Veteran folk DJ Steve Fruitman recently hosted the last episode of his long-running Back to the Sugar Camp show on CIUT in Toronto, and is moving on to a new show in a new time slot. Sugar Camp Music will air Thursdays at 3 pm on CIUT, starting on February 16. We asked Steve to [...]
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Every time we mention the Grammy Awards in these parts, it seems to stir up some kind of discussion about their value in terms of working musicians in Canada, and the community that supports them. But even the most strident skeptic could hardly have made it through 2011 without hearing Adele‘s heart-breaking “Someone Like You” [...]
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The East Coast Music Award nominees were announced this week, and some artists and recordings appeared in many different categories. Jimmy Rankin had eight nominations, while David Myles and Matt Andersen each received five. The awards will be handed out during East Coast Music Week this April, in Moncton, New Brunswick. The full list of [...]
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Music PEI Week wrapped up this weekend with a gala awards show hosted by comedian Jonathan Torrens at the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown, with close to a thousand people in attendance. The thirteen musical performances included Al Tuck, who performed a song from his latest release, while Lennie Gallant closed the show with “Peter’s Dream” [...]
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With our population of some 35 million potential blues lovers — you couldn’t find an audience more ripe or receptive to the blues. Problem is — as everyone who lives here knows — this huge country’s tiny population is spread across some 3,855,103 mi² of turf, which too often proves unfriendly to touring musicians. Many [...]
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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 54th Grammy Award nominees were announced at the end of last week, and our friends at Twang Nation compiled this fantastic list of the nominees, with an emphasis on folk, roots and Americana performers and albums. You’ll have to look to the other categories to find the Canadians nominated this year — Drake, Deadmau5 [...]
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With all the excitement following the Canadian Folk Music Awards this past weekend, we’d like to share a piece written by Roots Music Canada’s Editor-in-Chief, David Newland, for the CFMA gala’s programme. Imagine a place where children can run and play without fear of traffic or threats; where nature’s beauty is the perfect backdrop for [...]
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Click for complete list of CFMA 2011 award winners It was a dark and stormy night, with large drops of heavy blown glass falling steadily into the hands of worthy Canadians all night long. The Common Thread Community Chorus gusted out the songs of our multi-lingual communities in the lobby as Toronto’s Isabel Bader Theatre [...]
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The Canadian Folk Music Awards were handed out in Toronto last night, and the top winners were Bruce Cockburn, Dave Gunning and Genticorum, who each took home two awards. The complete list of awards: TRADITIONAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR / ALBUM TRADITIONNEL DE L’ANNÉE Genticorum – Nagez Rameurs CONTEMPORARY ALBUM OF THE YEAR / ALBUM [...]
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