Well, we did it. As promised, we built a woodshed in the Roots Music Canada office. For woodshedding, obviously. While everyone else was doing whatever everyone else does, our team spent the weekend doing the improbable. We’ve been wanting to do regular video interviews and live webcast performances of your favourite musicians since we moved [...]
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It’s been nearly a year since we moved into the premises we currently share with our good friends at Borealis Records. During that time, my partner Andy Frank has been diligently working on a more or less regular schedule there, holding down the fort as it were. He’s been joined on a sporadic basis by [...]
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Although January is not necessarily the time of year one would normally consider visiting the province of Prince Edward Island, I was invited to attend Music PEI Week and was thoroughly impressed with the music community on the Island. Beginning January 17 and running through to the 22nd, Music Week culminated with a packed house [...]
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In our own coverage of Canadian roots over the past while, we’ve been surprised at how few good online resources are available. So we asked Adrian Martin – a musician who knows his way around the web – to compile a list of 10 great resources every roots music fan in Canada should check out. [...]
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There’s been lots of chatter — online, in the media, and in what people charmingly call “the meatspace,” also known as real life—about what’s going on at the Ottawa Folk Festival. Many people know the broad brushstrokes of what’s happened—namely, that the Ottawa Bluesfest has taken the OFF under its wing—but change breeds uncertainty and [...]
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The Maple Blues Awards have been swimming upstream since they began in 1997, left in the wake of more popular forms of music with their higher profiles and bigger budgets. You don’t need to have the blues to get the blues – but it sure helps. Under the care and guidance of the Toronto Blues Society, [...]
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It’s early March 2010, and I’m driving up Highway 35, a few hours north of Toronto. I’m on my way to teach at the Haliburton Winter Folk Camp. The snow is starting to melt away, but there’s still a bit of winter left in the air. My driving companion is Linda Morrison, a lovely singer [...]
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JUNO Award nominated alt.country duo Madison Violet were presented with the prestigious Maxell Song of the Year Award from the 2010 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for their original song, “The Ransom” taken from the band’s JUNO Award nominated album No Fool For Trying. The Toronto-based duo comprised of Brenley MacEachern and Lisa MacIsaac beat out [...]
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