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SUMMARY:Mo Kenney
DESCRIPTION:“I am demented and all my friends are scared of me\,” Mo Kenney sings on a beloved\, unreleased staple of her live shows. “I am an alien waiting for my family.” Connection—the rare times we have and hold onto it tenuously\, the lack or loss of it\, the search for it\, and even the creeping feeling that it may be unattainable—is a defining theme of the Dartmouth\, Nova Scotia songwriter’s body of work. It’s no stretch to imagine that it’s maybe the main reason her fans are so passionately drawn to her as an artist and performer\, either. In a world where connection becomes increasingly scarce\, there’s a quixotic stubbornness in Kenney’s songs\, an insistence that forging a bond is worth all the unavoidable pain and heartbreak and self-destruction that might be wrought from it. And there are few songwriters who are able to create such unforgettable melodies while communicating just how rough the ride can be.\nThroughout Kenney’s own rough ride\, from troubled teenagerdom and teaching herself Elliott Smith songs in her small-town bedroom to battling with her demons on 2017’s eclectic and brash The Details\, music has remained constant. At 17\, she stunned Maritime rock ‘n’ roll legend Joel Plaskett with a couple songs recorded at her friend’s high school\, eventually leading to a long-running collaborative relationship between the two. In 2012\, she released her self-titled debut\, a powerful first impression that melds her extraordinary knack for nuance—the dreamy\, award-winning folk tune “Sucker\,” for example—and a clear bent toward sounds more incendiary and ambitious that shows up on the driving kiss-off “Déjà Vu” and her cover of Bowie’s “Five Years\,” which explodes with an interstellar crescendo worthy of the Starman. She expands that vibe on In My Dreams\, venting existential frustration by almost gleefully urging the listener to blow her head off on the hazy pop of “Take Me Outside\,” dabbling in spacey prog rock for the stomping “Mountains to the Mess\,” and stylishly sowing sorrow on the title track over subtle\, ‘60s-tinged piano\, convinced that she’s hallucinated an absent lover. \nKenney pathologically mines the most shadowy corners of herself in order to surface with something unflinchingly honest\, but The Details found her exploring uncharted territory. It traces her own strange\, devastating\, and ultimately hopeful trip through the trials and tribulations of booze-fuelled breakdowns\, clouds of depression\, and disintegrating relationships. It sounds as fraught as the subject matter demands. “On The Roof” seethes with suffocating anxiety and punchy guitar; the jangle of “Unglued” is deceptively sunshiney\, the way someone might force a smile as they’re falling apart; and “Feelin’ Good” offers some real redemption in its weird\, soothing sparseness\, but feels tentative\, as though Kenney is aware things could still unravel at any moment. \nIt’s this willingness to bare so much of herself—not all\, mind you—on record and on stage that draws in fans from all over the world\, people far and wide who feel like aliens themselves\, looking to connect with anyone or anything. And that illuminates a comforting truth: sometimes the fear that you don’t belong in this world is the most human feeling you can feel. With a touring history that’s seen her play her tunes for swaths of the United States\, Europe\, Australia\, and the UK\, the future will find Kenney continuing to tour as much as possible\, expanding her sonic reach here on Earth and perhaps beyond\, beamed up somewhere deep in the cosmos among other beings like her. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/mo-kenney-3/
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: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. \nAges: 19+ \n  \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/summer-concert-series-2019-08-28/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Lucy MacNeil
DESCRIPTION:The only girl in a family of five boys\, Lucy MacNeil can be described as the heart of The Barra MacNeils. Her crystalline vocals are immediately identifiable with the group’s quintessential sound.