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Jimmy Rankin came home Friday night, home to the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax. The hall remembered him. Not just the fans, of which there were many, if just a little short of a sellout crowd. Yet there were plenty of throats to roar raw and twice as many hands to clap him a decent […]

Original article here. Tickets for the Jimmy Rankin Christmas Tour country/rock/roots at Meaford Hall are now over half-sold. Meaford Hall is encouraging anybody interested in the show to call to get their tickets now, before they are all gone. The show is being held at Meaford Hall on Thursday, December 20 at 8 p.m. Tickets

Check out this great article in Halifax’s Chronicle Herald about Tinsel Town! WHEN Jimmy Rankin was a boy, his siblings would all come home from university to spend Christmas at their mother’s home in Mabou. “Before we made CDs, we’d play at dances in Cape Breton,” recalls the singer-songwriter, speaking by phone from Mabou Mines,

Hey Facebook users! Login to your Facebook account and check out this new contest Details From Facebook (link above): To kick off the holiday season we’re having a contest to win a set of Monster Inspiration Titanium Noise Canceling Headphones (valued at $349!) Did you know that Jimmy’s new Tinsel Town CD is also an

CANADIAN LEGEND JIMMY RANKIN ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM TINSEL TOWN NOVEMBER 6th CANADIAN TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED for NOVEMBER and DECEMBER Special Appearance on CBC/CMT Holiday TV special to air nationally on December 20* (October 12, 2012 – Toronto, ON) Legendary Canadian roots artist JIMMY RANKIN is gearing up for the Holiday season, with the release of

Jimmy was honored to win the CCMA for Roots Artist of the Year Award for the 2nd year in a row at the Canadian Country Music Awards in Saskatoon! Huge thanks to all the fans and the Canadian Country Music Association for their continued support! You can see the official CCMA press release here, and check

Canadian Country Artists Perform for Fans at PotashCorp Country Music Week July 13, 2012 (Toronto, ON) – One of the most talked about events at PotashCorp Country Music Week 2012 just got hotter! Featuring performances from Canadian country artists, Gord Bamford, Jason Blaine, Dean Brody, Chad Brownlee, George Canyon, Doc Walker, Jessie Farrell, Hey Romeo,

I had a great time on the road last week starting with the Dauphin CountryFest and then Barrie, Peterborough and finally Canada Day in Hamilton. It’s always great to connect with friends and fans around the country – thanks to all who came out to my shows. I’m now settling in to summer life in

Rankin at Mady BARRIE – Jimmy Rankin plays The Mady Centre For The Performing Arts on Friday as part of the Inside the Music series. Rankin grew up writing and playing music with his siblings. The Rankin Family is from Mabou, Cape Breton. In 2001 Rankin released his first solo album, Song Dog, and it produced

JIMMY RANKIN has probably attended as many East Coast Music Awards weekends as any musician from Atlantic Canada in the event’s 23-year history, and he’s got the balance between singing and schmoozing down to a science. “The challenge is to stay relatively sober; I’ve become quite good at that. You have to pace yourself. “And stay