Curve Music and Road Angel Entertainment bring their CCMA Country Jamboree to The Carleton during Canadian Country Music Week on Friday, September 11th. Live music gets underway at 7 PM with Jack Connolly, followed at 8 PM by The Dungarees, then Lindsay Broughton at 9 PM. The 10 PM time slot will feature some very (more…)
The first official event at The Carleton during this year’s Canadian Country Music Awards week is the Song City Entertainment After-Party and it will feature performances by Samantha Power, Jason Price, Casey May and Kirby Putnam. Show time is 9 PM and admission is $10 at the door. Get there early! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEgBC8VSOv8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3CggDS3obM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7euFP6RRvWk (more…)
The Halifax Urban Folk Festival is pleased as punch to be able to finally bring Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake to Halifax, the city with so many musicians inspired by his Scottish band. Norman will be playing with a Halifax All Star band led by uber-fan Matt Mays. Our opening songwriters circle on the night will (more…)
The Halifax Urban Folk Festival welcomes 54-40’s Neil Osborne and his Halifax All Star band to The Carleton stage on Saturday, September 5th. Our opening songwriters circle on the night will feature Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Chuck Prophet and another artist to be named soon! Show time is 9 PM and tickets are $45 + (more…)
The Halifax Urban Folk Festival kicks off its extraordinary Labour Day weekend shows on Friday, September 4th with San Francisco’s Chuck Prophet and the Halifax All Star Band. The opening songwriters circle will consist of Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Neil Osborne (54-40) and Ron Hawkins (Lowest of the Low). Tickets are $45 + booking fee (more…)
The Halifax Urban Folk Festival is all about songs and the people that write them and, for our money, there is no better songwriter in this country than Ron Hawkins (The Lowest of the Low, The Rusty Nails, The Do Good Assassins). We’re very pleased that Ron could come back to the festival this year (more…)
HUFF Presents The Adam Baldwin Band with Nathan Wiley and Dylan Menzie at The Carleton on Wednesday, September 2nd. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are only $15 + booking fee. If there’s a rock-star-in-waiting in this town, it’s definitely Adam Baldwin. Known for years as Matt Mays’ right-hand man, the release of his (more…)
Nashville-based Torontonian Lindi Ortega – along with the Halifax All Stars – plays a very special Halifax Urban Folk Festival show at The Carleton on Tuesday, September 1st. Nova Scotian country traditionalist Ryan Cook and now-back-in-Halifax-from-the-UK Gabriel Minnikin will open the night. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are $20 + booking fee. Lindi (more…)
Steve Poltz returns to HUFF and The Carleton to play with a Halifax All Star Band so Halifax can get a taste of his pre-Jewel-fame rock outfit, The Rugburns! The show is on Monday, August 31st. Tyler Messick/Museum Pieces is back in town after spending the last five years on the road with Arcade Fire (more…)
After watching local band Hillsburn blow away a sold out house at The Carleton this past spring, we thought they’d be the perfect act to kick off our 6th annual Halifax Urban Folk Festival on Sunday, August 30th. We’re pairing them up with Australia’s Oh Pep! and fans of the one will also be fans (more…)