Up Coming Concerts at The Pink Piano Café & Lounge in Lower Sackville
We are hosting shows in an intimate setting, very much like a house concert, where you can be up close and personal with the artists.
All concerts start at 7:30 PM. Doors will be open by 7 or earlier as it is a restaurant/bistro.
We record and sometimes video tape these shows. We may have a Q&A and do some interview segments. If you have questions in advance, let me know and we can get to know the artist together!
May 25th – Terra Spencer
ECMA and Music NS multi award winning, touring & recording artist playing guitar and piano and blessed with a great sense of humour too.
Bad ideas, VCRs, crumbling factories, terrible therapists, hairy dogs, wrinkled shirts, French fries, questionable tattoos…all are fair game for Nova Scotian funeral director-turned-songwriter Terra Spencer. And the songs are good ones, judging from the stack of awards her three albums have received, and from the caliber of her collaborators, which include David Francey, Ben Caplan, and Matt Andersen. Although her butterscotch voice, deft fingerstyle guitar, and gospel-charged piano make her a formidable musician, it’s her onstage ease and crackling wit that make each show feel like a knee-to-knee conversation in a room of 5 or 500. “The real deal.” – Ron Sexsmith
Tickets
We will have your name on the list at the door.
Save the reply email as confirmation.
All Shows: $20 Advance — $25 @ Door
(any extra donation to cover fees is greatly appreciated!)
Directions!!!
The Pink Piano is at:
585 Sackville Drive
Lower Sackville, NS B4C 2S4
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Previous Concerts
May 10th Songcircle:
Mike Biggar
We’ve hosted Mike before and he as fabulous! Onstage his style is equal parts gutsy and joyful; a warm, bourbon-esque cocktail of soulful, modern roots & blues, a tonic to any listener thirsty for song writing authenticity and raw, honest performance.
His noted emotional delivery punctuates his acclaimed songs with a throughline of genuineness that is distinct, effective, and maybe even a bit spiritual. His rollicking, high energy vocals steam down the line like a roots-inspired freight train, perfectly paired with infectious melodies and mingled with his warm, disarming humour.
Biggar has been honoured with numerous regional awards in his 10-plus years career from both the East Coast Music Association and Music New Brunswick, including ‘Blues Album of the Year’, ‘Inspirational Album of the Year’ and more.
www.MikeBiggar.com
Laura Rae
Bilingual singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and educator Laura Rae dances between languages and genres, influenced equally by soulful Norah Jones as rock legend Sheryl Crow.
Since releasing her first single, Laura has been nominated for Music Nova Scotia’s New Artist Recording of the Year 2022, Prix de l’Acadie 2023, and has taken home bronze for Halifax The Coast Best Folk Artist 2022.
www.LauraRae.ca
Jon Cornwall
Jon Cornwall writes sad songs anyone can enjoy! He has shared the stage with Canadian icons Jimmy Rankin, Ron Sexsmith, Lennie Gallant, Kim Stockwood and Steve Poltz, and they all thought he sang some tunes! Sexsmith said he’d take Jon on tour if he could afford to, and Poltz even invited him to come share mic and sing some Grateful Dead duets!
With honorable mention from the Billboard Songwriting Competition, and a live to air performance on the CBC, he’s basically the greatest thing you’ve probably never heard! Prolific too – his second album, is set to be released in Summer 2024.
Jon Cornwall on Facebook
April 12th Songcircle with:
Asif Illyas
Asif Illyas is an ECMA award-winning veteran of the Canadian music scene, based on the Atlantic Coast in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and currently spends most of his time creating music for film and television. His career spans over 25 years where he fronted Canadian progressive-pop outfit and EastWest/Warner Europe recording artists, MIR, touring four continents and producing 4 critically-acclaimed albums. He also was guitarist for Cutting Crew, during a portion of lead singer Nick Van Eede’s solo career during the late 1990’s. He has appeared on albums with Sting, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and performed on stage with Australia’s Colin Hay of Men At Work, Paula Cole, and many others. He has composed and arranged for many orchestral charts for symphonies such as VSO, WSO and SNS across the country in their Pops series’.
www.AsifIllyas.com
Megan St. Rose
Songwriter, Radio host, Actress/Model, Megan surely lives a full life. You seen her hosting Radio ECMA, heard her on the radio “Hot Country Mornings 103.5” and now you’ll hear the songs she has written and released in recent years. A little bit country, a little bit pop.
Megan St. Rose
Jon Mullane
In an era where commercial radio play and chart success is dominated by major label artists, Jon’s success in this domain is a reflection of his ability to write songs that connect with listeners – songs that mirror the emotions of the human condition intertwined with timeless and inspirational themes, positive messages, and observations of modern culture.
www.JonMullane.com
“Mullane’s songs have a mass appeal, not just in North America but globally…” – Bob Mersereau, Telegraph Journal