The Halifax Urban Folk Festival is stoked – stoked, we say! –  that Juno award-winner and national treasure Rose Cousins will play two very special solo performances at the Carleton on Thursday, October 3rd. The early show  gets underway at 7 PM, with the late show (this one) starting at 9:30 PM. Tickets for each show are $65 + HST. We seriously doubt you will be able to catch an artist of this calibre in a venue this intimate ever again…

Some voices you recognize the moment you hear them. Bonnie Raitt. Dolly Parton. Aretha Franklin. There’s just something about them. It’s not the perfect pitch – lots of singers have that. It’s not the range – although yes, great singers tend to have broad range. It might have something to do with texture and that elusive quality we call ‘feel’. But the real secret lies in a great singer’s ability to communicate. To reach in through our skin to move our heart and soul. To make us feel something, anything. Could be joy, could be excitement, could be desire, could be deep sadness. At its core a great voice has the ability to make us feel alive.

We are blessed to have such a voice at HUFF this year: Rose Cousins. The old chestnut about someone being ‘so good they could sing the phonebook’ applies to Rose. Okay, we don’t have phonebooks anymore, but anyone who remembers them knows what we’re talking about. Rose’s fans wear T-shirts that read “Rose Cousins Made Me Cry.’ (No-one wore that shirt better than HUFF’s huge friend Stuart Jolliffe.) And it’s true – Rose can indeed make you cry. And laugh. And feel ALIVE. She is a brilliant songwriter, a gifted lyricist, a compelling story-teller and such a great singer. Come to think of it, she is the very embodiment of what HUFF is all about. We are so happy to have her on our stage again this year. Treat yourself and a friend: come to one of Rose’s two intimate solo shows. Satisfaction guaranteed.