Gold Winner Ria Mae with Symphony NS Silver Winner The Mellotones 20th Anniversary at The Marquee Bronze Winner Feist at the Cohen For all of the awe and wonder hearing pop songs interpreted by an orchestra can serve up—and Symphony Nova Scotia has been offering those experiences for years—there was something particularly spectacular about concertmaster […]
The Mellotones
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Gold Winner The Mellotones Silver Winner Roxy and the Underground Soul Sound Bronze Winner Asia & NuGruv The Mellotones have moved around a lot—hopping between three regular venues this year; they’ve just set up camp Thursdays on The Marquee stage and the band’s many fans always find it. “The community supports us—we don’t have to […]
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Gold Winner The Mellotones Silver Winner Signal Hill Bronze Winner Shameless “We get a lot of great opportunities to make a living as a professional band in Halifax,” says Jeffrey Mosher, singer and saxophonist in The Mellotones. “That keeps us motivated, as do our levels of traditional R&B and funk music. The players in the […]
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Jazz Fest adds Alvvays, Chaka Khan and more to stacked 2018 lineup
The Halifax Jazz Festival, which kicked off this year with a very sweet double-barrelled announcement of The War on Drugs and Daniel Caesar, followed in recent weeks by Charlotte Day Wilson and Land of Talk, unveiled its more headliners yesterday. Canadian superstars Alvvays (July 11, Tent) and life superstar Chaka Khan (July 12, Tent) have […]
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Two decades of funk
On December 23 The Mellotones will celebrate their 20th anniversary. The eight-piece unit fuses soul, funk and R&B with an always-changing setlist. “The 20th-anniversary show stems from when Tony Smith was the leader of the band,” says lead singer and saxophonist Jeffery Mosher. “In the early days, we used to do a Christmas show at […]
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Gold Winner The Mellotones Silver Winner Neon Dreams Bronze Winner Dub Kartel Halifax’s eight-piece jazz, soul, funk and R&B band, together for 18 years now, exists precisely so you can move your body to music’s most danceable jams. “Having such a large band allows us to tackle material that most bands can’t,” says Jeffrey Mosher. […]
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Gold Winner Bruce & Jay MacKinnon Silver Winner Signal Hill Bronze Winner The Mellotones Together since their first weekly matinee in 2008 at Elephant & Castle, dad and son duo Bruce & Jay MacKinnon have been the regular Saturday band at Durty Nelly’s since 2011, with hundreds of songs in their repertoire. “I like playing […]
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Gold Winner The Mellotones Silver Winner Party Boots Bronze Winner Razorboy Sure, the Mellotones are a cover band, but they’re a bit different. “We’re a cover band in the way that a jazz band playing standards is a cover band. You have to really understand and study the language of the music to create the […]
