Articles by Ryan McNutt

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  Not You

  Halifax Pop Explosion, Halifax NS, October 18

  PUBLISHED Oct 19, 2017

  Halifax's Not You helped open the first night of the city's annual Pop Explosion festival with a woozy, hook-filled set that featured awkwa...

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  Tift Merritt and the Halifax All-Stars

  Halifax Urban Folk Festival, Halifax NS, September 3

  PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2017

  Halifax Urban Folk Festival (HUFF) organizer Mike Campbell has had Tift Merritt on his list of potential performers for some time now. And...

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  John K. Samson and the Halifax All-Stars

  Halifax Urban Folk Festival, Halifax NS, September 2

  PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2017

  You don't need to tally up the U-Haul trucks or mattress-carrying freshmen in town to figure out it's "back to school" weekend in Halifax....

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  Reeny Smith

  Festival Main Stage, Halifax NS, July 15

  PUBLISHED Jul 16, 2017

  North Preston, NS's Reeny Smith has had her share of noteworthy opening sets in Halifax, including one for Grammy-winning vocalist Lisa Fis...

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  Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals

  Festival Main Stage, Halifax NS, July 15

  PUBLISHED Jul 16, 2017

  If you had any doubts about the rocketship trajectory Anderson .Paak's career has been on over the past two years, his performance at the H...

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  Blue Rodeo

  Festival Main Stage, Halifax NS, July 14

  PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2017

  The Halifax Jazz Festival takes place over five days in July. So while it risked being a bit on-the-nose, Blue Rodeo bookending their headl...

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  Ron Sexsmith

  Festival Main Stage, Halifax NS, July 14

  PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2017

  Forget his reputation as a dour man of sad-sack songs: Ron Sexsmith can really shred a guitar.   An acoustic guitar, mind you. But as if re...

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  Andy Shauf

  St. Matthew's United Church, Halifax NS, July 14

  PUBLISHED Jul 15, 2017

  The last time Andy Shauf played Halifax's St. Matthew's Church in 2015, his Polaris-shortlisted album The Party was more concept than conce...