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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: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/
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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 
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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/
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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/
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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: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: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 
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