Music Nova Scotia Week

Last weekend my buddy John and I made the trek to Yarmouth for Music Nova Scotia Week. Music N.S. is kind of a musician's union/networking/collective and this was their big conference/awards weekend.
Yarmouth is nice enoough.

But the weekend was about the music...oh the music! I'll post a longer entry later with some pics and narrative, but for now here's a list of the acts I saw (that I can remember):
Alert The Medic
THe Stanfields
Black Moor
Shelter With Thieves
Matt Mays
Coco Love Alcorn
Charlie A'Court
Richard Aucoin
Kim Wempe
Andrew Hunter And The Gatherers
Norma MacDonald
Stephen Bowers
Joel Plaskett
Matt Minglewood
Ryan Cook
Ghettosocks
Jenicide
Three Sheet
Classified
Tom Fun Orchestra
I know there was a lot more but I'll have to look em up...

Stay tuned for some more stuff on this.

Music and stuff

Went to the Carleton last night with a friend from work. Kelly Joe Phelps was playing a solo acoustic gig (http://www.kellyjoephelps.net/index.htm). Damn. Double damn. That guy was in a world of his own. Face contortions, rolling eyeballs, little soft vocalisations. As if possessed by some devil from the crossroads itself. Folk-blues through the fingers of a guy who used to play jazz.

Great venue too. The old Carleton was built in 1759 and some of the stones in it were from Fortress Louisbourg when the English razed it in 1758. The place was built by Sir Richard Bulkeley, an Irishman, (http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1700-63/Bulkeley.htm) who was very prominent in settling Halifax and the goverance of it in its early days. Now as a music venue and resto, they have a "no talking" policy when the musicians are performing. Proper stuff if you ask me.