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The Toronto Blues Society’s excellent Digital Dollars’ series continues at Toronto’s Lula Lounge, Saturday, April 21, from 1-4 PM ET. We encourage anyone in the area to drop by, as these seminars are a FREE resource available to all. For those farther removed, the show will be streaming live from Lula Lounge, viewable at this [...]

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After some debate (much of which seemed to focus on the semantics of our theme, Canadian roots music) and arduous blind judging, we here at Roots Music Canada are very happy to announce the winners of our Leonard Cohen poetry contest. We had over thirty submissions to this contest, and were so amazed with the [...]

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Leonard Cohen‘s latest album, Old Ideas, was released today. At the age of 77, nearly 45 years since the release of his first album, the mysterious Montreal native proves he’s still got it. We’re very excited to offer you a chance to win from an amazing prize pack, including Old Ideas either on CD or [...]

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Honouring Gene MacLellan

Music PEI Week, a celebration of the great music coming from our tiniest province, kicks off next Saturday, January 14 with a much-anticipated concert, Just Biding My Time: A Tribute to Gene MacLellan. The event, which is being recorded for later broadcast by CBC TV, will feature performances from singer-songwriter Catherine MacLellan, Gene’s daughter, as [...]

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Got a music lover on your list? Looking to pare down on holiday excess and give the gift of experience? With the holidays fast approaching, some Canadian presenters are having pre-Christmas ticket sales: Tomorrow — Friday, Dec 16th — the Juno Awards are holding a One Day Sale on advance tickets. The Junos will be [...]

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Folk film seeks funds

This item crossed our desks and we thought it worth passing along to the community. If you attended Folk Alliance Memphis in 2010 or 2011, you may remember a documentary film crew of three shooting throughout the conference. Well, that was me, Sara Terry, the Director, along with my DP, Henry Jacobson and Producer, Diana [...]

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