Canadian guitar legend Don Ross welcomes the wonderful German guitarist and songwriter Julie Malia (AKA Jule Malischke) to join him in the cozy confines of The Al Whittle Theatre in beautiful Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Now a resident of the Annapolis Valley, Don has spent over thirty years plying his trade worldwide as one of today 's top acoustic guitarists and composers. 

Julie Malia (AKA Jule Malischke) is a great guitarist, singer and songwriter who has made a name for herself in recent years with her compositions and her impressive festival appearances. Originally from Swabia in southern Germany, she also works as a lecturer at the Carl Maria von Weber Music University in Dresden, Germany. Her latest album was nominated for the prestigious German Record Critics' Award (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik).

Don and Julie will showcase music from their latest recordings (Don's WATER CD and Julie's SEAGULL), as well as new music that they have arranged as a duo.

Tickets: $30 + fees and tax on Showpass

Cancelled due to inclement weather!

If you had previously purchased tickets, you have received a link to a livestream concert for this evening. Stay safe out there!

James Hill & Anne Janelle present

The Midnight Clear

Experience The Midnight Clear live!

Join James and Anne for a concert full of sparkling carols and original winter songs to make the season bright.

Special for this show, they will be accompanied by brass quintet and have an opening set from the Halifax-based The Bombadils.

Tickets

Adults $40 + hst

Students/Seniors $35 + hst

Children $15 + hst

Mat Hughes & Izra Fitch Acoustic Show with special guest Lily Bateman

Mat Hughes and Izra Fitch head back to Wolfville to play an acoustic show at Al Whittle Theatre with special guest Lily Bateman.

Tickets $15 in advance on Eventbrite

$20 at the door

UPDATE: SOLD OUT

Graham Howes and Friends present the music of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.

This evening will be full of beautiful music from many of your favorite local performers.

Featuring:

• Graham Howes (keys vocals)

• Sarah Pound, Francois Cote, Hazel Walker (vocals)

• Ian Sherwood (vocals, guitar, saxophone)

• Nic D’Amato (bass)

• Mike Carroll (drums)

Tickets $35 with tax included.

SOLD OUT

Described by Roots Music Canada as “The Pink Floyd of Folk Music” the Red Dirt Skinners are the multi-award winning, multi-instrumentalist husband and wife team of Rob and Sarah Skinner.

The Skinners’ current album, Bear With Us, was listed in the highly regarded International Magazine, Music News, as one of their top 20 albums of 2021 – alongside Adele, Taylor Swift and Paul Weller to name but a few.

The duo cross more genres than would make sense to mention and have won National and International Awards in Rock, Folk, Blues, Country, Roots, Alt-Rock and Songwriting. It would be fair to say that if you like songs influenced by Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, Supertramp, Queen, and David Bowie coupled with some epic storytelling, humour and heartfelt emotions, you’ll love a Red Dirt Skinners concert.

With male and female harmonies blending as one voice and Sarah’s trademark soprano saxophone solos, you will be swept along by the refreshingly different sound of the Red Dirt Skinners.

The Skinners have a natural rapport with their audiences and their live shows are a wonderful experience; a musical journey to remember. Rob and Sarah Skinner will steal your hearts. Don’t miss their show!

Tickets available online.

Get ready for an exceptional weekend of music with three standout Main Stage shows, each offering its own unique experience!

Join us at the Al Whittle Theatre for these outstanding Songwriter Circle events:

Blending Traditions
1:45 PM - Sweet Bean, Dans l'Shed

Acoustic Alchemy
3:15 PM - Aleksi Campagne, Gina Burgess, Duane Andrews, Isaac Andrews Power

deeprootsmusic.ca for more details

Festival passes now available online.

Written and performed by Paula Rockwell, Letters From Home is an autobiographical journey through letters, stories, songs and photos from four generations of women.

