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SUMMARY:Twenty Fingers Band
DESCRIPTION:Semi Acoustic duo from Halifax\, perform all of the crowd favourites! \nNo cover.
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LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Hector’s Point Snowshoe Walks
DESCRIPTION:Cancelled due to the lack of snow. Refunds will be issued \n\n“Hector’s Point Snowshoe Walk” at 1pm.This hike will see you walking around the snowy Highland Village. It will be approximately 3km and will end back at the Frolic’n Folk Pub. There you will receive a cup of Jill’s Hot Chocolate or for those that are 19/over a 10oz pint. \nWalk is for all ages.\nShorter routes available if need be. \n$15 per person including snowshoes rentals\, or $10 if you bring your own (please use coupon code snow on the checkout page to reveal the discounted price). Space is limited. \nMeet at The Frolic’n Folk Pub just inside the Inn\nWalks begin at 1pm.It is best to arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled walk in order to check in. \n*Weather permitting \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/hectors-point-snowshoe-walks/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Hector’s Point Moonlight Snowshoe Walks
DESCRIPTION:Cancelled due to weather. Refunds will be issued\nJoin us for our special “Hector’s Point Moonlight Walk” – a moonlight snowshoe hike around the Highland Village. It will be approximately 3km\, and end at the pub with a 10oz pint (for those that are 19/over)\, or a cup of Jill’s Hot Chocolate. \nWalk is for all ages.\nShorter routes available if need be. \n$15 per person including snowshoes rentals\, or $10 if you bring your own (use coupon code snow in the checkout page to reveal the discounted price). Space is limited. \nMeet at The Frolic’n Folk Pub just inside the Inn\nWalks begin at 7pm.It is best to arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled walk in order to check in. \n*Weather permitting
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/hectors-point-moonlight-snowshoe-walks-2/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Hector’s Point Snowshoe Walks
DESCRIPTION:“Hector’s Point Snowshoe Walk” at 1pm.This hike will see you walking around the snowy Highland Village. It will be approximately 3km and will end back at the Frolic’n Folk Pub. There you will receive a cup of Jill’s Hot Chocolate or for those that are 19/over a 10oz pint. \nWalk is for all ages.\nShorter routes available if need be. \n$15 per person including snowshoes rentals\, or $10 if you bring your own (please use coupon code snow on the checkout page to reveal the discounted price). Space is limited. \nMeet at The Frolic’n Folk Pub just inside the Inn\nWalks begin at 1pm.It is best to arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled walk in order to check in. \n*Weather permitting \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/hectors-point-snowshoe-walks-4/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk
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SUMMARY:Hector’s Point Snowshoe Walks
DESCRIPTION:This walk has been cancelled due to lack of snow and icey conditions. Please call Dan at 1-902-412-8888 and let him know if you’d like a refund\, or to push your tickets to another date. Thanks\n“Hector’s Point Snowshoe Walk” at 1pm.This hike will see you walking around the snowy Highland Village. It will be approximately 3km and will end back at the Frolic’n Folk Pub. There you will receive a cup of Jill’s Hot Chocolate or for those that are 19/over a 10oz pint. \nWalk is for all ages.\nShorter routes available if need be. \n$15 per person including snowshoes rentals\, or $10 if you bring your own (please use coupon code snow on the checkout page to reveal the discounted price). Space is limited. \nMeet at The Frolic’n Folk Pub just inside the Inn\nWalks begin at 1pm.It is best to arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled walk in order to check in. \n*Weather permitting \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/hectors-point-snowshoe-walks-2/
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SUMMARY:Joel Plaskett 2
DESCRIPTION:Canada has produced some of the world’s most enduring songwriters and Joel Plaskett is being hailed as one of the best.\nSince spending his teenaged years recording and touring with Halifax indie upstarts Thrush Hermit\, Plaskett has been writing his own story. After releasing two critically acclaimed albums – In Need of Medical Attention (1999) and Down at the Khyber (2001) – independently\, Joel signed to Maple Music Recordings for the release of 2003’s Truthfully Truthfully\, a rock tour de force with his band\, The Emergency. That record scored with critics and fans alike and truly put Plaskett on the national radar once and for all. Truthfully Truthfully was nominated for a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year and won an East Coast Music Award for Rock Recording of the Year.\nDuring a summer break from touring in 2004\, Joel responded to a longtime fan’s offer of recording time at a home studio in Mesa\, Arizona. The results of that journey are on Plaskett’s MapleMusic effort\, a solo album called La De Da. The album is “solo” in the sense that Joel plays all the instruments but it’s by no means a simple acoustic project. It also isn’t a permanent move away from his work with The Emergency. Rather\, it’s the mark of an artist at home with his instincts and his creative muse and one that’s willing to follow fearlessly where those imperatives lead. La De Da attracted attention at regional and national media and the hit single “Happen Now” topped the Canadian campus music chart for months running. \nJoel has toured extensively both solo and with The Emergency\, to sold-out clubs\, theatres and headlining festivals throughout Canada\, the United States and Australia\, on the heels of great Canadian success with his Make A Little Noise DVD & EP (2006) and Ashtray Rock (2007). Make A Little Noise spawned an infectiously catchy hit single\, “Nowhere With You\,” that landed Plaskett on the Top 10 at Hott Adult Contemporary (AC) radio. He also garnered three 2007 East Coast Music Awards wins for “Nowhere With You\,” DVD for Make A Little Noise\, and Songwriter of the Year. Ashtray Rock was nominated for the high profile Polaris Music Prize award\, and earned Plaskett and his band all six of the 2008 “of the year” ECMAs for which he\, and they\, were nominated: Recording\, Group Recording\, Single (for “Fashionable People\,” another hit song)\, Video (also for “Fashionable People”)\, Rock Recording\, and Songwriter. Topping that off was Joel’s Juno Award nomination for Songwriter of the Year and his placement as First Place Winner in the 2008 Great American Song Contest and the Billboard World Song Contest for his single “Fashionable People” (in the Pop category). \nJoel’s triple layered album\, Three (released March 2009) features a stellar line up of guest musicians including his father Bill Plaskett\, Rose Cousins\, Ana Eggie and his band\, The Emergency (Chris Pennell and Dave Marsh). Three received overwhelming response from media and radio programmers across the country and was nominated for the prestigious 2009 Polaris Music Award\, which recognizes the best Canadian recordings in the last year. Without a doubt\, another personal