About The Nick
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Where Are Concerts Held?
The home of the Nickelodeon is the Crescent Heights Community Hall, 1101 – 2nd Street NW in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is located in Crescent Heights Park at the corner of Second Street and Eleventh Avenue NW. Click here for a map. There is free parking at the Crescent Heights Hall.
All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. with the doors opening at 7:00. Rush seating is the rule, with the following exception: season’s ticket holders who arrive early will be given preferential admission from 6:50 to 7:00 P.M. Our ticket capacity is 193 patrons, and up to 110 will be sold as season’s tickets.
How Do I Get There?
From out of town: Calgary is divided into four quadrants, northwest, northeast southwest and southeast. The Trans-Canada Highway becomes 16th Avenue North in Calgary. There is a signed turnoff onto 16th Avenue North from the north-south running #2 Highway.
Once you are in town: To find the hall, get to 16th Avenue NW, then turn south at the traffic light at 4th Street NW. After four blocks, 4th Street dead ends and you will turn left onto 12th Avenue. Head east for a couple blocks until you hit the four way stop sign at 2nd Street. Turn right, and a block in front of you is a parking lot. The Crescent Heights Community Hall is located on the west side of this lot. Unless there is a big event at the school or curling club next door, there is usually ample free parking available.
A Typical Night at the Nickelodeon
Our ticket capacity is 193 patrons. Seats for Nickelodeon concerts are available on a “first-come, first serve” basis. Our season ticket holders have priority admittance if they arrive before 7:00 pm. At 7:00 the doors are open for general admission.
We appreciate the cooperation of our audience in silencing their cell phones and trust that it makes the club’s atmosphere more pleasant.
The hall is set up with theatre seating chairs downstairs and rows of chairs in the balcony. An evening at the Nick is a combination of enjoying music and socializing. Prior to the show and during our two breaks, liquid refreshments (beer, wine, coolers, liquor, pop, juice, tea and coffee) popcorn and desserts.
(COVID precautions have led us to discontinue the serving of home made entrees and desserts.)
Patrons generally mingle and visit with friends old and new after they have secured their seats. Coffee and tea drinking patrons are encouraged to bring their own mugs.
Near the front entrance, the product table offesr CD’s by our featured performers. Most performers are happy to autograph their CD’s after the show.
Tickets for ALL of our ’23-’24 concerts are on sale now. Tickets are only available online through Showpass.
When the lights go down, our artistic director will take the stage to welcome you to the club. There are often announcements of upcoming performances and events made at this time. Our opening acts perform one 40 minute set. These feature Alberta-based artists, as well as touring performers from further afield. Some of these performers may be appearing at their first concert engagement and some may be old hands on the folk circuit. The Nick believes in performer development and considers the opening sets to be opportunities for upcoming performers to develop their craft. A glance through the Nickelodeon’s past performers will show that a great many of our past openers are now headliners.
Our headline performers are chosen from the vast world of touring folk musicians. A typical Nick season will generally feature a majority of Canadian performers, although acts from the U.S. and Great Britain are presented from time to time. A season’s roster will typically feature a few old favorites, back for a return visit and a few acts that have never played at the club or in Calgary before. Taking a chance on an act you’ve never heard of is highly recommended. Remember, the Nick was the first Calgary club to present Ani DiFranco, Laura Love, Connie Kaldor, Stephen Fearing, Fred Eaglesmith, Lynn Miles, David Francey, The Duhks, Le Vent du Nord, The Bills, Harry Manx, Tracy Grammer and many more.
Sponsors:
The Nickelodeon wishes to thank Calgary Arts Development and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the SOCAN Foundation for their generous support. We also wish to acknowledge airplay support of our performers on CKUA and CJSW.
Volunteers:
The Nickelodeon is a volunteer-operated, non-profit organization. The Nick appreciates the countless hours dedicated by our volunteers. Without their work these special nights would not be possible.
Land Acknowledgement:
In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge Moh’kinsstis, and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda and Tsuut’ina nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Disricts 5 and 6 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Finally, we acknowledge all Nations – Indigenous and non – who live, work and play on this land, and who honour and celebrate this territory.