Ben Caplan -

It as been a while since Ben has played a show in the Big Smoke! We are very happy to announce he will be performing at Canadian Music Week on March 21st at the Horseshoe Tavern with The Great Bloomers, Teenage Kicks and more! For ticket info, check out the Canadian Music Fest website! Full Read more...

Congrats to ECMA who is turning a big 25 years old! The conference and festival is taking place in Halifax this year from March 6th to 10th.  Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers will be playing two showcases on Thursday, March 7th at the Delta! The first is in the Baronet Ballroom at 1:30 PM Read more...

If you haven’t heard my interview or performance on CBC Radio’s Q, then you’re not out of luck yet. Click here to see video of me and some Casual Smokers performing my song Down to the River.   to hear the audio for the whole interview, you can click here: Q Blog    And lastly, while I Read more...

  When I was just a young songwriter with a guitar, and an inbox full of “No”s, getting onto Q was a bucket list fantasy. Since those days, a million surprising and wonderful things have happened to me and to my career. I’ve done television and radio internationally, and played all over the world with Read more...

Thank you for the  overwhelming support Halifax has shown in the lead-up to my spring tour. The second show at The Company House has sold out! If you waited too long and didn’t get tickets, you’re in luck: we’ve decided to add a THIRD show, on Thursday, January 31st! The always amazing Carmen Townsend will Read more...

  The first show of my tour in Halifax has now sold out! Thank you for your support! With that news we’ve added a second date on February 1st at The Company House. To get tickets, head to: https://guestlistapp.com/events/138891 These are the first shows of my East Coast and Ontario Tour. For the rest of Read more...

In case you didn’t know, last week I was in Norway performing a cover of ‘Fairy Tale of New York’ with the lovely ladies from Katzenjammer for TV2′s late night show, Senkveld! I’ll have a video soon, but for now here are some photos from the performance!

  After a year of almost non-stop touring it’s really wonderful to be back in Canada. To be home in Halifax. I am taking some down time to continue working on my writing and musicianship. I am working on the next album. Come February, I am really excited to be playing a home town show. Read more...

Over the course of this past year’s tours and travels I had the good fortune of sharing a stage with Norwegian folk-pop goddesses Katzenjammer. We made fast friends and as the year continued I was invited over and over again to join the ladies as a support act in Germany, through the UK, and in Read more...