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SUMMARY:Jennah Barry
DESCRIPTION:Hailing from the coastal haven of Mahone Bay\, Nova Scotia\, Jennah Barry is one of Atlantic Canada’s surest sirens. Her undeniable\, rosewater voice sets a mood wherein even the hardest truths seem palatable. Moving effortlessly between folk\, country and soft rock motifs\, Barry’s music sets her at the forefront of a tradition of women making music as strong as it is sentimental. \nTickets prices vary from $0 to $40
URL:https://livemusichalifax.ca/event/jennah-barry/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary Arts Centre\, 100 Octherloney St
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SUMMARY:Geordie Haley\, David Burton\, Trevor Wentzell
DESCRIPTION:Geordie Haley: With more than 25 years of presenting and performing original music guitarist\, composer\, improviser and educator Geordie Haley has been a featured artist in concert and festival programs by creative music presenters Upstream Music\, Suddenly Listen\, Canadian Music Center\, The Motion Ensemble\, Jazz East\, Vocalypse \,Shattering the Silence\, Obey\, Scotia Fest\, Center for Experimental Music and the Harvest Jazz Festival. Geordie teaches guitar and ensembles at the NSCC Music Arts Program and at the Maritime Conservatory for the Performing Arts. He conducts a monthly improvising workshop for Suddenly Listen. As well as leading his own ensembles Geordie is a member of the Upstream Quartet\, Tom Easley’s EQ\, Jamie Gatti’s Riot Squad\, The Back Alley Big Band. Geordie has an active career as a contributor to many creative projects. \nTrevor Wentzell\, a prominent figure in the vibrant music scene of Halifax\, is a highly accomplished musician and dedicated music educator hailing from Lower Sackville\, Nova Scotia. His lifelong musical journey began at the tender age of five\, and since then\, he has immersed himself in the study and performance of music. Trevor’s passion for music is evident as he graces stages with his multi-instrumental talents\, including the organ\, piano\, flute\, clarinet\, and\, of course\, the saxophone. He is a sought-after member of various local jazz\, blues\, and funk bands\, such as the Back Alley Big Band\, the Chronos Band\, Zim Gars Trio\, Tom Collins Band\, Wentzell/Burton/Haley Organ Trio\, and Zulkamoon\, just to name a few. Trevor is also a prolific recording artist\, frequently collaborating with some of the finest musicians in Halifax. \nDavid Burton has a vast array of recording projects to his credit as composer\, producer\, musical director and studio musician. His talent and musicianship has granted him priority status with CBC\, not only as a drummer\, but also as a musical director and arranger. His career has taken him around the world\, backing Canadian artist like Rita MacNeil\, Natalie MacMaster\, Alanya Miles and Ian Thomas\, to name a few. He has also had the pleasure of performing live with artists like Tony Bennett\, Sara Vaughan and\, the great\, Ella Fitzgerald. He has received a number of awards including Best Live Jazz CD “HavanaFax Live” (East Coast Music Awards)\, Best Instrumental Recording “Collage” (East Coast Music Awards) and for the soundtrack “New World Columbus – The Life of Joshua Slocum” (Houston Film Festival).
