🎟️ Win Matt Mays & Vibrancy tickets + this weeks top music and events
Win your way into the hottest tickets in town this month
Hey Halifax!
This week's email is very music heavy: we're giving away four passes to Vibrancy inside the Citadel and four passes to Matt Mays at The Shore Club. Skratch Bastid is home and playing the Shore Club this weekend, Bethany Reid’s debut EP, MADELINE’s brand-new Song of the Week and the new East Coast 20.
Let’s dig in.
GIVEAWAY Win four passes to Vibrancy inside the Citadel
Vibrancy Festival is once again, taking over the fortress on Citadel Hill. This is one of the most unique and fun live music experiences you will ever have in Halifax and we’re giving four full festival passes to one lucky Halifamous subscriber. Even if you’re not usually an EDM fan, this event is still a 100% must attend if you’ve never been.
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Bethany Reid stops waiting to be saved on You Alone  Halifax-based alt-pop artist Bethany Reid just dropped an excellent debut EP and you can catch her celebrating at her release show at The Carleton this Friday, August 7, with ADINA and the Ethan Tyler Band. The show runs from 8 to 10:30 p.m. Rich and Sad has been in rotation over here all year. 🔥 |
Shore Club: Skratch Bastid + win Matt Mays tickets The Halifax-born, world-famous DMC Hall of Famer, and truly one of the best DJs alive on the planet is home to rock the iconic Shore Club tomorrow night. You should really treat yourself to this experience if you've never seen the Bastid live. GIVEAWAY Then win your way back for Matt Mays
On Thursday, August 20, Matt Mays, Joel Plaskett Emergency and Terra Lightfoot take over the Shore Club on the Cove. One winner gets four general-admission tickets plus one parking pass to the hottest Shore Club ticket of the Summer on us. Enter by Sunday, August 16 at 11:59 p.m. ADT. |
Quick Hits A few things to do this weekend, and the local news worth knowing. 🎙️ International Waters is a new serialized comedy adventure. Halifax artist Andrew Neville and Toronto comedian Everardo Ramirez, whose comedy career has deep Halifax roots, made it together. The first episode just dropped. 👗 Halifax Fashion Week is back for its fifth anniversary. Runway shows, workshops, screenings and more unfold Aug 8–15, followed by the SOLi Market on Aug 16. ✍️ DCAF Talks brings hands-on cartooning to Alderney Gate Library. Free, all-ages zine, risograph and cartooning workshops start Saturday at 10 AM. 🚌 Eastern Front is taking a summer field trip to Ross Creek. Saturday’s noon-to-9 PM trip leaves Alderney for Valley stops, an artist talk and The Wind Coming Over the Sea. 📚 Shakespeare by the Sea is staging a free Beauty & The Beast at Central Library. The all-ages game-show musical runs Saturday from 1 to 3:30 PM. 🏮 Northern Lights Lantern Festival is back at Merv Sullivan Park. The free Saturday event runs from 5 to 9:30 PM with a BBQ, music, activities and a lantern parade; fireworks go ahead if the fire ban permits. 🎡 Eastern Passage–Cow Bay Summer Carnival continues through Sunday. Still ahead: a parade, breakfast, bingo, dance, car meet, teddy-bear picnic and children’s races. The fireworks are sadly postponed. 🌸 Perfume & Petals turns a Berwick greenhouse into a fragrance workshop and styled picnic. It runs Sunday, Aug 16, from 3:30 to 6 PM at The Greenhouse on Strawberry Lane; tickets start at $90 plus fee. 💚 CARE is now available across the Halifax peninsula. Call 211 to reach the 24-hour, consent-based mobile team for non-emergency, non-violent mental-health, substance-use and wellbeing crises. 🎨 Leonard Paul is setting down his paintbrush after roughly five decades. The Halifax-born Mi’kmaw artist plans to mentor the next generation of Indigenous artists. |
Goldie Boutilier holds down the top spots on the new East Coast 20
Goldie Boutilier continues to hold down the top 2 spots on our East Coast 20 chart. Baby Nova features on Nashville country artist Carter Faith's Pearl Handed Shotgun at #3, along with amazing tunes from Quake Matthews, Neon Dreams, Cameron Nickerson, and more. This is the chart you'll want to have bookmarked to keep up with the hottest East Coast music on the moment. |
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🛒 Weekend Markets Fresh produce, local makers and a couple of good rummages for August 8 and 9. Saturday 8 AM — Brewery Market · Halifax Forum Farmers Market · Seaport Market 9 AM — Warehouse Market at Richmond Yards · open until 4 PM Sunday 9 AM — Funky Flea · Halifax Forum Flea Market 10 AM — Seaport Market · Musquodoboit Harbour at the Railway Museum
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That’s it for this week! Know an East Coast artist, event or story we should have on our radar? Just hit reply — I read every one. P.S. Follow us on Instagram for more updates and giveaways. — Greg @ Halifamous |
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