Sofa Sundays are back! July 20th will feature the talented Mat Hughes and Sadie Skinner! Tickets are FREE (or by donation), so bring a friend, and enjoy an afternoon of incredible music!
When he returned to the east coast after a spell on BC’s Sunshine Coast, Halifax-based singer-songwriter Mat Hughes started writing and performing homespun songs on his keyboard in an attic-turned studio and makeshift music venue. Almost three years and three EPs later, he’s since upgraded from DIY house shows to playing sets across the province, including the EP release show for his latest offspring, South-facing Dumpster, at The Stage at St. Andrew’s in Halifax this May.
Mat’s intricate yet unpretentious songwriting tunes classical technique to a modern pitch with percussive, piano-driven melodies that can turn any crowd into an audience of attentive listeners. His sharp, candid lyricism ranges from the playfully slapstick to the knife edge of existential pathos in topics like eco-anxiety, self-estrangement, and feeling homesick for a place you’ve never been, or merely passed through.
Mat may well have you laughing and crying within the same set with an inimitable, genre-defying voice that resonates both sonically and lyrically. He doesn’t tell you the moon is shining, but instead gathers all the mundane shards of a life, holding them up to the light to show you what cuts, and what glints. This ability to overlay dualities to their vanishing point is perhaps the greatest feat of The Motions, an album that gives voice to the perpetual ebb and flow of life’s tides—the motion sickness of going through the motions while standing perfectly still.
Sadie Skinner is a folk artist from Halifax, NS. Driven by the name of the grandmother she never met, Sadie Skinner blends haunting, intimate vocals with unique finger picked guitar to explore love, nature, joy, and the zest of life. Sadie Skinner is the folk project of musician Sarah Roberts, who performs also in Steel Cut Oats, and with Alex Coley.
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