\nFor Lucy\, music has always had a heartbeat and she recalls it as the centre of her childhood\nhome where family\, neighbours and visiting musicians were often known to gather — the perfect rhythm of everyone’s feet tapping with the music would lull her to sleep on many nights. \nLucy’s own musical journey officially began when she was 9 years old\, but even before that she was step dancing alongside her mother\, a well-known local dancer and teacher. Her career with The Barra MacNeils has seen her opening tours for international stars such as Celine Dion\, Kenny Rogers and fellow Canadian Rita MacNeil. Yet\, with all the many rich and rewarding experiences Lucy’s fondest memory of performing took place in grade 10 at Memorial High School. A contestant in the winter carnival pageant\, she put together a performance for the talent portion that drew on all her talents – singing “The legend of the St. Anne’s Reel” playing the fiddle between verses and then ending with a step dance routine. The remarkable effort would lead to her very first standing ovation. \nA devoted mother of two talented young girls\, Lucy finds time to enjoy life’s simple pleasures\, from sharing recipes with her mom\, and getting car care advice from her dad\, chatting with old friends or dancing to the infectious latin rhythms in her ZUMBA class. Lucy MacNeil looks forward to discovering where music and her extraordinary life will lead her next. \nAges: 19+ \n  \n \n \n  \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/summer-concert-series-2019-08-21/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Frolic'n Friday
DESCRIPTION:Jordan Musycsyn\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-2018-08-24-2018-10-12-2019-08-16/
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 March 2019\, Villages released 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. \nAges: 19+ \n  \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/summer-concert-series-2019-08-14/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Frolic'n Friday
DESCRIPTION:Tyler & Abby Mullendore\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-2018-08-24-2018-10-12-2019-08-09/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Tim Baker (of Hey Rosetta!) with The Weather Station
DESCRIPTION:At the end of 2017\, twelve years after their inception\, the multi-award winning band\, Hey Rosetta! went on hiatus\, after selling 10\,000 tickets to five farewell shows. For the band’s principal songwriter and lead vocalist Tim Baker\, this was the start of a new chapter.\nOn his debut solo album Forever Overhead\, Baker warmly welcomes you to it. The first words we hear him sing\, on the first single “Dance\,” is akin to a toast: “here’s to the other side.” What follows are eleven songs that centre on kinship and show that Baker’s sharp songwriting\, the heart of Hey Rosetta!\, is as affecting as ever. \nWhen crafting the album\, Baker drew from 70s songwriters\, like Jackson Browne and Randy Newman\, whose music filled his childhood home and from his contemporaries (Feist\, Leif Vollebekk\, The Barr Brothers). Produced by Marcus Paquin (The National\, Local Natives)\, Forever Overhead blends piano ballads with ebullient folk-rock tracks featuring Liam O’Neill (Suuns)\, Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station)\, as well as Mishka Stein & Joe Grass (Patrick Watson). \nIn the album’s opening track “Dance\,” Baker moves alongside soft piano chords as buoyant\, 70s pop style instrumentation and a piercing guitar riff steadily build\, bolstering his words of longing. He sings of connectivity and the tender emotions that are coupled with glances across a gym’s confetti-lined linoleum floor\, the air thick with potential. Like Forever Overhead as a whole\, Baker brings beauty and hope into listeners’ lives. \nAges: 19+ \n  \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify \n \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/tim-baker/
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,Wednesday Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Frolic'n Friday
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-2018-08-24-2018-10-12-2019-08-02/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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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. \nAges: 19+ \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/summer-concert-series-2019-07-31/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Port Cities 2nd Show
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. \nAges: 19+ \n  \n \n \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/summer-concert-series-2019-07-30/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Frolic'n Friday
DESCRIPTION:Joseph Gillis\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-2018-08-24-2018-10-12-2019-07-26/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The Town Heroes
DESCRIPTION:They’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. \nAges: 19+ \nOpen in Spotify
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/summer-concert-series-2019-07-24/
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,Wednesday Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Frolic'n Friday
DESCRIPTION:Chris Campbell\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-2018-08-24-2018-10-12-2019-07-19/
