The Halifax Urban Folk Festival is back and we couldn’t be happier. HUFF presents Tift Merritt with the Halifax All Stars and an opening songwriters’ circle featuring John K. Samson, Moe Berg (The Pursuit of Happiness) and very special guest Rose Cousins at The Carleton on Sunday, September 3rd. Show time is 7:30 PM and tickets – available (more…)

The Halifax Urban Folk Festival is back and we couldn’t be happier. HUFF presents The Weakerthans’ John K. Samson with the Halifax All Stars and an opening songwriters’ circle featuring Toronto’s Moe Berg (The Pursuit of Happiness), N. Carolina’s Tift Merritt and a PEI’s Nathan Wiley at The Carleton on Friday, September 1st. Show time is (more…)

The Halifax Urban Folk Festival is back and we couldn’t be happier. HUFF presents The Pursuit of Happiness’s Moe Berg with the Halifax All Stars and an opening songwriters’ circle featuring Tift Merritt, John K. Samson and national treasure Art Bergmann at The Carleton on Friday, September 1st. Show time is 7:30 PM and tickets (more…)

The Halifax Urban Folk Festival is happy to announce Nathan Wiley (with a full band), along with Two Hours Traffic’s Liam Corcoran and his band, as well as Cassie Josephine & Gabriel Minnikin will play The Carleton on Thursday, August 31st. Show time is 7:30 PM and tickets – $17.50 (including taxes) are available at (more…)

The Halifax Urban Folk Festival is back and we couldn’t be happier. HUFF presents Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk with The Heavy Blinkers and Tyler Hache at The Carleton on Wednesday, August 30th. Show time is 7:30 PM and tickets – available at TicketPro HERE – are $17.50 (including taxes). Doors are at 6 PM so get (more…)

The Halifax Urban Folk Festival is back and we couldn’t be happier. HUFF presents The Kim Harris Band with Stewart Legere and Tyler Messick at The Carleton on Tuesday, August 29th. Show time is 7:30 PM and tickets – available at TicketPro HERE – are $17.50 (including taxes). Doors are at 6 PM so get (more…)

The Halifax Urban Folk Festival is back and we couldn’t be happier. HUFF presents The Dave Sampson Band with Toronto’s Civil Wray and our own Jon Cornwall at The Carleton on Monday, August 28th. Show time is 7:30 PM and tickets – available at TicketPro HERE – are $17.50 (including taxes). Dave Sampson writes heart-on-your-sleeve (more…)

The Halifax Urban Folk Festival is back and we couldn’t be happier. HUFF presents The Olympic Symphonium with Montreal’s Camille Delean, along with some special guests at The Carleton on festival kick-off night, Sunday, August 27th. Show time is 7:30 PM and tickets – available at TicketPro HERE – are $17.50 (including taxes). Since 2006, (more…)

 The Greg Michell Band hold down the fort at The Carleton on Saturday, August 26th . Show time is 10 PM and it’s only $5 to get in the door. If you like the really good rock’n’roll music, you’ll like these guys. Bring the dancing shoes; or don’t, we’re OK if you don’t want to (more…)

Local genre-bending outfit The Blue Lane has a hot night cooking for everyone with their Blind EP release party on Friday, August 25th at The Carleton Music Bar and Grill.  Joining them on the night are legendary ECMA-winning pianist Bill Stevenson and the equally legendary Juno Award-winning guitarist Morgan Davis. The show kicks off at (more…)