career highlight for Joel and his band was sharing the stage opening for the legendary Paul McCartney (in Halifax\, Nova Scotia) performing to an audience of over 50\,000 people.?? \nAs a special treat to his fans\, in 2011\, Plaskett took on yet another project: a collection of demos\, outtakes\, rarities and B-sides from over a decade of music-making\, deliciously titled EMERGENCYs\, false alarms\, shipwrecks\, castaways\, fragile creatures\, special features\, demons and demonstrations. Boasting twenty tracks culled from dozens of unreleased or rare recordings\, EMERGENCYs is a fascinating slice of Plaskett’s history\, from his earliest days with the Emergency (three songs from 2001’s Down at the Khyber are featured in demo form) to his latest trips into the studio post Three. \nThe year 2012 started in high gear for Plaskett\, and anybody who’s been following along already knows the reason why. Out of the doldrums of another long Canadian winter\, Joel and The Emergency worked around the clock\, sending weekly volleys to fight off the seasonal blues: a brand new song – recorded\, mixed\, mastered\, and released – every single week for ten weeks\, accompanied by snippets of video documenting the process in-studio. It was an epic undertaking\, which came together in the physical release of Scrappy Happiness on CD and vinyl. The album is garnering outstanding reviews from the media\, is long listed for the Polaris Music Prize\, and Joel Plaskett Emergency kicked off their Scrappy Happiness Canadian tour with a live performance on CBC’s George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. \nThere are a handful of gorgeous tunes that call to mind the folk inflections of Three\, while hewing to the lean\, stripped-down production that mark this distinctive record as a whole (the breezy lilt of “Harbour Boys” and the standout “I’m Yours”). But Plaskett’s winking references to his beloved Cactus and Husker Du albums suggest that his riffing chops are as strong as ever. The Emergency provide the muscle for gritty guitar numbers like “Lightning Bolt” and “Time Flies” and they evidently haven’t lost an ounce of love for the kind of melodic rock that inspires tunes like “Somewhere Else” and “Tough Love\,” tracks that echo back to their earlier records\, Down at the Khyber and Truthfully\, Truthfully. \nScrappy Happiness is an eclectic display of Plaskett’s continued songwriting prowess and playful lyricism. While many of the songs tap bittersweet emotions hidden in the fuzzy details of the past\, it is the present where this record resides. Time’s flying\, so let’s fly with it. Music – the sheer jubilant redemptive promise of music: on the radio\, in the car\, in the kitchen or from the stage – occupies a prominent place in these songs and one can hear the joy the group took in their creation. But none of this would matter if it weren’t also\, in the end\, another compelling record from one of Canada’s leading musical voices.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/joel-plaskett-2/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk,Ticketed Shows
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SUMMARY:Joel Plaskett
DESCRIPTION:Canada has produced some of the world’s most enduring songwriters and Joel Plaskett is being hailed as one of the best. \nSince spending his teenaged years recording and touring with Halifax indie upstarts Thrush Hermit\, Plaskett has been writing his own story. After releasing two critically acclaimed albums – In Need of Medical Attention (1999) and Down at the Khyber (2001) – independently\, Joel signed to Maple Music Recordings for the release of 2003’s Truthfully Truthfully\, a rock tour de force with his band\, The Emergency. That record scored with critics and fans alike and truly put Plaskett on the national radar once and for all. Truthfully Truthfully was nominated for a Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year and won an East Coast Music Award for Rock Recording of the Year. \nDuring a summer break from touring in 2004\, Joel responded to a longtime fan’s offer of recording time at a home studio in Mesa\, Arizona. The results of that journey are on Plaskett’s MapleMusic effort\, a solo album called La De Da. The album is “solo” in the sense that Joel plays all the instruments but it’s by no means a simple acoustic project. It also isn’t a permanent move away from his work with The Emergency. Rather\, it’s the mark of an artist at home with his instincts and his creative muse and one that’s willing to follow fearlessly where those imperatives lead. La De Da attracted attention at regional and national media and the hit single “Happen Now” topped the Canadian campus music chart for months running. \nJoel has toured extensively both solo and with The Emergency\, to sold-out clubs\, theatres and headlining festivals throughout Canada\, the United States and Australia\, on the heels of great Canadian success with his Make A Little Noise DVD & EP (2006) and Ashtray Rock (2007). Make A Little Noise spawned an infectiously catchy hit single\, “Nowhere With You\,” that landed Plaskett on the Top 10 at Hott Adult Contemporary (AC) radio. He also garnered three 2007 East Coast Music Awards wins for “Nowhere With You\,” DVD for Make A Little Noise\, and Songwriter of the Year. Ashtray Rock was nominated for the high profile Polaris Music Prize award\, and earned Plaskett and his band all six of the 2008 “of the year” ECMAs for which he\, and they\, were nominated: Recording\, Group Recording\, Single (for “Fashionable People\,” another hit song)\, Video (also for “Fashionable People”)\, Rock Recording\, and Songwriter. Topping that off was Joel’s Juno Award nomination for Songwriter of the Year and his placement as First Place Winner in the 2008 Great American Song Contest and the Billboard World Song Contest for his single “Fashionable People” (in the Pop category). \nJoel’s triple layered album\, Three (released March 2009) features a stellar line up of guest musicians including his father Bill Plaskett\, Rose Cousins\, Ana Eggie and his band\, The Emergency (Chris Pennell and Dave Marsh). Three received overwhelming response from media and radio programmers across the country and was nominated for the prestigious 2009 Polaris Music Award\, which recognizes the best Canadian recordings in the last year. Without a doubt\, another personal career highlight for Joel and his band was sharing the stage opening for the legendary Paul McCartney (in Halifax\, Nova Scotia) performing to an audience of over 50\,000 people.?? \nAs a special treat to his fans\, in 2011\, Plaskett took on yet another project: a collection of demos\, outtakes\, rarities and B-sides from over a decade of music-making\, deliciously titled EMERGENCYs\, false alarms\, shipwrecks\, castaways\, fragile creatures\, special features\, demons and demonstrations. Boasting twenty tracks culled from dozens of unreleased or rare recordings\, EMERGENCYs is a fascinating slice of Plaskett’s history\, from his earliest days with the Emergency (three songs from 2001’s Down at the Khyber are featured in demo form) to his latest trips into the studio post Three. \nThe year 2012 started in high gear for Plaskett\, and anybody who’s been following along already knows the reason why. Out of the doldrums of another long Canadian winter\, Joel and The Emergency worked around the clock\, sending weekly volleys to fight off the seasonal blues: a brand new song – recorded\, mixed\, mastered\, and released – every single week for ten weeks\, accompanied by snippets of video documenting the process in-studio. It was an epic undertaking\, which came together in the physical release of Scrappy Happiness on CD and vinyl. The album is garnering outstanding reviews from the media\, is long listed for the Polaris Music Prize\, and Joel Plaskett Emergency kicked off their Scrappy Happiness Canadian tour with a live performance on CBC’s George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. \nThere are a handful of gorgeous tunes that call to mind the folk inflections of Three\, while hewing to the lean\, stripped-down production that mark this distinctive record as a whole (the breezy lilt of “Harbour Boys” and the standout “I’m Yours”). But Plaskett’s winking references to his beloved Cactus and Husker Du albums suggest that his riffing chops are as strong as ever. The Emergency provide the muscle for gritty guitar numbers like “Lightning Bolt” and “Time Flies” and they evidently haven’t lost an ounce of love for the kind of melodic rock that inspires tunes like “Somewhere Else” and “Tough Love\,” tracks that echo back to their earlier records\, Down at the Khyber and Truthfully\, Truthfully. \nScrappy Happiness is an eclectic display of Plaskett’s continued songwriting prowess and playful lyricism. While many of the songs tap bittersweet emotions hidden in the fuzzy details of the past\, it is the present where this record resides. Time’s flying\, so let’s fly with it. Music – the sheer jubilant redemptive promise of music: on the radio\, in the car\, in the kitchen or from the stage – occupies a prominent place in these songs and one can hear the joy the group took in their creation. But none of this would matter if it weren’t also\, in the end\, another compelling record from one of Canada’s leading musical voices.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/joel-plaskett/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk,Ticketed Shows
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SUMMARY:Hector’s Point Moonlight Snowshoe Walks
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our special “Hector’s Point Moonlight Walk” – a moonlight snowshoe hike around the Highland Village. It will be approximately 3km\, and end at the pub with a 10oz pint (for those that are 19/over)\, or a cup of Jill’s Hot Chocolate. \nWalk is for all ages.\nShorter routes available if need be. \n$15 per person including snowshoes rentals\, or $10 if you bring your own (use coupon code snow in the checkout page to reveal the discounted price). Space is limited. \nMeet at The Frolic’n Folk Pub just inside the Inn\nWalks begin at 7pm.It is best to arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled walk in order to check in. \n*Weather permitting
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/hectors-point-moonlight-snowshoe-walks/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk
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SUMMARY:Hector’s Point Snowshoe Walks
DESCRIPTION:Cancelled due to lack of snow\n“Hector’s Point Snowshoe Walk” at 1pm.This hike will see you walking around the snowy Highland Village. It will be approximately 3km and will end back at the Frolic’n Folk Pub. There you will receive a cup of Jill’s Hot Chocolate or for those that are 19/over a 10oz pint. \nWalk is for all ages.\nShorter routes available if need be. \n$15 per person including snowshoes rentals\, or $10 if you bring your own (please use coupon code snow on the checkout page to reveal the discounted price). Space is limited. \nMeet at The Frolic’n Folk Pub just inside the Inn\nWalks begin at 1pm.It is best to arrive 15 minutes before the scheduled walk in order to check in. \n*Weather permitting \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/hectors-point-snowshoe-walks-3/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk
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SUMMARY:New Years Eve with Pretty Archie
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 4PM. Assigned Seating. Admission ticket gets you entrance\, party favours\, champagne\, midnight snacks\, fireworks & a guaranteed good time!\nPretty Archie is a Country/Folk/Bluegrass band from Cape Breton\, Nova Scotia. Long time friends Brian Cathcart (Lead Vocals\, Guitar)\, Matt McNeil (Lead Guitar\, Mandolin)\, Colin Gillis (Harmonica\, Bass\, Vocals) and Redmond MacDougall (Banjo\, Percussion\, Vocals) make up this quartet. Always jamming together growing up\, they guys decided in May 2012 to form a band. The band chose the name Pretty Archie after a local (Cape Breton) character known for playing with 2 strings outside shopping malls in any weather and not always (or ever) in key. The guys thought the name Pretty Archie embodied the love of playing and performing music along with representing their hometown. Their newest album “Hangin On” drops today (Oct 19th). Get yours here http://bit.ly/PrettyArchie.\nPretty Archie’s 2nd release ‘Sing Alongs & Love Songs’ was made available on September 23rd 2016.  Bringing on Jamie Foulds to produce this project\, Pretty Archie continues to push the genre lines of Folk\, Bluegrass\, Country and Blues creating a uniquely Pretty Archie sound. The 10 song album is a collection of their best songwriting to date\, addressing themes of love\, loss\, life and the forces that drive all three. \nPretty Archie’s first full length album was recorded in January 2013 at the famed Grant Ave. Studios in Hamilton\, Ontario with well known producer/engineer Bob Doidge. The debut 11 song LP ‘Steel City’ was released on March 9th 2013 and is available on iTunes. ‘Steel City’ was nominated for Music Nova Scotia’s 2013 Country/Bluegrass Album of the Year. Pretty Archie recorded their second album ‘North End Sky’ at Soundpark Studios. The highly anticipated ‘North End Sky’ was released January 27th 2015 and was featured on CBC Radio 2’s “East Coast Music Hour” as an album to look for in 2015. ‘North End Sky’ was nominated for ECMA’s ‘Country Recording of the Year’. ‘North End Sky’ was also nominated for Music Nova Scotia’s Americana/Bluegrass Album of the Year (2015). \nPretty Archie has had the opportunity to be a showcasing artist at Nova Scotia Music Week\, East Coast Music Week and NXNE 2014 along with playing some of the best Canadian venues; The Horseshoe Tavern\, The Dakota Tavern (Toronto\, ONT)\, Festival of Lights Boreal (Sudbury\, ONT)\, Stan Rogers Folk Festival (Canso\, NS)\, The Ironwood Stage and Grill (Calgary\, ALB) Fairmont Banff Springs (Banff\, ALB) and many more across Canada. Pretty Archie is known for their entertaining\, high energy\, foot stomping shows. \nPretty Archie’s honest\, heartfelt writing connects listeners with a saltwater perspective on modern living. Their fun loving and at times heartbreaking music finds common ground in the blurred genres of Country\, Folk\, Bluegrass and Blues. Their unique sound has lead to the band developing a following that grows after each show they play.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/new-years-eve-with-pretty-archie/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Villages
