Locals Alex Coley & Afterlove, with special guest Mat Elliott, return to The Carleton – following up on their first sold out show there – on Thursday, March 6th. Show time is 7:30 PM and tickets are $20 + HST.

Built around his soulful, worn-in voice and wrapped in tender harmonies, Alex Coley & Afterlove explore the elemental tension between joy and pain; heartache and healing; what was and what will be. Alex Coley is a Nova Scotia-based songwriter and indie-folk musician with an affinity for novelty, big feelings and good questions. Music has always been a compulsion for Alex – his headspace an enduring and immutable arc of melody. It became an obsession after a long drive across the Maritimes with his dad. It was the first time he heard Joni Mitchell’s ‘Both Sides Now’ over the crackly speakers from the back seat of his dad’s red Ford Aerostar. Like all things worth enduring, Alex’s relationship with music has been complex, terrifying and inevitable. 

Mat Elliott is a Halifax-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer.