Join us at The Music Room for the first ever Nuovo concert! Nuovo is a contemporary concert series dedicated to featuring new works by Halifax-based composers. This concert includes four string quartets and two piano quintets performed by the Rostova String Quartet. Featured composers include Uandha Barbosa, Jeremie Boudreau, Stephen Deturbide, Benjamin Fraser, Harry McInroy, and Shanti Sivarulrasa.

Tickets are $25 ($15 for students) and can be purchased here.

Join us at The Music Room for the launch of the medicine song album "Old Traveller". Jont - accompanied by a talented band especially assembled for the evening with upright bass, cello, grand piano, and percussion - will play songs from the new album. Special guest Michael Adzich will open the night.  There will be space for 'the spontaneous', and time to connect and sing along.

Ticket bundles $35 to $90 (include a download of the album) can be purchased here.

The TD Halifax Jazz Festival brings together two acclaimed musicians for a unique performance. The concert features visiting American saxophone star Joel Frahm and JUNO Award-winning Canadian pianist Adrean Farrugia.  Rounding out the quartet are bassist Paul Rushka and drummer Anthony Michelli. Don’t miss this one-time opportunity to hear this musical collaboration. Seating is limited and first come, first served, so purchase tickets early.

Tickets $45 (incl. taxes and fees), and can be purchased here.

Enjoy an evening of contemporary chamber music featuring the selected composers from Alkali Collective’s 2023/24 Call for Scores – Luke Blackmore, Nicola Miller, and Kristiana Tavityan – alongside works by Emilie LeBel, Gala Flagello and Nico Muhly.

Tickets: $20/adults, $15/students, $10/ages 12 and under. Live-Stream Tickets: $15/per household, link to be emailed before concert.

All tickets available online at eventbrite.ca and at the door.

Join Port City Church this Christmas season as they present "Hope Alight", a seventy minute production rich with traditional Christmas carols and a weaved story of Hope that all should hear. This gathering will bring back those nostalgic Christmas memories as we sing together, hear stories, scripture and poetry of Hope Alight.

Hope Alight is pleased to partner with Feed Nova Scotia in hopes to serve those in need in this Christmas season. All patrons are asked to bring one or more food bank donation items.

We are also partnering with our friends at The Helm to bring you The Helm "Storehouse" – local artisan Christmas crafts that support men in addiction recovery.

Join Port City Church this Christmas season as they present "Hope Alight", a seventy minute production rich with traditional Christmas carols and a weaved story of Hope that all should hear. This gathering will bring back those nostalgic Christmas memories as we sing together, hear stories, scripture and poetry of Hope Alight.

Hope Alight is pleased to partner with Feed Nova Scotia in hopes to serve those in need in this Christmas season. All patrons are asked to bring one or more food bank donation items.

We are also partnering with our friends at The Helm to bring you The Helm "Storehouse" – local artisan Christmas crafts that support men in addiction recovery.

Join Port City Church this Christmas season as they present "Hope Alight", a seventy minute production rich with traditional Christmas carols and a weaved story of Hope that all should hear. This gathering will bring back those nostalgic Christmas memories as we sing together, hear stories, scripture and poetry of Hope Alight.

Hope Alight is pleased to partner with Feed Nova Scotia in hopes to serve those in need in this Christmas season. All patrons are asked to bring one or more food bank donation items.

We are also partnering with our friends at The Helm to bring you The Helm "Storehouse" – local artisan Christmas crafts that support men in addiction recovery.

Join Port City Church this Christmas season as they present "Hope Alight", a seventy minute production rich with traditional Christmas carols and a weaved story of Hope that all should hear. This gathering will bring back those nostalgic Christmas memories as we sing together, hear stories, scripture and poetry of Hope Alight.

Hope Alight is pleased to partner with Feed Nova Scotia in hopes to serve those in need in this Christmas season. All patrons are asked to bring one or more food bank donation items.

We are also partnering with our friends at The Helm to bring you The Helm "Storehouse" – local artisan Christmas crafts that support men in addiction recovery.

Dans Les Arbres presents music that you won't want to miss! This French and Norweigian quartet is clear, colourful and communicative – As a listener, you can hear their interaction, not in obvious ways but in the space that is created by one and filled by another. Plus, Meghan Gilhespy and Tim Crofts perform the opening set.

“There’s no end to the delights of this quite magical disc…. these players seem to have an innate grasp of the right combination of sounds and textures. Dans les Arbres must be one of the finest ECM Improv releases – indeed, releases from any label – in recent years.” (The Wire)

Tickets are $25 or pay what you can at the doors.

On the heels of their 2023 Music Nova Scotia nomination for 'EUPHORIA", Jeff & Jocelyn continue to surprise and delight audiences with an impactful show that's filled with beautiful melodies and memorable moments that has everyone feeling a sense of "EUPHORIA"...

This is sure to be an extra special experience with very limited tickets available. So grab your friends and order up those tickets because we can't wait to see all you beautiful people!

An exciting concert of contemporary music featuring music from Jocelyn Morlock, Linda Catlin Smith, Carmen Braden, and more!

Tickets: $20/adults, $15/students, $10/ages 12 and under. Live-Stream Tickets: $15/per household, link to be emailed before concert.

All tickets available online and at the door.

Upstream Music Association is delighted to welcome back the Carl Mayotte Trio. This high-energy trio of fabulous musicians from Quebec City impressed Halifax audiences in 2022. We have caught them mid-tour!

Transportant le public dans une aventure musicale épique et rocambolesque, le concert Carnaval du Carl Mayotte Quintet sera certainement un des évènements jazz à voir en 2023-2024. Tirée du dernier album du récipiendaire du Félix de l’album jazz 2022, la musique jouée durant le concert se veut un hommage aux grands compositeurs brésiliens comme Djavan, Hermeto Pascoal et tant d’autres. L’énergie du groupe et la qualité des compostions font de ce spectacle un évènement unique et inoubliable.

It is through classical music, pop and jazz that the trio of musicians formed by Gabriel Cyr, Carl Mayotte and Stéphane Chamberland manage to share its emotions with the public. Each member is endowed with a strong and singular character between guitars, bass and drums.  

The Carl Mayotte Trio is the project of three students from the Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy. After winning the local Cégep's final competition in 2013, they won the Quebec National Final with a mixture of pieces written for film. Their breathtaking performance, theatrical staging and original arrangements earned them the first Desjardins Prize, the Vue sur la Relève Award and participation in the Belfort International Festival of Music in France. The Carl Mayotte Trio is travelling across Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario this fall.

Each year, to coincide with the Department of Psychiatry Research Day, the department hosts a public discussion on an important topic for researchers and the local community.

How do environment influences affect brain development and mental health?

Join our guest speaker and a panel of local experts to learn about how events can affect the growing brain and mental health. Come hear this panel discussion and bring your questions!

With guest speaker:
Dr. Tomas Paus, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the University of Montreal, and Scientist at the Research Centre of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine

FREE and open to the public. No registration required.

Space is limited and is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

An afternoon of jazz in support of Adsum House in Halifax to which all ticket proceeds will be donated. Music from Irving Berlin, Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Henry Mancini, and more.

Dhara Fitzgerald is a 14 year old jazz vocalist from Halifax. She started vocal lessons at the young age of 4. Over the last few years, Dhara has been training with Sharada Banman. In addition to being a vocalist, Dhara plays the guitar, piano and the trumpet and is an active member of the Senior Jazz Band at her school. Inspired by the Great American Songbook and particularly Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Etta James...etc., she prides herself on being bilingual and regularly tunes in to CBC Radio Canada "C'est si bon" with Claude Saucier. Since her debut at TD Halifax Jazz Festival 2023 last year at the age of 13, she is thrilled to perform another heartfelt repertoire.