I have packages of letters written from the time my maternal grandmother set sail from Liverpool, England in 1935, until her mother, my great grandmother, died in December 1961. It happens to coincide with my fascination for the music of this period, the music I teach regularly with my university students, and the music I research and get excited about. It is also the music, while I developed this show, that illuminates segments of the letters and this period of my family’s history. These letters are a universal connection about the everyday life of women during this time; her preoccupations with her love of family, love of home, love of husband, loss of her parents and, loss of children by moving away. Many women today can relate to this, on some level, by experiencing the same preoccupation. The letters are illuminated, and gaps will be filled in by songs I have created based on material I have discovered in the letters.
I am interested in forms of communication and the emotional value that is carried in the voice, both in speech and song, and the historic values of ideas when they are carried in cursive writing. I have written a script incorporating these letters, which will tell the story of these two amazing women, one of whom, I never had the pleasure to meet. The use of personal archival projected photos and original songs, as well as historical songs, help evoke a time that has passed.

Deep Roots Music Cooperative presents Springfest 2024 as part of their showcase series.

Featuring Larry Bjornson, Mark Riley, Kim Doolittle, Mary Lou Sicoly, The Gilberts, and Sam Wilson & Andrew Jackson.

Tickets $34.50 (tax incl) + fees. Available online

Shoulder to Shoulder invites you to immerse yourself in the rich traditions, vibrant music, and captivating performances that showcase the diverse African heritage. Let the energy of the performances uplift your spirits and transport you to a world of joy and unity.

Whether you are of African Descent or simply appreciate the beauty of diversity, this event welcomes everyone to come together and celebrate. It's an opportunity to learn, connect, and embrace the richness of African heritage in a warm and friendly atmosphere.

Adult: $12.50

Child: $5.00

Roland Grant’s Homecoming Show

Roland Grant is back in Nova Scotia after a spectacular tour that finished in Los Angeles.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see Roland perform live.

Guitar virtuoso, composer, and vocalist Roland Grant is garnering renown for a sweeping, dramatic live show that leaves every audience thrilled and entertained. With a unique crossover of rock with flamenco and Latin influences, his performance features a stellar band, and special guests.

Roland has appeared opening a 10,500 seat ScotiaBank Centre concert event, opening for Kiefer Sutherland, and sharing the stage with multiplatinum-selling fiddler Ashley MacIsaac.

Aurora Scott, "A Concert to Remember".

Join world-class contemporary, jazz, and pop vocalist Aurora Scott for an evening of smooth vocals, Latin-jazz, blues, and other bright sounds.

With Peter Davison on guitar, Aidan Zann-Roland on bass, and Csaba Kanyasi on drums.

Graham Howes presents the music of

Leonard Cohen: Joni Mitchell: Tom Waits

A thoughtful tribute to the music of Tom Waits, Joni and Leonard performed by 4 vocalists and 4 musicians, including special guest, Ian Sherwood

Deep Roots documentary screening and song circle

With one ticket you get access to two amazing workshops, as well as a documentary screening!

1:30 PM- Songs are like Tattoos Featuring: Jacques Surette, Zakary Miller, Rebecca Fairless, Graham Nicolas, Freya Milliken

3:00 PM - The Legacy Song Project: Atlantic Chapter Featuring: Sarah McInnis, filmmakers Aly Kelly and Pat LePoidevin, with special guest Valmy

Deep Roots Harmony Workshop

Express your musical side – sing at the harmony workshop with Sarah McInnis and Rebecca Fairless.

Burry — Yours Truly Album Release Show

Live Music at the Al Whittle Theatre

Burry with support from Wayne Bedecki, Julia Cunningham & Michael S. Ryan.

On August 24, the Randall House Museum will be putting on a celebration of Nova Scotia’s Folk Music Heritage, including songs collected by Carrie Grover and Helen Creighton.

Anyone is welcome to participate, bring some instruments and perform a Nova Scotia Folk Tune!

