Daniel James McFadyen & Barncat, with special guest, Eric Stephen Martin, are on our stage, Saturday, August 20th.
Tickets are $25 (+tax) and are NON-refundable. Doors open at 6 pm, show starts at 8 pm.
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Halifax based singer/songwriter Daniel James McFadyen began his musical journey by playing at small, bustling venues in and around the Annapolis Valley. After touring Nova Scotia extensively in 2019, Daniel’s music began to gain publicity and popularity. The release of his second EP “Goin Back” (featuring the popular single of the same name), landed Daniel in a position to make music his full time career. His upbeat and captivating storytelling mixed with his interactive performances has made him a crowd favourite throughout the province. In 2020, he won The Grapevine’s “Best Musician in the Annapolis Valley” award. Daniel released his debut album “August, I’m Yours” in June of 2021.
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When Eric Stephen Martin returned home to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia from a songwriting trip in late February 2020, he was exhausted. The world was shutting it’s eyes in the wake of a pandemic, and an unsuccessful creative journey left him disheartened and alone in his apartment for the first months of spring. It was these isolated conditions in which he wrote the eight songs that make up his first full length album, Dreamlike.
Recorded in the dead of 2020, Dreamlike features fellow Dartmouth-area musicians Joel Plaskett, Mo Kenney, and Thomas Stajcer. Martin sings the entirety of the album without harmonies as the band creates warm folk and country inspired soundscapes. His meandering, stream-of-consciousness lyricism wades through the waters of heartbreak, redemption, and hope, being shamelessly self-reflective and heavily influenced by the beat poetry of Jack Kerouac and post-1989 Bob Dylan. Dreamlike trades the humour and irony of modern indie art for a more serious and heartfelt approach.