All posts by Jeana Mustain

Halifax Jazz Festival Announces Big Artists, New Stages

The TD Halifax Jazz Festival remains one of Halifax’s main draws for bigger names. Between it and Halifax Pop Explosion, it’s our only summer city festival that has the ability to draw artists like headliner Anderson Paak. This type of festival draws in every walk of life for their love of music, rather than their love of music festivals, which means they have to deliver when it comes to artists. Continue reading Halifax Jazz Festival Announces Big Artists, New Stages

Music Video: Maxim Cormier Covers Bach’s Prelude for Lute BWV 999

In Maxim Cormier’s new video release today his cover of Bach’s Prelude for Lute BWV 999 is both haunting and uplifting. If the opening scene showing vibrant blues, greens, and orange as natural light streams through stained glass in a place of worship, proceeding to Cormier’s outline, his face illuminated by the colour filtered light, isn’t enough to get you shouting hallelujah, then what follows certainly will. Continue reading Music Video: Maxim Cormier Covers Bach’s Prelude for Lute BWV 999

2 Crows Brewing Co: Collaborative Growth In Nova Scotia’s Craft Beer Industry

The craft beer industry in Halifax has continued to grow exponentially over the past few years, with breweries popping up all over the province. Oldies but goodies Propeller and Garrison cease to go out of style, and the more recent Good Robot and Unfiltered have come in with a bang, not to mention the plethora of breweries showing up outside of the city, such as Tatamagouche Brewing Co. and Big Spruce in Cape Breton. So what’s it like to be the new kids on the block in this booming, seemingly competitive industry? Continue reading 2 Crows Brewing Co: Collaborative Growth In Nova Scotia’s Craft Beer Industry