URL:https://livemusichalifax.ca/event/geordie-haley-david-burton-trevor-wentzell/
LOCATION:Wooden Monkey\, Alderney Landing
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SUMMARY:The Weather Station
DESCRIPTION:The Weather Station — the project of Toronto based songwriter Tamara Lindeman — returns with new album Humanhood on January 17th via Fat Possum Records.  The last few years have seen The Weather Station release two albums: the career defining Ignorance (2021) and its ethereal\, mostly live recording companion piece\, How Is It That I Should Look At The Stars (2022). In that time\, The Weather Station have gone on to headline tours across North America and Europe\, play major festivals\, and perform on the televised Austin City Limits as well as Jimmy Kimmel Live. Ignorance was named Best New Music (Pitchfork)\, and landed in year-end Top 10 lists from The New Yorker (#1)\, Spin\, New York Times\, Uncut\, Pitchfork\, The Guardian\, and many others.  Called “a heartbroken masterpiece” in The Guardian\, the record was a complex evocation of climate grief that struck a chord worldwide. \nAs a writer\, Lindeman is known for her detail. “Her writing can feel … like the collected epiphanies from a lifetime of observing” (Pitchfork).  Over the course of six albums\, her music has moved from home recorded\, mostly acoustic folk to the “ornate act of world building” (New Yorker) that was Ignorance.  The throughline\, though\, is a focus on ideas; her lyrics walk the line between the personal and the conceptual\, forever tying small moments to larger metaphysical quandaries.  Nominated for three Juno Awards\, a Socan Songwriting Award\, and shortlisted for the Polaris Prize\, her albums have made a mark both critically and conceptually. \nTickets prices vary from $0 to $40
URL:https://livemusichalifax.ca/event/the-weather-station/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary Arts Centre\, 100 Octherloney St
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Cornfield
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s been less than two years since Highs in the Minuses became Charlotte Cornfield’s break-out—a magnetic mission-statement for the Toronto songwriter described by Rolling Stone as “Canada’s best-kept secret.” Cornfield emerged from pandemic seclusion with new fans\, raised expectations\, and her first major US tour. She could have kept touring forever; she could have fled to the woods with a four-track. She could have done anything. What she did was jump into an old Subaru\, driving seven hours south to the Hudson Valley. The car didn’t have any A/C; she had only recently earned her license; and she had never met the producer she was driving down to meet. But when Cornfield arrived in Hurley\, NY\, at the red-steepled church that is now Dreamland Recording Studios\, she was ready for whatever came next. “There was this letting go of some of the strongheaded-ness that I think I used to have\,” she says\, “and an embracing of the open-endedness of life.” \nCornfield had come to Hurley to work with producer Josh Kaufman\, thrilled by his sublime recordings with Cassandra Jenkins\, Anais Mitchell and his own band\, Bonny Light Horseman. The album they’d now make together\, Could Have Done Anything\, is a testament to Cornfield’s uncommon life and all its possibilities\, an acknowledgment that the best musicians can turn fleeting moments into timeless songs. Over nine magnetic tracks\, the singer-songwriter begins yet another chapter: gazing in the rear-view to understand where she’s been; squinting through the sunset to see what’s ahead. Calmer than I was\, she sings in the album’s final moments. Stronger than I was / older than I was / less angry than I was…—and finally—happier than I was / happier than I was / happier than I was… \nWhereas Cornfield’s preceding albums were made in familiar settings\, with troupes of friends\, her latest long-player reaches into the unknown. Kaufman and Cornfield (who went to school for jazz drums) played every instrument themselves\, from ringing guitars to cozy piano\, Hammond B3\, pedal steel and synthesizers. Together with engineer D. James Goodwin (Kevin Morby\, Whitney) and assistant engineer Gillian Pelkonen\, the pair worked swiftly\, impulsively\, trying to shrink the gap between having an idea and putting it on tape. The resulting sound is at once elaborate and unrehearsed; there’s a sense that it’s coming together—and coming alive—at the very moment it’s being made. \n“The hours flew by\,” Cornfield says. “We lived inside of the songs there\, for a few days.” You can hear it on a tune like “Cut and Dry\,” where a radiant\, easygoing groove forms the landscape of a song about seeing people as a whole\, together with their mistakes. There’s a similar throughline to “In From The Rain\,” where rambling 70s licks and Cornfield’s tambourine flutter trace the evolution of a friendship\, from intimacy to disappointment to acceptance. On the latter\, listen at the end of the first minute\, after Cornfield sings a lyric about rainstorms and visitors: Suddenly you were there\, goes the line—as a real-life thunderclap unfurls\, like an angel’s drumroll. “All the mics picked it up\,” she recalls. “So we left it in.” \n“Gentle Like the Drugs” draws on imagery from a spring tour in the American west. “I was experiencing joy on the road in a way I really hadn’t before\,” Cornfield says\, and you can hear it in the patient pleasure of these chords\, or the way she narrates her first impressions of Arizona: I watch the colours get real / the pink and the teal / I see a dust devil / I see an elevator. Like riding across the desert with your friends; like smoking a joint at the end of a long day; but the song’s alternating verses orient themselves