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:Adam Baldwin
DESCRIPTION:There is a darkness in all of us\, a force that tears us away from love and toward self-destruction\, hell-bent on devouring the light we each hold precariously onto. And there are moments in our lives when we embrace that shadow self deeply enough that it threatens to consume us completely. A couple years ago\, at his home beneath the MacDonald Bridge in Dartmouth\, Nova Scotia\, Adam Baldwin exiled himself from his friends and family to try to understand the substance abuse that had spun his life out of control. Writing until he couldn’t write anymore\, he eventually distilled the 20+ songs that poured out of him into No Rest for the Wicked\, a haunted reckoning of his relationship with his own wicked self. The result is no triumph\, though it often sounds like one – opener “Half a Mind” explodes from the firepower of it’s snare shots into the kind of ‘80s-tinged\, synth-heavy arena rock that begs for fist-pumping. Baldwin doesn’t bend reality to create a happy ending. Instead\, he tells his story so far honestly\, hunting down the beast in himself in order to hopefully figure out how to live with it.\nWhile he turns his song-writing lens further inward on No Rest for the Wicked\, he shoots for the rafters with bold\, brash guitars\, earth-shaking drums\, and synths that by turns build doomy atmospheres or provide the rocket-fuel that propels a chorus to its interstellar heights. Recorded in Halifax and New York City by Gus Van Go and Werner F.\, the album builds on the promise of Baldwin’s award-winning No Telling When (Precisely Nineteen Eight-Five) and reveals a new sharpness to the skills he’s honed over the better part of 15 years\, toughing it out on the road and in the studio\, both solo and as part of Matt Mays’ band. During the writing process\, he worked out song ideas over long drives through the streets of Dartmouth – “the gritty\, sad\, burnt out parts of the city\,” he says – and Lawrencetown Beach\, surrounded by the serenity of emptiness and the hum of the Atlantic Ocean. It was between these two places that the perspective of each song would manifest\, presenting itself as either ghastly and anxiety-riddled or a vessel bound unsteadily toward calmer seas. \nEach path is fraught and electrifying in equal measure. “Salvation” pulses with unsettling buzz-saw bass as a sinister voice hisses into our protagonist’s ear\, trying to charm him into temptation. There’s a crack of light in the acoustic strum and shuffling tambourine of “Dark Beside the Dawn” as Baldwin hopes out loud that he might be capable of sustaining some brightness in his life while acknowledging its dual nature. “Delirious for Serious” rises and rises as its subject unravels through metallic jangles and flourishes from a muscled-up six-string. And “Shattered” arrives sweat-soaked and dance-ready\, riding on a driving beat that belies a heartbreaking admission of guilt and recklessness. “Something wayward beckons toward a shallow grave\,” Baldwin sings. “Is that your face in the wreckage?” \nTrue to life\, No Rest for the Wicked’s finale doesn’t provide any resolution to the conflict at its heart. The title track finds our ‘hero’ deep in the darkness at the edge of Dartmouth\, coming to terms with the fact that floating wasted here\, among the ghosts and shadows of the city\, there is no peace to be found. As Baldwin\, battling against the night\, howls its coda\, the song fades out on a jarring wave of feedback\, leaving the future uncertain. But uncertainty holds the door open for hope\, and any war between darkness and light is only lost when the fighting stops. \nAges: 19+ \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/summer-concert-series-2019-07-17/
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,Wednesday Summer Series
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SUMMARY:Frolic'n Friday
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-2018-08-24-2018-10-12-2019-07-12/
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:Matt Minglewood
