Podcasts about Halifax Pop Explosion

In this week's episode, we chat with Spencer Shewen, the Artistic Director of the Mariposa Folk Festival. Spencer takes us through his journey into the music festival scene, sharing his experiences with both Riverfest Elora and the legendary Mariposa Folk Festival. He offers a behind-the-scenes look at programming the Mariposa festival lineup, sharing his perspectives on how folk music encompasses a wide range of genres beyond traditional definitions and how that shapes his booking decisions. He also provides valuable insights for emerging artists seeking opportunities. The discussion wraps with a glimpse into this summer's 65th anniversary of Mariposa, with a stacked bill of both returning and new artists.This year's Mariposa Folk Festival takes place July 4-6th in Orillia, Ontario - get your tickets here.Find Mariposa Folk Festival online:WebsiteInstagramTikTokAbout Spencer ShewenEntrusted with the role of Artistic Director of the fabled Mariposa Folk Festival since the fall of 2023, Spencer Shewen is looking forward to an exciting 2025 season, where Mariposa will celebrate it's 65th edition! At the same time, he continues as Creative Director of Riverfest Elora, where he has played an integral role in guiding the festival since 2013. Two of Ontario's most celebrated festivals! Spencer also sits on the Board of Directors for the Elora Centre for the Arts. Previously, he has held seats on the boards of the River & Sky Festival, the Halifax Pop Explosion, the Hillside Festival, and CFRU 93.3FM. He has also worked as Artistic Director for Waterstock (2017) and 100 Mile Riot (2012, 2013), curated the Fortnight Music Series (2007–2016), and acted as label manager for SunnyLane Records (2005–2008), among many other adventures. Mariposa, founded in 1961, has hosted icons like Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Gordon Lightfoot. The 2025 festival takes place July 4–6 at Tudhope Park in Orillia. Riverfest Elora, set for August 15–17, is known for its diverse lineups, including performances by City and Colour, Carly Rae Jensen and the Violent Femmes . Spencer is honoured to have a leadership role at both festivals, and to have the opportunity to help create unforgettable experiences for all who attend!______________If you're interested in submitting questions for our upcoming episodes, be sure to follow Folk Canada on Instagram where we will be posting our upcoming guests.Tune in to the latest episodes of the Refolkus Podcast, featuring the latest music releases from Folk Canada members as well as some of our special guests, now broadcasting on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa, CKUW 95.9 FM in Winnipeg and CFBX 92.5 FM in Kamloops.Presented by Folk CanadaHosted by Rosalyn DennettProduced by Kayla Nezon and Rosalyn DennettMixed by Jordan Moore of The Pod CabinTheme music “Amsterdam” by King CardiacArtwork by Jaymie Karn

New bands are sprouting up all over the Canadian East Coast and we couldn't be happier. Join East Coast DNA host Darcy Walsh for a chat with Gizmo. Gizmo are a four-piece indie rock outfit based out of Charlottetown, PEI. Drawing inspiration from 90's lo-fi/slacker rock and the Halifax Pop Explosion scene, they are known for their energetic beer-infused performances showcasing their catchy power pop-esque hooks, distorted guitar tones, dynamic drumming style and epic Swaine bass lines. 00:00 East Coast DNA Intro featuring Gizmo's Producer and Virtual 00:15 Darcy Walsh chats with Gizmo 26:00 Luanne by Gizmo For more information, visit Gizmo @gizmo.band on Instagram and https://gizmoband.bandcamp.com/ Subscribe to @eastcoastdna for more music scene coverage through live shot performances and chat with the people behind the music you love. Producer and Virtual (single) released August 15, 2023 Buddy System EP released August 18, 2023 Recorded in -40°C at Aintree Produced by us, Josh and Sam Langille Mixed by Adam Gallant at Hill Sound Studio Mastered by John MacLaggan at Parachute Mastering Spencer Swaine - bass Daniel Hartinger - drums, background vocals Julien Kitson - guitar, vocals Patrick Stephen - fucking nothing --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/east-coast-dna/message