DESCRIPTION:Villages is an indie folk group heavily inspired by the spirit of the Maritimes. However\, creating music inspired by their Cape Breton roots seemed like a long shot when the members first started performing together. Back in the late aughts\, Matt Ellis\, Travis Ellis\, Jon Pearo and Archie Rankin formed the indie rock group Mardeen and fled Cape Breton Island for Halifax. Aiming to participate in a music community with a penchant for melodic indie rock\, the group strove to carry on the torch of their heroes in Sloan\, The Super Friendz and Thrush Hermit.\nAfter releasing several acclaimed albums and EP’s\, there was a turning point in that endeavour. “One late night\, a few years back\, a singalong of Rankin Family tunes broke out” says vocalist Matt Ellis. “I remember saying to the rest of the band that we need to write something that evokes the sound of home.” Soon after that night\, Ellis wrote just that song. It was called “Hymn After Hymn” and it captured the Maritimes musically and lyrically in a new and authentic way. This song was followed by a burst of creative output and the group quickly jumped into the studio to record these songs with east coast stalwart and producer Joel Plaskett. “Joel has such a strong knowledge of folk music from the UK and Ireland\, he really brought our songs to life”. The problem was\, these new songs had nothing in common with the edgy indie rock that Mardeen is known for. These songs needed their own home. \nInspired by an essay that comic artist Kate Beaton wrote about her hometown in Cape Breton\, the project was named Villages. The group released their first single in October 2016 and have been writing\, recording\, and touring in the time since. \nIn February 2019\, Villages will release their self-titled debut album. Recorded at their home studio in rural Nova Scotia with producer Thomas Stajcer (Joel Plaskett\, Erin Costello)\, and mixed by Kevin Ratterman (My Morning Jacket\, Basia Bulat)\, Villages solidifies the group’s vision in capturing the spirit of the Maritimes in a fresh\, yet familiar way. Combining Celtic and British folk music influences with the atmospheric arrangements of groups like the War on Drugs and Fleet Foxes\, Villages’ debut record is just the first step of a journey into rediscovery and reinvention. \n  \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/villages-2/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk,Ticketed Shows
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SUMMARY:A Gunning & Cormier Christmas Show
DESCRIPTION:Two of Canada’s greatest roots singer-songwriters have finally done what everybody’s wanted — heck\, what they’ve wanted — for years. Dave Gunning and J.P. Cormier are releasing their first album together\, called Two. Great friends\, frequent collaborators\, co-writers and touring partners\, the pair has been talking about this album since pretty much the day they met. Now it’s here\, and it’s everything fans hoped and dreamed it would be.\nThe album is called Two because that’s what it is\, just the two of them. \n“We wanted to keep it simple and honest so we essentially made a 4-track recording\, just two guitars and two vocals. Limiting ourselves this way actually helped inspire the arrangements and the performances. It forced us to dig a little deeper.”\, says Gunning. \n“A lot of artists like us feel compelled to put these massive productions together\, and we said we’re not going to do that\,” adds Cormier. “We’re going to make this record be that large with only two instruments and two voices. And we did that.” \nTwo is made up of everything the duo excels at. There are new collaborations between the two writers (Brothers\, Home To Mary)\, new arrangements of antique folk numbers (Johnny Armstrong\, Katie o’ the Gowrie)\, and some tasty\, surprising covers (Never Picked Cotton\, Stompin’ Tom’s Songbird Valley). \nEvery song had to meet their very high\, combined standards. “We didn’t take it lightly\,” confirms Gunning. “We really put our heart into it.” \nGunning & Cormier go back 23 years when Dave had a fiddle player drop out of a show at the last minute. “He hired me for a gig when I was just back from Nashville\, nobody knew me here\,” says Cormier. \n“We were totally blown away by J.P.’s playing\,” recalls Gunning. “I remember him saying if you ever do a CD\, I want to play on it.” That happened\, and much more. They played together and wrote together whenever they could\, coming up with songs that graced both their projects\, over the years showered with awards and nominations on the East Coast and nationally. \n“Dave is such a part of my life\,” says Cormier. “Dave is like my family\, he’s like a blood relative to me\, and he’s always been that way. ” Gunning feels the same way. “Absolutely\, we just became fast friends\, and we’ve been working together ever since.” \nSince they’ve been two of the busiest solo musicians in the country these past two decades\, it’s been impossible to schedule time to make a full album and properly tour it. But that all changed three years ago when Cormier moved just down the road from Gunning in Nova Scotia’s Pictou County\, and the pair were able to meet often at Gunning’s home studio. \nFirst\, they picked some great songs. Then they figured out their guitar parts\, and when ready recorded the guitars ‘live-off-the-floor’ simultaneously. Then they recorded their vocals together. This recording technique gave them what they’d hoped for\, something unlike their solo albums: The power of Two. \n“It actually creates a sympathetic overtone like a third instrument sometimes\,” marvels Cormier. “You go\, wait a minute\, why does it sound like there’s another guitar? You sometimes can’t tell us apart\, or sometimes even our vocals you can’t tell apart\, which is really weird because our voices are nothing alike\, but when we sing together\, we have a sibling harmony\, we blend like brothers.” \nGunning & Cormier have been playing some select gigs over the past few months\, in anticipation of the album’s release. “It seems to be a different kind of response from the audience that I’m not too sure that either of us have experienced be-fore\,” says Gunning. “We love singing together\, we love playing guitar together\, it just works.” \nTwo is as real as it gets. Two songwriters\, interpreters\, guitar players\, and singers at their peak. It’s the power of the song\, the highest quality from the past to the now. It’s two friends\, brothers\, uncompromising performers\, making the album of their lives. There couldn’t be a better time to discover Gunning & Cormier\, and the power of Two.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/a-gunning-cormier-christmas-show/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Frolic'n Funny
DESCRIPTION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill brings you an evening of pro comedy\, with some of Canada’s best stand-ups. \nFeaturing: \nNick Martinello (Vice\, CBC Comedy\, Halifax Comedy Festival) \nJordan Foisy (This Hour has 22 Minutes. Just for Laughs) \nDan Hendricken (Halifax Comedy Festival\, Halifax Pop Explosion) \n  \nFull kicthen and bar service as well. \nTickets can be found at the link https://frolicnfunny.brownpapertickets.com or purchase at the door.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/frolicn-funny/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Private Function
DESCRIPTION:Our appologies\nThe pub will be closed all day for a private event. \nCheers!
