RIA MAE HEADLINES ANNAPOLIS PRIDE WEEKEND
SOLD OUT!!!
RIA MAE HEADLINES ANNAPOLIS PRIDE WEEKEND
Ria Mae comes to Annapolis Royal with an intimate acoustic concert you won’t want to miss.
Halifax-born, Toronto-based songwriter Ria Mae’s new single, “For Your Love” serves as a follow up to her critically acclaimed single “Too Close” with Dan Talevski. “Too Close” ended the year in the Top 10 at Hot AC and Top 15 at Pop radio with over 4 million streams worldwide.
Since the June 2016 release of her full length, self-title album, the three-time JUNO nominee has toured Europe with Tegan & Sara, North America with Dido, and Canada with Scott Helman. She has performed with Elle King, Xavier Rudd, Shawn Hook, Family of the Year, Francesco Yates, Coleman Hell and more.
Ria’s music has been streamed over 65 million times worldwide.
- “Cloths Off” Certified Platinum
- “Ooh Love” Certified Gold
- “Bend ” Certified Gold
- “Too Close” Certified Gold
- $35 Adult
- $12 Youth
- HST and ticketing fee additional
- Royalty Card holders get 10% off
- Doors open 45 minutes before showtime.
*Seats have are been marked to accommodate physical distancing of 6 feet. Face masks are required. Thank you!
SOLD OUT!!!
RIA MAE HEADLINES ANNAPOLIS PRIDE WEEKEND
Ria Mae comes to Annapolis Royal with an intimate acoustic concert you won’t want to miss.
Halifax-born, Toronto-based songwriter Ria Mae’s new single, “For Your Love” serves as a follow up to her critically acclaimed single “Too Close” with Dan Talevski. “Too Close” ended the year in the Top 10 at Hot AC and Top 15 at Pop radio with over 4 million streams worldwide.
Since the June 2016 release of her full length, self-title album, the three-time JUNO nominee has toured Europe with Tegan & Sara, North America with Dido, and Canada with Scott Helman. She has performed with Elle King, Xavier Rudd, Shawn Hook, Family of the Year, Francesco Yates, Coleman Hell and more.
Ria’s music has been streamed over 65 million times worldwide.
- “Cloths Off” Certified Platinum
- “Ooh Love” Certified Gold
- “Bend ” Certified Gold
- “Too Close” Certified Gold
- $35 Adult
- $12 Youth
- HST and ticketing fee additional
- Royalty Card holders get 10% off
- Doors open 45 minutes before showtime.
*Seats have are been marked to accommodate physical distancing of 6 feet. Face masks are required. Thank you!
SOLD OUT!
Dave Gunning is best defined as a master craftsman. Over the course of 23 years and 11 earlier albums, the Nova Scotian folk singer/songwriter has diligently sharpened his skills, developing into a poetic storyteller and emotionally convincing singer with few equals.
The fruits of those labours are now vividly on display in his latest collection of songs, Up Against The Sky. The relaxed and intimate feel of the record reflects its method of creation. “I focused a lot on tones and the vibe, rather than strategic parts on this one. Many of these tunes were sung and played at the same time, and that prevented me from being able to go back and edit, forcing a little more honesty.”
- $35 Adult
- $10 Youth
- HST and ticketing fee additional
- Royalty Card holders get 10% off
- Doors open 45 minutes before showtime.
*Seats have are been marked to accommodate physical distancing of 6 feet. Face masks are required. Thank you!
SOLACE featuring Duo Concertante
Nancy Dahn violin & Timothy Steeves piano
Musique Royale
For over twenty years, violinist Nancy Dahn and pianist Timothy Steeves have built an international career as the acclaimed Canadian chamber ensemble Duo Concertante.
Duo Concertante have produced 12 albums, recorded on the Centrediscs, ATMA and Marquis Classics labels, creating a formidable oeuvre of new works and definitive classics. Beethoven: Complete Sonatas for Violin and Pianoreceived critical praise in German, Austrian, British and Canadian media, and was described by Gramophone as “a miracle of…knowledge and poetry.” In 2017, J.S. Bach Six Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard was named ECMA’s Classical Recording of the Year, the first of three consecutive ECMA wins in that category, followed by Incarnation (2018) and Perfect Light (2019). The just-released Franz Schubert Music for Violin and Piano (May 2020) has already gained attention from the CBC for being “heart-rending…thrilling”, and with “uncanny unity of purpose.”
In partnership with Musique Royale, we present their beautiful new program SOLACE.
It addresses our collective relationship with each other, exploring themes of reconciliation, peace, understanding, loving and communion, in counterpoint to the worldwide stress and sadness caused by the current pandemic. They have commissioned Grammy Award-nominated Dawn Avery to write a new work entitled Iotsistokwaron:ion (“The Stars” in Mohawk). Another contemporary work in the program is Jessie Montgomery’s PEACE (2020), a profoundly universal expression of the “Great Sadness of the first quarantine” when she “struggled to define what actually brings joy, making peace with sadness – a necessary dynamic to the human experience.” Finally is the canonic sonata by César Franck Sonata, a musical journey chronicling an intimate partnership in stages – from the initial infatuation, through intense passion, crisis and conflict, to a final place of acceptance and deep connection.
THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNER
- $30 Adult
- $5 Youth
- HST and ticketing fee additional
- Royalty Card holders get 10% off
- Doors open 45 minutes before showtime.
*Seats have are been marked to accommodate physical distancing of 6 feet. Face masks are required. Thank you!
Bursaries are available; please get in touch if price is an obstacle to attending this concert.
CAPE BRETON’S CELTIC ROOTS TRIO HAULER
OPENED BY HAYLEY RYERSON ON CELTIC FIDDLE
Fresh off their 2021 ECMA nominee for “Rising Star Recording of the Year”, Familiar faces from saltwater funk trio Slowcoaster Steve MacDougall and Mike LeLievre have teamed up with fiddler Colin Grant, Instrumental Artist of the Year at the 2017 Canadian Folk Music Awards and a versatile musician who bounces between genres like a token fiddler should, the trio weaves traditional Irish and Scottish ballads, indie folk originals, and traditional and contemporary tune instrumentals with a modern acoustic approach that proves Cape Breton music can reassuringly re-invent itself.
Celtic culture plays a huge part of Hauler’s sound. So far it looks like their focus will be solidly in the traditional category.
“We are from Cape Breton, so the love of traditional music is ingrained,” says MacDougall. “We wrote some original songs and arrangements to add a twist of contemporary.”
“The Wind That Shakes the Barley” comes from an 1861 ballad written by Robert Dwyer Royce about the Irish rebellion of 1798, and a young romance that gets dashed in the process.
“I did this for fun and a change of pace. Ironically this is the music I originally started playing as a child,” says MacDougall. “The arrangement for ‘Wind that Shakes the Barley was written in 1998 while I was hired to play in the Celtic band MacKeel.”
MacDougall says he left the song to be brushed off and polished by Le Lievre and Grant, with recording being done by Jamie Foulds at his Soundpark Studios, but it was Grant who has taken the lead on Hauler.
“He is the brains behind the operation . I wanted to take a back seat on this project. I really bow to him, I just wanted to sing and occasionally play the guitar and the Irish drum .”
- $35 Adult
- $12 Youth
- $1.50 ticketing fee additional & HST additional
- Royalty Card holders get 10% off
- Doors open 45 minutes before showtime.
*Seats have are been marked to accommodate physical distancing of 6 feet. Face masks are required. Thank you!
HAYLER RYERSON is an alluring performer, inspired fiddler, and spirited Canadian tunecrafter. Her style is rooted in Scottish and Cape Breton playing traditions, her original tunes extending naturally from these styles. Hayley finds inspiration in rich feelings, often inspired from natural landscapes or her love of fiddle music itself, oftentimes both.
Both Sides of The Water is Hayley’s first full length Celtic album and is a love letter to her past 20 years of fiddling. Hayley began to play at 8 years old, and the culture and craft have been welcome constants throughout her life. Her album was crowdfunded in Autumn of 2019, thanks to Indiegogo backers and indie art enthusiasts that supported the project. Maggie MacDonald is featured alongside Hayley Ryerson and the two recorded the album in Banff, AB in early 2020.
Both Sides of the Water
Hayleys Crowdfunded full length Celtic record featuring Maggie MacDonald on guitar and piano. Both Sides of the Water is a love letter to the 20 years of fiddling Hayley has enjoyed in her life. The record has her fave trad tunes mixed in with works of her contemporaries, as well as her own tunes.
SOLD OUT!
Sponsored by
Bill Stevenson: piano and vocals
Alan Jeffries: guitar, vocals and stringed instruments
Tom Easley: bass and vocals
Mark Adam: drums and percussion
- TICKETS ARE FREE!
- Please reserve online or contact that Box Office at 902-532-7704
- Box Office hours are Tues- Fri. 10-3
- Doors open 45 minutes before showtime.
*Seats have are been marked to accommodate physical distancing of 6 feet. Face masks are required. Please note that once Nova Scotia reaches Phase 5, full capacity seating will resume.
Thank you!
DAVID MYLES RETURNS TO KING’S FOR TWO SOLO CONCERTS
Come Tee-up for the Tournament of King’s!
Award-winning and critically acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter David Myles might be an undercover musicologist. Within his eclectic artistic continuum, he’s reverentially explored jazz, blues, pop, holiday music, French pop, rockabilly, country, folk, gospel, and even hip-hop. The through line in his 12-album oeuvre has been strong songcraft—no matter what genre, David has never sacrificed substance for style.
After the painful blow of his father’s sudden passing, David struggled with the push and pull of being a successful musician while being a present and loving husband and father. His focus shifted from free-spirited musical travels to looking inward to the core of his own artistry. The resulting long player is the cozy acoustic, Leave Tonight, his most personal offering to date.
