Road veteran Jay Aymar was one of many acts showcased this past weekend at Winterfolk’s 10th anniversary festival in Toronto, held for the first time at the Delta Chelsea Hotel. Jay’s keen eye makes this post, from the performer’s perspective, a charming capsule of the weekend. There’s more where that came from on his excellent [...]
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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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Our series on the best songs of 2011 continues today with choices made by some of the musicians who make the very thing that brings our community together. Some of them don’t play by the rules (it is hard to choose just one song!), but we think you’ll find their choices are diverse as they [...]
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This week we’ll be running a special year-end retrospective series featuring the best songs of 2011 — as chosen by members of our community. In this edition: the publicists and community builders who work behind the scenes, forming a bridge between artists and media outlets like ours, finally get a moment in the spotlight. Here [...]
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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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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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Fans from across the country and around the world enjoyed our streaming video broadcast of the Canadian Folk Music Awards Nominee Showcase, from Hugh’s Room in Toronto featuring: Dave Gunning, Janet Panic, Quinn and Qristina Bachand, Ashley Condon, Massiel Yanira, Lizzy Hoyt, Ouzo Power & Raz-demarée/Tidal Wave Roots Music Canada is proud to be the [...]
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Perhaps no one exemplifies dedication to music the way folk DJs do. Those few selfless souls who still spin folk, roots, Celtic, Maritime, bluegrass, blues, and singer-songwriter tracks deserve all of our thanks. This is a special month for one of our favourite folk DJs. Jan Vanderhorst of Just Us Folk on AM 1380, CKPC [...]
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Best Hair : Pop Winds the guy on the right, like honey dripping off a spoon Best Eyes : Loom subtle hypnosis, like the music. Best Shoulders : (tie) Tanika Charles of The Wonderfuls; Sarah from Catl; (almost shoulder porn, actually). Best Arms : Keli Martin, bass for The Details, flexing like Gretzky in front [...]
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Robbie Robertson, Daniel Lanois and Sylvia Tyson were the bigger names on stage at last week’s Canadian Songwriter’s Hall of Fame gala, but folklorists Helen Creighton and Edith Fowke made important contributions to Canadian music Welsh musician Martyn Joseph may be from overseas, but the earthy spirit of his songs is something his Canadian fans [...]
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