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LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Friday Frolic
DESCRIPTION:Brandon Collier\nCatch some live music at the pub each Friday this summer. \nKitchen open till 9PM\, bar open till 2AM \nNo cover charge.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/friday-frolic-2018-08-24/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Ben Kunder
DESCRIPTION:Ben Kunder is the kind of guy you pray sits next to you on a long-haul flight. Affable\, erudite\, and full of riveting tales about the ordinary and the extraordinary — and the intersection where they converge — Kunder is a storyteller of the highest order. \nSo\, it’s no surprise that Better Human\, the Toronto singer/songwriter’s dazzling new album and confident follow-up to 2015’s internationally acclaimed Golden\, soars on vividly detailed vignettes elevated by Kunder’s warm conversational voice and\, like Golden\, by a small army of marquee musical guests. \nExpertly traversing that rarefied space between elegiac folk and accessible pop\, Kunder’s music — propelled variously by strings\, pedal steel\, keyboards\, percussion\, guitar\, bass\, and those spectacular before-mentioned voices — renders small moments in precise detail\, making his songs both accessible and\, occasionally\, downright palpable. \nDiving deep into Better Human — both the album and the title song which is slated to receive an accompanying video — is an excellent way to begin that process. With its shimmering lead guitar and joyful chorus (“I’m working harder every day\, to be a better human in this world\, tattoo these words onto my skin”)\, “Better Human” is a tiny\, perfect anthem for self-realization. \nElsewhere\, Kunder lightens it up\, as in the breezy\, propulsive “Jessi\,” buoyed equally by bloopy synth and by Kunder’s onetime Europe tour-mate Sarah McDougall\, who adds backup vocals. Meanwhile\, the unabashedly knock-kneed “Come On\,” gorgeously abetted by Carleigh Aikins\, is a tender reminder that love really is all you need. \nKunder spent most of 2017 assembling Better Human\, beginning with the songs “Better Days” and “Night Sky\,” which were cut that spring with multi-instrumentalist/producer Aaron Goldstein at his Baldwin Street Sound in Toronto. \nWriting happened throughout the year. “My first record\, Golden\, was a collection of songs I’d been working on for years\,” Kunder says. “Now\, it’s a bit more immediate. The title track was written the day I went into the studio\, and ‘Come On’ I wrote halfway through the recording process. I was struggling leading up to the recording. Then I went on tour with Oh Susanna at the end of last summer and the floodgates just opened.” \nKunder and Goldstein reunited at Baldwin Street Sound last fall\, welcoming a host of esteemed players — bassist Anna Ruddick (Randy Bachman\, Bry Webb\, Ben Caplan)\, Arkells drummer Tim Oxford and keyboardist Anthony Carone\, violinist Drew Jurecka\, Wintersleep drummer Loel Campbell\, among others — while crafting the superb album that will now dominate the balance of Kunder’s 2018 via tour dates across Canada\, Europe\, and beyond. \n“I realize it’s hard to know where to put me\,” Kunder offers when asked where he’d expect to find Better Human filed. “I just write songs and hope people relate to them. I think there are people like me who listen to albums the whole way through\, to hear the arc of the story. Others want to pick out specific songs to soundtrack their lives. \n“I’m happy with either kind of listener. I really just want to connect with as many people as I can in any way possible.”
