Mary Beth Carty
@marybethcarty.bsky.social
🎉 Last name rhymes with PARTY 🪗 Canadian Folk Music Awards 2024 Traditional Singer of the Year 🏔️ Square Dance Caller 👯♂️ Nova Scotian 🌅
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Hi! Happy to be here! I like to post lines of poetry when they pop into my head so… I’ll be doing that here! Thanks for your friendship!
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December 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Learned a new word while watching The National on CBC tonight. Excoriate. Do you know this word? I dare you to use it in a sentence.
Maybe I’ll write it into a song? That’ll be accessible. Ha.
Maybe I’ll write it into a song? That’ll be accessible. Ha.
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Learned a new word while watching The National on CBC tonight. Excoriate. Do you know this word? I dare you to use it in a sentence.
Maybe I’ll write it into a song? That’ll be accessible. Ha.
Maybe I’ll write it into a song? That’ll be accessible. Ha.
But make it Ethiopian : open.spotify.com/track/0gWl7Y...
War Pigs
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December 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
But make it Ethiopian : open.spotify.com/track/0gWl7Y...
“Did you hear about what happened to the German dance caller who was in town?”
“The allemande left.”
#squaredance #joke courtesy of C.J. Carrigan.
“The allemande left.”
#squaredance #joke courtesy of C.J. Carrigan.
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 AM
“Did you hear about what happened to the German dance caller who was in town?”
“The allemande left.”
#squaredance #joke courtesy of C.J. Carrigan.
“The allemande left.”
#squaredance #joke courtesy of C.J. Carrigan.
Just got back from a 12-day tour with two Gen-X dads. Received this compliment : “Thank you for your level-headed calm demeanour and roll-with-it philosophy.” I’ll take it!
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Just got back from a 12-day tour with two Gen-X dads. Received this compliment : “Thank you for your level-headed calm demeanour and roll-with-it philosophy.” I’ll take it!
Does anyone want to start a band called the Cooking Pumpkins?
It doesn’t necessarily have to be a Smashing Pumpkins cover band.
But it would be great if all the band members had an equal love of making unusual dishes with pumpkin in them.
*Ask me about my pumpkin brownies.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be a Smashing Pumpkins cover band.
But it would be great if all the band members had an equal love of making unusual dishes with pumpkin in them.
*Ask me about my pumpkin brownies.
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Does anyone want to start a band called the Cooking Pumpkins?
It doesn’t necessarily have to be a Smashing Pumpkins cover band.
But it would be great if all the band members had an equal love of making unusual dishes with pumpkin in them.
*Ask me about my pumpkin brownies.
It doesn’t necessarily have to be a Smashing Pumpkins cover band.
But it would be great if all the band members had an equal love of making unusual dishes with pumpkin in them.
*Ask me about my pumpkin brownies.
Sandals and socks ‘til you can’t no more.
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Sandals and socks ‘til you can’t no more.
Going on tour with a band next week, this is what we sound like! First stop Florenceville-Bristol, New Brunswick! Where my mid-north-Western-NB peeps at?! youtube.com/shorts/yykGp...
Bridgett’s Reel composed by Émile Benoit, played by The Narrows Colin Carrigan, Roy MacLaren, and me
YouTube video by Mary Beth Carty
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November 7, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Going on tour with a band next week, this is what we sound like! First stop Florenceville-Bristol, New Brunswick! Where my mid-north-Western-NB peeps at?! youtube.com/shorts/yykGp...
October 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A little clip from our artist-in-residency At Ross Creek Centre of the Arts!
youtu.be/Yv_f_zxrHls
youtu.be/Yv_f_zxrHls
Old Time Wedding Reel No. 1 (Latin Trap Version)
YouTube video by Mary Beth Carty
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October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A little clip from our artist-in-residency At Ross Creek Centre of the Arts!
youtu.be/Yv_f_zxrHls
youtu.be/Yv_f_zxrHls
“Charlie can’t plant garlic around here no more” - guy comes up to me after the show and tells me to write a song inspired by white rot
September 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
“Charlie can’t plant garlic around here no more” - guy comes up to me after the show and tells me to write a song inspired by white rot
Wolfville smells like roasted garlic this morning 🤤 🧄
September 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Wolfville smells like roasted garlic this morning 🤤 🧄
Musician speak :
“The guitar, warm it up a bit in the monitor. It’s a little bit skinny.”
“The guitar, warm it up a bit in the monitor. It’s a little bit skinny.”
September 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Musician speak :
“The guitar, warm it up a bit in the monitor. It’s a little bit skinny.”
“The guitar, warm it up a bit in the monitor. It’s a little bit skinny.”
Hi! I’m that friend who calls you for no reason. Just sayin’ “Hi!”
September 18, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Hi! I’m that friend who calls you for no reason. Just sayin’ “Hi!”
Tune titles :
Ravine
Realistically Idealistic
Sweet Potato on the Counter
Ravine
Realistically Idealistic
Sweet Potato on the Counter
September 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Tune titles :
Ravine
Realistically Idealistic
Sweet Potato on the Counter
Ravine
Realistically Idealistic
Sweet Potato on the Counter
New lyric, new chorus, new epic song, guys. And it’s from the point of view of my friend’s growing puppy. Yes, I am appropriating the thoughts of animals for my creations.
I ate the sweet potato
It’s not my fault
You’re the one
Who left it
On the counter
I ate the sweet potato
It’s not my fault
You’re the one
Who left it
On the counter
September 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
New lyric, new chorus, new epic song, guys. And it’s from the point of view of my friend’s growing puppy. Yes, I am appropriating the thoughts of animals for my creations.
I ate the sweet potato
It’s not my fault
You’re the one
Who left it
On the counter
I ate the sweet potato
It’s not my fault
You’re the one
Who left it
On the counter
Just put some burning sage in my fridge, nbd
September 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Just put some burning sage in my fridge, nbd
Exchanging soundcard pics with your new bestie be like 🤤
September 2, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Exchanging soundcard pics with your new bestie be like 🤤
Nova Scotia and São Paulo Brazil share the same time zone. And also I will be performing an online event along with a dance group from Brazil on October 4th - read more about it here : found.ee/musicaljourn...
found.ee
September 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Nova Scotia and São Paulo Brazil share the same time zone. And also I will be performing an online event along with a dance group from Brazil on October 4th - read more about it here : found.ee/musicaljourn...
My friend took a pic of me taking a pic on the Cape George Hiking Trail - at the end of the school house trailhead!
August 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
My friend took a pic of me taking a pic on the Cape George Hiking Trail - at the end of the school house trailhead!
Folktronica buffering…
August 30, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Folktronica buffering…
Need an intervention to keep me from making a production of strawberry-rhubarb pies on days when I have an afternoon gig three hours away…
August 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Need an intervention to keep me from making a production of strawberry-rhubarb pies on days when I have an afternoon gig three hours away…
Tonight! Halifax!!!
August 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Tonight! Halifax!!!
The café didn’t have matcha lattés, so the clients left. #peoplewatchinginthecity
August 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The café didn’t have matcha lattés, so the clients left. #peoplewatchinginthecity
Let it mellow… if ya know what I mean. #droughtlife
August 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Let it mellow… if ya know what I mean. #droughtlife