Explore the world of graphic and text based scores while experiencing the visuals as they are projected in the concert space. This concert will feature a world premiere from Montréal composer Symon Henry, as well as works by Deborah Carruthers, Paolo Griffin, Sarah Hennies and Alexis Porfiriadis.

Tickets: $20/adults, $15/students, $10/ages 12 and under. Live-Stream Tickets: $15/per household, link to be emailed before concert.

All tickets available online at eventbrite.ca and at the door.

On December 16, 1825 Theodore Molt became the sole Canadian to meet the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven, but what could have happened between the two men? After Molt’s florid greeting in one of Beethoven’s notebooks, the following four pages were violently ripped out. Betrayal? Competition? Scandal? Or just old fashioned ego and pride? With music, song, drama, history and informed speculation, The Missing Pages investigates.

This is a brand new production, directed by Derek Boyes and featuring Patricia O'Callaghan, Lori Gemmell, Gregory Oh, Derek Boyes (as Beethoven) and Tom Allen. It will take you back to Beethoven's (very messy and full of secrets) studio in Vienna in 1825 and bring you music, mystery and a connection to Canada's musical past.

New music from James Hill & Anne Janelle LIVE at The Music Room in Halifax, NS.

Musicians can read scores. But scores aren’t just notes on 5 lines of music paper. They can be an infinite variety of suggestions to performers on what to play. Halifax pianist Tim Crofts has assembled a new ensemble to interpret graphic, video, sculptural and other scores with him: Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet), Norm Adams (cello), and Nicola Miller (saxophone). These four will be joined by special guests Terri Hron from Montreal (recorders, electronics) and Charlotte Hug (vocalist, violist & visual artist) who will be presenting their joint creation that celebrates time and tides!

Tickets are $25 or pay-what-you-can at the door.

On Sunday March 5, The Centre for Sound Communities (CSC) will present world-renowned bandura player Julian Kytasty in BANDURA'S JOURNEY: Musical Fragments from Five Centuries, at the Music Room in Halifax, starting at 7pm. In 2021, American-born Julian Kytasty was awarded with the distinction of Заслуженний Артист України (Zasluzhenyi Artyst Ukrainy), Honoured Artist of Ukraine by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

All proceeds from the event's silent auction will go to Second Front Ukraine Foundation, a not-for-profit that sends urgently requested aid to the Ukrainian frontlines. This event is presented in partnership with the Scotia Festival of Music.

Julian Kytasty is a third generation player of the bandura, a plucked stringed instrument native to Ukraine. He mastered the heritage his family - refugees from Soviet and Nazi oppression - brought to North America, and expanded on it through decades of research. Today, his original creative work is laying down new directions for twenty-first century bandura music.

Kytasty’s work has received international acclaim; his music was featured in The Guide, Ukraine’s 2015 Academy Awards entry, and his original compositions won the Blizzard award for Best Film Score for the National Film Board of Canada documentary, My Mother's Village (2001).

On March 5, Julian Kytasty will be joined by singers Marcia Ostashewski and Alina Kuzma in a program including epic traditional songs, sparkling dance tunes, twentieth century bandura classics, and his own improvisations and compositions.

Doors open at 6pm for a silent auction and reception, and the concert starts at 7pm. Tickets are $50 + fees.

Enjoy an evening of contemporary chamber music featuring the selected composers from Alkali Collective’s 2022 Call for Scores – Gavin Fraser, Holly Winter, and Sophie Dupuis – alongside works by Emily Doolittle and Missy Mazzoli.

Tickets: $20/adults, $15/students, $10/ages 12 and under. Live-Stream Tickets: $15/per household, link to be emailed before concert.

Natural Elements is a collection of original laments, lullabies, hymns, airs and odes from Hayley Ryerson. Inspired by the work of late fiddler-composer Oliver Schroer, this collection of music is rooted in traditional forms while simultaneously reaching into ephemeral, improvisational, and textural realms. Accompanied by harpist Ellen Gibling, this evening will be the premier of this  work.

