Thursday, March 10, 2011

Roots Music at Canadian Music Week

March 10, 2011 Author: Meghan Sheffield

Amid a downpour of alternating rain and snow, Canadian Music Week (CMW) kicked off last night in Toronto. Over 5 nights, in 55 venues, over 800 artists (most of them independent) will take to the big city stages hoping to make an impression in the industry. A festival of this magnitude requires some hefty schedule-sifting, [...]

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Wistful, whimsical Shawn Clarke

March 10, 2011 Author: David Newland

Shawn Clarke calls himself a folk singer, yet he has never played a folk festival. He writes about the Big Smoke, rather than railways or highways. The path he beat to our door was through the backwoods of the internet. But with his credentials on the indie-roots scene, working with the likes of Timber Timbre [...]

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