Rich Aucoin & Gypsophilia Pop Explosion Highlights

Halifax has a great fall music festival for discovering new music and seeing favourite local bands: Halifax Pop Explosion.

From Wednesday through Saturday night about the third week of October, bands play on the hour though the night at venues around the city.

As their ‘about’ page notes:

HPX is the Halifax Pop Explosion, an international music festival and conference that presents 200 bands in 20 venues over 5­ days to over 30,000 fans and industry delegates from around the world.

Awesome, right? And it’s been on since 1993. Yeah, Halifax!

A wristband gets you into any of the shows unless they’re at capacity, so it’s a great chance to flit from spot to spot and see a bunch of different performers in one night, or you can choose to hunker down in a venue to get a good spot to see an act you’re particularly keen on.

Highlights this week so far have included Rich Aucoin at the new Reflections Cabaret spot:

Rich always amazes us with his acrobatics and no fear of heights!

And I’ve been to a handful of his shows with the parachute, but this time he had 2!

Jeff's Vine loop:

Find Rich on Twitter: @richaucoin & Instagram.

And last night we saw Gypsophilia at St Matthew’s Church (front row seats in this amazing venue!):

The band was having an amazing time, just loving this great venue. 

I was sitting next to a 7 year old student of the violinist’s, up past his bedtime, which was pretty cute.

There were even handstands involved, are all Halifax musicians also gymnasts and daredevils?!

They gave out free copies of their album, Constellations, which was awesome! Unfortunately I didn’t get to the front in time to get a vinyl copy which I would have loved to give to my dad. We’ll enjoy the CD instead!

Find Gypsophilia on Twitter @gypsophiliaband. Highly recommended.