I first met Stefanie Purificati at Nunavut Music Week in 2019 during the trip of a lifetime up north to work with Indigenous artists. There were so many special connections made on that trip; both for the artists and the industry professionals involved. Stef made me laugh over dinner one of the first evenings at the legion and we've been seeing each other at shows in Toronto ever since! Stefanie is an agent and music industry veteran who got her start as the in-house talent buyer at the Drake Hotel. She began her career as an agent in 2010 and has just recently joined The Feldman Agency (who represent bands like Feist, Orville Peck, Shania Twain, The Beaches & more, peep the roster HERE). A highly active member of the community, Stefanie has sat on the Board of Directors for the Country Music Association of Ontario, worked for the Polaris Music Prize for a decade, and is a frequent panelist at conferences like Canadian Music Week, Halifax Pop Explosion, Line Check (Milan, Italy), Canadian Country Music Week and many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Laura Simpson is the CEO and co-founder (along with artist, Dan Mangan) of Side Door; a dedicated team of artists and technologists committed to building a more efficient, fair and decentralized global ecosystem for the performing arts. The Canadian tech start-up which was founded in 2017 has a mission: We believe anybody should be able to perform, curate and present shows for their communities. Side Door's mission to create shows anytime, anywhere – first with in-person shows and now online. The platform marketplace is built to connect artists with curators, venues, service providers and audiences to make booking, ticketing and payments easy, fair and transparent. Side Door provides robust tools and support, without any up-front costs to the artist.Laura has spent much of her life serving the needs of artists and promoting live performance. Since 2007, she has worked with Music Nova Scotia, the Halifax Jazz Festival, the East Coast Music Awards, CAPACOA and the Halifax Pop Explosion. She has hosted house concerts (The Syrup Factory) since 2011. In 2015 she went to Los Angeles for four months to mentor with the former president of Warner Bros Records. Upon returning, she evolved The Syrup Factory into an artist services company. She believes experiencing amazing live art in intimate community settings leads to stronger human connection, greater empathy and improved mental health.Read more about Side Door HERE.Find out more about Laura Simpson HERE.Follow Side Door on Instagram HERE.Follow Side Door on Twitter HERE.Find Side Door on Facebook HERE.Women mentioned in this episode:Journalist Maggie Rahr,  artist & producer Reeny Smith, Megan and Marie Wright of Mirror Image Media, and Film Director Megan Wennberg. In this episode, she references a concert in which Broken Social Scene performed on a goat farm:

We're going back to the east coast in this episode as we chat with manager and Halifax Pop Explosion co-founder Peter Rowan. We talk about managing Sloan, Eric's Trip and Hardship Post, working with Geffen and Sub Pop, Halifax being dubbed the 'next Seattle' and more. So, please give it a listen and if you want more '90s CanRock content, find us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and follow our official playlist on Spotify and Apple! Also, if you want to support the podcast, visit https://www.patreon.com/ravedrool, subscribe/follow the podcast wherever you're listening to this and give us a positive rating and review! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/ravedrool)

Incase you missed our live set at Halifax Pop Explosion last weekend, we got you covered! We popped our strap-on virginity onstage and talked about inviting play into the bedroom, Lindsay lived out her cock-yielding fantasy and Sarah discovered her insatiable need to penetrate random objects. This is short and sweet but PACKED full of hilarity, enjoy! ⠀ Hey Halifax fans, come to our next live show! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/78631074661 ⠀ Follow Momgasm on Instagram and Facebook @momgasmpodcast ⠀ Want to connect to us further? Then join us in The Momgasm Den our FREE FB community! ⠀ bit.ly/momgasmden ⠀ Become a Patron today and help us create even more juicy content! www.patreon.com/momgasmpodcast

Jon is a seasoned sketch and monologue performer best known for 5 years in The Sketchersons, 2 of which he spent as the troupe's head writer. Jon wrote on four seasons of the CBC's This Hour Has 22 Minutes and made numerous on camera appearances – for that show Jon won a Canadian Comedy Award and was nominated for two WGC Awards and a Canadian Screen Award. In addition to touring last summer as a cast member in Sex T-Rex's award-winning show “Swordplay”, Jon has also toured hsi own solo revue “I'm Only One Man,” As a solo sketch comedian Jon has been a repeat performer at JFL 42, Halifax Pop Explosion and NXNE, Jon is the host of the monthly variety show “Jonsday”, and the recipient of the prestigious Bag of Beer Award for best Newcomer at the 2016 Montreal Sketchfest (an award presumably named after his own body) Jon Blair Twitter Jon Blair clippings