MARITIME SUNSHINE

Live Concert with The Chimney Swifts and special guests The Scot!ables

Songwriter, Music Therapist, and Death Doula Sarah McInnis presents The Legacy Song Project: Atlantic Chapter

Featuring the profound stories of 8 Atlantic Canadians, The Legacy Song Project: Atlantic Chapter is an exploration of death, dying, grief, loss, and love, through the transformational lenses of documentary film and songwriting.

Songwriter, Sarah McInnis, and filmmakers, Aly Kelly and Pat LePoidevin, teamed up to interview four individuals at end-of-life and four who have lost loved ones, representing all four Atlantic provinces.

In this evocative short film and live musical performance, they capture stories about the universal experiences of loss and how songwriting can be used as a bridge to connect us with our loved ones, past and present.

Film and Performance

with Aquakultre, Terra Spencer, Pat LePoidevin, Ssarah Frank, Tyler MacDonald, Nicholas D’Amato

Enjoy an evening of toe-tapping Scottish music, laughter and fun for the whole family!

Featuring The Caledonian Orchestra of Nova Scotia.

With MC and vocalist Mr. Jim Brown

Surprise guest fiddler “John Angus” of the Maritime Marionettes.

Highland Dancing featuring Mallory Lloy

CAMINO is a multimedia immersive production featuring flamenco music, dance, video and lighting projection. The six-member Flamenco en Rouge troupe joins forces with award-winning choreographer, Annik Gaudet and lighting designer, Matt Downey for this dramatic production focused on themes of journey, displacement and belonging.

Presented by Flamenco en Rouge

This event will be a showcase of local talent across theatre, music, dance, film and lifelong learning that will celebrate the Al Whittle Theatre as a hub for inclusive and inspiring arts and cultural experiences in our emerging post-pandemic era.

Join us for amazing performances and presentations from Mark Riley Trio, Wolfville Theatre Collective, Valley Drama School, Dance ConXion, Life Long Learning from farmer Eric Burton and sommelier Kristen Perrin. Short film screenings of Soap by Emily Ellis and The Dollhouse by Aly Kelly—these films won in the Whittle’s Whitflix Smartphone competition in 2017 and 2018 respectively.

Masks are recommended.

TD Halifax Jazz Festival is taking to the road this winter as part of our FREE, non-ticketed, Community Series initiative to bring world-class jazz beyond Halifax into communities across Nova Scotia.

Behrooz Mihankhah is an Iranian Canadian composer, pianist, and singer-songwriter based in Halifax. Behrooz fuses various musical traditions, compositional techniques, and improvisational schools of thought and brings together listeners of various backgrounds. Performing mostly original music, he has toured internationally throughout New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Rajasthan, Mumbai, and locally throughout New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island. 

His most recent project, a full-length debut jazz album “Lydium”, includes his original compositions and arrangments of several jazz classics, and classical compositions with a blend of both western and Iranian instruments.

Ali Enriquez is a Cuban-Canadian multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter. Her genres range from deep classical roots to jazz, latin, R&B, pop and fusion. She’s played in stages around Canada, Cuba and Italy. With over fifteen years of classical training on the violin under her wing, she then studied music at Dalhousie University and is currently pursuing a popular music diploma at the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC).

Masks are recommended.

The Municipality of the County of Kings is continuing the celebration for African Heritage Month with a concert! Join us at the Al Whittle Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 25, as we partner with the African Nova Scotian Music Association and artists Jody Upshaw, Casual Cries for Help and Kayo. Tickets can be purchased at the link above.

Having achieved an enviable career few could even dream of, renowned conductor/composer Lydia Tár, the first female principal music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, is at the top of her game. As a conductor, Lydia not only orchestrates, she manipulates. As a trailblazer, the passionate virtuoso leads the way in the male-dominated classical music industry. Moreover, Lydia prepares for the release of her memoir while juggling work and family. She is also willing to take up one of her most significant challenges: a live recording of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5. However, forces that even the imperious maestro can't control slowly chip away at Lydia's elaborate facade, revealing the genius's dirty secrets and the insidious, corrosive nature of power. What if life knocks Lydia off her pedestal? Masks are recommended.