This week on The Open Chord host Bill Garrett features new music from Richard Thompson, Stephen Fearing, Winnipeg’s Dry Bones and Toronto’s New Country Rehab. Also, a unique mix of Inuktitut country swing, throat singing, and blues from Iqaluit’s The ...

The Andy Frank Show: On the heels of the 2013 Juno nominees announcement, we are thrilled to feature a finalist from last year’s Best Roots and Traditional – Group category, The Good Lovelies. They have a new live CD, Live ...

We received wonderful reactions to yesterday’s post seeking volunteer editors, and with one exception, I am pleased to say the positions are filled. We’ve even doubled-up some of the positions by splitting Canada in half, Eastern and Western editors, for ...

As you may have read a few days ago, David Newland has handed me the antlers to the Gordy the Moose. It’s not easy riding a moose by oneself, even a friendly folk/roots loving beast like Gordy. It’s especially challenging ...

This week on Roots Radio Thursday on RTDS: Andy Frank welcomes Montreal’s Rob Lutes for an hour of CD-spin ‘n chat. His new release The Bravest Birds is getting outstanding reviews, and is already a Roots Radio favourite. In hour-one, ...

This week on The Open Chord Bill Garrett features Music From Montreal. Specifically, the program looks at singer songwriters that were all based around the Yellow Door Coffee House. Bruce Murdoch, Linda Morrison, Penny Lang, Ellen Shizgal and Lucinda Chodan ...

Roots Music Canada is the brainchild of writer, host and performer David Newland. It all started a few years ago when he learned that a wonderful domain name, rootsmusic.ca, had become available. So naturally, he went about the task of putting something ...

  What with abstinence resolutions still freshly in mind, Christmas bills arriving daily and those recent temperatures of mass destruction, a Toronto venue seeking a January audience for an event of musical significance, is as rare as…well…what is that idiom ...