Atlantic Canada Concert Scene

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My confirmation bias would say that supports my guess on Halifax Music Fest night two being Mumford and Sons/Caamp.

Since they could accomodate both festivals. Play Halifax >> Head to Europe >> come back from europe to play Newfoundland. From a travel perspective it makes sense. They currently have nothing from July 10-30th. The Barr Brothers are also opening for them for part of their tour so theres a connection there with night 1.

On another note. Red Jumpsuit apparatus is coming to Moncton and Halifax Aug 26/27th. Scream/Emo is certainly on a big comeback right now.

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Halifax Music Fest night two announces today

[felip_ars]

Silversun Pickups announced as the opener for Day 2.

Very impressive as they usually play in 2500 capacity venue in Toronto.

If we stick that genre of Alternative/Punk, I wouldnt be surprised if we see Jimmy Eat World and/or Pup in there as well.

[felip_ars]

HalifaxMusicFest Day 2:

Weezer/Jimmy Eat World/Dashboard Confessional/Silversun Pickups

Very nice lineup! Although im surprised with Weezer being there as they have no tour at all until September, so they must had asked a good price to get them here. Or they have a Summer tour that has not yet been announced or they're the band that will play Churchill Park as well the month after.

With The Chicks already on Tier3 pricing, this edition has all the tool to be a success and push Sonic to make it yearly event. Both nights should have no trouble of getting the 20k mark.

And looking at the prices of that Fall tour, its probably the only shot for the East Coast to get them here. They're playing Place Bell (10k) in October and tickets are 193$(!!) and up for LowerBowl sections.

[felip_ars]

After announcing the usual Area506 festival and the Waterfront Concert series, Area506 just dropped two theme weekends

A LOUD weekend on July 10th and 12th

DAY 1
Silverstein
Hard Charger
Johnny Deathwish
Elevate The Virus

DAY 2
Gob
Iron Giant
The Monoxides
Doctor Mother Father

And a Folk weekend on August 28th and 29th

FRIDAY NIGHT:
The East Pointers
Josh Bravener & The Hypochondriacs
The Big River Ramblers

SATURDAY AFTERNOON*:
Lennie Gallant
Dram & A Draw
Chickahominy Trio

SATURDAY NIGHT:
The Barr Brothers
Gift Horse
Abby McCartney

Good idea of spreading the "wealth/booking" through out the Summer instead of putting all the eggs in the same basket.


Also without surprises, Churchill Park announced The Chicks as their first headliner, and managed to sold it out in like 30 minutes.

[BlackYear]

Heads up. The Triumph show tonight at the Avenir centre, Ticketmaster has dropped ticket prices quite a lot (about 30%). And plenty of tickets left.

[felip_ars]

Promotions going on for The Jonas Bros show at Moncton stadium (Buy One Get one Free)

I checked Ticketmaster, and while most of the cheap tickets are gone, they're having trouble with the more expansive one that goes from 150$ to 545$ at the very first row on the floor.

On a more positive note, the Cavendish Beach Music Festival happened last weekend with over 50k total for the 3 days. Whats impressive is 80% of those are from out of province!

[EnvisionSaintJohn]

Originally Posted by EnvisionSaintJohn

Wolf Parade is the only band listed here that I’d actually wanna pay to see live, but I like them enough that I’ll actually probably buy a ticket for the last day, even though it’s bs that Wolf Parade is not the top headliner for that night.

Anyone have a rough idea of when Wolf Parade will go on? I guess the silver liner of them not being the main headliner is they will go on earlier.

What’s the best bar/restaurant, or other place to go nearby with any sort of vantage point of the stage?

[bingun]

Originally Posted by EnvisionSaintJohn

Anyone have a rough idea of when Wolf Parade will go on? I guess the silver liner of them not being the main headliner is they will go on earlier.

What’s the best bar/restaurant, or other place to go nearby with any sort of vantage point of the stage?

They’re on at 8PM. If you go stand up on prince william by the federal government building, you can hear it clear as day.

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Looks like the promoters missed the mark on the demand for Jonas Brothers. Weather isnt helping but theyve been doing various bogo deals over the past month, and theres still a bunch of tickets available, gotta think someone's losing money over this one. They were smart to get the Arkells for the opener for additional bump but perhaps they shoudl have added another more current act to draw some people out. Jonas Brothers have had moments where they were huge but they arent really putting out any current hits despite being young.

Hopefully this doesnt sour them on future concerts at that venue. There is acts that will sell well but I think they gotta aim bigger. Jonas brothers could have been an easier sell at Avenir Centre IMO.