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/ben-kunder/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:J.P. Cormier
DESCRIPTION:Nobody really knows who J.P. Cormier is for sure. That’s to be expected\, believe me. \nIn 1974 he was a five year old boy\, discovering an innate talent for playing the guitar\, I had a little hand in that\, guiding him through the beginning stages. He learned faster than I could teach. \nBy the mid eighties\, not out of his teens\, he was a sideman for bands and artists of many different genres in Alabama\, Tennessee\, Mississippi\, and all across the deep south. As he travelled and worked he added more and more instruments to his arsenal of capabilities. He became indispensable to the bands he worked for. \nIn the early Nineties\, he became a sideman for one of Canada’s favourite sons\, Stompin’ Tom Connors and also became a staple of the recordings at Studio H in Halifax. His work with the CBC there\, spanned musical\, production and arranging duties. \nAll this before he was 20. \nIn the mid nineties he reentered the musical scene of his beloved East Coast and the Island called Cape Breton. He exploded onto the trad music scene there as a fiddler\, performing some of the most difficult music ever produced by legends like Winston Fitzgerald and Angus Chisholm with a facility that stunned onlookers. Especially those who knew he wasn’t born there\, but born in Ontario to Cape Breton parents. Somehow\, some way\, his music was the real thing\, sounding like he had been steeped continually in a handed-down brew of family tradition from the old country. \nNothing could be further from the truth. \nHis previous gig was in Nashville playing mandolin and banjo in a grammy nominated bluegrass gospel band and performing on the Opry\, and playing television shows with the likes of Waylon Jennings. All those people also thought he was one of them\, American\, reared in the ways of bluegrass\, old time and Americana music. They knew he was from Canada\, but it just didn’t seem possible. \nThen in 1997\, something amazing happened. \nAn album released in Canada\, out of nowhere\, called Another Morning. This time it was him as a songwriter and a lead singer. \nAnd what a songwriter he turned out to be. Some of the performances on that album are literally part of the musical vocabulary today in the East Coast. Songs like the title cut\, and Kelly’s Mountain\, The Molly May (co written with his cousin Gervais) and others. It inspired\, 25 years ago\, some of the biggest names in the business today. People like Dave Gunning\, Matt Andersen\, David Myles\, Joel Plaskett\, all of which will tell you: that record changed things. \nThe Canadian industry thought so too\, and it received a juno nomination and won an ECMA. \nAnd that was just the beginning. \n36 years later after stepping on stage as professional union musician for the first time at the tender age of 13\, JP is still going\, and frighteningly\, still getting better. \n16 albums followed the success of Another Morning\, winning 12 more ECMA’s\, another Juno nomination\, a Canadian Folk Music Award and 5 Music Nova Scotia Awards. Each album was a snapshot of each thing that he can do. There are fiddle albums\, Mandolin\, Banjo\, Guitar\, tribute records\, songwriting collections\, a purely astounding spectrum of talent and musical vision. \nHis catalogue of recordings and the 150 or so records he’s produced on other artists\, resemble the tapestry he weaves in live performance. Where he used to carry 3 and 4 piece bands\, he tours alone now. \nJust him and the instruments. \nPeople still leave his shows confused\, amazed and wondering what they just saw. Did they see a storyteller? A Songwriter? Arguably one of the best guitar players in the business today? Someone who crosses the lines between different instruments like there are no lines? Who was that masked man\, anyway? \nAccolades aside\, and there are many from people like Chet Atkins\, Marty Stuart\, Waylon Jennings\, Gordon Lightfoot; JP sees himself as just a performer. He’s shy\, but has a razor sharp wit and lightning sense of humour. He can be reserved or edgy to the point no return. He speaks for soldiers\, first responders\, other artists\, the forgotten and lost. He speaks sometimes only for himself and refuses rebuttal. \nOf all the things he is\, foremost he is an entertainer. I think one of the best.  After you’ve seen what he does\, I’m certain you will too. \n  \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/jp-cormier/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Steve Poltz
DESCRIPTION:Steve Poltz is not normal. \nHe was born in Halifax\, Nova Scotia (Canada) but has lived most of his life in Southern California and those geographic poles are quite likely responsible for his unhinged genius. He is a dual citizen – Canada/USA – but has often said that\, “should a hostage situation arise\, I become conveniently Canadian.” \nOver the course of his life he’s met Elvis Presley (who hugged his sister for far too long)\, trick or treated at Liberace’s house (each finger had a diamond ring)\, was Bob Hope’s favourite altar boy (according to him)\, bravely traveled the world busking before he knew how to do it\, famously co-wrote “You Were Meant For Me” with Jewel\, pissed off David Cassidy and can count some of the world’s coolest people as fans. \nHe’s also an ex high school wrestler (98 pound class)\, an obsessed baseball fan\, a yoga practitioner\, a hopeless romantic\, a smart-ass philosopher and a child-like adventurer/observer with an absurdist’s view of this crazy world and the various life-forms that inhabit it. He’s interested in it all – the big and the small\, the sublime and the ridiculous\, the terrestrial and the cosmic. He doesn’t just love life\, he rides it bareback\, naked\, at a full gallop with one hand clenched deep in its mane and the other waving to anyone watching as he flies by. Time is ticking and he has work to do… \nAs a recording artist\, he’s fronted the semi-legendary Rugburns and is responsible for a critically lauded body of work on his own: One Left Shoe\, Chinese Vacation\, Answering Machine\, The Barn (a children’s album)\, Tales From The Tavern (a performance DVD)\, Traveling\, Unraveling\, Dreamhouse\, Noineen Noiny Noin and most recently the soundtrack for the acclaimed Sundance-screened documentary film\, Running Wild – The Life of Dayton O. Hyde. \nAs good as his albums are (and they’re very\, very good)\, Steve positively owns a crowd when he’s on stage\, where the proverbial rubber hits the road. His shows are the stuff of legend – no two are alike – and can take an unsuspecting audience from laughter to tears and back again in the space of a single song. He is a master of improvisational songwriting and works without a set list to be free to react instantly to the mood of a room. It’s also worth mentioning that he is an astonishing guitar player on top of everything else. He is quite possibly the most talented\, and engaging\, solo performer on this planet. That’s what 250+ shows a year on three continents will do for you. \nWhether he’s Canadian\, or American\, or simply from space there’s no denying there’s only one Steven Joseph Joshua Poltz and to know him is to love him.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/steve-poltz-2/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Friday Frolic
DESCRIPTION:Darrell Keigan\nCatch some live music at the pub each Friday this summer. \nKitchen open till 9PM\, bar open till 2AM \nNo cover charge.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/friday-frolic-2018-08-17/
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SUMMARY:Christina Martin
