GroundSwell Music

GroundSwell Music Management Clients: The Stanfields | Rawlins Cross

Events: The Blacktop Ball

GroundSwell Music is a Halifax-based music company with a focus on East Coast Canadian artists. The company offers a number of services including record label, artist management and event/festival production. GroundSwell is led by Ian McKinnon, a professional musician (a founding member of Rawlins Cross) with a strong business focus committed to developing the international recording and performin

g careers for its tight-knit roster of artist clients. In November 2014 Ian McKinnon won Music Nova Scotia awards for Manager of the Year and Industry Professional of the Year. GroundSwell also won the ECMA Company of the Year award in 2012 and is currently nominated as ECMA Management Company of the Year for 2015. McKinnon currently sits on the Board of Directors for Music Nova Scotia and is an active member of CIMA and ECMA. GroundSwell’s current core artist roster includes: The Stanfields and Rawlins Cross.

If you are a fan of piping, pipe bands and highland dancing, and are in the Halifax area tomorrow afternoon (May 4 - 2:0...
05/03/2024

If you are a fan of piping, pipe bands and highland dancing, and are in the Halifax area tomorrow afternoon (May 4 - 2:00), come join us at École du Carrefour auditorium for GREAT show. There are a few tickets still available. I'll be handling emcee duties and join the finale with my pipes.

A Fundraiser Supporting Local Pipe Bands

10/06/2022

Great interview with Katie Kelly this morning! Watch Ian and Brian 'Keeping Up with Katie Kelly' tonight at 5:45pm on CTV's Live at 5. 📺

Rawlins Cross piper/whistle player, Ian McKinnon, is involved in this year's online edition of the Halifax Celtic Festiv...
01/28/2021

Rawlins Cross piper/whistle player, Ian McKinnon, is involved in this year's online edition of the Halifax Celtic Festival which kicked off tonight. On Thursday, Jan 28 at 8:35pm Ian will be presenting the MacKinnon's Brook Suite TV show along with a discussion between Ian and Dr. Karly Kehoe, a historian who has done extensive research on Highland Scottish resettlement. Then on Sunday afternoon Ian and his sister, Catherine, will be performing a short set (specific time TBA). The online festival is free for viewers. To watch, check out the expansive list of performers visit:

11/12/2020
Heads up! The boys are back, and this time they brought friends.
11/12/2020

Heads up! The boys are back, and this time they brought friends.

Coming soon!
11/01/2020

Coming soon!

A Brave New World

A stark realization today: our last live show was on a Friday the 13th (March). We don’t really put much credence into superstition, but it’s a symbol that’s difficult to ignore when considering the events of this year.

While we miss seeing you folks BIG TIME, the time away has given us the opportunity to rethink the way we do things as a band, learn, make plans, work our lesser-used creative muscles, and write a boatload of new songs.

We will see each other again - this is a fact.

Another fact - we have a live record coming at you VERY soon. Here is a little peek at the artwork.

Stay tuned and keep smiling. - The Stans

08/18/2020

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