Patchwork Threads

Halifax Blues-Rock power duo, Christine Campbell & Blake Johnston have been building a name for themselves, entertaining audiences with their soulful tone, 60’s and 70s rock style guitar riffs and bewitching vocal harmonies; and opening up for some big names, like Burton Cummings, Steve Earle & Bob Segar. 

In 2021, they released their self-titled Album, Campbell & Johnston’s Black Market Band. This self produced recording, adds a touch of their old school rock influences with a modern twist on blues and soul. It earned them an award for Best Blues Album at the 2022 ECMAs and a Maple Blues Nomination. 

Check them out here:
Bittersweet- Official Video
Play it Again Sam – Lunenburg Folk Harbour Sessions
 
While they often hit the stage well past my bedtime (their next Halifax gig starts at 11 pm), they’ll get started on our Patchwork stage at the delightful hour of 8 pm – hmm in mid-May it won’t even be dark at that time 😊

Tickets on EventBrite here

NOTE: Before we pause for the summer (and NOTE: some excitement awaits for the fall – check out upcoming page…..) we have one more show that merits your consideration:

• A duo of Ontario folk musicians – Ottawa based Brooklyn Doran & Toronto based Rory Taillon will be here on Sunday, June 11 with their unique styles and powerful voices.

Tickets and additional information (plus links to videos for that sneak peak) are accessible from our upcoming page.
 
So gather some friends – grab your tickets – and head on over – easy as that!  For each show, the artist(s) take 100% of ticket sales.  We provide a stage, an audience and offer snacks to guests. All shows are BYOB. Masks, unless things change, are optional.  Bringing music-loving-friends and visiting family members is strongly encouraged.  See you soon 🙂

On Earth Day (April 22), we welcome back MATT EPP who is releasing a new project this spring called Rolling Wave.  See Matt serenade some rolling waves in this brand new video for his song Live Free.   International touring artist and award-winning songwriter Matt Epp is the quintessential troubadour of the Canadian prairies, who has won the admiration of an audience that spans the globe. A stark and confessional songwriter endowed with an infinite capacity to engage an audience, Epp’s performances encourage a sense of connection and community, where every listener leaves as a friend. He is one of the gifted forerunners defining the future landscape of Canadian music – no doubt contributing to his Grand Prize win at the International Songwriting Competition in 2017. A seasoned collaborator and activist, Matt’s music has been on regular rotation on CBC, Sirius XM, and community radio for over a decade.

“…the main thing is that Matt Epp is simply one of the BEST of a generation of fine songwriters emerging in this country over the last decade or so, and carrying forward the torch of Canadian songwriting that goes back to Lightfoot, Mitchell, Young, Cohen and Cockburn. It’s what we’re really good at.” – Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Visit Matt’s website to listen to his new single Made for Love or explore his rich catalogue, including When You Know (co-written with Serena Ryder) and Never Have I Loved Like This (co-written with Rose Cousins).

Tickets for Matt Epp are $25 and available on EventBrite here.

Gather some friends – grab your tickets – and head on over – easy as that!  For each show, the artist(s) take 100% of ticket sales.  We provide a stage, an audience and offer snacks to guests. All shows are BYOB. Masks, unless things change, are optional.

See you soon 🙂

Monique & George

Patchwork House Concerts

LOGAN RICHARD will be back on Saturday, April 1 with keyboardist Ben Aitken and a brand new EP. Spellbinding R&B grooves, pop hooks galore, a smooth voice that wraps you in, and tasteful blues-tinged guitar licks that make you realize why many are calling him one of the best up-and-coming young guitarists in the country. Check out the video for the single See Me Like This from his new EP.

Honing his frontman skills from a young age, belting blues music on stages for outdoor summer café diners on the streets of Charlottetown, PEI, Richard asserted himself on the Maritime blues music scene early on in his life. Continuing his steep career trajectory ascent since then, Richard released his successful debut EP called “The Split” in 2017, which escalated him to a headline slot at the TD Jazz/Blues Festival, and was nominated for Blues Recording of the Year at the 2019 ECMA’s. 

The new self-titled eight-song EP produced by Adam Gallant toys with the roller coaster ride of being in love – falling out of it, not knowing how to let it go – with one of the highlight tracks being a co-write with Chris Kirby and Dave Sampson called Girlfriend Material. 

Tickets for Logan Richard are $25 and available on EventBrite here.

On Earth Day (April 22), we welcome back MATT EPP who is also releasing a new project this spring called Rolling Wave.  See Matt serenade some rolling waves in this brand new video for his song Live Free.   International touring artist and award-winning songwriter Matt Epp is the quintessential troubadour of the Canadian prairies, who has won the admiration of an audience that spans the globe. A stark and confessional songwriter endowed with an infinite capacity to engage an audience, Epp’s performances encourage a sense of connection and community, where every listener leaves as a friend. He is one of the gifted forerunners defining the future landscape of Canadian music – no doubt contributing to his Grand Prize win at the International Songwriting Competition in 2017. A seasoned collaborator and activist, Matt’s music has been on regular rotation on CBC, Sirius XM, and community radio for over a decade.

“…the main thing is that Matt Epp is simply one of the BEST of a generation of fine songwriters emerging in this country over the last decade or so, and carrying forward the torch of Canadian songwriting that goes back to Lightfoot, Mitchell, Young, Cohen and Cockburn. It’s what we’re really good at.” – Vancouver Folk Music Festival

Visit Matt’s website to listen to his new single Made for Love or explore his rich catalogue, including When You Know (co-written with Serena Ryder) and Never Have I Loved Like This (co-written with Rose Cousins).