DESCRIPTION:CHRISTINA MARTIN – 2018 Impossible To Hold Tour \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAMERICANA UK – LIVE REVIEW \n“I ADORE MARTIN’S TREMBLING VIBRATO AND ROUGH TOUGH ROCKER SENSIBILITY\,  A MODERN FEISTY JOAN JETT\,  SHE LOOKS COOL\,  ACTS COOL\,  SINGS COOL-  A PROPER ROCKSTAR.”\n  \n“Impossible To Hold” is Martin’s sixth and strongest studio album\, achieving a perfect balance between organic ambience and impeccable production.  “I’m writing about faith and love more than ever with songs like ‘Keep Me Calm’ and ‘Always Reminding’\, but I haven’t shaken the need to write about the darker things that are part of our human journey”.  Combining good taste\, passionate singing and thoughtful lyrics\, “Impossible To Hold” is where music and poetry meet. \n  \nChristina began writing and recording her own music while slogging it out on the Austin\, Texas bar scene. She has been relentlessly recording and touring in Canada and in the UK and Europe\, building connections online and in the old-fashioned way\, at venues big and small\, singing songs about loss\, love and perseverance. Her songs have been featured in films\, on television\, and she’s performed at music festivals around the world (Rolling Stone Weekender Festival\, Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival\, International Folk Alliance\, Reeperbahn Festival\, Canada Music Week). \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor more information about Christina and her music please visit: www.christinamartin.net \n\n\n\n\n\n  \nOpen in Spotify \n \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/christina-martin/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk,Wednesday Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Friday Frolic
DESCRIPTION:Ian MacDougall\nCatch some live music at the pub each Friday this summer. \nKitchen open till 9PM\, bar open till 2AM \nNo cover charge.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/friday-frolic-2018-08-10/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk
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SUMMARY:Port Cities
DESCRIPTION:In the brief period of time since Port Cities unleashed their incendiary debut—a wildly self-assured collection of sparkling\, rootsy pop that showcases the Nova Scotia trio’s devotion to songwriting—the band’s been hard at work bringing it to the masses. They’ve continued to explore and evolve their ambitious pop sound\, melding diverse musical backgrounds to create an alchemy that’s part art\, part songwriting science\, and all magic: the nimble dynamism of Breagh MacKinnon’s smoky\, jazz-indebted delivery\, Dylan Guthro’s simmering and soulful R&B swagger\, and Carleton Stone’s razor-sharp\, romantic rock ‘n’ roll. In 2018\, that memory-making mix of unforgettable melodies\, high-flying harmonies\, and electrifying heart on Port Cities is set to reach audiences worldwide. \nIt’s a chemistry that’s been perfected during the 100+ dates they’ve toured in the past year\, in hotel rooms and songwriter circles\, in vans rolling through foreign countries to rowdy pubs\, and on the fog-bound shores of Canada’s misty east coast. It’s helped lead the band to numerous accolades\, including a whopping five Nova Scotia Music Awards\, a SOCAN #1 Award (for “Back to the Bottom”)\, and stints at #1 on CBC and Spotify charts. Port Cities has amassed over 1.5 million streams internationally\, showcased at The Great Escape\, Focus Wales\, and the Reeperbahn Festival\, and will be releasing their debut in the U.K. and Germany this year. \nBeyond Port Cities’ deep devotion to their craft\, their success is largely built on a simple but timeless approach: a good song is a good song is a good song. Whether it’s awash with synthesizer (“Sound of Your Voice”)\, pumped up with an overdriven crunch (“Where Have You Been”)\, or stripped down to the bare essentials with just an acoustic guitar and three voices. No matter what music the melody might call for\, the best song always wins. \n  \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/port-cities-3/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk,Wednesday Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Friday Frolic
DESCRIPTION:Roger Stone\nCatch some live music at the pub each Friday this summer. \nKitchen open till 9PM\, bar open till 2AM \nNo cover charge.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/friday-frolic-2018-08-03/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk
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SUMMARY:Mo Kenney
DESCRIPTION:Some artists are reluctant to peel back the layers and let you see what’s really going on inside their heads.\nMo Kenney is not one of those artists.\n“The Details”\, Kenney’s third album\, comes as close as any recording I’ve ever heard to putting everything out there for you to see\, to experience and to reflect on.\nThe 14 songs on this deeply personal set detail a series of events in Kenney’s life when she was going through what must have been one hell of a rough patch.\nHolding back little\, if anything\, the Halifax- based singer/songwriter addresses relationships in her life that have fallen apart\, her experiences with depression\, emotional breakdowns fuelled by the excessive use of alcohol and the impact all of this was having on her as a person and as an artist.\nWhile that may sound a trifle dark — on “Punchy” for example she sings about being punched in the face at a bar by some jackass — there is also a light at the end of the tunnel as Kenney deals with the hand she’s been dealt. She ultimately comes through it all and comes through it a stronger person for the experience.\nProducing a concept album that connects all the dots in your life can be a daunting task but Kenney has serious writing chops\, as she so aptly demonstrated on her eponymous debut record in 2012 and her sophomore effort “In My Dreams” in 2014.\nThe “Details” packs a lot of emotions into a record that runs just over 30 minutes.\nIt is a record of many moods\, many colours and many shades and there are more than a few moments when you wonder how she made it through to the other side at all.\nAnd the music underneath all of this  is every bit as interesting as the lyrics Kenney penned to tell her story.\nThere’s a fair bit of flat-out rock’n’roll\, a smattering of psychedelia\, some dreamy pop music and some zippy stuff that reminds me just a little bit of Joan Jett. Some records take a little time to grow on you but “The Details” got me the first go round and tracks like “On The Roof”\, “Unglued”\, “I Can’t Wait” and the all-too-brief “Counting” brought  me back for more.\nAnd the more I went back the better the experience became because I began to hear new things\, things I didn’t hear the first time through. Perhaps I got so wrapped up in the lyrics I missed some of the things that were happening musically.\nThis record is solid.\nIt’s brutally honest\, at times\, a little jarring in places\, but there are moments of lightness and humour\, albeit black humour.\nKenney produced the record with good friend Joel Plaskett\, who also co-wrote Unglued. He also contributed most of the drums and bass tracks. Kenney played all the acoustic and electric guitar parts and she really wailed on some of the electric stuff. She also played keyboards. \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/mo-kenney-2/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Friday Frolic
DESCRIPTION:Stewart MacDonald\nCatch some live music at the pub each Friday this summer. \nKitchen open till 9PM\, bar open till 2AM \nNo cover charge.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/friday-frolic-2018-07-27/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The Town Heroes (Acoustic)