DESCRIPTION:Matt Minglewood – genre – Northern Rock with a Canadianna feel\, a musical hybrid with one foot steeped in the musical roots of blues & country and the other knee-deep in rock. To quote one fan “We had a blast! A cornucopia of awesomeness ” What’s in store at a Minglewood Show – tunes from Matt’s latest release ‘Fly Like Desperados’ \, and old classic fan favourites\, peppered with songs & stories.\nMinglewood\, known for his high octane shows will have you enjoying his brand of rock as it should be heard\, wrenched from the heart and shot from the hip. For all music fans with a taste for the blues & rock\, to witness this band is a feather in your cap. Joining Matt on stage & on his latest release ‘Fly Like Desperados’ is Moon McInnis on drums & vocals\, the vivacious and extremely talented Emily Dingwall does the honors on bass and vocals\, 19 year old Nick McInnis adds his immense talent on guitar and Jeff Stapleton tickling the keyboards & vocals. The youthfulness in the band has added a fiery spark to their shows. \nHope you got the opportunity to catch one of their shows\, you won’t be disappointed. \nMatt has released 14 recordings and has amassed numerous awards & accolades including two ECMA awards for 2018 ‘Blues Recording of the Year’ and the coveted ‘Fan’s Choice Entertainer of the Year’ awards. To name but a few of the awards he has amassed throughout his career include: \nEast Coast Music Awards\n2018 Fans Choice ‘Entertainer of the Year’\n2018 Blues Recording of the Year for ‘Fly Like Desperados’2008 Blues Recording of the Year for ‘The Story”\n2006 Blues Recording of the Year for ‘Live at Last’\nLifetime Achievement Award\nMaple Blues Awards\n2015 Blues with a Feeling Award (Lifetime Achievement) 2013 Entertainer of the Year Award\nHarvest Jazz & Blues Festival\n2005 Dutch Mason Blues Award\nCanadian Country Song of the Year\nMe & The Boys 1986\nGreat Canadian Blues Award\nCBC Radio Saturday Night with Holger Peterson\nHonorary Doctorate from UCB\nTwo Juno Nominations & Three Gold Records \nBestowed with the Queens Jubilee Medal for his contribution to Canadian Music \n\n\n\nAges: 19+
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/summer-concert-series-2019-07-10/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Frolic'n Friday
DESCRIPTION:Colin Fowlie\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-2018-08-24-2018-10-12/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Ben Caplan
DESCRIPTION:2019 ECMA Songwriter of the Year winner Ben Caplan leads off our Summer Series July 3rd.\nBen Caplan is a songwriter\, performer and entertainer in the most time-honoured sense of the word. From the moment he walks onto the stage\, you are filled with his infectious spirit\, and captivating presence. You can feel Caplan’s comfort and ease as he strides in front of the crowd and begins the controlled collective descent into chaos.\nIn his latest project\, Ben Caplan explores themes of immigration\, loss\, darkness\, love\, sex\, and God. Caplan is touring with a fresh batch of songs which were originally composed for a new musical play called Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story. The award winning play had its international debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it won top festival honours\, and has been a smash hit. The play has toured internationally including a seven-week run Off Broadway where it picked up a New York Times Critic’s Pick\, and six Drama Desk Award nominations\, among other accolades. \nBetween performances of the play\, Caplan has been hitting the road to play concerts across Europe\, Australia\, and North America with a new lineup of musicians. The music from his theatre production has been turned into Caplan’s third studio album\, titled Old Stock. The sound is rooted in Caplan’s resonant baritone voice\, supported with the sounds of piano\, accordion\, organ\, clarinet\, saxophone\, violin\, drums\, and the occasional banjo and acoustic guitar. \nAges: 19+ \n  \nOpen in Spotify \nOpen in Spotify
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/summer-concert-series/
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SUMMARY:Christina Martin
DESCRIPTION:“Impossible To Hold” won the 2018 Music Nova Scotia Award for Pop Recording of the Year\, and is Martin’s sixth and strongest studio album\, achieving a perfect balance between organic ambience and impeccable production.\nChristina began recording her own music while slogging it out on the Austin\, Texas bar scene. A multi award winning singer-songwriter\, she has been relentlessly recording and touring in Canada and in the UK and Europe\, building connections at venues big and small\, singing songs about loss\, love and perseverance. Her songs have been featured in films and television\, and she’s performed at music festivals around the world (Rolling Stone Weekender Festival\, Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival\, Folk Alliance International and Reeperbahn Festival).  \n At her Canadian tour dates\, Martin partners with The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health to promote the work of Canada’s largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital. \nFor more information about Christina and her music please visit: www.christinamartin.net \n  \nOpen in Spotify \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/christina-martin-2/
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SUMMARY:Steve Poltz Shine On...    Canada!
