Locals Matt Bustin, Jesse Thomas and Noah Tye take over The Carleton stage on Thursday, April 9th while half the city is in St. John’s for this year’s East Coast Music Awards. Show time is 9 PM and it’s only $6 at the door to get in. (more…)
As usual, the fabulous Carletones will be entertaining the smarter contingent of the music-loving masses on Saturday, April 4th. Adam Baldwin will be out west with Matt Mays for Vancouver’s version of the Remembering Jay Smith Unison benefit so the soulful Ryan Pierce will be handling the lead vocal duties on the night! Show time (more…)
It’s a Friday night – April 3rd – and it’s coming up to Easter. What better way to observe Good Friday other than to make it a “great” one and come to The Carleton for the super-fantastic Roxy & The Underground Soul Sound? Roxy fronts one of the hottest bands in town and they aim (more…)
Our good pal and award-winning rootsy, bluesy artist Thom Swift returns to The Carleton for an early – 7:30 PM – show on Thursday, April 2nd. Tickets are $20. Thom’s latest album, The Fortunate Few, took home the 2014 Music Nova Scotia award for Blues Album of the Year but Thom’s stuff spans a lot (more…)
Timberlea-based country songstress Samantha Power returns to The Carleton for a show on Wednesday, April 1st. Show time will be 9 PM and tickets are $10 at the door. We know this is April Fool’s and all but this is no joke! We had to cancel Sam’s show in March because, well, you know, it (more…)
Hamilton-born, Ottawa-based Jeremy Fisher returns to The Carleton hot on the heels of the release of his best album to date – The Lemon Squeeze – on Monday, March 30th. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are $20. It’s also worth mentioning that The Lemon Squeeze is nominated for Adult Alternative Album of the (more…)
If we had our way – and believe me, we’ve tried – we’d have Shaun Majumder and his This Hour Has 22 Minutes pals at The Carleton 3 times a week. Apparently, that’s not realistic but we do have them for one last New Material Only night on Sunday, March 29th. The title of the (more…)
The Carletones members are participating in the Remembering Jay Smith benefit for Unison at the Olympic Hall this Saturday night so we’ve got the equally rocking – and entertaining – Rollie & The Navy Brats filling in at The Carleton on Saturday, March 28th. The lads will start bashing out the rock’n’roll at around 10 (more…)
One of our fave local rock bands – Scrapes – returns to The Carleton for a show on Friday, March 27th. It’ll be a rock show, ladies and gentlemen. Live music will start after 10 PM and it’s a measly $5 at the door to get in. I’d expect a great mix of originals and (more…)
Ron Hawkins is, for my money, the best songwriter in the country. There, I said it. His body of work – from The Lowest of the Low, through The Rusty Nails, his solo work and what he’s now producing – stacks up against anything I’ve heard over the past two plus decades. His brand-spanking-new album (more…)