Local rock trio Hobo Aquarium return to The Carleton – along with opener Colrain – this time to record a live album and would love to have you be part of it, on Friday, November 21st. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are only $15 + HST. Hobo Aquarium is a 3-piece Indie band (more…)
Online sales have ended. Tickets are still available at the DOOR! ==== Songwriters tell stories through music, but what about those with entertaining stories to tell that aren’t set to music? You know, the kind of stories you, or a friend, might relate at a dinner party, or other social occasion? After attending similar hugely (more…)
Griffen Moore takes to The Carleton stage on Wednesday, November 12th to launch his debut album, Everything and Nothing. Opening the night is special guest and fellow Dartmouth native, Colin Greechan. Show time is 7 PM and tickets are $17.55 plus HST. Griffen Moore, a native of Dartmouth, is a multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter who blends (more…)
In association with Marine Drive Talent Management, the Halifax Urban Folk Festival is pleased to announce this year’s participants in our annual Youth Songwriters Circle at The Carleton featuring 10 young aspiring musicians, on Sunday, October 5th. Doors open at noon and the show starts at 1:30 PM. Tickets are $20 +HST. For this matinee, The (more…)
Online sales have ended. Tickets available at the DOOR! ==== Seamus Dempster brings his band, and support from brother Evan Dempster, to The Carleton for a show on Saturday, November 22nd. Live music gets underway at 8 PM and tickets are $20 + HST. Folk singer-songwriter Seamus Dempster is what many would describe as kind (more…)
Best known as co-lead of Rough Trade (recently inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame), the iconic Carole Pope – who has built a groundbreaking career pushing boundaries of sexuality, politics, and culture – finally returns to Halifax to perform in the intimate confines of The Carleton, along with special (more…)
Christine Campbell & Blake Johnston, along with their Black Market Band and friends, rock some Christmas spirit at The Carleton on Saturday, December 13th. This hopefully-annual show gets underway at 8 PM and tickets are $40 + HST. **Campbell & Johnston: A Modern guitar-driven blues steeped in Classic Rock & Roots** Christine Campbell & (more…)
The AfterWords Literary Festival presents Minor Black Figures: In Conversation. We are thrilled to welcome Booker Prize finalist and bestselling author Brandon Taylor back to AfterWords. As he did so adeptly in Real Life and The Late Americans, Brandon brings to life in Minor Black Figures a fascinating set of characters, this time in the competitive (more…)
On Sunday, November 9th, join the AfterWords Literary Festival at The Carleton for readings and conversation. First, hear Sue Goyette read from and talk about Future Howl, her remarkable new book of poetry. Then, André Alexis talks Other Worlds, his new volume of short stories, with Elamin Abdelmahmoud (A Son of Elsewhere). Presented by Dalhousie (more…)
The AfterWords Literary Festival presents an afternoon of readings at The Carleton with bar service and light snacks. Madhur Anand (To Place a Rabbit), David Huebert (Oil People), Danica Roache (Five Seasons of Charlie Francis), and Elamin Abdelmahmoud (Son of Elsewhere) read from their recent works on Saturday, November 8th at 1:00 PM (doors at (more…)