“I felt like I had to recommit to music and make this count. I wanted to find out who I was in my most natural musical habitat,” the Halifax, Nova Scotia-based artist shares. “I’ve made a lot of records that have been like David Myles doing this…. I wanted to make something that sounded like me.”
THANK YOU TO OUR OFFICIAL CONCERT SPONSOR!
- $35 Adult
- $10 Youth
- HST and ticketing fee additional
- Royalty Card holders get 10% off
- Doors open 45 minutes before showtime.
*Seats have are been marked to accommodate physical distancing of 6 feet. Face masks are required. Thank you!
DAVID MYLES RETURNS TO KING’S FOR TWO SOLO CONCERTS
Come Tee-up for the Tournament of King’s!
Award-winning and critically acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter David Myles might be an undercover musicologist. Within his eclectic artistic continuum, he’s reverentially explored jazz, blues, pop, holiday music, French pop, rockabilly, country, folk, gospel, and even hip-hop. The through line in his 12-album oeuvre has been strong songcraft—no matter what genre, David has never sacrificed substance for style.
After the painful blow of his father’s sudden passing, David struggled with the push and pull of being a successful musician while being a present and loving husband and father. His focus shifted from free-spirited musical travels to looking inward to the core of his own artistry. The resulting long player is the cozy acoustic, Leave Tonight, his most personal offering to date.
“I felt like I had to recommit to music and make this count. I wanted to find out who I was in my most natural musical habitat,” the Halifax, Nova Scotia-based artist shares. “I’ve made a lot of records that have been like David Myles doing this…. I wanted to make something that sounded like me.”
THANK YOU TO OUR OFFICIAL CONCERT SPONSOR!
- $35 Adult
- $10 Youth
- HST and ticketing fee additional
- Royalty Card holders get 10% off
- Doors open 45 minutes before showtime.
*Seats have are been marked to accommodate physical distancing of 6 feet. Face masks are required. Thank you!
WE ARE THRILLED TO WELCOME TWIN FLAMES TO KING’S THEATRE ON THEIR TOUR OF ATLANTIC CANADA
Using unique sounds, Indigenous Spirit flutes, traditional drums and western instruments, synthesizing harmonies, singing songs in English, Inuktitut, French they offer a truly unique experience. Before combining their talents under the title of Twin Flames, Chelsey June and Jaaji had their own respective award-winning careers. They met on-set during the filming of APTN’s TAM (Talent Autochtones Musical) in 2014 and the rest is history.
- $30 Adult (ticketing fee & HST additional)
- Royalty Card holders get 10% off
- Youth: Free
- Doors open 45 minutes before showtime.
Seats are limited to accommodate physical distancing of 6 feet. Face masks are required. Please note that once Nova Scotia reaches Phase 5, seating will expand to full capacity.
King’s Theatre is committed to making live performances accessible to all audiences. If the ticket price is a barrier, bursaries are available. Please get in touch by contacting the Box Office: boxoffice@kingstheatre.ca or 902-532-7704.
R&B powerhouse KEONTÉ BEALS controls the pulse of an entire crowd from the moment he takes the stage.
With a live energy that can be compared to no other, Beals’s was named the African Nova Scotian Music Association’s Artist of the Year 2020 and Music Nova Scotia’s African Nova Scotian Artist of the Year 2019—not to mention multiple East Coast Music Award nominations. To put it plainly, the North Preston, Nova Scotia-based singer, songwriter and performer is a force to be felt—and the entire east coast of Canada knows it.
North Preston has a historic lineage of growing the biggest voices in Nova Scotia through its strong gospel scene and church community. Beals keeps this tradition going with his own powerhouse pipes, which first wowed crowds when, at 16, he gave his solo debut at his home church. Pivoting into an early 2000s-influenced R&B sound as he began to create his own music, Beals’s colorful body of work highlights the range of his talent and musicality. He has a voice that breaks generational boundaries, backed by a sonic palette that draws easy comparison to the work of Usher, Anthony Hamilton and Elijah Blake.
Beals “is a beautiful singer with key skills to match, and he’s only just out of his teens” (The Coast) and “everything he does revolves around music” (Halifax Magazine). His upcoming debut album (due summer 2020) and its lead single—the mental health anthem “KING”, which shreds toxic masculinity over a red-hot beat—prove it.
- $30 Adult (ticketing fee & HST additional)
- Royalty Card holders get 10% off
- Youth: FREE
- Doors open 45 minutes before showtime.
Seats are limited to accommodate physical distancing of 6 feet. Face masks are required. Please note that once Nova Scotia reaches Phase 5, seating will expand to full capacity.
King’s Theatre is committed to making live performances accessible to all audiences. If the ticket price is a barrier, bursaries are available. Please get in touch by contacting the Box Office: boxoffice@kingstheatre.ca or 902-532-7704.
