade as a band, alternative hip-hop troupe Three Sheet is taking stock of where it’s at. Three Sheet’s tenure has included a huge number of shows in Halifax, a handful of tours, even a visit to Taiwan—something that […]
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Daniel Caesar’s smooth moves
Daniel Caesar w/BadBadNotGood, Lady Wray, Reeny Smith Halifax Forum Multi-purpose Centre 2901 Windsor Street Thursday, October 20, 8pm $40 Daniel Caesar w/ Loveland The Carleton Music Bar & Grill 1685 Argyle Street Thursday, October 20, 11:30pm $15 It’s fitting Daniel Caesar plays two shows in one night at Halifax Pop Explosion. The Toronto R&B and soul artist […]
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Scott Thompson picks his top 5 favourite characters
Character acting requires incredible comedic skill, and from 1984 to 1994, the men behind Toronto-based sketch TV show The Kids in the Hall were masters of disguise. The show was a worthy rival to Saturday Night Live, airing on both HBO and CBC with its host of darkly absurd, satirical and original character sketches. This Tuesday and Wednesday, the […]
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Taking centre stage after a decade in the background
“The older I get and the more I play, the more I realize the magic of it all,” says violinist Donald MacLennan, on his passion for swing-based gypsy jazz music. For the last decade, the Antigonish resident has been fiddling with all manner of folk artists—including Ben Caplan, Jennah Barry and Michael Dalton—and with quartets […]