Speaker Bio: Laura Simpson is one of the Co-founders and CEO of Side Door. She is a living large, DNA music pumping through her veins, music industry professional. She lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She also founded the The Syrup Factory, which began hosting house concerts in 2011, offering strategies and services to artists in 2015. She's also been an organizer in the art scene since she was 14 years old going to all ages shows and then eventually taking live music photography and freelancing. She was writing about shows and artists, becoming a journalist for seven years with CBC and Roger's Radio. Eventually, she found her way back to the music world and has been involved in numerous initiatives from working as an Expert Development Program Officer and Communication Manager for Music Nova Scotia. She’s also worked with the Halifax Jazz Festival, the CAPACOA, and the East Coast Music Association. In 2015, Laura even mentored with some top tier music marketing team at Blackbox in LA. She's even juried for Music Nova Scotia, The Halifax Pop Explosion, CBC Music Search Light competition and the Juno’s. She’s now one of the co-founders and the CEO of Side Door, where they have a dream of making things better for touring artists and live music fans.   Episode Overview. Side Door Access was started with the welfare of the artists and the fans enjoyment deeply in mind.  The business is built on tech to make it easier for artists who are trying to find places to tour and to have better profit margins. When it started, they located venues that are low overhead, including houses, cafes, bookstores, churches and people who want to offer that space for a show. The platform offers a split so that the artist gets the majority of the revenue, and a portion is offered to the host to cover costs and then Side Door takes a typical booking fee. Side Door is building the tech so that they can try to create an almost like a Tinder style match between the host and the artist. Using their preferences, they put in the details and instantly they're going to get back basically a match for a show they could play at the location at this time. it's an automatic contract that's made and the two parties decide what they want to do with that show and they're off to the races. Side Door does all the ticketing, helps with the promotion and, supports them with best practices. One of the founders is a host herself. Laura’s Co-founder is Dan Mangan who is a Juno award-winning artist in Canada and he built his career on doing house concerts and now he's doing huge concerts. They have seen both sides of that process. They wanted to find a way to make it a little bit easier for artists who are constantly struggling to make a living with all their touring.   What you will learn in this episode: The people are the resources. You don’t think about it unless you talk to those people. A network can give you ways to structure your business or ways to finance the company. The company survives and thrives based on trust by influencers. Not every company wants to be a Unicorn but a zebra which is like the strong and steady Staying true to your personal philosophy and motivation for doing it. Take advantage of scheduling tools to make things easier Walk the dog every single day for an hour keeps clear your head Moving outside and being outside in the fresh air is close to meditation and makes you more productive later during the day. Steadying and maintaining the philosophy and that motivating factor which keeps you going forward.   Resources Mentioned: Productivity Tool: Podio Productivity Tool: Calend.ly Website: Side Door Access Website: Haligonia Conference: Dazzle Con Book: Chris Hadfield’s The Astronaut Book: Tiffany Haddish’s The Black Unicorn Book: Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard Hotspots: Agricola Street Brasserie Hotspots: The Seahorse and The Marquee Hotspots: Seafood at Nova Scotia Twiter: @novascotiamusic   Company Overview: Side Door is a startup in BETA phase. We give audiences instant access to intimate and unique events happening right in their own neighborhoods. Artists match with hosts who turn their private homes, businesses or alternative spaces into venues while we manage the ticketing fairly and transparently. Our goal is to create a direct-to-audience gigging economy, trimming overhead and making touring financially feasible even for emerging acts. We want to foster connective tissue between people in tactile offline shared experiences.  

Ria Mae has a brand new EP and is fresh off of a very special show during the 2017 Halifax Pop Explosion that saw her performing with Symphony Nova Scotia amidst her cross-country Scott Vs. Ria tour with our pal Scott Helman. The new EP, My Love, takes listeners on a journey from post-relationship heartache to healing. We chat with her about all of that and more. With Faith Healer's recently-released sophomore LP Try;-), Jessica Jalbert has formally welcomed Renny Wilson to the fold as a full-time bandmate. She speaks with Mike about the album, its creation at Wilson's Montreal studio, the musical relationship the two share, straying from the "folk singer" label, and more. Finally, Edmonton's The Royal Foundry is an art-pop quartet with the husband and wife team of Jared Salte and Bethany Schumacher at its core. The two tell us about how their personal relationship extends into the creative sphere, how their home city and its music scene has shaped their sound, and more.

Welcome back to another explosive edition of the podcast! With Tristan away on assignment, Ryan taps Scott Hastings to make his Northside NFL debut! The two discuss Scott's fervent love of the Cowboys and why they are disappointing this season, the rammifications of the Thursday Night game between the Chiefs and Raiders, how Aaron Rodgers going down mucks up the Packers' season and Ryan's experiences with Halifax Pop Explosion. Then they offer their picks for Week 7! It's as respectful and powerful as Idris Elba's performance in anything!Hosts:Ryan Andrews: @NeoAC18 Tristan Garnett: @TristanJGarnett Guest Host: Scott Hastings: @scotty_h19Follow the network: @Goal10ding Intro Music: No Resolve - Get Me Outhttps://www.facebook.com/noresolve http://www.myspace.com/noresolvemusic http://www.reverbnation.com/noresolveOutro Music: Arrows to Athens - Firing Squadhttps://www.facebook.com/ArrowsToAthenshttps://twitter.com/ArrowsToAthens