Hayley expresses this series of suites with a unique, understated tone on her fiddle. Immersed into the natural key centres of each of the fiddle's strings, the music is at once for rest & reflection as it is for savour & celebration.  An exploration of what it means to be in one's element.

Doors at 730pm. Livestream link available through ticket purchase. 

Music at 8pm (AST). Programme runs just under an hour.

This event has been cancelled due to performer illness.

Violinist Evelina Khustavino and guitarist Ryan White perform six Paganini sonatas. A sweet and savory snack buffet will be available at intermission.

Port City Church presents "Hope Alight", a seventy minute production rich with traditional Christmas carols and a weaved story of Hope that all should hear. This gathering will bring back those nostalgic Christmas memories as we sing together, hear stories, scripture and poetry of Hope Alight.

In support of Feed Nova Scotia: tickets are free (with donation of food items) but must be registered for in advance.

Port City Church presents "Hope Alight", a seventy minute production rich with traditional Christmas carols and a weaved story of Hope that all should hear. This gathering will bring back those nostalgic Christmas memories as we sing together, hear stories, scripture and poetry of Hope Alight.

In support of Feed Nova Scotia: tickets are free (with donation of food items) but must be registered for in advance.

Port City Church presents "Hope Alight", a seventy minute production rich with traditional Christmas carols and a weaved story of Hope that all should hear. This gathering will bring back those nostalgic Christmas memories as we sing together, hear stories, scripture and poetry of Hope Alight.

In support of Feed Nova Scotia: tickets are free (with donation of food items) but must be registered for in advance.

Showcasing HRM talent at its finest. A show for the young and the old that’s guaranteed to get you into the Christmas spirit with many Christmas classics!

Produced by Ekko Mindful Music Studio, a local music and wellness centre in Dartmouth. The studio strives to provide inclusive, positive, and stress-free environments for all.

To help support the community and the increasing need for mental health in our province, Ekko has partnered with the Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia to create a great Christmas showcase for charity.

Along with our cast of professional musicians, we will be featuring some up and coming young musicians within the HRM.

Showcasing HRM talent at its finest. A show for the young and the old that’s guaranteed to get you into the Christmas spirit with many Christmas classics!

Produced by Ekko Mindful Music Studio, a local music and wellness centre in Dartmouth. The studio strives to provide inclusive, positive, and stress-free environments for all.

To help support the community and the increasing need for mental health in our province, Ekko has partnered with the Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia to create a great Christmas showcase for charity.

Along with our cast of professional musicians, we will be featuring some up and coming young musicians within the HRM.

Join Susan Dworkin and Ria Kim for an evening of gorgeous music lieder, art song, opera, spirituals, and jazz standards!

Tickets are $15 (cash only) and can be purchased at the door.

A Special Farewell Concert to 2022 Boxcars & Memoirs Tour Fall Series!

On the heels of their newly released album, Jeff & Jocelyn continue to surprise and delight audiences with an impactful show that's filled with beautiful melodies and memorable moments that has everyone feeling a sense of "EUPHORIA"...

This last leg on the 2022 Boxcars & Memoirs Fall Concert line has JJ ROOTS inviting you to the beautiful state-of the-art Peggy Corkum MUSIC ROOM Concert Hall on November 19th!

Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, The Music Room offers one of the finest spaces in Canada, It’s a looker! Winner of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Architecture, The Music Room combines elegant wood finishings with an eye-catching industrial aesthetic that was built for maximum enjoyment of acoustic music.

This is sure to be a special experience, so get those tickets punched early ROOTers.

Join three fourths of Alkali Collective for an evening of contemporary trio and quartet music. Featuring music by Monica Pearce, Nico Muhly, Yaz Lancaster and more!

Tickets: $20/adults, $15/students, $10/ages 12 and under
Live-Stream Tickets: $15/per household, link to be emailed before concert.

All tickets available online and at the door.

About Alkali Collective:

Named for the salt water that surrounds our province, Alkali Collective is a new and dynamic ensemble dedicated to the creation, performance, documentation, and educational outreach of 21st-century music.