The Barr Brothers w/Michael Feuerstack Friday, November 30, 9pm Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $28 adv/$32 doors sonicconcerts.com Despite releasing an album last year, it looked like The Barr Brothers were done touring it by summertime. But a second wind is pushing the Montreal indie folk band around North America—including to the Marquee on Friday—playing […]
The Marquee Ballroom
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Best Live Music Venue
Gold Winner The Marquee Ballroom Silver Winner The Seahorse Tavern Bronze Winner The Carleton One of the city’s larger standing venues (capacity 750), The Marquee is also one of the hardest to fill. Touring acts—Thrice, Protest the Hero and Stars have been through this year, with The Trews, Stiff Little Fingers and Barr Brothers on […]
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HPX18: Hua Li
Hua Li w/DJ Shub, Cadence Weapon, Jayd Ink, Fat Tony, Blakdenim Saturday, October 20, 9pm The Marquee, 2037 Gottingen Street, $25 adv/$33 door “Part of why I started rapping is because I wanted to be the hook girl. I would write these rinky-dink raps as placeholders and sing a really cool hook,” says Hua Li, […]
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The glow of Neon Dreams
Neon Dreams w/Jodi Guthro, Mitchell Bailey Friday, October 12, 9pm The Marquee Club, 2037 Gottingen Street $20 adv/$25 door sonicconcerts.com Neon Dreams is so committed to its social media game that someone follows the trio around solely for content creation. So it’s a bit perplexing to visit @neondreams right now—the Instagram account is down to […]
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ECMA30: Jenn Grant
Jenn Grant w/Sorrey, Gabrielle Papillon, Alana Yorke and more Fri May 4, 8pm, The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street Argyle Street Fest w/Jenn Grant, Dylan Menzie, Villages, The Once, City Natives Sat May 5, noon Songwriters’ Circle w/Jenn Grant, Rose Cousins, Reeny Smith and more Sun May 6, 2pm, The Schooner Room, 1983 Upper Water […]
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ECMA30: Sloan
Sloan w/Adyn Townes, Walrus, Hello Delaware, The Town Heroes Thu May 3, 9:30pm, Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street, $25 Halifax is a university town, and universities love to fête their famous alumni. So it makes sense the ECMAs would invite Sloan, arguably the city’s most renowned musical export, to perform at Thursday night’s awards show and […]
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Stars shine on
Stars w/Jenn Grant Friday, April 13, 9pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street $38-$43 sonicconcerts.com There’s a moment in “We Called It Love,” track six on Stars’ latest sad-and-synthy LP There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light, where it becomes imminently clear the band is returning to form. Frontpeople Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan softly […]
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All along, Waxahatchee
Waxahatchee w/The Weather Station, Owen Meany’s Batting Stance, Corey Gulkin Friday, January 19, 7pm The Marquee Ballroom, 2037 Gottingen Street $25 adv/$30 door Katie Crutchfield has just packed up her apartment in Philadelphia—if you follow her on Instagram, you’ve seen its walls as pink as Lady Bird’s bedroom—and will take her things back to the […]
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Wannabe makes it last forever
Wannabe: The Spice Girls Tribute Band Saturday, November 25, 8pm The Marquee Ballroom 2037 Gottingen Street tickethalifax.com There’s a scene in Spice World—the 1997 musical that would come to be the high water mark in the Spice Girls’ saturation of pop culture—where Sporty, Ginger, Scary, Posh and Baby crowd at a forest’s edge, watching a […]
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Best Cover Artist / Band
Gold Winner Signal Hill Silver Winner The Mellotones Bronze Winner Fleetwood Mac Tribute at The Marquee Ballroom Try to find a harder-working, longer-running band than Signal Hill. We’ll wait. Just kidding, it’s not possible, and this win is a quick break from business as usual. “A wicked thanks to Coast readers for voting us gold […]
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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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Lido Pimienta is lit
Lido Pimienta w/Charlotte Day Wilson, Ralph, Vogue Dots Thursday, October 19, 9:15pm The Marquee, 2037 Gottingen Street $25 Navigate the Industry or Die Trying Friday, October 20, 3:30pm Paul O’Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road free If you’ve heard Lido Pimienta’s name recently, chances are it’s been in one of a handful […]