We’ll be 7 years old – The Carleton, that is – this week and to celebrate, we’ve got some cool shows lined up, including a Friday night – May 15th – featuring some of the great young talent this city has to offer. Owen Meany’s Batting Stance (with Seamus and Billy of The Brood), and Campbell (more…)
Australian Jordie Lane is one of our favourite out-of-the-country songwriters. So much so that with this appearance during our 7th anniversary week he’ll have played The Carleton eight times! That means he’s not just good, he’s great. It’s a little last minute but Jordie’s show will be on Wednesday, May 13th. Show time is 8 (more…)
The entertaining, and musically excellent, Mike Bochoff Band returns to The Carleton for a show on Thursday, May 7th. It’ll be $5 at the door to get in and live music will start between 9:30 and 10 PM. As an added bonus, Fido is doing a promotional event on this night and we’ll have a (more…)
Adam Baldwin brings his best-damned-house-band-in-Halifax – The Carletones – to The Carleton stage every Saturday night and May 30th is no exception. The lads will start banging out the tunes sometime after 10 PM and it’s only $5 at the door to get in! (more…)
Genre-bending Halifax rock/hip hop outfit Three Sheet have been missing in action for awhile but they’re at The Carleton (where we like to think they belong) for a special come-back – or should we say, welcome back – show on Friday, May 29th. Show time will be 10 PM and admission is only $10 at (more…)
Symphony Nova Scotia brings its Rachmaninoff & Friends Festival to The Carleton on Wednesday, April 29th. Show time is 7:30 PM. Tickets, through SNS are available HERE. (more…)
The fabulously unhinged Fred Eaglesmith returns to Halifax with his Traveling Steam Show for one night only at The Carleton on Sunday, October 4th. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are $40. There is no one out there quite like Fred Eaglesmith, as legions of fans around the world will attest, and when he (more…)
One of The Carleton’s favourite performers, the powerhouse one-man-band, the inimitable Danny Michel, comes our way this summer for a show on Wednesday, August 19th. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are a bargain at $20. Danny is one of the country’s coolest live acts and one of its finest songwriters too so it’s (more…)
One of our favourite local bands – Roxy & The Underground Soul Sound – celebrates the release of a new album Don’t You Know? with a show at The Carleton that includes pals Jacob Strang & The High Class Hussies on Thursday, June 4th. The show will kick off after 9 PM and it’ll be (more…)
Kick-ass, Ottawa-based award-winning blues/rock band Monkey Junk make their Carleton debut on Sunday, May 24th at 9 PM. Joining them on the night will be new Mike Farrington/Brad Conrad (The Mellotones) project, The Negligents. Tickets are $15. I mentioned that Monkey Junk was an “award-winning” band… 2014 Canadian Independent Music Award – Blues Artist/Group of (more…)