Shadows and Light

Molly Thomason and Ryan MacGrath performed at the Evergreen Theatre, courtesy of Music Nova Scotia’s “Bringing it Home” program. Their performances were captured in galleries on this site, where you can see highlights of the evening. Link to Molly Thomason’s gallery with her track “Little Bones” playing over it.

Molly Thomason at the Evergreen Theatre

Link to Ryan MacGrath’s gallery (no music).

Ryan MacGrath at the Evergreen Theatre

Music Nova Scotia performs a wonderful service in making such acts as these available to theatres such as the Evergreen. Thank you for making it possible!

Ellie

Canadian Urban roots band Po’ Girl seems at first glance to be just about music, fun, talent, energy – but dig a bit deeper and you will see that they are about so much more. They are deeply aware of compelling social issues that blight our society today and this tour the “No Shame Tour” is also about promoting social awareness of these issues. (Quick link to gallery.)

Allison Russell and Awna Teixeira at the Evergreen Theatre

The title of this Po’ Girl tour is the “No Shame Tour”. The powerful song “No Shame” performed by the group that night and available for free download from their site deals with the terrible social ill of child sexual abuse. On this tour Po’ Girl are raising money to benefit the National Children’s Alliance in the USA and Little Warriors in Canada. Partial proceeds of all Po’Girl merchandise sales from their shows will be donated to these groups and you can also donate directly from their site.

None of this seriousness detracted in any way from the music, energy, fun and exuberance of this talented group on that great night at the Evergreen. The group is joined on this tour by JT Nero (Jeremy Lindsay) of JT and the Clouds, who is another talented soul musician. His performance and style interwove itself seamlessly and enhanced the evening. Once again the Evergreen Theatre has brought a top notch group of performers to that special intimate venue to enrich our hugely diverse cultural experience.

The gallery here features the title track from their CD “Deer in the Night”. Enjoy!

Ellie

Last Saturday marked the 2010 season’s opening for the Evergreen with a show by Juno Award winning James Keelaghan, who has been called Canada’s finest singer-songwriter. (Quick link to gallery.)

James Keelaghan at the Evergreen Theatre

James opened his performance with a comment that the last time he was at the Evergreen there was no heat and no sound. On this occasion the sound was excellent, the theatre was warm, colourful with the newly expanded photo gallery (see post below this one) and filled with an audience keen to be there for this exciting start to the year. James Keelaghan delivered an impressive performance, filling the theatre with his powerful voice and songs. We heard some old favourites – “Harvest Train” and the tragic “Hillcrest Mine” as well as many that feature on his new CD, “House of Cards”, including the beautiful “Safe Home” and the wonderfully onomatopoeic “Twister”.

The gallery here features the title track from that CD. Enjoy!

Thanks for such a great season opener, James!

Ellie