On sale: March 31 Sonic Concerts present Jesse Cook A career spanning 25 years has brought Canadian guitarist Jesse Cook multiple accolades, including a coveted Acoustic Guitar Magazine Player’s Choice Silver Award, 11 Juno Award nominations (he won for 2001’s Free Fall), a Gemini Award and, most impressively, 10 platinum and gold studio albums. Moreover, he has sold out concert halls the world over, produced 5 PBS television specials and 5 live CDs. Since launching his career with 1995’s Tempest, Jesse has blazed an incredible trail. Along with being a global-guitar virtuoso, he’s honed his skills as a composer, producer, arranger, performer and, more recently, filmmaker and cultural ambassador.

The Stadacona Band of the Royal Canadian Navy presents ‘Home for the Holidays – East Coast Edition’

The Stadacona Band’s holiday concert is an opportunity to kick off the holiday season with an evening of festive music. This year the band is saluting Maritime artists and sounds with a special tribute to the late Bruce Guthro, as well selections from other Maritime artists. Join us for a fun filled evening and enjoy the incredible versatility of our professional musicians with this diverse programme, including some of your favourite holiday classics and a sing-along.

 

The Griswold family’s plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.

 

Gala Ballet Productions proudly presents the classic holiday story by E.T.A. Hoffman, set to music by Ptotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Once again, The Nutcracker will deliver the magis of the season in this annual holiday tradition fro the whole family. Local dancers share the stage with guest principal artists from some of Canada’s most renowned professional ballet companies.

Gala Ballet Productions proudly presents the classic holiday story by E.T.A. Hoffman, set to music by Ptotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Once again, The Nutcracker will deliver the magis of the season in this annual holiday tradition fro the whole family. Local dancers share the stage with guest principal artists from some of Canada’s most renowned professional ballet companies.

Gala Ballet Productions proudly presents the classic holiday story by E.T.A. Hoffman, set to music by Ptotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Once again, The Nutcracker will deliver the magis of the season in this annual holiday tradition fro the whole family. Local dancers share the stage with guest principal artists from some of Canada’s most renowned professional ballet companies.

Original title: Khers nist

Rating: none | 1 hour 46 mins | Persian, Azerbaijani, Turkish

Two parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.

 

 

Uplifting, heartwarming, hilarious and inspiring, with enough Christmas fun to fill Santa’s sleigh! Multi award-winning Singer-Songwriters MIKE BIGGAR (Saint John NB) and TERRA SPENCER (Windsor NS) are on tour this holiday season, joined by the Sugar Plum Boys stage band with ‘SONGS OF THE SEASON’ at the Imperial Theatre Friday December 15. For 2023 Mike welcomes long time friend and acclaimed artist Terra Spencer to hit the road together, sharing the musical joy of the yuletide all around the East Coast.

SONGS OF THE SEASON evolved from Biggar’s ECMA award-winning holiday album THE SEASON. The show features many of his acclaimed, original holiday songs, inspiring carols and standards of the season, all playfully arranged in his noted soulful, bluesy roots styling.

Hailing from Windsor Nova Scotia, Terra Spencer is known for charming audiences with her deft guitar, gospel piano, butterscotch voice and sly humour. She offers a heaping helping of her own seasonal favourites and original holiday music, wrapped in her armchair humour and disarming warmth. Terra has received the Music Nova Scotia ‘Folk Recording of the Year’ award and nominations from both the East Coast and Canadian Folk Music Association. Her song ‘Feels Like Home’ was named the 2021 Blues & Roots Radio International Song of the Year and she recently rose above 20,000 other applicants to win first place in the 2023 Commonwealth Song Contest for her song ‘Bricks and Mortar’.

Together the pair join their voices for much-loved holiday duets inspired by the magic of vintage TV Christmas specials of yesteryear.  With lots of impromptu fun, hilarious stage banter and full band Christmas revelry, SONGS OF THE SEASON will deck the halls with holiday smiles and laughter all around!  

Check your list twice to be sure you’ve got ‘Songs of the Season’ on your holiday calendar!

The students from Dance Zone Studio performing in their Christmas Showcase of Jazz, Tap, Lyrical and acrobatic styles. A show for the entire family!

Ever a holiday favourite, The Nutcracker gets a Maritime treatment in this fresh adaptation of the beloved play as two puppeteers create shadowbox projections to a narrated storyline, joined by musicians from Symphony New Brunswick and the magic of Tchaikovsky’s enchanting musical score.

**This performance is not included in the Symphony New Brunswick 23-24 subscription package**

The Barra MacNeils – An East Coast Christmas is a musical potpourri of traditional MacNeil family favourites gleaned from Christmas ceilidhs, midnight masses and the general festive frolic that accompanies each holiday season. With their captivating vocals, distinctive harmonies and extraordinary musicianship, The Barra MacNeils inject new life and energy into the sights and sounds of Christmas, prompting the Halifax Daily News to call them “a treasure of the East Coast, rich with tradition and unmatched in ensemble performance”; and the Globe & Mail to call the recording on which their concert is based “one of the best Christmas albums of all time!”

The five MacNeil siblings – Lucy, Boyd, Stewart, Kyle and Sheumas – combine on a vast array of instruments including accordion, guitar, piano, fiddle, bodhran, mandolin, banjo, Celtic harp, tin whistles, bouzouki, flute … all underpinned by the nimble-fingered Jamie Gatti on bass.  The result is a sound that is unmistakably The Barra MacNeils, one moment a rousing chorus, then a hauntingly beautiful Gaelic ballad, the next a flurry of foot-stomping instrumentals, which of course pulls one then another into a step-dancing revelry.  For a delightful seasonal celebration, don’t miss An East Coast Christmas with The Barra MacNeils!

Come and sing all the classics and if you’re shy, come along and listen in. It’s a home town party with Janet and Richard Kidd and a bunch of great local singers

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3. Click the blue ‘Watch’ button and enjoy the show!