🗞 Halifax Fringe Festival is back!

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Every show coming to Halifax Fringe Festival

The largest performing arts festival east of Montreal turns 33 this year. The Halifax Fringe Festival is back once again and is set to bring more than 40 shows to over half a dozen venues across the HRM. From Aug. 30 to Sept. 10, you’ll find a dizzying range of acts at this year’s Fringe, from the absurd (Actual Magic, The Eternal Ballroom, When Will You Be Well Again?) to the participatory (All Request Radio, meSSeS) to the family-friendly (A Monster’s Journey, Halifax Newcomer Choir Fringe Sing-Along). Let us walk you through every show that’s been announced so far—and where to get tickets.

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⛺️ Parks Canada’s first Mi’kmaw youth archeology camp is underway at Kejimkujik National Park. CBC caught up with the attendees and their adventures searching for traditional artifacts.

MUSIC

Joel Plaskett catches the campfire spirit with “Hey Moon”

“Hey Moon,” Halifax rock troubadour Joel Plaskett asks on his latest single, “are you full yet?” It’s a simple line, but the kind of deft songwriting touch the 48-year-old has built his career on, ever since breaking out in the 1990s as part of the alt-rock band Thrush Hermit.

Described as “inspired by the memories of his own experiences at camp as a teenager, with pals who would later become Thrush Hermit,” Plaskett’s first musical release since 2022’s The Window Inn Sessions, “Hey Moon” is clear-eyed, stripped back and stirring—the kind of summer singalong that evokes starry nights at Long Lake or Kejimkujik, or long drives from Halifax to Mabou.

Watch the lyric video below.