Year-ender.
It’s been awhile but it’s not NYE til I post my list of shows attended over the past year. I said I’d do better this year and I did, even if just ever so slightly.
Kat McLevey, Yukon Blonde & Hey Rosetta! - Holy Heart Theatre (17 December) Jenn Grant & Daniel Ledwell, Joel Plaskett and the Emergency, Bill Plaskett - Arts and Culture Centre (12 November) Hawksley Workman - Rockhouse (1 October) Yukon Blonde & Rah Rah - Rockhouse (21 September) Andy Brown & Wintersleep - Rockhouse (9 September) Bahamas & Dan Mangan + Blacksmith - Harbourage, Harbour Drive (5 September) Tim Baker, Craig Young, The Blue Drop, & The Swinging Belles - LSPU Hall (17 August) Catherine MacLellan & Hey Rosetta! - NL Folk Fest, Bannerman Park (7 August) ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic - Casino New Brunswick, Moncton (25 July) Reuben and the Dark & Counting Crows - Mile One Centre (23 May) AE Bridger & The Burning Hell - Lawnya Vawnya, Masonic Temple (26 April) Ouroboros, The Domestics & The Strumbellas - Lawnya Vawnya, Rockhouse (24 April) Nick Everett, Katie Baggs & Donovan Woods - Lawnya Vawnya, Rocket Room (23 April) The Tragically Hip - Mile One Centre (8 April) The Rural Alberta Advantage - Rockhouse (29 March) The Domestics & NQ Arbuckle - The Ship (20 March) Astral Swans, Hayden & Dan Mangan + Blacksmith - Rebecca Cohn Auditorium, Halifax (18 February) The Good Lovelies - The Company House (17 February)
The highlights? Rural Alberta Advantage, NQ Arbuckle, Reuben and the Dark (didn’t even know they were opening!), Ouroboros (fantastic local saxophone-good time jam band), Strumbellas (no one has more fun on stage) and ‘Weird Al’ (mostly cause seeing him was a bucket list type item for 10 year old me). Counting Crows was unexpected (and free) and the set went on forever and ever. I wish Donovan Woods’ and Jenn Grant’s sets had gone on forever and ever - gorgeousness. Onwards to ‘16. Have a happy one, y’all.