Tickets for Matt Epp are $25 and available on EventBrite here.

So gather some friends – grab your tickets – and head on over – easy as that!  For each show, the artist(s) take 100% of ticket sales.  We provide a stage, an audience and offer snacks to guests. All shows are BYOB. Masks, unless things change, are optional.

Celebrate the feast of St. Patrick with Joe Crookston – a songwriter (recipient of a Rockefeller Grant and co-founder of The Grand Adventure Creative Camp in Ithaca, NY), a guitarist (taking guitar and ukulele on guided rafting trips in Idaho), a painter (check out his incredible original art here), a fiddler (who has led musical tours in Ireland), a slide player, an eco-village member (who serenades guests for 5 day exploratory trips through the Finger Lakes Region of NY on BlueBird Music Tours), and believer in all things possible…Please watch this video to get a sense of what we are in store for with this multi-talented creater of beauty in a broken world….

Named 2016 Folk International artist-in-residence, Joe Crookston may be exactly what we need RIGHT NOW. He believes in stories and tells them, in cinematic colour, with his 48 Gibson or fiddle by his side. Listen to Nine Becomes One.

Check him out here: https://www.joecrookston.com then secure your seats to an intimate St. Patrick’s Day show at Patchwork. Tickets are only $20 and we invite you to bring your own Guiness or what ever floats your boat…..).

Joe Crookston – March 17 Tickets

NOTE: Patchwork (https://patchworkhouseconcerts.ca) is a house concert series, i.e. we present concerts in our living room. For all shows the artist(s) take the door. We provide the stage, chairs and hopefully a room filled with eager listeners. We will provide a few snacks and soft drinks will be available; otherwise it is BYOB (we have glasses!). Bringing music-loving-friends and visiting family members is strongly encouraged.

Monique & George

Baby it is cold outside! It won’t be cold in our living room when Christina Martin starts performing for our lucky audience – just two weeks from today – just a few tickets left.

Christina Martin is a powerhouse musician, songsmith, and performer whose music dances effortlessly through Pop, Rock, Folk and Americana traditions but stays deftly unchained by any one label, refusing to be pigeon-holed and unafraid to dip into stranger waters. From her Austin-inflected 2002 debut Pretty Things, through more rousing rocky climbs such as 2015’s It’ll Be Alright, to the sweeping cinematic dreamscape of 2018’s Impossible to Hold, Martin is an artist who is constantly shifting, and constantly evolving. Through it all runs a backbone of raw honesty about the human condition. Be they personal confessions or narrative tales, each song is lovingly crafted, and hits in the heart like a well-thrown punch. Christina Martin, together with partner Dale Murray, will share stories and songs from her vast catalogue of original songs. Show is February 18 Tickets

We are pumped to welcome back LOGAN RICHARD along with keyboardist Ben Aitken. We have followed Logan’s musical career with wonder and excitement after randomly catching him perform at an ECMA pop-up stage years ago in Halifax. We invited him to share a co-bill with Zamani back in 2019 and watching where each of them has taken their careers has been so very delightful. Logan will be here on Saturday, April 1st (yep – April Fool’s day but this is no joke!): Tickets are $25 and available on EventBrite here.

Logan Richard is a muli-talented musician based in Prince Edward Island. His exceptional skills as a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter are on full display in his long-time band, and are showcased in his recently released live album. However, it is his soul-shaking records and singles in the pop and R&B genres that have truly caught the attention of listeners and industry professionals, resulting in over 1 million streams — and counting.

“Playing guitar is a big part of what I do,” Logan explains. “It’s an integral part of the live show, and fans do expect some blues guitar worked into my songs, but it’s not blues. It’s contemporary pop.”

One of Logan’s most popular tracks, “The Start (Remix),” has garnered over 600,000 streams on Spotify alone. He has also had his music featured in popular TV shows such as Ginny & Georgia and Hudson & Rex, as well as the iconic Hockey Night In Canada. Logan’s upcoming release, the Learning To Love EP, was co-produced by highly sought-after producers Colin Buchanan and Adam Gallant, and features players from the Atlantic String Machine. The lead single and title track is a personal and reflective song about learning to appreciate the things around us.

Since releasing his first EP in 2017, Logan has continued to grow as an artist, earning an ECMA nomination for his self-titled EP in 2020, and releasing his live album, Live at the Trailside, in 2022. His talent has not gone unnoticed, and has been signed to Toronto-based Cymba Music Publishing.

DON’T FORGET OUR MARCH 17TH SHOW – CELEBRATE ST. PATRICK’S DAY WITH US AND JOE CROOKSTON…….

Joe Crookston is a songwriter, guitarist, painter, fiddler, slide player, eco-village member and believer in all things possible…Named 2016 Folk International artist-in-residence, he may be exactly what we need RIGHT NOW. He believes in stories and tells them, in cinematic colour, with his 48 Gibson or fiddle by his side.

Check him out here: https://www.joecrookston.com then secure your seats to an intimate St. Patrick’s Day show at Patchwork.

Joe Crookston – March 17 Tickets

NOTE: Patchwork (https://patchworkhouseconcerts.ca) is a house concert series, i.e. we present concerts in our living room. For all shows the artist(s) take the door. We provide the stage, chairs and hopefully a room filled with eager listeners. We will provide a few snacks and soft drinks will be available; otherwise it is BYOB (we have glasses!). Bringing music-loving-friends and visiting family members is strongly encouraged.

Monique & George