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A Chorister’s Christmas 2024 – ONLINE VIDEO BROADCAST

The live Halifax performance of A Chorister’s Christmas 2024 will be audio-video recorded for online broadcast to viewers around the world. Recorded by top-notch audio and video engineers, the broadcast promises unique camera angles and excellent audio that will bring the viewer truly “inside” the performance.

The online broadcast is a ticketed event (pay what you can with a suggested range of $10 – $25), available for viewing anytime between December 29 at 4 PM until January 6 at 11 PM Atlantic Standard Time.

We invite you to tune in from the comfort of your home for beautiful carols, ancient and modern, arranged for choir, brass, and organ!

Tickets are available at https://capellaregalis.com/events/choristers-christmas-2024-online-video-broadcast

A Chorister’s Christmas 2024 – Halifax

Capella Regalis Men & Boys Choir
Directed by NICK HALLEY
with Maritime Brass Quintet and Paul Halley (organ)

Our cherished Christmas concert series is back for its 15th season! Join us for a unique musical celebration of Christmas that weaves together works from a 12th-century female mystic, folk songs arranged by 20th-century composers, traditional German and French carols, and hymns calling for hearty audience participation.

The concert will take place on December 22 at the Cathedral Church of All Saints. More information and tickets for the 4PM and 7PM concerts are available at https://capellaregalis.com/events/choristers-christmas-2024-halifax

 

A Chorister’s Christmas 2024 – Lunenburg

Capella Regalis Men & Boys Choir, directed by Nick Halley, will return to the historic Saint John’s Lunenburg for a performance of its 15th annual Christmas concert series, featuring a fresh slate of carols arranged for choir, brass, and organ. The Lunenburg performance will take place on  – is presented by Musique Royale. For more information, visit https://capellaregalis.com/events

LAMP – Final Jazz Concert 2024

Join us for an unforgettable Thursday night of jazz with the Glenn Patscha Trio, live at LAMP in Lunenburg on December 5th! Glenn Patscha, along with the exceptionally talented Nick Halley and Ian McGimpsey, bring their passion and expertise to the stage. This trio plays music because they love it—and it shows. Their performance is the kind of music that every audience dreams of.

Doors open at 5:00 PM, with the concert kicking off at 5:30 PM. The LAMP Libations bar will be open. Tickets are $35 each.

Tickets and info: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E358213QE&id=205

 

 

Foc’s’le Jazz Jam – December 4, 2024

On the first Wednesday of every month, local jazz musicians Nicola Miller, Nick Halley and Nic D’Amato host an open jazz session for experts, beginners and everyone in between. Bring your instrument and come to play your favourite jazz standards in a supportive and encouraging environment. Open to all levels and ages.

December 4 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, 42 Queen St., Chester, NS
For more information visit: https://www.thebarnacle.ca/event/focsle-jazz-jam/2024-12-04/

Capella Regalis Launches New South Shore Program

Capella Regalis is pleased to announce the launch of a new program for Nova Scotia’s South Shore! Through this series of group singing workshops, young people on the South Shore now have the opportunity to work with Nick Halley, a celebrated director, on a regular basis to hone their music skills.

Workshops will take place every Thursday starting November 14, and will include instruction on singing, reading music, developing a sense of rhythm, and the study of music from the past 1,000 years, from Gregorian Chant to Baroque composers, and from Renaissance polyphony to folk songs from around the world.

For more details, visit https://capellaregalis.com/events/south-shore-program-new

 

Nov 10 – Capella Regalis Choirs: MOZART REQUIEM / For All The City (A FREE Concert) Halifax, NS

Capella Regalis Choirs presents one of the world’s most revered masterworks of music in an uplifting FREE concert for Nova Scotians, to celebrate and honour all those who have gone before us. Directed by Nick Halley and performed by Capella Regalis Men & Boys Choir, Capella Regalis Girls Choir, and the All Saints Cathedral Choir, alongside a hand-picked orchestra of Nova Scotian musicians, Paul Halley on pipe organ, and vocal soloists from Canada and the U.K. Advance seat reservations & details at https://capellaregalis.com/events/all-city-2024-mozart-requiem

Dinuk Wijeratne Trio Concert (Winnipeg, MB)

Don’t miss this exciting performance of jazz/world music by the Dinuk Wijeratne Trio on Sunday, October 6. The Trio includes Dinuk Wijeratne on piano, Nick Halley on drums, and Tom Easley on bass. Dinuk Wijeratne is an award-winning Sri Lankan-born Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor. His boundary-crossing work has taken him to international venues as poles apart as the Berlin Philharmonie and the North Sea Jazz Festival. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nick Halley is a drummer/percussionist, keyboardist, composer, and conductor. Tom Easley is a two-time East Coast Music Award Winner and one of Eastern Canada’s finest jazz bassists.

Concert begins at 3:00 pm on October 6th at  Muriel Richardson Auditorium, Winnipeg Art Gallery-Quamajuq, Winnipeg. Click here for tickets and details.

 

 

FULL VIDEO BROADCAST of Roots of Strings w/ the Nazih Borish Trio is now available online!

A beautifully captured video of the live concert Roots of Strings: Music of Syria featuring the greatest oudist of our time from Syria, Nazih Borish, the Canadian bassist Roberto Occhipinti, Paul Halley on organ, and Nick Halley on percussion. The live performance took place in Halifax, Nova Scotia on September 21, 2023, and is now available in video format to viewers around the world. To purchase a ticket ($25) for online viewing, visit capellaregalis.com/events.

To watch the a 40-sec. teaser clip, click here.