NAC Preview: Singer-songwriter Ben Caplan sings to those seen as 'others'

Ben Caplan
with Geoff Berner
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, Babs Asper Theatre, National Arts Centre
Tickets: $27.55, available at NAC box office and ticketmaster.ca 
Dog-whistling politicians don’t usually inspire great art. But inspiration can be a strange thing.
Halifax-based singer-songwriter Ben Caplan says one of the earliest sparks for both his album Old Stock and the theatre production based on the same songs came from an unlikely source, albeit in a negative way. In