The Scene

This Saturday, November 10, experience the best fall warm-up scenario known to humans: a heated bar, punk music and dancing (optional). The Riptides (Ottawa), The Guts (New Hampshire), The Hemingways and The Varsity Weirdos (Moncton) play at Gus’ Pub (10:30pm, $6). Described as “no-frills leather jacket, high-top, three-chord punk rock from guys that your girlfriend […]

Wednesday loses its rep as the least funny day of the week, thanks to the arrival of Holly Prazoff, Inessa Frantowski and Rebecca Addelman, with their Spare Some Changes comedy tour, coming to Ginger’s (1662 Barrington) on November 14. A mash-up of alternative-minded sketches, video and stand-up, mixed with music from The Just Barelys (also […]

Congrats to all the winners at the African Nova Scotian Music Awards, which powered through post-tropical pain-in-the-ass Noel on Saturday at Casino Nova Scotia, awarding Trobiz the ANSMA Artist of the Year award and Jordan Croucher the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award. Avoiding power outages should also be awarded, we think.

Despite sounding slightly nerve-racking (who will you sit beside?), the Music Nova Scotia Indie Bus sounds like a pretty great idea. Driving to Liverpool, for Nova Scotia Music Week, the bus will take a gang of interested parties for a day of learning. Check out such essential workshops such as “Collectives and DIY Record Labels: […]

2b theatre‘s Revisited, running November 14 to 25, gets a big “Number One” foam hand. It’s the first time the acclaimed production has been presented in Halifax, and the first to be held on Citadel High’s new drama stage. Seating is limited—only 28 audience members gather around a table each night to listen to Tom […]

In case you missed Eva Madden‘s short film Eastern Shore at the Atlantic Film Festival, stay up late on Sunday, November 11 at midnight, when CBC’s Canada Reflections runs it again. As close as you’ll get to surfing without chipping teeth, the National Screen Institute Drama Prize-winner examines life, relationships and the choices we make. […]

Gamblers, art collectors and bargain hunters take note of this fundraiser: Eastern Canada’s answer to the Banff Centre, The Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, is bringing a giant secret to Argyle Fine Art (1869 Upper Water). More than 300 postcard-sized pieces of original art will be auctioned off at $50 each, but you won’t […]

Statues (from Sudbury, on Deranged Records) make their triumphant return to Halifax this Sunday, November 4. Sounding like a mixture of The Replacements, The Buzzcocks and ’80s power pop, Statues are generously giving Haligonians a few chances to fall in love and write their names on your binders in Wite-Out, with an all-ages show at […]

Your mission for this week: light a candle and send good reiki energy to both Rose Cousins and Jill Barber. Both of Halifax’s sweethearts have been nominated for Canadian Folk Music Awards, which will be presented on December 1. Cousins and Barber are up against Bruce Cockburn, who I think we all can agree, has […]

Popular consensus is that we wouldn’t have music without musicians and we wouldn’t have food without farmers, so this Saturday, November 3, Musicians For Farmers is going to create a perfect pairing of food and music. I picture the North Street Church as in a drawing from one of those Christian handouts, where they imagine […]

Although she was living and performing in Saint John, New Brunswick, many people in Halifax were affected by the terribly early death of violinist and music teacher Ericka Low, on October 22, at age 30. A Masters of Music Performance grad from the University of Ottawa, Low was a soloist for the Ottawa Symphony, Ottawa […]