When I first spun Collette Savard’s third CD, Best Dress, I got a warm, familiar, early Cowboy Junkies rush. Sure enough, the foundation of the new record was captured live-off-the-floor at St. Matthias church in west-end Toronto, a nod perhaps, to the Junkies’ famous The Trinity Session (in fact, Best Dress was mastered by Peter [...]
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You may remember Toronto’s Kat Goldman from about a decade ago when her debut CD, The Great Disappearing Act, created a sensation at home and in the States. She had New York City management, and was opening for the likes of Dar Williams, The Waifs, Regina Spektor, the Strawbs, and Jonatha Brooke. But then her career was derailed [...]
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Thursday evening at Hugh’s Room in Toronto, I had the honour of introducing my Roots Music Canada partner, singer-songwriter David Newland to hundreds of his fans. That included those gathered at the famous venue, as well as folks watching live on-line at this very site. Thanks to all who joined us. Watch for more live-streamed [...]
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This coming Thursday evening at Hugh’s Room in Toronto, I will have the honour of introducing my Roots Music Canada partner, singer-songwriter David Newland to hundreds of his fans. That will include those gathered at the famous venue, as well as folks watching live on-line at this very site. I hope you’ll join us. For [...]
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Roots Music Canada’s CFMA weekend webcast December 3rd and 4th was viewed by over 2,000 music lovers. While we were hoping for more (of course), sharing the best of Canada’s folk music scene with the equivalent of a packed Massey Hall in Toronto is pretty awesome. International viewers, led by the USA, accounted for over [...]
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The countdown to our broadcast of the 7th Annual Canadian Folk Music Awards, (Sunday, December 4th, 8:00 PM) and the related Nominee Showcase (Saturday, December 3rd, 8:15 PM) is on, only 10 days to go! Live streaming is like a TV production, only on a much smaller scale, and the challenge we have as producers, directors, technicians [...]
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The Canadian music scene has its share of champions, and Edmonton’s Holger Petersen ranks highly on that list. He is a co-founder of the Edmonton Folk Festival (1980), a veteran radio host (CKUA Natch’l Blues since 1969, CBC Saturday Night Blues since 1986), and the co-founder/owner of Stony Plain Records (1975). If anyone has the [...]
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Exactly a month from today, Roots Music Canada will bring the Canadian Folk Music Awards live to a computer near you, including all of the evening performances and awards. In addition to the December 4th awards show from the Isabel Bader Theatre in Toronto, Roots Music Canada is pleased to offer – for the first [...]
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Each year, the Ontario Council of Folk Festivals (OCFF) honours the work of an individual or group that has made significant contributions to Ontario’s folk music community. The award is named after Estelle Klein, a long-time advocate of Canadian folk music and one of the early founders of the folk festival scene in this country. [...]
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Maybe it was a lucky star. Or maybe it’s just talent meeting opportunity. Either way, PEI singer-songwriter Meaghan Blanchard has experienced more notoriety and exposure than many of her early twenty-something musical peers will experience in a career. It began with the gift of having good looks, ginger locks and a sweet personality in a [...]
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