DESCRIPTION:  \nThey’ve toured the world\, released three critically acclaimed albums and won an array of industry awards. Anthemic choruses\, 3-part harmonies\, tender falsettos and big drums highlight their riff driven\, dirty-yet-nuanced barrage of sound. On stage they move like intense caricatures – soaked in sweat\, pushing every chord\, note and beat to the limit. A structured wall of sound emerges; familiar yet distinctive. Camaraderie shows in their musicianship\, their songwriting highlights what they are: friends playing music for the love of it\, in it for the long haul. \nMusically\, TTH are reminiscent of the 90’s Alt-Rock bands they grew up listening to. Lyrically\, at the root of every song is a passionate exploration of the things that make us all human. Whether good or bad\, they’re the things that make us who we are: heartache\, longing\, society in the modern age\, dreams and family. \nThrough comedic videos\, social media hi-jinks\, blogs\, unexpected wardrobe\, late night sandwich stands at music festivals\, amusing acceptance speeches and interviews\, the band has earned a reputation for making people laugh. \nThough vastly different\, the band has found a way to balance these two sides in a seamless\, cohesive manner. They see it as a crucial\, necessary part of what they do. In a world where so much negativity fills the news\, where the media endlessly focuses on the bad\, The Town Heroes want to bring something positive into it all – as small as it may be. They see it as necessary because it is – it’s who they are. That’s something they’ll never change. \nFor the past 6 years\, TTH have played as a duo – Mike Ryan (guitar\, vocals) and Bruce Gillis (drums) – captivating audiences with their remarkably full sound and energetic performances. With a desire to push the envelope even more\, in November 2016 the band expanded to become a 4-piece\, adding Aaron Green (guitars) and Tori Cameron (bass) to the band. The new lineup reflects and effectively captures the growth\, vision\, and musical progression of the band. \n  \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify \n  \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/the-town-heroes/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk,Wednesday Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Friday Frolic
DESCRIPTION:Wayne Bedecki\nCatch some live music at the pub each Friday this summer. \nKitchen open till 9PM\, bar open till 2AM \nNo cover charge.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/friday-frolic-2018-07-20/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk
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SUMMARY:Dylan Menzie
DESCRIPTION:With a sprawling vocal range and compelling approach to composition\, Menzie has made an indelible mark in the talent-rich Atlantic Canadian music market with his debut EP\, Heather Avenue\, in 2013. The release – which earned Music PEI Award nominations and acclaim from industry influencers – led to high-profile performances throughout the Maritimes\, including opening slots for City & Colour and Ron Sexsmith. \nIn 2016\, Menzie was a finalist in CBC’s annual Searchlight competition on the back of his breakout single\, “Kenya\,” which then spent two weeks at number one on CBC Radio 2’s Top 20 leading up to the release of his 2016 album Adolescent Nature. \nThe record\, anchored by the strength of songs like “Kenya” and the follow-up single “Talk to Me\,” showcases the pure emotion one can extract from simply a great voice and keen sense of dynamics. \n“I started out writing everything on acoustic guitar\, though more recently\, I’ve been bringing everything down to basic piano chords\, and if the song can still move me and move people\, I know I’m onto something\,” he reveals about his creative process. “Once I’ve got that solid foundation\, everything else is just colour and texture.” \nDrawing clear influence from the likes of My Morning Jacket\, Led Zeppelin\, Radiohead\, and Joel Plaskett without being derivative of any one\, the quality of these songs heavily belies the young artist’s age. \nIn fact\, the lyrics – as the album title might suggest – are the only thing here that could clue one in on Menzie’s youth. “I didn’t really see what tied these songs together until I was looking for an album title\,” he admits\, “and that theme seemed to envelope them all – the idea of finding yourself\, where you want to go\, and who you want to be in that confusing time of life.” \nSince Adolescent Nature’s release\, Menzie has been in even higher demand\, earning one of two spots in the inaugural East Meets West collaboration between the ECMAs and BreakOutWest as well as slots at prestigious events like the Edmonton Folk Festival\, Canadian Music Week\, Folk Alliance International\, and others. \nBut even as excitement behind his breakthrough continues to mount\, Menzie already has his sights set on what’s next – another product of his self-competition and refusal to rest on any laurels. And if he continues on his current trajectory of each new song\, each new release eclipsing its predecessor\, he’ll soon be impossible to ignore. \n  \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/dylan-menzie/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk,Wednesday Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Friday Frolic
DESCRIPTION:Ian MacDougall\nCatch some live music at the pub each Friday this summer. \nKitchen open till 9PM\, bar open till 2AM \nNo cover charge.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/friday-frolic-2018-07-13/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk
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SUMMARY:Old Man Luedecke
DESCRIPTION:Old Man Luedecke\, is one of Canada’s best loved and most intriguing roots singer-songwriters. “An original\, he is a musical singularity to be savoured and shared”\, says the Vancouver Folk Festival. His memorable melodies\, poetic sense and easy charisma appeal to anyone searching for new growth from old roots. \nOld Man Luedecke was born in Toronto but has made his home for years in the music rich maritime province of Nova Scotia\, on the east coast of Canada. There his music has been wholeheartedly adopted and is becoming representative for its traditional storytelling folk elements. It speaks to a new generation of people craving such meaning in their music. \nLuedecke is a young man with an old soul who doesn’t sugar coat his fears and this lets his songs breathe with a fresh breeze of bittersweet hopefulness. He channels a refreshing energy from folk giants like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger with maybe a hint of Loudon Wainwright III. But it’s Luedecke’s contemporary lyrics coupled with the irresistible rhythm of the old time banjo that connect and make him so loved with his audiences. Anchored in his music’s melodic confidence is an ability to tap into a common muddled and dark search for meaning. This keeps people singing his songs and praises after he’s traveled on. \nHis performances are exciting and totally entertaining. His uncliched banjo playing sparkles beautifully and dynamically. This coupled with his thumping foot creates a complete sound. People are drawn into singing along. His singing is his own. Clear and unadorned it is totally emotive and suits the sincerity of his tunes. In the breaks between songs come wild and charming stories of meeting heroes and easygoing but gripping musings on things ridiculous and sublime that may have a wink of contemporary vaudeville. Equally at home on festival main stages\, theatres and living rooms\, he can hold court in the occasional indie rock bar. Luedecke has been a featured performer at all the major folk festivals in Canada and Australia and an increasing number of American festivals\, like Strawberry in California. He has appeared with and shared the stage at concerts and soft seaters with such performers as Feist\, Tim O’Brien\, Joel Plaskett\, David Francey\, Buck 65\, The Be Good Tanyas and Jill Barber. He’s shared festival stages alongside Bela Fleck\, Tim O’Brien\, Jack Elliot\, Kris Kristofferson\, Ashley MacIsaac\, and countless others. \nOld Man Luedecke has received great recognition for his works\, including Juno Awards (The Canadian Grammy) for “Proof of Love” and “My Hands Are On Fire and Other Love Songs.” \n  \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/old-man-luedecke-2/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk,Wednesday Summer Series
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