Nikki Payne is one of the funniest comedians working in Canada today and she’s from Lower Sackville – not Middle Sackville, not Upper Sackville but Lower Sackville – Nova Scotia so she’s one of our own. She’ll be making her Carleton debut during this year’s Halifax Comedy Festival for a taping of her Stories Of (more…)
Landing Sound (formerly known as The Wax) make their Carleton debut with a rocking show on Thursday, April 23rd. Show time is 9 PM and it’ll be $8 at the door to get in. Alternative Rock with a touch of electronic, Landing Sound is focused on vocal melodies, guitar with synthesizer & effects to support (more…)
What better way to celebrate Earth Day than an uplifting musical experience? Songwriters Erika Kulnys, Kim Dunn and Callum Isaac Moscovitch get together for an 8 PM show at The Carleton on Wednesday, April 22nd. Tickets are only $12 at the door. Erika Kulnys is a classically trained singer-songwriter, poet, composer and performance artist who challenges (more…)
Montreal’s Ian Kelly, along with locals Carmel Mikol and Morgan MacDonald get together for a show at The Carleton on Tuesday, April 21st. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are only $10. Ian rode his DIY approach – making albums all by himself – to gold record status (and that’s no mean feat in (more…)
Halifax’s best damned rock’n’roll house band – the mighty Carletones – will take The Carleton stage on Saturday, April 18th, as they always do, sometime around 10:30 and will proceed to pin your ears back with passionate performances of cool songs until close. This band rocks and we’re proud to provide a stage for them. (more…)
In case you haven’t noticed over the years, The Carleton is a sucker for artists who know how to write a great song and that goes for acts that everyone in the world is familiar with and those that the world isn’t familiar with yet but ought to be, or might be somewhere down the (more…)
After the passing of Raylene Rankin spelled the end of Rankin, Church & Crowe, remaining members Susan Crowe and Cindy Church will return to The Carleton stage for a show on Wednesday, April 15th. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are $20 advanced or $25 at the door. Two extraordinary, critically acclaimed songwriters on (more…)
Kingston’s Tom Savage returns to The Carleton with support from local buds Matthew Hornell and Laura Merrimen on Tuesday, April 14th. Show time is 8 PM and we’re making this show a “pay what you can” event so no one has the excuse that’s it’s not affordable. These are three terrific songwriters and well worth (more…)
Vancouver’s spoken word phenom – Shane Koyczan – adds a second night to his Halifax debut at The Carleton on Monday, April 13th. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are $22.50. I encourage you to go HERE to find out more than I have room to type about this artist because he’s well worth (more…)
Vancouver’s spoken word phenom – Shane Koyczan – brings his genre-defying act to Halifax for the first time at The Carleton on Sunday, April 12th. Show time is 8 PM and tickets are $20.00 I encourage you to go HERE to find out more than I have room to type about this artist because he’s (more…)