Australian rock icons Midnight Oil are back on the road for The Great Circle 2017 World Tour, in part to celebrate the release of some new box sets. We connected with founding member Jim Moginie (guitars, keys & vocals) ahead of their Canadian dates about the band's special relationship with Canada, the process of digging up rarities for the box set, and a lot more. The first two waves of bands have been announced for the 2017 Halifax Pop Explosion, and as usual, they offer an exciting and diverse mix of acts. Executive Director James Boyle tells us how they put together their lineups year after year, what goes into planning and staging an event of this scale, and more. With its 22nd annual concert set for August 24th in Toronto, Honey Jam is continuing its longstanding mission of fostering female music talent and providing those artists with education and opportunities. PhemPhat CEO and Honey Jam founder Ebonnie Rowe joins us to talk about this year's edition of Honey Jam and how, even though they've made great strides over the years, there's still plenty of work to be done bringing equal opportunity to the music industry.

Ahead of the Halifax Pop Explosion, I spoke with Mike O'Neill about his old band The Inbreds, what the Halifax music scene was like when they first got to town, the new band TUNS, writing television shows, and more. A clip from this interview originally aired on the October 18, 2016 episode of Halifax Is Burning. Listen to that show here: http://halifaxisburning.com/october-18-2016/ Songs You'll Hear: TUNS - Lonely Life The Inbreds - Any Sense of Time The Inbreds - Wanna Be Your Friend Sloan - Underwhelmed TUNS - Throw It All Away TUNS - Lonely Life (again)

PS I Love You are a tremendous, melodic noise-rock two-piece band originally from Kingston, Ontario. This past October, Benjamin Nelson and Paul Saulnier were at the Halifax Pop Explosion touring behind their latest PS I Love You album, For Those Who Stay, which is out now via Paper Bag Records. Over the next two weeks, […]

TEEN is an inventive pop band from Brooklyn, New York consisting of sisters Teeny, Lizzie, and Katherine Lieberson and Boshra AlSaadi. Their latest album is called The Way and Color , which is out now via Carpark Records, and it prompted them to visit the Halifax Pop Explosion this past October to play some shows. We ended […]

Cousins is an excellent two-piece band from Halifax, Nova Scotia featuring Leigh Dotey and Aaron Mangle. They make an impassioned, fun kind of indie-rock and their latest album, The Halls of Wickwire, is rad and out now via Hand Drawn Dracula Records. A few weeks ago at the Halifax Pop Explosion, Aaron took me for a […]

Ryan Hemsworth and BADBADNOTGOOD each appeared at the 2014 Halifax Pop Explosion last week and we took part in a live, panel interview together at the Museum of Natural History. Ryan’s a talented electronic artist who originally hails from Halifax and whose new record, Alone for the First Time, is out November 4 via Last […]

Last week's show was a monster and this one is no different. Two great Canadian artists, two brand new albums. We'll speak with Blue Rodeo about their latest release, "In Our Nature," which was recorded at vocalist/guitarist Greg Keelor's country home. Fans awaiting the interview should check out CM's Blue Rodeo Sweepstakes at http://canadianmusician.com/bluerodeo for a chance to win a Hagstrom acoustic guitar signed by the band, all 13 of their studio albums, and more. JUNO-winning MC Shad just put out his fourth studio album, "Flying Colours," and CM caught up with the master lyricist at the 2013 edition of the Halifax Pop Explosion to chat about the release, Canadian hip-hop in general, and more. Finally, we'll speak with newly-appointed Music Ontario Executive Director Scott Honsberger about the new music industry association and his plans for it.

Nick Thorburn is a gifted musician, singer, and songwriter who fronts an American-based Canadian band called Islands. The new Islands record is called Ski Mask and it was released Sept. 17 via the band’s own Manqué label. They’ve been on tour over the last few weeks and make a stop at the Halifax Pop Explosion on Saturday Oct. […]

This will be a big on for fans of seminal Canadian indie rockers The Dears. Murray A. Lightburn has an upcoming release called MASS:LIGHT that's very different from anything The Dears have put out, but nonetheless brilliant in its sonic textures and arrangements. We'll preview some music and get the lowdown from Murray on the record and many other things music-related. CM Academy will feature Jonny Stevens, the Executive Director of the Halifax Pop Explosion, talking about the newly-announced lineup for the 2013 edition, plus some inside details about the logistics of planning a festival of that scope and also some tips for bands Showcasing at industry events. There'll be plenty more and we'll look forward to having you join us.