DESCRIPTION:Throughout over three decades in music\, Steve Poltz did it all and more—often shared by way of his rockin’ countrified folk slices of sardonic Americana (hatched in Halifax). Of course\, he co-wrote Jewel’s multiplatinum Hot 100-topping megahit “You Were Meant For Me\,” but he also went on a whale watch with her and a few federales that turned into a drug bust. The two still share the story at every festival they play together. He made his bones as the frontman for underground legends The Rugburns\, who burned rubber crisscrossing the continent on marathon tours and still pop up once in a while for the rare and quickly sold out reunion gig. \nIn 20 years since his full-length solo debut\, One Left Shoe\, he blessed the world’s ears with twelve solo records\, spanning the acclaimed 2010 Dreamhouse and most recently Folk Singer in 2015. NPR summed it up best\, “Critics and fans alike now regard Poltz as a talented and prolific songwriter.” By 2016\, he survived a stroke\, endured anything the music industry could throw at him\, and still performed like “280 days a year.” \nHowever\, he still never lived in Nashville\, which represents a turning point in the story and the genesis of his 2018 Red House Records debut\, Shine On… \n“My girlfriend Sharon sold the condo we were living in\, and I was ready to live in a van\, which seemed like a good idea for one night—then I decided I wanted a kitchen and a closet\,” he admits. “Sharon wanted to move to Nashville\, because she thought it would be good for me. It caused a huge fight. I’d been in San Diego since 1980\, and that’s where I cut my musical teeth. I thought I’d never leave.  In fact\, at the height of our fight\, I said\, ‘I’m not leaving San Diego. I am San Diego!’ This makes me laugh now. As soon as I got to Nashville\, I immediately knew I wanted to make a record in ‘Music City’.” \nSo\, the man who once protested “I am San Diego” made Shine On in his new home of Nashville with one of its elder statesman behind the board\, Will Kimbrough [Emmylou Harris\, Rodney Crowell]. Holing up in the studio at Kimbrough’s house\, nothing would be off limits. Together\, they unlocked the kind of creative chemistry you only hear about in band bios—but for real. \n“I respect Will so much\, and I’d always wanted to work with him\,” says Steve. “Like two mad scientists\, we just took our time and had fun. We didn’t overthink things. Everything felt organic. We ate soul food and drank lots of really good coffee. We tried out weird sounds\, and the songs always started with voice and guitar—no click track\, just how I’d play them. I road tested many of them\, and they were ripe for the picking when recording time came around.” \nEvoking themes of “hope\, love\, contemplation\, celebration of Wednesday\, pharmacists\, and the fact that windows are not inanimate objects and they sometimes have conversations with each other\,” the record represents Steve at his most inspired and insightful. The opener and title track “Shine On” pairs a delicate vocal with lithely plucked acoustic strings as he urges\, “Shine on\, shine on.” \n“The song was a gift\,” he recalls. “I woke up really early in Encinitas\, California at Sharon’s sister’s house. The sun was just coming up. I was all alone in perfect solitude. My guitar was there. The sky was gorgeous. I wrote it as a poem. Everyone always told me\, ‘Never start a record with a really slow song.’  So\, seeing that I have O.D.D. (Oppositional Defiance Disorder)\, I  started my record with one. I love the mood it sets. It’s almost like my mission statement\, trying to find some semblance of positivity and light in a sometimes ruthless world.” \nOn “Pharmacist\,” rustling guitar and harmonica propel a tale of “this dude having a crush on his pharmacist.” It also serves as an extension of his friendship with neighbor Scot Sax—with whom he shares the podcast “One Hit Neighbors” (since they’ve both had one hit song). Meanwhile\, he joined forces with Molly Tuttle on “4th of July\,” which\, of course\, came to life on the 3rd of July. “Ballin On Wednesday” drew its title and chorus from a diner checkout girl (with a super cool