towards another sensation\, too: that feeling of being home\, and happy\, when your lover’s not around. Not because they’re gone\, but because you know they will return. \nIntimacy and absence go hand-in-hand on Could Have Done Anything: the theme repeats on the unfussy love-song “You and Me\,” with its tale of tour and homecoming. You’re sunkissed in your Subaru / Picking me up at Terminal 3\, she sings—and\, later\, two bikes on a pavement path / ice cream cones and epitaphs. Some love is as simple as this: liberating\, easy\, like piano and guitar in two-step. “I’ve been trying to write a song like this for a long time\,” Cornfield says. “A catchy love-song\, with cars. Where it feels like the narrator could go anywhere and do anything.” \nThat was the spirit of this record: connection\, possibility\, acceptance. “Don’t be afraid to take a left\,” Kaufman would say\, encouraging Cornfield to drop preconceptions\, invent new rules. Even with the small things\, like wandering around the tracking room with a pair of claves in your hands\, or adding random\, surround-sound echoes to “The Magnetic Fields”—a song about a potent and formative live concert experience. Throughout\, Cornfield tried to channel the energy of her favorite classic records\, from Tapestry to Blood On The Tracks to Car Wheels On A Gravel Road—albums where the listener is simply carried by the songs and the playing. \nAfter six days\, Cornfield went back to Canada\, with a new album to mix and master. Another day-long drive; another homecoming; and one more thing\, too\, which would arise a little over nine months later: the singer’s first baby’s due April 2023. Anything can happen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTickets prices vary from $0 to $40
URL:https://livemusichalifax.ca/event/charlotte-cornfield/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary Arts Centre\, 100 Octherloney St
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SUMMARY:Scions
DESCRIPTION:Scions are a new innovative experimental ensemble. The group features members from the award-winning minimalist chamber-jazz quartet New Hermitage\, the Polaris-nominated drone-hymn duo Joyful Joyful\, and the acclaimed producer and composer Michael Cloud Duguay. Their collaboration began at the Sappyfest music festival in Sackville\, New Brunswick\, in August 2022. During this event\, New Hermitage and Joyful Joyful connected for the first time and teamed up with Duguay for a spontaneous improvisational performance based on his song writing. The enthusiastic response\, capped by a standing ovation\, solidified the ensemble’s decision to pursue the project further\, with Duguay deftly shifting from front-person to producer and musical director. \nAfter being awarded a Canada Council project grant in early 2023 the group took residence in Hotel Wolfe Island on Wolfe Island. Over a week the seven core members lived and worked together\, culling material from sunrise improv sessions and collaboratively shaping it into a unique body of work that would later become To Cry Out In The Wilderness. \nIn June 2023\, the ensemble\, now joined by double bassist Gabriella Ciurcovich\, recorded their debut album in Halifax’s north end. Led by Duguay’s distinctive approach to site-specific production\, the recording took place in the sanctuary of St. George’s Round Church\, with engineering by Jake Nicoll\, known for his sustainable recording methods using a solar-powered\, mobile control room. The resulting album\, To Cry Out In The Wilderness\, finds the ensemble expertly exploring and powerfully combining their skills in jazz\, devotional\, classical\, drone\, folk\, ambient\, metal\, improvisational\, minimalist and avant-garde music. \nThe project culminated in a week of production\, with contributions from numerous artists from Halifax’s creative music community. Scions then presented their work live\, performing on the opening night of Halifax’s Everyseeker festival of experimental music\, where they shared the spotlight with the renowned Sun Ra Arkestra. \nSpeaking on the narrative of To Cry Out In The Wilderness vocalist and lyricist Cormac Culkeen said: “When we came together to make this body of work\, we started from a narrative seed; a post-apocalyptic humanity relearning and recreating itself\, after a total ecological collapse.” Speaking on “Fight Song” they add\, ““Fight Song” became the song we thought the last of us might need. It is sung for an imagined last stand. It is a rallying cry to wholeheartedly fight a losing battle. So it is for us now\, in this time of great dismay and unease. The axe must be disobeyed.” \nTickets prices vary from $0 to $40
URL:https://livemusichalifax.ca/event/scions/
LOCATION:Sanctuary Arts Centre Downstairs\, 100 Ochterloney St.
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SUMMARY:Derek Piotr
DESCRIPTION:Derek Piotr is a folklorist\, researcher and performer whose work focuses primarily on the human voice. His work covers practices including fieldwork\, vocal performance\, preservation and autoethnography; and is primarily concerned with tenderness\, fragility\, beauty and brutality. He has collaborated with artists including Scott Solter\, Nathan Salsburg and Thomas Brinkmann across various disciplines.\nHe is lead archivist and creative director of the Fieldwork Archive \nTickets prices vary from $0 to $40
URL:https://livemusichalifax.ca/event/derek-piotr/
LOCATION:Sanctuary Arts Centre Downstairs\, 100 Ochterloney St.
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SUMMARY:Joy Curve
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URL:https://livemusichalifax.ca/event/joy-curve/
LOCATION:Driftwood\, 2103 Gottingen St\, Halifax
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