gold tooth) who Steve paid with a $100 bill and she replied\, “Oooh\, ballin’ on a Wednsday.” The finale “All Things Shine” skips along on sparse instrumentation as Steve sends a message. \n“‘All Things Shine’ came about after one of the many mass shootings on this planet\,” he sighs. “I was feeling overwhelmed. So\, I wanted to put my feelings into words and melody. I was thinking that even if we’re feeling hopeless that there is still beauty. All things shine in their own way.” \nWho could contend that? \nIn the end\, for everything you can call him “searcher\, smartass\, movie freak\, lover of technology\, news junkie\, baseball fan to nth degree\, lapsed catholic who still believes in god even though all his friends are atheists and think he’s an idiot\, and maker of fun\,” you might just call Steve that little light in the dark we all need in this day and age.  \nOr Nashville’s Canadian Jiminy Cricket… \n“I hope Shine On makes listeners smile and feel welcome\, and they want to share it with their friends\,” he leaves off. “Music means energy to me. All things. It connects us\, makes us move\, helps us relax\, and inspires us to change things up.” \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/steve-poltz-shine-on-canada-2/
LOCATION:The Frolic’n Folk Pub & Grill\, 4115 HWY 223\, Iona\, Nova Scotia\, B2C 1A3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Steve Poltz Shine On...    Canada!
DESCRIPTION:Throughout over three decades in music\, Steve Poltz did it all and more—often shared by way of his rockin’ countrified folk slices of sardonic Americana (hatched in Halifax). Of course\, he co-wrote Jewel’s multiplatinum Hot 100-topping megahit “You Were Meant For Me\,” but he also went on a whale watch with her and a few federales that turned into a drug bust. The two still share the story at every festival they play together. He made his bones as the frontman for underground legends The Rugburns\, who burned rubber crisscrossing the continent on marathon tours and still pop up once in a while for the rare and quickly sold out reunion gig. \nIn 20 years since his full-length solo debut\, One Left Shoe\, he blessed the world’s ears with twelve solo records\, spanning the acclaimed 2010 Dreamhouse and most recently Folk Singer in 2015. NPR summed it up best\, “Critics and fans alike now regard Poltz as a talented and prolific songwriter.” By 2016\, he survived a stroke\, endured anything the music industry could throw at him\, and still performed like “280 days a year.” \nHowever\, he still never lived in Nashville\, which represents a turning point in the story and the genesis of his 2018 Red House Records debut\, Shine On… \n“My girlfriend Sharon sold the condo we were living in\, and I was ready to live in a van\, which seemed like a good idea for one night—then I decided I wanted a kitchen and a closet\,” he admits. “Sharon wanted to move to Nashville\, because she thought it would be good for me. It caused a huge fight. I’d been in San Diego since 1980\, and that’s where I cut my musical teeth. I thought I’d never leave.  In fact\, at the height of our fight\, I said\, ‘I’m not leaving San Diego. I am San Diego!’ This makes me laugh now. As soon as I got to Nashville\, I immediately knew I wanted to make a record in ‘Music City’.” \nSo\, the man who once protested “I am San Diego” made Shine On in his new home of Nashville with one of its elder statesman behind the board\, Will Kimbrough [Emmylou Harris\, Rodney Crowell]. Holing up in the studio at Kimbrough’s house\, nothing would be off limits. Together\, they unlocked the kind of creative chemistry you only hear about in band bios—but for real. \n“I respect Will so much\, and I’d always wanted to work with him\,” says Steve. “Like two mad scientists\, we just took our time and had fun. We didn’t overthink things. Everything felt organic. We ate soul food and drank lots of really good coffee. We tried out weird sounds\, and the songs always started with voice and guitar—no click track\, just how I’d play them. I road tested many of them\, and they were ripe for the picking when recording time came around.” \nEvoking themes of “hope\, love\, contemplation\, celebration of Wednesday\, pharmacists\, and the fact that windows are not inanimate objects and they sometimes have conversations with each other\,” the record represents Steve at his most inspired and insightful. The opener and title track “Shine On” pairs a delicate vocal with lithely plucked acoustic strings as he urges\, “Shine on\, shine on.” \n“The song was a gift\,” he recalls. “I woke up really early in Encinitas\, California at Sharon’s sister’s house. The sun was just coming up. I was all alone in perfect solitude. My guitar was there. The sky was gorgeous. I wrote it as a poem. Everyone always told me\, ‘Never start a record with a really slow song.’  So\, seeing that I have O.D.D. (Oppositional Defiance Disorder)\, I  started my record with one. I love the mood it sets. It’s almost like my mission statement\, trying to find some semblance of positivity and light in a sometimes ruthless world.” \nOn “Pharmacist\,” rustling guitar and harmonica propel a tale of “this dude having a crush on his pharmacist.” It also serves as an extension of his friendship with neighbor Scot Sax—with whom he shares the podcast “One Hit Neighbors” (since they’ve both had one hit song). Meanwhile\, he joined forces with Molly Tuttle on “4th of July\,” which\, of course\, came to life on the 3rd of July. “Ballin On Wednesday” drew its title and chorus from a diner checkout girl (with a super cool gold tooth) who Steve paid with a $100 bill and she replied\, “Oooh\, ballin’ on a Wednsday.” The finale “All Things Shine” skips along on sparse instrumentation as Steve sends a message. \n“‘All Things Shine’ came about after one of the many mass shootings on this planet\,” he sighs. “I was feeling overwhelmed. So\, I wanted to put my feelings into words and melody. I was thinking that even if we’re feeling hopeless that there is still beauty. All things shine in their own way.” \nWho could contend that? \nIn the end\, for everything you can call him “searcher\, smartass\, movie freak\, lover of technology\, news junkie\, baseball fan to nth degree\, lapsed catholic who still believes in god even though all his friends are atheists and think he’s an idiot\, and maker of fun\,” you might just call Steve that little light in the dark we all need in this day and age.  \nOr Nashville’s Canadian Jiminy Cricket… \n“I hope Shine On makes listeners smile and feel welcome\, and they want to share it with their friends\,” he leaves off. “Music means energy to me. All things. It connects us\, makes us move\, helps us relax\, and inspires us to change things up.” \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/steve-poltz-shine-on-canada/
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:Tap Takeover Songwriters Circle
DESCRIPTION:Come sample some of Breton Brewing & Garrison Brewing’s famous offerings\, whilst being entertained by Cape Breton’s own Jordan Musycysn\,  Mike McKenna Jr\, & Carmen Townsend\, in an intimate setting where they will reveal the mystery behind the process of turning stories into songs and music.\n  \nPrizes to be won as well!\n  \n 
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/tap-takeover-songwriters-circle/
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:TJ Myers
DESCRIPTION:Live music 4-7PM. Some of your favourite cover songs. \nNo cover charge. \nBar open at 2PM.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/tj-myers/
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:Twenty Fingers Band
DESCRIPTION:Semi Acoustic duo from Halifax\, perform all of the crowd favourites! \nNo cover.
URL:https://ionaheightsinn.com/eventing/twenty-fingers-band/
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
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk
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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
CATEGORIES:Events at The Frolic'n Folk
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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/
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: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.
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